Black Square Advanced Turbine and Piston Dukes

[Kayembee370]

Flipping heck NiKoTin, always first with the videos. Are you sure you are not the dev in another guise?

Only kidding here by the way. Thanks and I will enjoy watching it

[NiKoTin3420]

Hahaha don’t worry, there’s zero chance it’s me, I’m not as hardworking and even less of an expert in programming or aviation.
I just take care when it come to set application or web page alerts

[Jigsaw407]

Aaand another one:

Black Square Dukes MSFS - Exterior and Preheating - Just Flight

Happy Easter everybody!

[PaidRogue917936]

I am so curious how it will deal with icing. One of the most important (yet forgotten in MSFS) dangers of aviation, and I’d love it to be super realistic in the Duke. I think for now only A2A does icing well.

[MojaveHigh2379]

Please tell me all these amazing features will not hit my FPS too much in my older system.

[Applicators]

will this comde out on xbox?

[NiKoTin3420]

@SinewyDolphin74

He/They will be yes but until now he’s not felt the urge and not made getting the aircraft ready for marketplace submission a priority. Instead he chooses to jump onto another project which has probably had initial work undertaken. Black Square are pretty much a one man team, with Just Flight a willing accomplish helping with everything involved in bringing these great aircraft to market. But in terms of the commercial decisions it’s very much just down to Nick at Black Square to decide where he heads next. Of course it will make sense to release on the Marketplace too and that will happen with the majority of the Black Square titles. Whether or not having them tested and ready for Xbox too will be straightforward remains to be seen. We know doing all of that is on the radar for Black Square and you’ll quite possibly see the Dukes as the first to make the transition to the Marketplace but I can’t give you a definite timescale on that right now, it’d just be guesswork. Hope that helps to at least start to answer your enquiry.

here is a statement made few days ago

[Zwoop68]

@MojaveHigh2379

Please tell me all these amazing features will not hit my FPS too much in my older system.

Hope this help, it’s copy/paste from Just Flight Duke-forum:

I don’t usually publish any system requirements, but the Dukes should run very comparably to other Black Square aircraft, which are noticeably less taxing than almost any commercial airliner.

The only caveat with the Dukes is the tablet interface. Some screens are more intensive than others. The options, failures, and electrical screens have almost zero impact on performance. The environmental controls page may reduce FPS by ~1%, and the engine pages around 3-5%. For example, if you’re running the simulator at 50 fps, in the worst case scenario, your fps will drop to 47 fps, only with the tablet open to the engine page.

Note: Any performance impact from the tablet is only when it is open!

I have also learned a lot recently about controlling the performance impact from drawing the tablet, so I suspect this performance impact will be reduced over time as I make some improvements.

[NiKoTin3420]

I like this kind of transparency

[s0cks182]

So when is the release date?

[oldpilot54]

I have recently got the Analog mod for the Kingair and very little of the bindings on my Alphas and Bravo work.
Really enjoying flying the Kingair though.

[ClaireBear2745]

From the Just flight forum

Voice of Reason
JF Staff
wrote about 9 hours ago last edited by

We’ll bring more news about the release date later this week. Thank you

Release date

[NiKoTin3420]

here is the plan for the release, I cross my finger to don’t see it postponed

@SinewyDolphin74

Quick update - the tutorial videos will start appearing next week on the Just Flight YouTube channel. There are many of them, covering all the key areas of the Dukes. Prior to that we’ll pop a ‘First-Look’ up. That will probably be tomorrow. I’ll post here once that’s done.

The pricing for the bundle will be attractive. All to be revealed, probably next week on that. We’re still set for a release for the Dukes w/c 8th April. Thanks.

note: (w/c : week commencing)
edit :

[COMING SOON] Black Square Advanced Turbine and Piston Dukes

Some disappointing news I’m afraid - a quick update regarding the release date of the Dukes - Due to the delay of SU15 from Asobo/Microsoft we are also going to need to delay the release of the Dukes unfortunately. Best laid plans and all that. You can read more about the delay and the reasoning here: So our apologies, we hope to get things moving again just as soon as possible but as things stand we’re reliant on news and a firm release date for SU15. Thanks for your patience.

[DearestTarsier2]

I’ve been curious about pricing for these and while this obviously isn’t official, Just Flight seem to be fairly consistent in how they give out Rewards Points for purchases. The ratio seems to be between $0.3-0.31 per reward point earned, see examples below.

BlackSquare TBM 830: $41.99, 136 Rewards Points. 42/136=0.308
King Air Overhaul (Sale price): $27.29, 90 Rewards Points. 27.29/90=0.303
BaE 146 (Sale price): $52.49, 173 Rewards Points. 52.49/173=0.303
Fokker F28 (Sale price): $52.49, 173 Rewards Points. 52.49/173=0.303
Avro Vulcan: $32.99, 106 Reward Points. 33/106=0.311
Turbo Arrow III & IV (Sale price): $23, 76 Reward Points. 23/76=0.302

The Duke preview pages don’t have pricing yet, but they do both say you’ll earn 156 Rewards Points, so doing math gives us $47-48 depending on which number you use. Take that with a brick of salt of course, but it seems to give us a ballpark for their intended single-module pricing might be.

[Ariana2022UK]

I’m loving your detective work on this.

Kind of makes sense as this will be more than just a panel/ systems improvement compared with previous Blacksquare products.

However it then puts it in to A2A territory and I’m currently on the fence with which one to get next. That might swing it towards A2A for me.

[Kayembee370]

Very good thinking here even if you are wrong

[TristeCiel]

Is A2A going to release a new plane soon or you are talking about the Comanche?

[TristeCiel]

I really hope that the Blacksquare Duke will have persistent cockpit switchs and knobs save state or at the very least, a cold and dark starting option. There is a lot of runway without parking that force the plane to be engine on… For a plane that complex and rich of amazing details, I really hope the dev have chose to implement this feature. For me, it’s what will balance on my decision for an instant buy or waiting for the next A2A plane.

[Ariana2022UK]

Comanche. I’m a year late. Normally the sort of aircraft that’s a bit too slow for me which is why I’m interested in the Duke.

But Baracus said if I don’t get it he’ll have me kicked off the forums 🫨

[BegottenPoet228]

@Ariana2022UK

But Baracus said if I don’t get it he’ll have me kicked off the forums

I knew he was an undercover mod. I just knew it…