Black Square Steam Gauge Overhaul - King Air 350i

It’s a 27" monitor, it’s almost big enough. you can see the instruments at the bottom are getting slightly cut off. And yes I have made the panel so that it can be easily detached so I could theoretically fly with any panel I want and get the appropriate instruments accordingly.

Absolutely and the panel/instruments you have made, are just perfect for it!

Thanks found it - I guess not much has changed with the only exception being, you don’t need to install additional files from PMS website, It now supports the PMS 750 natively.

If it makes you feel better I believe that all of that stuff is for the first flight of the day.

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To atone for this, when I did my 32-leg around-the-world trip in the BKSQ Duke Piston, I did the full run-up every time. :slight_smile: Still took me three and a half minutes.

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That really isn’t a bad time. I’ve pretty much nailed down the runup checklist in that aircraft but I still refer to it (which I do in every aircraft) after I am done to make sure I haven’t missed anything.

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Just installed the update but the PNS GTN 750 display stays dark. When switching to the 530 this display is active. Switching back to the GTN 750 the display stays black. Any hints?

Do you have the old PMS50/WTT fix for the King Air in your community folder, this used to be needed but is now integrated into the King Air, so that fix can be deleted.

It’s probably called something like pms50-gtn750wtt-aircraft-bksq-kingair

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No, I have removed that folder before starting the sim but the 750 display is still dark.

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Anyone tried this in msfs 2024 yet? Is it functional?

I have tried it and it never gets past the loading screen.

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Yes tried. Does not load.

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Thanks chaps

It can’t. It depends on the 2020 model.

I assume at this point that someone has already tried copying the 2020 KA350 into the 2024 Community folder, and changed references to it so that the BKSQ one thinks that it is looking at those files as if they were in a 2020 install?

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I think I’ve seen people say they’ve tried and it didn’t work. I’m going to imagine 2024 won’t accept 2020 default planes.

Now, it may be that it might work if somebody went through the code and figured out what’s not working, but, that’ll probably be a lot of work. It’s not encrypted though, so, it’s possible, it could be made into a Community aircraft. Might have to make it a new plane, and check out what code it’s hooking into too to see if that’s blocking it. Maybe give it some new GUID’s.

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I believe Black Square are going to revisit these overhaul aircraft and give them their own models, no idea on the timescale or the cost though.

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Ah, so the Captain Sim version then. :wink:

IN THEORY - and I emphasize that - there’s a path to make the Black Square overhauls usable in 2024. IN THEORY you could copy over your default MS20 planes somewhere, and the BSQR code could be modified (in theory) to point at that folder instead of the default MS2020 folder it would normally be querying. (Then the Black Square flight model coding, etc, would need to be adjusted to work in 2024, which I think is probably possible, although it might be very labor-intensive to do so.)

But that would take quite a bit of coding, and I think it would absolutely require Microsoft’s permission, as that copying of the file for use in another sim (even if it’s Microsoft’s own sequel) would violate the TOS for MS2020.

I think Black Square has determined (probably correctly) that it’s actually easier to just build a new native model than to hack the old product into submission in 2024. So it goes.

Your wrote what I wrote, you just used more words. :wink: