And the checklist is obviously not for this plane. It mentions 2 engines & annunciation panels.
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Already reported the AP issue to Carenado. See my prior post regarding this and the transponder concerns.
Recommend that all report bugs directly on the Carenado website. Not sure they browse these forums.
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Like nearly all Carenado models, the RG has also an
incorrectly named texture file and a missing associated .json file in its
Airplanes effects texture folder.
There should be two files there, CARFX_0.PNG.DDS
and CARFX_0.PNG.DDS.json.
This resulted in a cvt error message in the one-store folder.
Otherwhise i love the new RG182 over all. 
Would you mind sharing a short explanation on how to switch the gps to the wt530?
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Go into the panel.cfg and change VCockpit03ās mentions of āAS530ā with āWT530ā as shown below. All you should have to do is just replace the letters AS with WT. Keep the texture entry the same. End result is as follows.
[VCockpit03]
size_mm = 320,234
pixel_size = 320,234
texture = $AS530_Screen
htmlgauge00 = NavSystems/GPS/WT530/WT530.html, 0, 0, 320,234
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Bought it this morning before going out to work. Quickly fired it up to confirm that I have the WT530 because I have that additional Marketplace addon to add WT support for planes that donāt do it natively, like the BBS Islander.
Now I remember the 182 seating position, where every flight is under the hood. 
āReport field in sight.ā
āAll I can see is the sky!ā
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For reference for others in this thread looking to report bugs - that form is here: https://carenado.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
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How to get black cockpit textures?
Fly one with a black panel cockpit?
Presumably its a provided livery. Too soon for third party ones to be available.
There are 8 liveries (9 if you include the all white). Four with the tan interior, four with the dark grey.
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Is this Meigs Field, Chicago? Awesome!
This video has some good shots of the side windows.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/W9ZGojNcNYU
The pilots eye height looks level with the top of the window to his left, perhaps even a little higher than the top.
Iāve adjusted my camera.cfg a fraction to -
eyepoint= -9.6, -0.9, 1.6
feels better to me. A little closer, a little higher.
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My eye seat position in a 172 is quite a bit different than youād expect. Even though Iām fairly tall, I have to sit pretty far forward to be comfortable on the rudders and to allow the yoke to clear my knees. But I also have to see the forward part of the cowl, and if I canāt in the sim or real life, it kind of freaks me out.
I used to fly Cherokee variants where itās not as easy to see the flat-top cowl. I love the Archer because the curved bump out on the cowl is great for sight picture not only for takeoff and landing, but doing maneuvers. Seeing it establishes the proper eye-height parallax and all is good with the world.
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Iām having a struggle trying to understand how Carenado worksā¦ I mean there must be logic in everything and if you can make a plane you must have some intelligence but sometimes it is very hard to understand the logic of some companies.
They publish airplanes for MSFS, quite a lot of them, with varying levels of quality but in general graphically top-notch or very good.
They donāt post or read the official forum for MSFS the platform they live from where their customers post a lot of useful information about bugs, wishes, etc, reading at least would give you valuable information to make things better why would yo decide not to do it?
They have almost no social media presence, no videos, no announcements, no trailers, nothing. Why would they refrain from attracting more clients or customers?
It seems like they want to live from making MSFS add-ons but they donāt want to be very succesful at thatā¦ It is very hard to comprehend.
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You make some good points here, but do we know for certain they donāt read these forums?
They donāt post here, that we know.
Well absense of evidence is not evicence of absense but in this case if they read this forum then why not just fix some historic bugs or historic problems that have been commented?
We donāt know if they read but if they read then things make even less sense I thinkā¦
Just imagine one day somebody says āhello Iām Alice I work for Carenadoā and starts posting things like āDuly noted will try to fix it in next updateā or āGuys, next update is going to be xx-xx and this is the changelogā, etcā¦ It would change a lot the public perception about the companyā¦ Making efforts to have a bad public image is something hard to understand.
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Put up 2 short flights this morning, TEB BDR TEB, and am very impressed. Back in the day I flew one of these occasionally, as well as a 172RG and 177RG. Am enjoying this one more already than all the expensive JF Turbo Archers I recently bought, and having lots of Turbo Archer time in the logbook, I was surprised I didnāt like the JFs more than I do. Carenado does a good job of providing realism while providing a flyable model for simulation. Will be flying the 182RG a lot, recreating some logbook flights from decades ago. Will be the closest thing to a 210 that Iām likely to see in the box so nice to have it.
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