I’ve only bought a few (less than 5) aircraft from Carenado, and have learned to avoid them. The ones I have bought were during one of their sales, and were half price or less. NEVER EVER pay full price for a Carenado.
Is there a switch to turn on backlighting for the avionics buttons and overhead switches? They are pitch black at night and I have to use the flashlight to see them.
I also searched the whole cockpit and didn’t find any swtch for that. I think the buttons in the real plane might be backlit (so that you can read the text) but I also couldn’t find any pictures or footage of an M20R showing these switches at night…
Try setting mid-flight direct to an airfield and then selecting RNAV approach and actually flying it. The GNS530 is much more than just GPS. If you ever flown the Carenado M20R in XP11 you will realize the vast difference in their respective GNS530 functionalities. By the way, I have a GNS530 in my real M20J Mooney that I fly.
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I’ve just been flying the Mooney up in Nepal and had ice appear on my windshield, propeller and body at high altitudes.
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This M20R was actually made originally by Alabeo for XP11 before Carenado took over. In XP11, the M20R performs quite well. Carenado’s planes look nice but lack various system functionalities. Generally speaking their avionics are fairly well integrated. Carenado rarely revise their planes. They are fine purchases only when discounted in sales.
same here:
The lights in the cockpit also do not generate any indirect light. so there is no light emission that illuminates the overhead panel when the flood light is switched on.
You can see the difference well when you fly over a big city at night. The light from the city illuminates the overhead panel in the aircraft. it should look like this when the flood light is on.
I had issue with pitot heat off… i mean that the M20R is affected by the weather.
In order to hunt those precious FPS i realized just now that when i turn off lights . i get +8 FPS !
do you experience the same with this aircraft ?
Tested in broad day light, 2160p, ultra preset, 2080ti
I dont know yet if switching off lights will boost my fps flying all aircraft
Hi,
yes when I turn on taxi or landing light or both you get serious frame drop. With lights on I had 25 fps, off around normaly 40-45fps.
yes but even in air, where there is no ground reflection 
Other than aircraft zig-zaging in nav mode like F1 pilot in warming lap im satisfied
I will make a report to Carenado Zendesk about the landing lights.
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Make a bug report on the Carenado zendesk
I already did.
For everyone looking for a compromised Normal Checklist hit me up. I also did one for the TBM and may do more in the future. All are based on the POH and are made to use correct procedures together with checks I use irl for flying.
Cheers 
Protip: there is the cruise power / fuel flow table in the sun visor, click on it
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I found that entirely by accident yesterday.
the other tables are in the add on folder (they are taken from the real POH, so if you already have it)
Carenado started Mooney for FS2004…
Yes - had the same problem