I’ve also had the avionics problem. None of the above solutions have worked for me. Hoping for a fix soon.
This is true in real life in most aircraft with fuel pumps. They do help for priming the engine in fuel injected planes, but are not necessary. They are intended to help in case of icing conditions or failure of your engine driven pump, but are primarily a backup. This is less important in a simulator where consequences are a “Black Screen.”
I love this plane, probably then best GA in game right now (in my humble non pilot technical opinion)… but I’m confused about the throttle.
When i get up to level flight and drop the throttle and mixture, the revs dip briefly but go right back up to max.
How’s this rectified?
The CHT/EGT doesn’t react the way it should when adjusting the mixture. You do something smart like lower the nose, reduce power to get CHTs down… and they go up?
At this point I ignore CHTs. At full rich anywhere you’d be hard pressed to get it above 425f… maybe if you are climbing out at 80kts on a 100f day, in this plane you get that on takeoff.
I miss p-factor and left turning tendencies more than accurate temps.
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In a normal VFR flight ( 4000ft ) , i set RPM at approx 2300 ( cruising rpm ) , fuel flow at 15 Gph and lean out the mixture to approx 60 % ( needle just at the top of the blue bar , going clockwise , in the EGT guage ). This helps the engine become more fuel efficient , and , leaning the mixture at higher altitudes helps the engine perform better at these altitudes , where the air is thinner / less dense .
If you click on / lower the sun visor in the plane , you’ll see all the settings written on it , as regards fuel flow , MAP pressure , RPMs etc .
The issue you may be encountering , is by reducing the throttle and mixture , you are " leaning " the engine too much . This would result in a dip in RPMs .
By the time you all report your bugs I’ll buy this add-on haha!
I had my RPM set at 2300 as well, Propeller RPM at 95%, fuel mixture at 45% and managed to stay on a nice cruise speed of 125. And this was on 13.000ft. If anyone is interested, i made a video showcasing the plane, 1440P quality is still processing, that was my first landing with the plane as well when i recorded it and you can see i was not used to it yet. 
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Thanks for the review - I purchased this aircraft as I too like the steam gauges over the glass cockpits.
Question: I cannot for the life of me find the switch to activate the airbrakes (speedbrakes). What am I missing?
I paste the answer of the user [SuperSasquatch]
The speed brake is on the left handle of the yoke, hidden behind to the left. You can only see a tiny bit of it from default view so use the arrow key left to peek around, and the CTRL-space to center view back. Its annoying yes but i think there is a hotkey for something else that it uses.
I believe the procedure to set mixture at cruise for this aircraft, according to manual, is to find peak EGT, then go 50° lean of peak for max economy mode, and 50° rich of peak for max power mode.
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Well overally it’s great looking plane but few things needs to be fixed ASAP as they are annoying as hell:
-ALT/VS selection knob (pull for VS/Push for ALT) is pain to grab when AP is operating the aircraft. VS can’t be selected beforehand - When ALT capture is engaged it reverts to 500ft/min. Standard keybinds for VS selection are not working.
-AP driving in zig zag lines along the route. Not it’s not MFS AP issue, as other aircraft I tried are working well.
-Some buttons can’t be grabbed when in standard piloting position on the left (You have to translate view over the buttons and then they can be selected) - Some AP/Transponder buttons
-50% of time AP ILS approach is not working at all.
Nice thank you.
I have a question:
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How to translate the checklist ??
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Can we translate directly in the xml file ?
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Where are the strings that can be translated ?
THX
I do not understand the behaviour of fuel flow gauge !
Explanation:
When I pull the mixture lever, at certain altitude fuel flow decreases (normal) but if I continue pulling lever it increases again and then decreases !?
Same when pushing fuel flow lever when descending for example… instead of to increase the flow it decreases before ???
Bug or do I ignore something regarding this instrument ??
THX
The speed brake can be operated with the “spoiler” hotkeys.
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The VS can easily be selected beforehand on the ground: engage FD, select altitude, press ARM, press ALT/VS knob and select your desired VS.
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report to https://carenado.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
This plane has a constant speed prop. The throttle controls manifold pressure. (The gauge is labeled MAP in this plane). Use the blue knob that looks like the mixture knob to control rpms. The manual has a chart that shows results of various manifold and rpm settings at various altitudes. The blue knob really controls propeller pitch, but this changes the rpms. (The bigger the bite of air, the slower the rpms)
The manual has a chart that shows results of various manifold and rpm settings at various altitudes
This chart is also available from the left sun visor!
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For now there are no translatable strings. I made all in english because the POH is in english.
If you want you can directly translate the XML files.
Now, I should soon investigate for an external translation file. The SDK is still poor about that (just a “TODO” in the documentation) but it seems not so complicated.
Explains alot. Still learning. Thx guys.
What an aircraft, i find it hard right now using anything else 
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