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November 24, 2022, 8:45pm
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Hi there,
Terrylawdinn is exactly right.
This was addressed on the last Twitch Developer Q&A last week. If I were on the desktop forum, I could provide a link to the transcript, but instead, I will quote it:
Cessna Citation CJ4 Overhaul
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Matt - And then, I know, everybody has been waiting for the CJ4 overhaul for a long time. It’s taken us a little bit of time, but we took the mod and we said, “You know what? That’s great, but we’re not going to use any of that.” We’re gonna start fresh. We’re gonna get with all the framework that we built with the [G1000] Nxi and now the GNS and really make it at that same level. So we’ve got some improved soundscape that’s coming, we’ve got a totally overhauled flight model, which has been really fun to fly. We’ve got the avionics that are in the unit, they’re getting totally overhauled as far as the visuals go. And even though we were very, very close to the visuals before, folks that fly the plane in real life and other folks that are really into it are going to see the differences, which is really nice. Also has the next-gen flight plan stuff, which the mod did not. So you know, you’ve got RFs [radius to fix], RF legs, intercepts, all the crazy complex procedures and arcs and all that stuff is in there. One thing that people have been asking for for a long time is the split FMC [flight management computer] and MFDs [multi-function displays]. And those have their own settings. You can store them separately, you can set them up totally separately. And that’s really handy, especially for having the tuning page on the copilot’s side and maybe the legs page on the pilot’s side. So that’ll be super neat.
Matt - We’ve got an improved CAS [Crew Alert System]. So the crew alert messages are all on the MFD now, the copilot MFD as they are on the real plane. And we added a whole bunch of new messages, we’ve got a new FMC message system, so you’ll see a bunch of things, like a lot of the VNAV messages will pop up now. So if you’ve got cross-track error and things like that. Full TCAS-II, again spec accurate. You’ll get traffic alerts, resolution alerts. We did bring in keyboard entry mode again. (We know it’s super popular, so you know, convenience. Just click on it, type in.) We’ve even enhanced the VNAV we had in the mod. This is even a little bit more advanced. We handled a couple of more edge cases. And we did the details like the boot-up screen and stuff like that.
If you go to the video link, they have some screenshots.
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