Fingers crossed for MP/Xbox release tonight. Eager to give it a go!
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Any update on an Xbox release?
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Would love to see this on Xbox eventually.
What a wonderful flight model this aircraft has. Also icing seems to be modeled nicely. Just took off from Samedan, Switzerland in snowy conditions. After take-off the plane would barely climb and while at 93% load with a very moderate climb of 100-200 fpm at 95 kias I got a frequent stall warning when banking. When looking outside I noticed a lot of ice on the leading edge, explaining everything.
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One of the things Iāve always loved about the stock Diamond twin is the blue paint. It may be silly, but the paint, to me at least, is quite nice. I missed having a blue option with this release, so I just opened the paint files in Gimp and ran the Hue slider just about all the way to the left on all the albedo files that contained red paint and then exported back into a new texture folder copied from the red one. Once I added a new fltsim.x section to the cfg and rescanned the layout.json, I had myself a nice DA42XI with the old familiar blue!
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Beautiful work, would you posibly be willing to share it as a livery on flightsim.to please?
On my rig, the COWS Diamond package has some personal tweaks (shows up as Diamond Aircraft in the menu instead of COWS), and this livery is added into the base package. This took all of about 10 minutes from start to finish to get working. Iād be happy to zip up the texture folder for someone to package, or I can even give step-by-step instructions to anyone with Gimp installed on their 'puter.
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Slowly getting familiar with this lovely plane, couple of observations but donāt know if itās a bug or feature, so please give me hell if the latter:
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the white bar load / rpm indicators sometimes disappear, but come back when changing to the system page
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traffic doesnāt appear on the g1000
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my landings all sound like Iām damaging the gear, but I seem to be following the right slope and speeds; is it just quite a jolty lander?
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āglow onā sometimes doesnāt appear when turning the engine master on
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a right ecu test sometimes brings up the left ecu announcements as well
editā one more thingā
- the windshield tint is pretty dark; if thatās how theyāre all delivered, then so be it, but if itās possible to have clearer ones, would be great for the sightseeing element
1,2: Normally just switching through the pages fixes that. Its a known bug since like 2 years.
3: Keep 5-10% power in to help soften the landings.
4: If the Engines are warm, they dont need any glow.
5: Can you share a screenshot. Perhaps you were pressing the middle button.
6: There was a discussion on that on the discord, i dont remember what it came to. The real 42s are tinted a little.
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Thanks, much appreciated. Iāll keep an eye out for the ecu thing and take a shot after making sure Iām not pressing anything else.
There is a distinct difference in the announcements when doing the ecu test depending on whether you use the TDI or the VI model. According to the real flight manuals this is eactly like it is supposed to be. I originally epected this to be a mistake, but it is true to life. Incredible attention to detail.
Iāve been watching reviews of this aircraft and I really want to get it, but Iām worried thereās not much to do during longer flights. That was what drove me away from the DA62, it just got boring when there is nothing to manage, nothing to tweak or play with during a longer 1-hour cruise. Since this is a more advanced and accurate 3rd party aircraft, is there some stuff to do I might have missed? Any adjustments to get more fuel efficiency, doing vnav calculations with the built-in screens etc.? Iām actually not that used to the WT G1000 and I find the two-knob system kind of confusing to use, maybe thereās a lot of fun and complexity hiding behind that which could keep me busy in cruise.
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I think youāre right, although I donāt have this plane myself. These modern GA planes are meant to be flown to enjoy the flight and scenery, not to give you a headache in managing systems. Itās the same with the Vision Jet for example, once you engage AP there is literally nothing to do until T/D. But the view is stunning!
I think the upcoming Black Square Duke would be a better fit in that regards.
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if you take off and let the a/p manage your flight thereās not a ton to do in this plane. most of the systems are automated
having said all that, the plane is an absolute joy to fly. if youāre looking for something to do on a one hour flight, might i be so bold as to suggest hand-flying the entire route? that way you can manage course and altitude corrections and everything in between. that should keep you pretty busy during your flight
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Exactly. Autopilot is not essential.
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You want to manage things?
Get the Beech D-18 with the Denarg mod. 
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Itās an automated high tech plane. But youāll need to monitor the fuel tanks and transfer fuel from the aux tanks up to a couple times per flight depending on how far youāre going.
Are there plans to include chocks and an EFB to this airplane? I donāt like using the default weight and balance screen and I read itās quite cumbersome to enable state saving and wear and tear. And chocks, no matter how meaningless they are in a sim, still add to the immersion.
Also, this review is very critical of bad texturing added in update 1.0.5. Some sort of low resolution specs on the outside. Has anyone noticed this or is the reviewer nitpicking?
It wasnāt ābad texturingā, it was just slightly overdone and corrected in 1.0.6.
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