iniBuilds Spartan 7W Executive - next Premier Aircraft

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I find this culture odd, i.e, that we laud a developer for quickly responding to a screw up by sending a quick revision or hotfix. How about not screwing up in the first place.

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This is why I buy from JF if I can. Even if it’s not a JF product, they earn my purchases by being excellent.

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Excellent at what? not issuing an update for years. then botching the 2024 version. I too like JF’s products in the past, but no hooray for this go round.

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Is Inibuilds aware they have released this plane?

It has glaring bugs that are very easy to fix and not only they haven’t issued a fix, they haven’t said a single word about it.

I hope this was not done by the same team that murdered the Mu-2 because then we are toast without any updates or improvements coming.

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Are they,
UNPAID TESTERS?

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excellent examples..did Justy flight as for movies??

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I have no idea - I know I’m not paid but I do the job the best I can regardless, due to a certain integrity, values like trust and respect, and love of flight sim and aviation.

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I did some experimenting with getting the avionics in the modern cockpit running from cold and dark.

I found that while I could never get them to start up when first loading in, if I did Restarts then turned on the battery and avionics in quick succession, I could in a few tries or less get the avionics running.

My initial thought was that the tablet would have to be turned on first, but my last trial was without turning on the tablet and I still got the avionics up.

Those of you who have watched Two Tone Murphy’s streams will be familiar with the phrase, “Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.”

But I’d hate to have to muck about like that for ever. Wouldn’t it be nice if iniBuilds fixed it?

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Interesting


I got a similar “60% of the time it works every time” with the GNS being able to switch between GPS and VLOC


without reverting back to VLOC :grimacing: (MSFS 2024).

Sometimes it works just fine, sometimes it stays in VLOC no matter what.

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For the version from Inibuilds, it’s here:
[community]\inibuilds-aircraft-spartan\Resources\Documentation

Obviously that doesn’t help with Marketplace. I’d hit up IniBuilds support or their forum and point out they need to make the manual accessible for Marketplace purchasers. Man, I wish MS would follow through with their promise to make aircraft optionally downloadable


Tell me you’ve never developed software on a modern platform without saying you’ve never developed software on a modern platform. :slight_smile:

(IE: Being 100% problem free would require not having both an operating system and a game engine that don’t always work as documented – if the features you’re using are documented at all.)

If these companies were smart, though, they’d have a few avid users as final beta testers. I have a couple of small devs I’ve done some testing for, and it’s like writing: You work on an article for so long you get blind to some of the details because you’ve seen it so much. You’ve built the entire Empire State Building, so at the end, you missed the fact that the bathrooms on the 39th floor don’t work and elevator #27 has two 13th floor lights. (But what’s surprising is when they also don’t notice that the ground-floor entrance doesn’t open!)

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I have a vague memory of hearing that downloadable assets would be coming in Sim Update 3.

I might drop iniBuilds’ support a line. That actually worked for me with another aircraft, so you never know.

Not so keen on signing up for their forum. One more login to lose track of - I really must get myself a Rolodex (yes, I’m old enough to remember those).

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Same for me.

However, if we want that ini eventually fixes all the (not few) bugs discussed in this thread, it would not be wise not to use their support forum as one of the channels to reach them :+1:

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What’s this ‘wise’ of which you speak? Have I been missing something all these years?

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the double ‘not’ always ties me up, too

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This was my exact same thought reading that post. There are far more permutations than a small beta team could ever hope to cover in testing so bugs are inevitable (and this becomes increasingly true the more complex the simulation). However, that being said, it seems like QC definitely missed some low hanging fruit before pushing this thing out the door. Getting a gauge string sized and placed properly (i.e. the fuel computer) simply shouldn’t have been overlooked. This is coming from someone who has done my fair share of development in the FS9/FSX days.

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I’m sure all your work has always been perfect
 It’s so easy!

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