Has anyone figured out how to program an arrival procedure into the King Air 350 G3000?
I eventually found the Direct-to and PROC buttons on the pedestal, but they’re not clickable and I can’t find anywhere on the screens to initiate the same options. This was one of my favourite aircraft to fly in FS2020.
I just emptied my balance in OnAir by leasing one for 4 weeks and am stuck with it now until I can afford to lease something else. I wouldn’t mind, I can still fly it and complete jobs. But with not being able to fly IFR arrivals, the opaque windows and it running out of fuel when there is still “20%” remaining, it is a bit of a pain
The King Air 350 in MSFS2020 didn’t have the G3000. It was some Frankenstein version of the G3X that was not accurate to the plane at all, and was very limited in functionality.
I don’t have MSFS2024 (anymore) but I assume it’s still the same G3X Frankenstein unit, and as such, you can’t really do all the things you want to do.
There was a great G1000 mod for PC users on MSFS2020 that was indispensable for the King Air. It allowed you to do proper IFR flights. One would hope that one day it becomes available for MSFS2024, or, an even better option - fix the default King Air so mods aren’t needed at all… I know, one can dream…
It might be that tomorrow will shed some light on this.
As the Praetor 600 which is coming to MSFS (and which will be announced I guess) features the Collin Pro Line Fusion avionics and as Working Title acknowledged they will not frankenstein together the King Air 350i with the G3X (because it doesn’t simply reflect the real deal) I think a new avionics framework for the PL Fusion(s) could be announced by WT.
As the 350i is in general unfinished for MSFS24 this one would make sense as a testbed for such a new avionics framework. The Praetor 600 could be build upon this with different layouts/pages and additional functionalities.
Just something to keep in mind, the Fusion in the Praetor and the Fusion that’s in the King Air are so totally different from each other they may as well be called something else entirely. There’s very little overlap at all, and they don’t share a common interface whatsoever; they’re as different from each other as the G1000 is from the ProLine 21.
I’ve seen a number of comments like this since the announcement and I just want folks to be realistic; whomever is doing the Praetor Fusion almost certainly will not do a second, entirely different Fusion.
