Happy Monday, everyone!
Another busy week ahead here at GotFriends! Here are some updates on upcoming projects
Taylorcraft BC12D
Glider News
Check out this awesome showcase of the new Discus 2C by Sim Soaring Club:
With the Discus 2C overhaul now released for both freeware and premium users, we’re shifting focus to the AS33. The team is hoping to wrap up beta testing on the AS33’s release candidate this week. Huge thanks to our 20 testers for all their hard work ensuring accuracy and a smooth rollout.
With feedback from real-world glider pilots and in-sim communities like Diamond Soaring, Sim Soaring Club, and We Sim Glide, we’re confident we’re crafting a stellar gliding experience—for both MSFS 2020 and 2024. The changelog is shrinking, and it looks we’re still on track.
For those unsure if gliding is for you, come check out our Freeware Discus 2C Standard. You can grab it on our website, and enjoy so much of this overhaul (including entirely new Avionics) entirely for free in both MSFS 2020 and 2024. The Discus is a phenomenal first step into sim gliding, simple, yet has much to offer as a platform to learn the basics prior to stepping into a flapped competition glider like the AS33Me. If you enjoy our experience, you can always choose to support the project later by grabbing the Premium version that has the FES Motor variant.
Get it for free here: Discus-2c Standard – Got Friends
Aeroprakt A32 Vixxen News
A snapshot from Heavenbound Aviation’s custom MSFS 2024 flight sim setup:
Imagine walking into a flight school, having never touched an aircraft or a even heard of a flight simulator—this could be a student’s first taste of flight! That’s something we’re proud to contribute to.
One of my contacts at the school sent me this image showing how their setup with the A32 Vixxen is coming along. They’ve been putting the early build through its paces using a custom RealSimGear panel, giving students valuable avionics time while waiting for their turn in the real aircraft—or when it’s down for maintenance.
*Taylorcraft BC12D News
A rough first paint of N43539 in preparation for an in-sim build this week!
Our post-war Taylorcraft is starting to take shape. The exterior’s in a good place, and what you’re seeing is an early WIP coat of paint—mainly for lighting tests and some internal previews.
GotGravel is excited to dive into this one and give it the same attention our community expects from our bush aircraft. I’m working closely with Andy and the Heavenbound team (as we did on the A32), as well as Kevin Hopkins, an ArkanSTOL competitor who owns a BC12D.
Fun fact: Kevin’s friend and aircraft tech, Cameron, is also known as an announcer for the in-sim National ESTOL events. Small world!
I will be be starting interior modeling this week now that final livery work on the AS33Me is complete. Can’t wait to see this one fully in-sim soon.
That’s all for now!
I’ve been flying the CAS J3 a lot in MSFS 2024 and doing some shared cockpit flying via YourControls with a close friend from Emerald Scenery Design in MSFS 2020.
This week, we kick off a full month of soaring!
Thanks for reading—hope to see you in the virtual skies!
-Developer Mykrode-