Inibuilds generally doesn’t update their contracted aircraft (if this truly was taken over by them for 2024) unless given a strong financial incentive by MS/Asobo to do so, even when major bugs are present, so we’ll see if any adjustments are actually made. (Reference: YS-11, F-27, etc).
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The pilot thing just shows what a factory model IniBuilds uses. MS seems to an affinity for them, which is a shame, because the shoddy job they did on this conversion shows how some of their teams have devs who just do the assignment but don’t use the product. (iniBuilds is actually a company with a variety of dev teams, some who are passionate and some who follow the product plan and aren’t engaged enough with the actual product/audience to catch glaring issues.)
This feels like a case of a dev or modeler being handed the plane and being told “update it to use the custom pilot, because all 2024 planes must support the custom pilot.”
So the dev puts the pilot in the seat, at normal scale. Totally missing the fact that the actual WW2 pilot was sitting on top of a parachute that added a number of inches below his bum. And everyone else on the team sees the custom pilot in there and nobody bothers to compare/notice vs the real thing, because they did indeed accomplish the task they were given and put the new pilot in place.
Same with the canopy. “Opening the door should exit the plane” as an MS design rule. Never mind that it lessens the experience, it’s a design rule.
You have people who know the job and accomplish it technically. And you have people who are passionate about the product and want to create a great experience. The iniBuilds products I’ve seen them do for MS mostly seem to reflect the former.
I’ve been disappointed by them since they took four months to acknowledge and fix the invisible canopy on their FS2024 T-33, citing that they were too busy supporting their recent Airbus release. And the lack of updates for remaining issues with their Spartan.
TL;DR: Use the 2020 version of the Boomerang. It’s better in numerous ways and has no disadvantages. (I can’t find any sign that iniBuilds altered/“enhanced” the flight model, which is probably good after all the other issues with their conversion.)
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Also, the poll here is hard to answer.
My numbers would be reflective of the 2020 version, not the 2024 version.
And I’m hesitant to give low ratings because I don’t want MS to think low ratings are associated with the choice of aircraft (which is fantastic) rather than the botched 2024 “enhancements.”
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otoh buying it as is just encourages them to continue to release low quality product, even if it’s a “relatively” lower cost MS subsidized LL.
First and foremost, this was sold as a 2024 native release and fails at that. That is the core issue.
I also don’t think the pilot issue is just because they are not sitting on a chute. It seems slightly scaled down as well, if you look at any number of real-life photos.
MS has the final say on the release, so while whoever it was who developed it (IB or otherwise) are originally at fault for phoning in the 2024 version it was MS QA that signed off on it to release it as is. So, there’s two levels of QA failure here. Or possibly not, and it was a case of “management override due to brickwall release date, too bad for customer:” Who knows? Someone does, no doubt
It’s a bit sad really. I know they’re just toy planes and all, but it would be great to see 2024 native version marketing hype (NEW IMPROVED MORE ACCURATE FM++) live up to the reality, but unfortunately this is now the world we live in. Caveat Emptor. The 2020 version also has a few issues. [Bugs] Local Legend 24: CAC Boomerang - Bug Reporting Hub / Aircraft & Systems - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums
Of course, all this is recoverable by releasing updates to fix all the identified issues, but there’s also no sense of timeline with that. Knowing that any botched releases are quickly recoverable can go a long way to recovering from things like this (as proven by the small group of top tier 3rd party a/c devs who regularly do this - even AH has recently lifted their game here to their credit).
But with these releases there’s no sense of a quick release fix, though all credit to the mods for acknowledging quick submission of bugs to the devs.
I honestly wish they would release less content of higher quality, rather than more like this.
That said, they know the numbers behind the actual marketplace, so I guess it’s working for them if they don’t change it.
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I’ve officially enabled and started using the 2020 version (which fortunately came with the 2024 version since I no longer have 2020 installed.) it’s a much nicer experience. If they fix the canopy and pilot issue on 2024, I’ll switch back!
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I am an Aussie, wanted to support this and then started reading bug reports. So I haven’t bothered. Like you mentioned, who knows if/when it will get fixed. My grandfather had the job of signing of planes in ww2. His signature was the final quality control, so saying an aircraft was fit to fly on military ops. Need that here.
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Does anyone know what the carb air temp. switch in the right side does? Position 1 puts the needle at around 9 C, and 2 about 20 C. Is this just carb heat?
Position I shows the carb temp, position 2 shows the outside (free) air temp. This screenshot was taken while sitting in a snowfield in Antarctica:
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Thanks so much!
i think I found a downside to the 2020 version; sometimes at high altitudes, the plane starts to fall down nose first no matter what the engine is doing. Even with a perfectly running engine, it’s like the ailerons are broken off or something
EDIT: I’m unable to reproduce this issue so it may have been a fluke. Overall, the 2020 version is much more polished than the 2024 in my opinion
Also, I don’t think the left fuel tank works at all in the 24 version. Engine dies every time I switch to it…
@DRockHimself
I’ve also noticed some funkiness with the various tanks in the 2024 version. I’m not sure that the fuel valve lever accurately matches the actual tank in use, but need to do more testing to get good repros before filing a bug report.
[Edit: A rather unscientific test while flying tonight suggested that on my 2024 version, the left valve pulls from the center tank, the right valve pulls from the center tank, and the main valve does not pull from anything. Switching to the main tank when the left & right are almost empty (2 gallons) caused the engine to quit due to fuel starvation. A rapid in-flight emergency refill in the EFB was required to prevent the premature death of the pilot involved! 
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I also experienced this.
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It’s certainly living up to its name as a cac boomerang
Looking forward to it coming back in better shape soon though!
How often does it happen? I’ve flown a few of times now and it’s only happened once, and I don’t know what triggered it
Also just once for me. It was a sudden steep dive.
In summary, an aircraft released far too quickly, unfinished, too buggy, some controls have no effect… One example :
Having to enter or exit the aircraft based on the cockpit opening/closing controls is really not a good idea. It seems to me that the Shift+C key combination is meant for that and then this would presumably allow you to open or close the cockpit at will.
Furthermore, it’s quite annoying to find the cockpit automatically closed when you’ve just boarded the aircraft.
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Flight Model is waayyyy too sensitive, plane wants to kill you when you go to takeoff. Rudder is too sensitive and unrealistic to even be able to do the takeoff roll with out overcorreting. Other than the extremely sensitive flight control model which needs to be fixed. Plane is quite nice looking in my opinion.
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Agree with you, it’s way over sensitive on takeoff.
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I got the impression that Ini just added some 2024 features to AH’s 2020 version but did not check what stopped working when using the 2024 SDK with it.
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