For what it’s worth, it’s possible to manually enter a flight plan into this UNS-1, it’s just that it’s so borked that you have to use a strange method: 1) Enter your departure info; 2) Enter your arrival info; 3) starting with the last waypoint before your STAR (or approach, or destination airport, as the case may be), enter waypoints backward to your SID or departure airport. It’s counterintuitive, but it mostly works. I’ve had quite a few successful flights this way.
Hopefully Carenado will see fit to at least swap in the current Working Title UNS-1 sometime soon, instead of this bugged out junk for MSFS 2020.
Having said that, the PMS 750 trick through the menu bar plugin works well in a pinch. I’d just rather do it the “correct” way.
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I do that exact procedure to match what’s on the EFB, but its the EFB that controls the EFIS regardless of what you put in the UNS unless you used the DTO feature or add an approach. Try adding a random not in the EFB flightplan waypoint in the FPL page and it literally does nothing to the EFIS. The UNS is a working title instrument that sorta works and has been partially patched, but the carenado EFIS is blind to it.
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Really hope that fixing the 340b and the other premium aircraft are a focus for sim update 2. Its very frustrating that the most expensive variation of the sim and its planes are some of the worst in the sim in terms of functionality. 340b, H225, C408, B747 variants, B787 all need a ton of work…
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Maybe now that people can buy them on the Marketplace (or as they’re ingested to the Marketplace) MS/Asobo and their partner devs will feel the compunction to update them - people who spend money to buy a specific aircraft will probably be pretty disappointed with what they get in some of these planes, too.
I agree that fixing planes should be a focus… the problem is airplanes done by 3rd parties, like the 340.
This plane is a Carenado plane, and if Carenado doesn’t fix it, Asobo can’t easily just take it over. The UNS is done by Working Title, and its improved, but the plane itself won’t talk to it properly and the EFIS is Carenado. Petition them as much as Asobo and refuse to buy any of their products until ones in the sim are fixed.
they are MICROSOFT planes. its their responsibility. if they ask a 3rd party dev to do it or do on their own is their problem. Asobo please… the 737max is their most detailed aircraft its said. i prefer something else tbh.
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i literally got the most expensive version of the game just to get the saab
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Afaik the UNS is still using a 2020 1.xx version and not a 2024 2.xx version (Yes WT made a 2020 version of it as well) which is part of the problem. You wouldn’t think this is something that takes months to fix, but here we are.
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I know that pain, I did the same for the PC24. Would love to fly the Saab around the Caribbean as well but it needs work just be at barely functional
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I got an email from Carenado last week stating they submitted an updated version to Asobo and it is now up to them to make it available.
Of course, what the update changes are is anyone’s guess.
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Well at least you got a response, that’s something. Now hopefully the update will be part of SU2.
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at least 3-4 months to wait, like C17
While this is 110% true, it still doesn’t hurt to also ping Carenado on fixing it. Don’t expect a response, but, there’s no harm in flooding them with requests directly. However, you’re right that these requests need to be sent to Microsoft first and foremost.
Waste of time. I know from experience they’ll say either, “we’re waiting for approval from MS,” or, “It’s a MS plane now and all changes/upgrades are their responsibility.”
@tamsini7744 got a response from them. They’ve submitted an update anyway. Who knows if it fixes the UNS Integration?
And, again, just because I’m not going to get a response doesn’t stop me from sending out emails. I don’t particularly care if I get a response. To me, the sheer volume I help create (I know I’m not the only person contacting them), will help make changes.
Giving up is like saying your vote doesn’t matter. And when people do that, well…
Except votes DO count. They’re all counted.
Still waiting for many fixes for years from a variety of developers. I emailed Caranado last about the Hobbs meter not recording properly in the Cessna 207. It’s still broken and it’s been.. what, over a year?
Edit: And that has to be an easy fix. All they have to do is swap colors on the 2nd from most right dial to fix it if they want to be quick about it.
That sounds like an easy texture fix. If all you have to do is change the color, then find the texture and fix it, unless it’s a hard coded color on the surface. But that doesn’t sound like a broken, improperly recording Hobbs meter. I don’t care about the colors of the numbers as long as the meter records hours properly. Heck, that could just be a maintenance issue gone wrong if they put the wrong dial in. Maybe those are the colors of the plane they used for a model (sorry, I don’t know the issue).
It’s because when I’ve flow 4.7 hours, it shows .47 hours. The meter looks like it should show in 1/100 hrs but it doesn’t - hence broken. If they changed the color of the 1/10 roller then it wouldn’t bother me as It’d be like most of the other meters in game and show tenths.
I’m sure it is the colors on the one they used as a model. You can get Hobbs meters that show 1/100th hours. There’s another one somewhere else in game that works right, but I can’t remember which plane.