Just took the new update for a spin and its coming along great! Thanks for bringing it to us so quickly! The dedication is beyond appreciated 
One thing I did notice is it seems the nav light switch is still linked with the battery, the same as it is in the original build. Not sure if that was meant to be fixed with this update or not, but thought I would let you guys know.
(One thing to note on this: I havenāt had troubles with other JF installers installing over the last release, so I didnt uninstall before doing this update here either.. Figured Iād mention this just incase it might be something that simple) 
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Yeah, the nav light is a weird one, the code causing it to do that was removed - and yet the effect remains. Iāll figure it out eventually 
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No worries at all mate! Gotta love those coding āadventuresā 
Thanks for the quick response!
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Im am too, and i actually think that i wrote what you said lol (Pilote-Virtuel.com, Hinano?)
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You know i think hes talking about me there 
I replied to some rivet counters there, saying your plane was never aimed at āhardcore simmers (LOL)ā. I also said there are as many āhardcore simersā as before, but drowned in a pool FULL of newcomers, so their voices dont matter as much as they used to (if they ever did that is).
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So, Hinano 
no hard feeling here 
. I must admit that my concern was more against the one you responded. And then the ācasual gamerā thing made me smile. I can be both you know, casual gamer or rivet counter ;)ā¦ Depend on my mood and tiredness. But in this case Iām always counting for myself and I think there is room for every one who can at least show some love to his creation. And this is the case here I think :).
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Yeah, I knew, I was just referring to some of the comments around the Interweb in general that always surround launches, by any devs really.
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Hi,
Appreciate that you follow this discussion with so much affection! Thanks for the first batch of tweaks, will try later today.
One detail for your list of cockpit tuning: please give the leather upholstery more detail and structuring. Currently it looks like il2 1946 artwork, if you know what I meanāŗ
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Is this a ādelete the originalā aircraft, or an āoverwriteā update?
TG
This distinction with hardcore simmers and casuals is too blurred anyway. Who knows? Who can tell? All I know is that I enjoy well-done products. IF a productās scope is not to be study-level and to be aimed at a simplified experience, if itās done well, itās not any worse than your PMDG/FSLabs etcā¦ As long as the product achieves what it set out to do, I have no issues with it. I am the guy who knows the PMDG/FSLabs stuff because I own and fly literally every product they have releasedā¦ a lot. But I can hop in a DC Designs aircraft or Carenado aircraft and have just as much fun with it. BECAUSE THEY ARE WELL-EXECUTED. Now, if you stick me into a Typhoon packed with a Garmin showroom of products, or.. a 737 where the bus switches magically start the APU and the aircraft tells me that in all cases my approach speed is 83 knotsā¦ Or a 777 with four bloody engines? Then we have a problem. Thatās not ācasualā aircraft, thatās justā¦ ā ā ā ā in a box. Soā¦ I am gonna leave the contemplation of what makes one a āseriousā simmer to others. I have stuff to learn and fly.
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In my case with addon linker it deleted the content of the linked existing folder then installed the patched version back in the community folder.
Yes to all of that. Kind of sums up what we at Just Flight have been trying to convey for many a year. Just because an aircraft, however big or small, however simple or complex, hasnāt taken a team of twenty developers five years to develop it doesnāt make it any lesser of an effort and to those who prefer that type of plane then the quality will still shine through. Each very much to their own. Our older F-Lite range at JF was very very successful and we know for a fact that thousands of gamers/simmers call therm what you will got plenty of enjoyment from them and still do in many cases. Absolutely fine for people to state that this or that isnāt for them due to it not having the levels of details or complex systems that they yearn for but to be so openly critical and rude (in some cases) when evidence would suggest that theyāre perhaps not knowledgeable enough to understand why whatās on offer is presented and built as it is, that can be pretty frustrating and I see why it would rile the associated devs. Doubt things will ever change and perhaps simply due to there being so many more avenues for these opinions to appear it just looks worse than it actually is. We can only hope.
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Hope DC Designs fix the modelling flaw/blip where the lower rudder meets the fuselage, which detracts from the overall quality. Weird. Still there after the first update.
I feel l sorry for starting this debate about casual and non casual. Like I wrote sooner I can be both, and I like it this way. Just wanted to have little fun about people that make generalizations, opposing āproā and ācasualā, never thinking than many can be both (I am) depending on the time.
But really thatās not a big deal, letās continue by talking about the pt17 Stearman, it is very nice add-on for itās price and I like it.
And letās have good times, in or out of the simulator, with any plane we like, may be an Asobo one or an add-onā¦ More important is to have fun, whatever we do or like to do.
Fly safe.
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I see you have also corrected the rear stabilizer support bracing, in addition to the list of things you have addressed here. All in all this is a far better representation of the Model 75 Stearman PT-17 now.
I tried to make my suggestions regarding the appearance of this Stearman in the most agreeable way possible. Somehow they still came off as demanding or confrontational. Not my intention.
Hopefully any future corrections you plan to make to this model will not evaporate your ROI and keep the project profitable. Both things matter if we are to see more developers join the fray and more aircraft types brought to MSFS.
Thank you for being first with a decent Stearman representation. The repaint artists should be kept busy for a while with this canvas. LOTS of PT-17 references to cover
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Thanks!
Lots more to come for the Stearman; planned improvements are the addition of the engine bay interior, wheel chocks, tail-wheel lock and handle, further detailing and modeling improvements ( such as the wing-tip extra polygons and rudder tidy-up mentioned already ), texture enhancements in the cockpit, and it looks like enough people would like the engine and wheel fairings to make a second model version worthwhile. No extra engine types or sounds though, that would take too much extra time and money.
Will include all the above in a second update, maybe in a month or so, to allow for any further suggestions by the community to filter through.
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I was really impressed when I saw the landing maneuver of the real thing in this youtube video at 5:20 - so I tried it with the simulation and it worked! Lifting the nose a bit after setting throttle to idle I almost fell vertically down at zero airspeed, before landing safely at low speed At The Controls of a WWII Warbird Trainer!!! Boeing Stearman: ACCA P4 - YouTube
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Thanks for committing to continued improvements! My only request would be to please keep looking into the drag issue if possible. The plane really should lose airspeed quickly with power off but currently it feels more like a glider when trying to land.
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