Thats odd. They work for me using the honeycomb yoke.
Re: Traffic Avoidance System not working:
Heard back from my post on the FlightFX Discord. The bug has been found and fixed last night and the fix will be in an upcoming update of the plane.
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Maybe I should bound those switches to the avionics then. Something is bugged. Maybe the WT 530 that was automatically installed from the marketplace? I deleted that.
Maybe were are to keep it.
As a troubleshooting step, starting with a fresh control profile is recommended. I blew away a whole bunch of mappings myself on the Throttle Quadrant because I was running into odd behaviors. Now it works like a charm.
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Thanks. Iāll try that. Iāll just start a profile specifically to this plane from scratch
For some reason I cannot start the engine after a cold and dark state. I was able to start up fine until today. Both batteries and generators are on, I turn the engine knob to RUN, no CAS messages, and hit START. I only get to 20% N2 and it stops there. A few more tries to fire up the engine eventually deplete the batteries. I havenāt seen an option to connect ground power.
Am I missing something? Scratching my head because I could start it fine during previous flights.
Check all of your bindings for a Mixture mapping, especially if its bound to an axis, if the invisible mixture mapped binding is set to 0 the aircraft wont receive fuel. Also, not related, but there is also an invisible spoiler(speed brake) drag bug if your binding for the spoilers isnt set to decrease spoiler fully setting.
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Ground power got me at first. You just need to bind GPU to something like you P key.
Iāve always found it easy to start so far. And Iāve drained the battery on the Spitfire probably 95.6% of the time Iāve tried to go cold and dark with it.
Wow, that solved it. I had the wrong profile set on my throttle quadrant and my current āmixtureā axis was at 0. Thank you!
That is a great idea, never thought to map ground power to a key. Thanks.
funny enough i lost engine power in flight the other day, and found i out it was becuase my cat had lowered the lever axis bound to mixture when he sat down by it.
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Should the auto throttle FMS mode be used on approach?
I just tried and it didnāt seem to know I was on approach. But it seems from the docs that itās a preferred mode to use.
Mine usually messes with the rudder pedals, but thatās not as bad 
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I hadnāt either until a day or two ago. I was thinking it would be something in the G3000 pages to toggle.
The Vision seems to trip the power switches to on when the GPU is connected. You canāt even turn them off.
The real TBM seems to have external power support, but it doesnāt seem to function in the sim.
I absolutely love this plane. I was flying almost exclusively the Vision Jet in X-Plane 11. After i switched to MSFS about year and half ago, i was hoping that someone makes this plane, and FFX did an amazing job.
Itās way better and more detailed than the Laminar or X-Plane.org modded versions for XPL, and iām having a tons of fun with it.
I have a question though. During my last flight, i had a 10-15kts tailwind, occasionally a littlebit gusty - which made the swerve left & right like a drunk driver, jumping up&down as well. Is this normal/realistic?
I know that this is a very light plane, so winds probably affect it a lot more than other planes i fly, but would 10-15kts tailwind really have that big impact? I donāt recall this happening when i was still flying SF50 in X-Plane.
It was not impossible to fly in those conditions, but i guess that it would be VERY taxing on the pilot if there wasnāt AP.
Constant small adjustments were needed, it was like riding a spooked horse.
Every sim handles turbulence in their own way, and MSFS is no different.
It can vary from plane to plane but the consensus these days seems to be the turbulence in sim might be a bit too much.
It sounds like they plan to update the sim soon with a turbulence slider, so we can set it to our own tastes. And with turbulence, that may be the only way to please everyone.
Too much for one person is perfect for another.
That said, she is small and fast. Sheāll get thrown around more than most other jets in sim which are significantly larger. And this reaction to turbulence is in line with prop planes of a similar weight. So it feels consistent across this weight class.
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Thanks for the reply. Since i returned to sim-flying mid 2019 after a long hiatus, i started with X-Plane.
I started with Skyhawk, but prop planes always confused me, i decided to try the SF50, and spent hundreds of hours in it.
When i switched to MSFS during 2020, SF50 wasnāt available, so i started with ultra-lights, moved to Skyhawk and Beechcraft Bonanza G36 (absolutely love that plane). My plan was to start with small planes and slowly move āupā to more complex and bigger planes, eventually getting to airliners. It took me about two years to get there. Initially i flew with A5 Icon, VL3, then C172 and Bonanza, then i spent A LOT of time learning Working Titleās Cessna Citation business jet (first plane with FMGC), and then i started learning Fly By Wireās Airbus A320-251N.
Lately iāve been mostly flying with the Airbus (doing westward around-the-Earth trip), occasionally switching to smaller planes when iām in some interesting location and want to check out details from lower altitudes.
So the planes i spent the most time in are Citation/A320 (but those two are obviously not comparable to SF50 in terms of weight or scale) and the Bonanza. From all the planes i flew, the Bonanza is probably the closest to the SF50 in terms of size and weight (although Bonanza is quite a bit lighter than SF50).
Thatās why i was surprised by the coarse ride - because Bonanza is much more stable when flying during tailwinds or gusts.
No, AT MAN. The real jet would know youāre on Approach but that will have to await future sim improvements.
For now, itās easy enough to dial in 140 before the IAF, 120 before the FAF.
The auto throttle concept is new to me. With it fully coupled to the FMS it seems like there wouldnāt be much for a pilot to do!
Iām unsure of the relationship with flight level change and the auto throttle. I tried using FMS AT on a climb. I thought it would have followed the FLC setting but instead it seemed to attempt making cruise speed and stopped the climb. I took the AT off and reset the FLC value.
Thanks for explaining that. I totally missed that in the manual, usually my flights are less than 400 nm.