Anyone got this, and got it working with MSFS 2020.
Since it is NEW on the Marketplace, as of Jan 9th, 2025, which only currently has 2020 content, I “assume” it is 2020 compatible.
A bit late for a response, but I picked it up during the July sale here in 2025 and it seems to be working well. I haven’t had a lot of time to mess with it in-depth just yet. But it’s a nice addition for flying older GA planes with some modern conveniences when you want to.
Note that it adds the Aera GPS unit which can be revealed/hidden with a “GPS” button added to the panel, AND it changes the mechanical attitude and heading indicators to the Asobo versions of the Garmin G5 screens. The G5’s can’t be hidden/switched back to steam gauges since they’re actually needed for integration with Aera unit as in real life; the unit is made for integrating with the modern electronics that are taking over so some retrofitting of older cockpits is in order.
This is fine, except that the Asobo G5’s aren’t exactly fantastic. Their displays are a little small compared to the steam gauges, which makes them harder to read depending on your monitor size, Also, if you’re have any blurriness going on in your graphics, they will reveal it. I had to fiddle with my settings just a bit because it was annoying me. Also, the heading bug responds really slowly to mouse inputs (That was reported last year, I think, and nothing’s been done yet.) In general, the Asobo G5’s limited controls are pretty sluggish. I found that the heading bug control does work normally if I spin it with the heading mode control on my Logitech autopilot panel, though. That kind of tells me there’s something not quite right with how the Asobo G5 gauge is handling the sim’s own native inputs versus inputs going through remote input via a driver or perhaps SimConnect. Maybe poking at it with Axis and Ohs via SimConnect could reveal some more behaviors, if it’s got any variables that can be hooked. That’s for another time…
If you want to go back to a full steam gauge six-pack in a plane that the Aera addon affects, then you’ll have to go to the Content Manager to delete it from loading until you want to use it again. I noticed at least in the hangar view, the G5s stayed on until I changed out to a different plane in the hangar temporarily, then switched back to the one I wanted and the G5’s were then gone – Until I re-activate the Aera again in the Content Manager. A little awkward, maybe, but that’s just how the sim handles it when addons change the panel configuration.