Saitek Flight Panels

Reason for “coming soon” is that they actually sold out because of the expectation for MSFS 2020, Typical of large companies like Microsoft, Saitek/Logitech they just want our money and don’t care that it leaves thousands of us hanging.

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Folks I got a Direct Reply From Logitech G:

=Message reads…

[Logitech G ANZ sent you a Direct Message.]

Hey, we’ve chased this one up with the team and are yet to hear back just yet. We’ll be sure to let you know as soon as we do!

So after posting to all the twitter channels etc yesterday this was the response, I encourage everyone to tweet the same messages to Logitech G, Microsoft Flight Sim, Asobo etc

LETS KEEP THIS TRACTION GOING !!!

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SPADNext works. My multi panel, radio panel and switch panel are all displaying numbers and working.

I haven’t tested it enough to rule out performance issues though. I tried the 747 taking off at LAX, so the stuttering I was experiencing could have more natural causes, but I wanted to test out the multi panel with an airliner.

SPADnext has a 14 day free trial, so there’s really no good reason to not try it out. Just remember to skip the “test connection” part in the SPADnext wizard.

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Did you configure the panels yourself or is it automatic or from somewhere else? I only tried the trial version a while back for XP but I’m too dumb to figure out how to use it so I never bought it lol. Can’t do two trials for different versions :frowning:

I used the standard SimConnect presets and I didn’t notice any problems. I don’t think it’s necessary to do any mapping since both MSFS2020 and SPADnext uses the same API as FSX, so they just reuse the old FSX mappings.

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Thanks! I feel a bit better about spending money on it, then. I was going to hold off “just in case” I decided not to continue with this sim after my GP trial was over, but I’m thinking that won’t happen…Really loving what I’ve seen so far from a completely non-biased and its-only-the-first-day standpoint.

I would verify with more people before spending hard cash on it. I only had a couple of flights with it before logging off, and they were stuttery.

I have a hard time believing this issue won’t be resolved in an easier and cheaper way very soon. I’m letting the two week trial run out before committing.

Maybe a secondary email address for a second trial? Sheesh, I’m really feeling the burden of responsibility for your money now :sweat_smile:

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Anything that relies on Simconnect may have issues as far as I know.

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Alien, can you please keep posting and updating us as this is really important considering the shoes we are all in please, thank you!!

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Tried to contact logitech support usa on 3 seperate attempts waiting a total of 90 minutes… They have a 30 minute timeout for holds.

I want this baby to work in FS2020 dammit!

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ouch, im in australia and got through in like 7 minutes

No worries, I’d do more testing to verify, but it’s 2AM here and there’s work tomorrow blabla. We’ll figure this out.

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yep as you can see this is currently the biggest issue in the forums, keep us posted, get some sleep captain!! :v:

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Asobo has acknowledged the FPS issue associated with SimConnect applications.
Lets hope it gets sorted sooner than later. Once there is a fix, be good to see what people think of SPADnext and MSFS2020!
Like most I am waiting for Microsoft / Asobo / LogitechG to make an official statement about the Panels.
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Thanks Havoc, this is good news, I mean its the first solid good piece of news for sure, thanks so much for sharing, lets hope they do something Native though for the panels like they have done for the other peripherals!!

I have got the support ticket to. im waiting for an answer

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Excellent news, will be good to get some responses soon!!

My Switch and multi panel worked with SPAD.Next.

But the Display of the multi panel only turn the red background light ON… no information shown (the HDG, ALT, VS, nothing, only background red light).

Can someone help me?

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Its all panels that arent working natively and no drivers etc from logi, the Author of Spad mentioned there are issues with the current live version of the Sim, this is why this thread is the most popular because of this issue, you need to get onto logitech and raise a ticket and then feedback your responses from them, you need to tell them to get some drivers made pronto…to put it very kindly!

I´ve installed the SPAD.next, but after that i´ve got freezing issues… is that what u mean?