SimWorks Studios Kodiak 100 one the best aircraft for MSFS 2020

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Apologies if this has been asked/answered already. But is this likely to come to the Xbox anytime soon? I’m not holding my breath obviously.

Often when testing Kodi in Nano VG I forget it on and hop in the Otter and noticed it was actually working with Nano VG. So I was kind of wondering thanks for clarifying that it does indeed work with WASM. Yeah I noticed the offset radios in the DC6 but the only thing I noticed on the Kodi was the TAWS test overlay and not even really sure if it was related to Nano VG.

The difference in performance on some systems with Nano VG is night and day though and does vary from plane to plane. When the DC6 originally launched it used Nano VG by default. Sadly after SU5 we noticed up to 30 FPS performance drop and went asking questions. Thankfully PMDG cmmarkis was kind enough to mention “developer channel” as it was referred to. With some more digging we eventually would come to know it as Nano VG and when they added it back as an experimental feature we began testing it again. It always worked fine up until they removed it. I suspect it was an issue with XBOX compatibility. It’s very stable now though and working fine for the most part.

I have logged hundreds of hours with it and always fly in developer mode now. Still it would be nice for people who want their time logged to be able to get their FPS back and not have to use dev mode. I am hopeful for SU8 we will see this happen but I do like having the option in dev mode at my fingertips. Let’s hope that does not change.

I would like to test the Kodi builds as I have found issues. Still an amazing plane and a 10/10 once my issues sorted. I still recommend it to everyone as it’s just amazing plane. I have been beating the hell out of my Kodiak Tundra without cargo :wink: Even had to name my copilot who I pretend is flying the plane when I am watching from the back seat. LOVE IT! Hell I even sat in the back seat and accidentally opened the table and was like WHUTTTTTT. Paint Kit and Livery selection is nice too. Can’t wait for Floatiak!

The new version has a rather extensive changelog, with almost everything being systems related -fixes and improvements. Still reserving some things for later updates, but this one should iron out most of the spotted bugs and problems.

The only thing we aren’t touching until after SU8 is the flight model. We will keep it as is with 1.0.4 as we think SU8 will require us to redo some things so we will take this slowly and carefully. The same applies to the Floatiak: we are getting her to float and fly, but not showing anything until we are sure SU8 doesn’t substantially change her.

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Any idea why I get the “TAWS system test okay” maybe once every six flights? I like to hear it because of the immersion and it’s always disappointing when it doesn’t happen.

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Is there a new update ?
Pretty sure I’m on 1.04.

Don’t think so
 The guy you’re responding too is on the Kodiak development team so he knows what’s coming.

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I don’t blame you. There was some exciting stuff there, what with prop feathering, prop drag, and so on.

Awesome aircraft so far. Surely, one of my favorites so far. Looking foward to the update and what SU8 brings!

A question I have (more for the community, since it’s probably a sim thing):

Since I bought the Kodiak, all parked static traffic positioned at smaller/regional default airports are Kodiaks. Is there a way to change that?
Before I look somwhere else in the depth of this forum, I thought a quick question in here wouldn’t do any harm. Thanks!

I have the same small issue. All the parked GA aircrafts are Kodiak!

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Not only that, but frequently the exact same Kodiak!

It is a great aircraft. And obviously very, very popular

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Exactly the same with me :laughing:

If you look in the Kodiak/SimObjects/Airplanes

You will see 4 folders one for each type of plane. Inside each of those folders is an aircraft.cfg

change line;

canBeUsedByAITraffic=1

to

canBeUsedByAITraffic=0

If that is a problem for you the only other way would be to turn ground/traffic off at airports and leave AI on for aircraft.

What I would do is perhaps limit a few of them so you don’t see so many. You could even just show the plane you are flying so that only that plane is in memory and not 4 different variations if it is spawning too many.

Captain mustache definelty wrong mode for issue #1. Brightness control knobs are lower left of mfd for issue 2. TAWS is in beta for #3. SMS had to keep it simple enough for all demos to enjoy. Captain mustache made it to where I can match every throttle and pitch behavior of Missionary bush pilots trainings. Just trying to help share my love of this plane. Twitch

I’m liking the mod on flightsimto. The plane feels a bit sturdier and “heavier”. Just a tiny bit but i like it. And the flight model on low speeds feels beautiful with this mod.

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Any advice on assigning the 3 way landing light switch with the bravo quadrant guys ?

Which mod is it? I saw a lot of livery mods but couldn’t find the performance mod for the kodiak. Thanks in advance.

This one

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it’s not perfect, but on my bravo yoke, I have the landing light set on the ignition switch, going from steady to pulse with each turn on the switch. I use SPAD though so am using LVARS.

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