I really hate making this kind of post, but reading the WT’s reasons for not doing the hotswap is making me sad.
On one hand, I get it. But everything in this sim is always close to greatness. Always a caveat. Always a workaround needed. Always a limitation. Always something.
We have online planner which is amazing…
…but it misses so many little airports because it uses some ICAO database or whatever instead of importing airports from the sim, like littlenavmap does.
We can calculate fuel in it as well…
…but the performance data is still missing for most aircraft year and a half after release.
We have a great EFB…
…but it’s somewhat useless for VFR as the maps are super rudimentary and show nothing VFR pilot needs.
We have the best Garmin simulation ever…
…but the screens are cluttered with million heliports in fixed wings and we can’t disable them.
Now we’re getting Avidyne which seems just as amazing…
…but suddenly it’s not hot-swappable.
I get the thing with variants, but the UI is a mess and some planes like A2A with dozen of configurable combinations would need to have SO MANY of them. Scrolling a horizontal menu of million thumbnails just to find a specific avionic configuration sounds like my personal hell. 