Fair point.
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Now in my hangar. A truly beautifully made aircraft. Iād rather have an Instrument View of the tablet than an overhead view of the Processed Comestible Disposal Apparatus, but hey ho.
I hope the manual, when it eventually emerges, will be equally impressive.
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is it only sold in Marketplace?
Manual is available.
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Ooh, Iāve been looking forward to this. Maybe a little more detailed than the KwikFlight one. 
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The Xbox Version should be released by the end of September. Fingers crossed.
Iām concerned about the performance of this plane on Xbox. It will be released for sure but how it will work is another question. The cockpit has a dozen screens with separate functions and generally quite complex systems. Thereās not enough memory in the consoles for this.
Thanks - downloaded. When I checked that page yesterday it hadnāt yet been uploaded. But then I was pretty quick off the mark buying the B-2 after the Marketplace was updated, thanks to a YouTube post by QGU reporting that the latest update was live.
The manual isnāt yet in the aircraft folder, but the updated Raptor manual was included in its aircraft folder with the latest Raptor update, so I expect weāll see the same for the B-2 on its first update.
As I said above, I had an issue with Top Mach Studioās choice of Instrument Views, so I should say that in comparison to many developers they did put a good deal of effort into their choices.
Which are:
Ctrl +
1 - Cockpit panorama
2 - Centre pedestal
3 - Overhead panel
4 - Left hand switch panel
5 - Central display & surround
6 - Entry hatch
7 - Safe (see below)
8 - Toilet
9 - External front view of aircraft
0 - A way way up a 'ky
Nine of these at least have been carefully chosen - which is not always the case. But only four of them, 2,3,4, and 5, are what Iād call flight-critical. The others donāt need to be accessed during flight - 1 and 9 are pure showcase views - and so should be lower in priority than any that do.
Iām not sure that Top Mach Studios regard the tablet as flight-critical; but theyāve put it there and it will be for those who choose to use it. So it should probably have higher priority for an instrument view (you can almost see it from 4, but you couldnāt use it) than, say, a view of the toilet - or the sky.
But, as I say, a significantly better effort than most - though I wouldnāt mind seeing 2 and 3 moved slightly to the right.
Edit: I thought it must be a safe for the nuclear codes.
Itās a microwave.
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I dunno, with the flights these things do, Iād say a view of how lunch and dinner are cooking is pretty important! 
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Well, thereās the thing. Every microwave Iāve ever seen has a window in the door. Here, no window, so not obviously a microwave, and so no checking on the food. The lack of a window and the keypad made me think it was a safe.
It was only after posting and then getting two miles into my morning walk that a pesky voice in my head said, āHang on! What was that timer in the top left hand corner? Is it to stop the crew accessing the nuke codes until theyāre well clear of the USA?ā
At which point I started to wonder if there was a simpler explanation. And sure enough, when I looked in the manual it said it was a microwave - and not, or at least the manual didnāt claim it was, the top-secret EMP kind. Oh well, maybe the front of the safe ā¦ er, microwave turns transparent when itās on.
Edit: Turns out that big square button with nothing written on it opens the safe ā¦ er, microwave when you click on it. Itās amazing what you donāt see when youāre not looking for it.
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I think we need to file a bug report thenā¦ there should be something cooking in thereā¦ and we should be able to see it, and choose what it is! A little light should come on in there when we press the go buttonā¦
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As long as the one for the nuclear weapons worksā¦
P.S. Press the big black buttonā¦
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Oh, come on, the microwave might be the most important feature there is for the pilots! 
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I donāt know about that. Clearly youāve never been caught short.
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Ok, youāve got me thereā¦ but
hence, #8 
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I made a cold & dark start video in german language
Cheers
Id get this if it was a bit cheaper.$40 is quite a lot.
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Well, itās not a study-level aircraft - how could it be, whoād know? - but it is fairly complex, and beautifully modelled inside and out, with lots of unique control surfaces and other bits - check out the APUs - to watch in action.
Iād say Iām definitely not feeling I overpaid for it.
I did have some issues with the engines cutting out on me.
For me, these were resolved by binding one of my two throttle levers to the main throttle axis, rather than trying to control individual engines or engine pairs; and by removing all the bindings on my Virpil throttle that didnāt actually do anything on the B2 - though on Discord, where I went for troubleshooting advice, the opinion was, last time I looked, that the important thing to unbind is mixture.
One thing that surprised me was that the B-2A was designed for low-level penetration as well as high-level stealth - I presume as a hedge in case an effective counter-stealth technology emerged in the lifetime of the aircraft.
This pleased me greatly, as my style of flying is not infrequently āpart pilot, part tree-trimmerā. I had fun taking it through Star Wars Valley, the RAFās answer to Star Wars Canyon. Itās just north of Blair Atholl in the Grampians in Scotland - we Scots refer to it more prosaically as Glen Tilt.
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