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Greece, Turkey, and South Korea are the top three places I would love to have too. I also look forward to when they add PG for the Rhine River from Mainz (also Wiesbaden) to Koblenz, Bath in England, new PG for Paris, and the Loire Valley in France along with Avignon, Orange and Arles in an expanded Provence; in the US definitely Utah and finishing Hawaii which was their original intent. I would think they could get the required data for those areas so I didn’t include other countries that might be out of reach such as Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt and Morocco or additional countries in South America such as Peru, Columbia and Chile. The issue with Greece and Turkey, as stated by Jorge, is that the data can’t physically leave the country and must reside on a server within each respective country. He said that is something they’ve considered doing so there is hope. Edit: Also Lyon and Manchester definitely should have PG.

I haven’t seen anything, but I would love an update for Utah to cover the Big 5 National Parks there. Some of the most distinctive landscapes anywhere in the world and they don’t look great in the sim.

Thanks, yes I’m aware. My point was adding too much fuel then increasing torque can cause an ITT spike which can damage the engine. Therefore sequencing is important and something people new to turboprops may be unaware of.

No problems here. I always ensure with turbo props when adding power, to increase propeller RPM first then the throttle. Then at cruise, decrease the throttle first before lowering the propeller RPM. Also, make sure you properly use the Initial Separator on the ground if on an unimproved runway surface, during taxi and during icing. It should be pulled out.

Open the small side window and it gets really loud in the cockpit. 😂 I flew on one in real life in Belize and don’t recall it sounding loud in the cabin.

Has anyone actually gotten their discount code? It’s not in my account under order details/activation as described in the email notification so I submitted a ticket. Edit: Wow Just Flight has fantastic Customer Support! They responded to my ticket within ten minutes.

I understand that view, but I like both planes, bush flying, and having the option of analog or G1000. Plus already owning both in 2020, they are discounted so that helps a bit. Kodiak includes all variants and is cheaper than the Caravan so might be the better option if you only want one. The Kodiak has consistently been rated high by the community since its release over at MSFS Forums Monthly Top Ten Plane thread.

Me too! Day One upgrade for sure. So great to see this and the BS Caravan releasing only 10 days apart!

It has passenger seating, but no visible passengers. He may not have added them to the load out.

This isn’t a bundling of two separate planes like the Bonanza/Baron combo. It’s one plane. The bundle is just for an additional variant so no there is not a discount for the bundle already built in. Most people would not spend $48 twice for the same plane just to get another variant. Although many in the flight sim community have been conditioned to do this by PMDG. Before any discounts you’re paying $17 for a different load out. After discounts, you’re paying $20 for the additional variant. So the policy is flawed. At a minimum it should have just been a flat dollar discount. The price of the other variant should not have increased. I’ll just fly the amphibian version when I want to haul passengers. Easy math $38 versus spending $58. But for those who feel compelled to get the bundle, go for it. I own every Black Square product and have lots of Just Flight products as well so I am a huge supporter of both companies. My comments are solely focused on the discount, nothing more.

Anytime a discount policy motivates your customers to spend less, it’s flawed.

This discounting makes zero sense. You save $6.50 if you buy the bundle and $9.60 if you buy a single variant. It should have been the other way around! I was planning to buy the bundle but I think I will skip it and just grab the Cargo/Amphibian variant.

This one really hasn’t been on my list since I have the Starship and love it, but for $25 I’m buying it. Sounds like an excellent plane with phenomenal value!

Sounds like an excellent plan! JF Caravan, MD-11, MD-80, then the ToLiss A340 is the exact order I had written down for my next purchases along with the Flying Iron Spitfire, Taog Dauphin and new Blackbird Corsair when they are released. Also plan to upgrade my SimWork Studios Kodiak when the native 2024 version lands, which is supposed to be soon.

I picked up the Starship several months ago, but just really got into flying it about a month ago. It has become my favorite plane. Fly it down low like a GA plane or fly it high like a biz jet. It’s such a unique experience with great versatility. In his year end best MSFS add ons video, Into the Blue Simulations called it a once in a generation or even lifetime plane. That says it all!

Clearly you’re reading this post and responding to it so you are concerned by the lack of dev updates. If you choose to cope with the uncertainty by not offering any insight, then fine. But no need to tell other people they are wasting their time if they want to offer their view on the situation.

From my business experience, senior leadership goes silent when changes are on the way or there is a high degree of uncertainty about future direction. So my speculation is: 1. New XBox CEO so every product is under review and must be rationalized with financial projections, plans, etc. by the leadership of each product.This obviously places a lot of demand on the time commitments of senior leadership, plus creates a degree of uncertainty around budgets, product plans, etc. until this process is completed. 2. Until this is done, Jorge can’t really comment on future plans until they know if they will need to reduce headcount and third party support. If budget cuts are coming, it will take them time to adjust their product strategy with MSFS as a platform. So we get silence until this is figured out. Alternatively, and on a more positive side, maybe they are experimenting with some new features and until they have confidence in them, they don’t want to set expectations they can’t keep again so we get radio silence. Regardless of what’s underway, Chewy responded to people’s apprehension on the MSFS Official Forums by confirming that there are no plans to discontinue MSFS. But something has definitely changed there and let’s hope the cloud is removed soon!

So excited to read this news today! Of all the BS products, the Caravan is the one I wanted updated the most. https://msfsaddons.com/2026/02/18/black-square-caravan-professional-targets-march-release-product-pages-imminent/

- Flyinside Gazelle - Miltech Bo 105 - Flying Iron 2024 Native Spitfire - Blackbird 2024 F4U-1D Corsair -WIP, hopefully this year - Blackbird DHC-3 Otter - WIP no release date

Jaguar is excellent!

Freeware version available here for 2020 and 2024: https://frenchvfr.free.fr/download.php?lng=en&pg=808&tconfig=0

I used the free trial and the more I flew it, the more I liked it. Great fun and really didn’t need to over think it for $13 USD. FM does seem to need some tweaking (excessive roll rate when performing barrel roles and low rudder authority), but otherwise the FM feels alive and I love flying her. Take offs and landings are a blast and she flies differently enough from the other mil jets I own that she’s not repetitive. Plus she’s a sleek beauty to admire from external view! In VR I have all settings set to ultra, and the cockpit reflections don’t bother me, but they do seem exaggerated. I hope we get a small patch, but I won’t be bothered if we don’t.

Only on a monitor, not in VR.

in addition to enhancing the weather (fix visible icing, cloud turbulence, clouds, etc.) - Improve ground friction/handling - Make the EFB resizable and provide the option for it to look like a tablet instead of a pop out window. It’s a total immersion killer in VR. It shouldn’t be difficult if Sky4sim can do it.

Now I know why Captain Sim and has a viable business.😂 Just joking, I totally understand wanting to start on the runway with engines running. I often don’t want to go through a full start-up and after buying a new plane I just want to get it into the air. I also got into this hobby to admire the scenery and revisit places in the sim I’ve been to in real life. But then I caught the aviation bug and have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about it. Started mostly flying bush planes, helicopters and general aviation planes. Took me a year before I even learned to use the PMS GTN750. Then started reading approach plates and flying IFR with GA. Then got into warbirds and military jets. Flipping switches and turning knobs is the least favorite part for me too because I view repetitive sequential processing as uninteresting and a chore. But what changed for me was my curiosity about what each knob and dial does. In low fidelity planes, it seems like a waste of time unless you’re practicing for real life. But in high fidelity planes, those actions matter and it’s easier to see how it impacts the planes making it interesting. Like forgetting to turn on carb heat in the A2A Comanche and wondering why your airspeed continues to decline! So the next step for me in my journey is flying the heavies. I own the PMDG 777-300 and 777F. But for now I just start on the runway and manually use AP and hand flying to get me to my destination. It’s crude, but I have been put off by needing to learn Simbrief, programming an FMC, learning all of the knobs and switches, etc. But I’m to the point that I want to fly them correctly so need to put the time and effort into learning about them. And the MD-11 is the plane that’s captivated my interest enough to want to do it. It’s not an inexpensive purchase and I don’t want it to mostly sit in my hangar while I occasionally take it up to admire it. That’s why I’ll be purchasing the Extended Simulation package too so that when I flip switches and turn knobs, I know my actions will matter. Also, I believe people who get into this hobby to admire the scenery may be put off by how inefficient it can be to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills. I highly recommend the videos below, along with the others ones from this creator, because they are thoroughly in-depth, comprehensive and well delivered. I wish we had something similar for flying the airliners. Or if someone is aware of something similar please share. There are so many videos on YouTube that filtering out all the less effective ones takes as much time as doing the actual learning.