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I wish Carenado had released that new Citation XLS for X-Plane instead of P3D…
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I think that the coder who was primarily responsible for their X-Plane versions as split form Carenado. This may not be related.
Very interesting. I think Thranda have made a good decision there and good on them for wanting to support their products in the pipeline. The Thranda/JustFlight partnership might be better since both seem to want to really concentrate on realism over just pushing out more products. It will be interesting to see who Carenado can find to do the conversions from their P3D line to XP now…
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My thoughts exactly. I have high hopes for the new partnership.
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Remember this?
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Actually, I had completely forgotten that you had done that. As always, great work Chuck. 
You do realize that if I buy the Seychelles, I would also have to get the recently released Mauritius too.
Look at the bright side - don’t you already have the Twin Otter? 
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There is that . I’m on the road for the next week, so maybe after that. The Seychelles and Mauritius would be a great combo for some Celestial Navigation.
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How is the celestial navigation plug in going, btw? It’s operational?
I mean, I can barely do daytime navigation over land so the learning curve is going to be steep…but now that I’m spinning my e6b for practice, I might check out ‘the next level’. 
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We are pretty much there. The idea is to release the plugin along with a two part article on how to do it. Casper (@TheAlmightySnark) has finished his app, and the finishing touches are being put on the article, written by myself and @Sine_Nomine. Real life stuff has slowed us down somewhat but it should be ready soon. Then we just have to get the thumbs up from Chris and Fearless to have the article hosted here. 
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It would be an honor to have it on our front page…
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Thanks Chris. I’ll give you a holler when we are ready to roll.
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Great news! Completely free Z142 (I mean I guess they accept donations 
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And the list of features is really long.
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Sorry to hijack the thread about the R66. But since I’ve mildly criticized it I think it is only right to show VSKYLABS reply to a dumb question I had. I asked if a Yaw Damper was installed. The reason I asked is because the FMA on the G1000 always displays “YD”. Below is his reply:
Hi there.
Short answer:
No. There is no yaw damper.
Full answer:
The is no yaw-damper in the R66. What can be called as a kind of a yaw dumper in helicopters and in the R66 is the SAS (Stability Augmentation system), in which you can fly “through” the system, which will reduce the pilot workload significantly.
It is providing safety and workload reduction in addition to the autopilot “services”.
Now…The VSKYLABS R66 flight dynamics is not featuring a fully authentic SAS (it is not a mandatory system on board helicopters, also it is optional in the R66). However, the R66 has hydraulic control system which is affecting the “feel” on the cyclic during flight. Control feeds from the pilot are being augmented, resulting with a specific kind of a feel…
So in order to set the target controls feel in the VSL R66…the control system was augmented, but very mildly.
X-Plane interpret this augmentation in the G1000 (which is a piece of avionics targeted originally for fixed wing aircraft, as it is not the ‘h’ model), as a ‘YD’ - Yaw Damper.
You cannot disable it with a switch as it is not a system. It is considered as part of the hydraulic control system in the VSL R66, “baked” into the flight model. Eliminating it in other methods will result an un-verified flight dynamics characteristics and handling qualities, as the VSKYLABS R66 was developed to demonstrate the specific flying qualities with this controls-augmentation-alike (which is not aimed to simulate a SAS, but to simulate the hydraulics controls feel in a better way).
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