LOL…I don’t think you are wrong about the PC-12. I was going to use it for the Christmas Flight and decided not to after trying it out in X-Plane 11 and finding the handling atrocious. Now, I was using X-Plane 11.10 maybe at that point…and from what I can gather, the developer for X-Plane (even though it is Carenado, I think Dan Klau is the guy doing all the work for the X-Plane line) has said that he wasn’t going to fix anything until Laminar had locked down the changes to the PT-6 that were happening. That is understandable for sure, but the list of non-compliant X-Plane 11 aircraft is sort of long-ish at this point. Hopefully, according to the above video, with feature/version locks that should start to become something of the past. It is a good idea to help prevent each incremental version of X-Plane from breaking things over and over again as Austin tweaks things. If the changes are worthwhile enough, developers can then make the changes while still having a working product with the version locked parameters.
And yeah, the half price Otter was nice…and so far I like it.