Latest Update: 2025/09/15


The below log shows all updates for this product since release:

v1.2 

- MSFS 2024 Compatibility, Prop Governor & Sound Fixes

New Features:

  • Added preflight/walk-around interactivity for MSFS 2024 including collision model, clickspots for engine covers, pitot covers, chocks, door handles, baggage doors, etc.
  • Headphone simulation has been added to the audio package, which can be triggered by clicking on the pilot’s headphone connectors on the side panel.  Headphone cables appear when the headphone simulation is active.  The amount of headphone attenuation can be adjusted by scrolling the mouse wheel over the headphone clickspot.
  • NEW Magnetic Compass Effects including physics filtering and erratic behavior from onboard magnetic fields.  See the “Magnetic Compass Effects” section of this manual for more information.
  • Added GTNxi 750 & 650 bezels and improved model switching technique.
  • Added support for TDS GTNxi Advanced Crossfill.
  • Improved propeller governor simulation for smoother speed adjustments when testing overspeed limiter, and propeller governor failure is now gradual.
  • Instant Beta on Touchdown option added to the tablet interface.  Due to hardware deadbands, Black Square aircraft do not enter propeller beta range after touchdown if the hardware controller was already in the beta range before touchdown.  Enabling this option will apply full beta after touchdown to begin slowing the aircraft without the need to “bump” your hardware throttle.
  • Extended tablet show/hide clickspot forward along cockpit wall to be more easily accessible, and consistent with other Black Square aircraft.
  • Interior lighting completely retooled for MSFS 2024.
  • Added persistence to tablet payload unit switch between sessions.
  • Implemented custom toe brake animations and sounds to prevent jittery or looping animations when hardware brakes are used in conjunction with the parking brake.
  • Upgraded KNS-81 RNAV, KR87 ADF, and KLN90B push button interactions to conform to latest Black Square standards.
  • Added headphone jack highlight to better alert users to the headphone isolation feature.
  • Added engine driven fuel pump failure and corresponding engine visualizer behaviors.
  • Changed torque calculation source variable for faster torque indication changes.
  • Improved fan speed visualization on the cabin visualizer.
  • Workaround to fix MSFS 2024 light flare bleed-through.
  • Added tablet option to enable exterior registration meshes in MSFS 2024.  There is a hard-coded bug in MSFS 2024 that interferes with the ultra-custom dynamic registration system in Black Square aircraft.  Sim Update 3 failed to resolve this issue, but a potential fix may be in the works for Sim Update 4.  Currently, the dynamic registration may work depending on how the aircraft was loaded.

Bug Fixes:

  • Restored missing cockpit precipitation sounds.
  • Dynamic oxygen consumption was erroneously using the outside air pressure, rather than the interior cabin pressure to calculate the biological oxygen requirement.  Oxygen consumption in a partially pressurized cabin will now be substantially reduced.
  • KNS-81 output L:Var values for hardware interfaces only updated when there was a valid VOR signal being received.
  • The heater blower now operates when ambient temperatures are greater than 90°F to provide cooling to the radar and any avionics located in the nose baggage compartment.
  • The propeller heat circuit breaker would not affect the left propeller heat, although a propeller heat failure triggered from the tablet would work correctly.
  • Engine Trend Monitor shaft horsepower and specific fuel could read slightly high when ram air pressures were low.
  • Improved gas generator behavior at high power settings.
  • The tablet payload screen will now update all data immediately when switching to the tab instead of waiting a second or two.
  • The PMS50 GTN 650 was inoperative for the XBOX version of the N2830B paint scheme due to a single character mistake.
  • Fixed tiling normal map on turbine instrument backgrounds
  • Copilot’s ADF heading card would jitter when reversing directions or crossing 360.
  • Copilot’s RNAV localizer glideslope needle sensing was reversed.
  • Battery selector switch on the live schematic did not animate.
  • During a complete electrical failure, some essential variables would fail to update.  This included fundamental variables used to drive Black Square’s advanced engine simulation, sounds, avionics displays, and external hardware or displays.



v1.1.0 - Sim Update 15

New Features:

- Added support for Control Wheel Steering (CWS) or Vertical Sync autopilot mode.  This allows the operator to hold a button on the yoke to momentarily disconnect the autopilot pitch servos while manually adjusting the aircraft’s pitch.  Releasing the button will have the flight director resume pitch holding at this new pitch.


- CWS can be triggered with either L:var_PilotCws or L:var_CopilotCws.  If you wish to use the native event “K:SYNC_FLIGHT_DIRECTOR_PITCH”, then you must also use the “Control AP Pitch with Hardware Events” tablet option.  “K:SYNC_FLIGHT_DIRECTOR_PITCH” cannot be used when “Control AP Pitch with Hardware Events” is not selected.


- An option has been added to control the autopilot pitch knob with hardware controls.  When “Control AP Pitch with Hardware Events” is selected on the options page of the tablet interface, “AP_PITCH_REF_INC_DN”, “AP_PITCH_REF_INC_UP”, and “AP_PITCH_REF_SET” can be used to adjust the autopilot’s pitch holding reference.  The reference can also now be adjusted with L:var_PilotCws, L:var_CopilotCws or “K:SYNC_FLIGHT_DIRECTOR_PITCH” when using this option.


- The tablet can now be dragged around the cockpit while using legacy interaction mode, as opposed to lock mode.


- A persistent tablet option has been added for a static tablet position more comfortable for VR users.  The option, titled “VR Tablet Static Position” will affix the tablet in a location farther away from the camera, obscuring as little instrumentation as possible.


- Added L:Var (L:var_PulseOxyPercent) for accessing the blood oxygen concentration from the tablet’s environmental systems interface.


- The aircraft’s ICAO designator was updated from BE60 to B60T, to differentiate it from the original reciprocating engine version of the aircraft for the purposes of air traffic control and 3rd party flight planning applications.  For those who have already created profiles for this aircraft in career applications who do not wish to lose progress, change the line “icao_type_designator” line in the aircraft.cfg from “B60T” back to “BE60”.


- Although likely unnoticeable to many users, the Turbine Duke’s environmental heating system simulation was significantly improved to eliminate a bug, and create a more realistic simulation of bleed air valve regulated duct temperature.


Bug Fixes:

  • Several aerodynamics and engine performance adjustments were made to improve the accuracy of aircraft cruising speed, fuel burn, and range, particularly at high altitude.  For a complete description of these efforts, see the forum post at https://community.justflight.com/post/29130.  The performance tables have also been reformatted slightly to be easier to read, and more closely resemble the ones from the real aircraft’s flight operations manual.
  • DME holding via the KDI 572R DME did not function due to several contributing factors.
  • Fuel weight totals on the Turbine Duke’s tablet were incorrectly calculated as AVGAS, rather than JET-A, due to an incorrect configuration flag.  Total fuel weight and the resultant estimated range of both aircraft were also less than expected due to an artificially created rounding error.
  • Finally, there is a solution for the simulator’s internal rounding error when setting COM frequencies above ~134 MHz.  These frequencies will now work properly with 3rd party air traffic control clients in all Black Square Aircraft.  The source of this error was discovered to be within the simulator’s core code, but there is a workaround.
  • The right landing light bulb would illuminate with the left landing light instead of the right.
  • Newly triggered failures would fail to add themselves to the list of active failures on the tablet when the “Show Only Active Failures” option was selected.
  • Under some circumstances, it was possible for the climate control systems to produce erroneous heating or cooling when flying into air masses of opposite temperature gradient.
  • The copilot’s side localizer (for use with the KNS-81) could not be rotated through 360°, and could cause the RNAV selected course to exceed 360°.
  • RNAV distance would wind up to 999.9nm when a valid DME station was tuned, but the aircraft was on the ground.  This was due to interpolation added for autopilot control.
  • The scaling of the gas generator RPM digital needle had accidentally inherited the scaling from the TBM 850.
  • The Turbine Engine Trend Monitor could present impossible GPS coordinates due to rounding errors.
  • The engine airstart checklist erroneously instructed operators to set the fuel selector on the secured engine to OFF instead of ON prior to attempting restart.
  • The description of several audible warnings in the aircraft were updated to more clearly describe the ones in the final product.
  • The surface deicing switch logic was corrected to allow a single L:Var (L:var_SurfaceDeiceSwitch) to control the switch position, and its action.
  • Control surface trim deflections were corrected after confirming that elevator and rudder trim are servo, and aileron trim is anti-servo.
  • A microscopic gap between the pilot’s subpanel and the windshield deicing voltmeter was eliminated.
  • The COM 1 KX155 volume knob animation had a lower maximum position than the COM 2 KXX155.
  • The optional winglet registration number color was not properly set by the configuration in the panel.cfg.
  • Integral illumination removed from the brand label and power knob on the KLN90B.
  • Single pixel mark removed from KLN90B integral lighting emissive texture.
  • Integral illumination added to turbine rocker switches on left side panel.
  • The pilot’s HSI and localizer will now display the correct To/From flags when the KLN90B is in OBS mode.  You must also download the latest version of the KLN90B.
  • Decision height annunciator light logic revised for persistent illumination below the decision height until below 20ft radar altitude.
  • It was impossible to disable external power via the tablet switch on the ground when either the chocks or parking brake were deployed.
  • The “Fuel Flow” circuit breaker failure was removed from the Turbine Duke, as it was accidentally carried over from the Piston Duke, and has no associated circuit. 
  • The placard on the copilot’s side wall previously displayed two redundant recommended approach speeds in both the Piston and Turbine Duke, while it was meant to display two different recommended approach speeds for the two aircraft, and one maximum recommended crosswind component.
  • Corrected surface deicing description in the manual which retained language from the TBM 850 not applicable to the Dukes.
  • Corrections to various input and output variables and events in the manual’s “Hardware Inputs & Outputs” section, including L:var_RNAV_CHECKMODE, and L:var_FlightDirectorVisible.


v0.1.0 - 2024/05/09

- Initial Release Version



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