Its a fine aircraft for what it is, however there is one problem I have tried to crack for several years in FS2004 and FS2002 and I'm still stumped.
Load up the plane at a controlled airport then contact the tower to taxi to the active runway. No matter what, the tower will "drop" you before you get to the spot where you line up for take off. Its as if ATC just "drops" you at some point. The same will happen after landing, get slowed down and taxi to the hold point and its as if you lose comms.
I've tried to find any spelling or punctuation glitches in the aircraft.cfg file (ie; using the word "colour" instead of "color" or stray commas and semi colons), something that was almost normal in the older Alpha aircraft, and haven't had any luck. I've tried using a known-good .air file from another multi-engine turbo prop to make sure there aren't "off limits" values and it still happens. I've tried swapping out sections of the .cfg file in case there is some bad data and, again, no luck.
A four engine turbo prop like KBT's P-3 Orion will work just fine with no issues.
Does anyone know if this weird glitch has ever been fixed? My gut and experience say it can't be the fault of the .mdl file(s), but now I'm starting to wonder.
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