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Also, sounds like the decals that allow folks to work around the mirroring are AWOL in the FS2024 version...

Hi @Eddie and team, Curious if there are any updates on: Paintkit for the FS2024 model, since FS2020 paints aren't compatible with it. There are dozens of great T-33 paints on flightsim.to now, but FS2024 fliers can't use them. Bonus: Guidance along with the paintkit on the process to move 2020 paints into 2024 would be enormously helpful. Updates to the model to fix the mirroring issues that currently don't allow some camouflage schemes, etc. Thanks! It's an amazing model, and the FS2024 version is even better, but it's sad we can't use the dozens of USAF, RCAF, and other schemes currently available for it in the new sim.

Yeah, it's been a couple of months, would be awesome to hear if there are any updates.

Go to the iniManager app and download the FS2024-specific version. Engine works fine on that one if you treat it gently.

I didn’t buy the T 33 from marketplace because I’m on PC, but as I understand it, they have not pushed the latest update that fixes the FS 2024 issues to marketplace yet. I think it may be because the delay in launching FS 2024 marketplace means that Microsoft might not be publishing native 2024 updates yet.

Awesome! Glad to hear it's in the works. The modular nature is definitely challenging to figure out, so the paintkit will be greatly appreciated once it happens.

Yep, curious about the paintkit and the issues Tim-HH cites in post #2. @richboy2307?

Is an updated paintkit planned for FS2024?

Thanks, @IniSteve! Confirming it was pilot error! At first, even being more gentle with the throttle, I was still getting stalls. Then I realized I had started the flight with the hardware throttle pushed forward to about 66% and then pulled it back rapidly, which to the sim looked like a quick shove forward at start and then fast reduction. So next flight, I pulled the throttle all the way back before clicking Fly, and then upon starting the flight, held the brakes and slowly and steadily advanced the throttle to full. Everything worked great! Engine stayed up, no stalls, flew a perfectly normal flight. Well, until landing, when I realized I’d come in way too fast and bounced, so I instinctively slammed the throttle forward as I raised my gear to go around. And that stalled my engine. But that was pilot error and not a problem with the plane! RIP me.

There have been some fantastic repaints released for the T-33, including about a dozen paints representing just about the entire history of the plane in the RCAF. However, the FS2020 paints don't work on the FS2024 update. Which leads to a pair of questions: 1) Will there be an updated paintkit for the 2024 model? 2) Any chance the layouts, etc. are similar enough that the 2020 paints can be easily converted, vs having to totally rebuild them? If so, any tips from your livery team on how to do this? Thanks!

Hey team, Great job getting one of the first native FS2024 updates out! Was excited to grab the T-33. Alas, ran into an engine problem when flying: Thrust would drop down to about 25% and no movement of the throttle would bring it back. Messed around a big with the fuel tank switches s wondering if that's the issue, and eventually thrust came back. But it happened again twice in the flight. Over on the official forum, others report the same issue. See the posts from Jigsaw407: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/inibuilds-t-33-jet-trainer/649882/302

To be fair, that's an MSFS design flaw, nothing to do with the T-33.... Maybe 2024 will improve that with its new aircraft management.

This looks fantastic! And so many possibilities with the RCAF, given the number of CT-133 schemes they used over the years. Love the bright day-glo on this one! And classic RCAF (my Canadian grandfather forbade me from removing the "R" when I was building a CF-104 model, when I had thoughts of "modernizing" the decals)... Plus all the fun variations since they used it so long, like the ET-133 and CE-133 in the low-vis gray. (Though I'm more a natural-metal-and-day-glo fan!)

The standard engine is a Rolls Royce Nene, as fitted to the Canadair T-33/CT-133. The alternative engine is the original Allison J33-A35 fitted to US-built T-33s. The biggest difference is that the Allison has a significant delay in thrust response when you advance the throttle (up to 15 seconds to spool completely up), making it more challenging to manage power during approaches. Overall thrust is similar (5,200 lbs for the Nene, 5,400 with water injection for the Allison) and the spool-up response is the biggest operational difference. Interesting side-note: The Nene was built under license by Pratt & Whitney as the J42, which powered the Grumman Panther, and was reverse engineered by the Soviets who used a modified illegal copy to power the MiG-15.

Really minor but noticeable issue (since it's right next to you)... If you fly into rain, the rain effects appear not just on the glass, but also under the frame, where the glass overlaps the canopy frame. In the attached shots, you can see it under the frame on the left. The lighter shot, if you look closely, it's also under the front windscreen frame on the right. It's way more obvious "live" -- just start on the runway in the rain and watch the drops both while the plane is still and when flying.