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From my (admittedly limited) recollection, that drama was likely more end user generated than B2B, though I believe it was mentioned there were some issues to iron out and they wouldn't be disclosed publicly (contracting concerns, etc). The important thing is that we're getting it, and it appears everything there worked out!

The someone else you're referring to has been working on a UB model, and this is the MLA (far more modernized). Even if they used some of his work originally from when he was part of their team (am I remembering that correctly?), there's nothing wrong with that by itself. Does it matter either way? I'm just excited we're getting one, and one of the more updated variants at that.

I'd like to add, if possible, a 3 way abstraction for flap position, or at least flaps increment up and increment down. This will allow using the flap lever on the TM Warthog throttle, which I imagine is going to be a very common use case. Likewise, using the existing pseudo-automated use of the landing gear lever with Gear down/up, can we have that as a two-way abstraction for up else down? Lower priority if we get the detailed control above, but it's tricky to get bindings for all of that without abstractions. I'm aware these can be made by the user, but them being constantly overwritten is a downside if it's not a big deal to include them.

Do we know anything about the close combat modes of the radar for the MLA, by chance? I can't find clean info on the differences between the MLA and -2. I'm really excited for this development. It's an interesting airplane, and a reasonably capable redfor, full-fidelity module as well. Good luck with the build process!