B 707 recommendations?

[strider 0]

Just plain inaccurate. as well as the fuel flows and many others. "If YOU don't care, I certainly don't" LOL!

[strider 0]

This is what I'm talking about. After over 2 years they ignore us 707 users and hope they can "make it up" with the C-130 and 757?? Like we are all going to disappear??? NOT happening! All the "Psycho" babble aside, from those who know squat, CS sucks. I don't care WHY you think I say this, I don't care what you think my supposed "ulterior" motives are. CS SUCKS! I am an "owner" and state, without question, that CS sucks! Psycho babble that! Vic

[Bob Scott 7,719]

>Unfortunately,>since they use a single massive unigauge in their panels, it's>not really feasible to replace the EPR gauges with a custom>programmed one.OK, it turns out to be feasible after all, albeit with a lot of butt pain. After two days I've managed to hack the CS EPR, fuel flow, and fuel quantity gauges into submission.Liked the results so much I did the same thing on the C-130 to get the HSI bearing pointer working with NAV1.What's aggravating is that it took me two days to do what a CS programmer could have fixed in an hour any time in the last two years. The 707 panel is 90% of the way there...a real shame they never seem to be able to finish the job.RegardsBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VSantiago de Chile

[strider 0]

OK...I'll ask the inevitable question, Bob. Would you be willing to share these improvements (if possible, that is)? You knew SOMEONE would ask, right?!! LOL! Vic

[protzler 0]

Ha! I was going to ask as well...Now if CS would just send me my order number so I could redownload it! :-mad

[Bob Scott 7,719]

>OK...I'll ask the inevitable question, Bob. Would you be willing to >share these improvements (if possible, that is)?Actually a number of folks have PMed me with the same question.The short answer is no, primarily since I am re-using the original CS bitmaps in my "fix," so I can't send it out.The deeper part of that answer is philosophical...I don't want to facilitate Captain Sim making so much as one more sale of a defective product. In this case, I'd rather demonstrate the possibilities in order to shortstop that tired old "limitations of FS" excuse, and let CS take the heat for not finishing the work.It really is a shame...the CS707's graphics and sounds are very good...obviously it took thousands of hours of painstaking work, and with just a little ability to listen to customers and make incremental improvements, they could ditch the crappy rep they keep carrying around. But that's not the Russian way, I guess, after watching CS and SSW get most of the way to good products and then just basically tuning out their customers until any goodwill was completely cast aside.CheersBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VSantiago de Chile

[strider 0]

I understand your position completely, Bob. It seems that the bugs in this 707 would be easy enough to fix for CS...but they have washed their hands of it. I think as long as they can make sales to less descriminating people, those who don't mind having very few systems modelled...and rampant inaccuracies in the ones that are, they will just ignore the rest of us. As I will them.