MD Max Pro - to buy or not to buy?

[Guest jacob001]

What are your opinions on this product (http://www.mdsuper80.com/)?

[Ricardo41 5,949]

>What are your opinions on this product>(http://www.mdsuper80.com/)?For a while I toyed with the idea of buying this, but the various complaints on their forum turned me off. In addition, I now see that you can only access their forum if you bought their product. Buy the Lago version, apply all the patches, and you'll be a happy camper. If you want the steam gauge version with the old fashioned Omega Navigation System, buy Flight 1's version. ricardo

[Bob Scott 7,720]

The Lago Maddog together with the JetCity MD-80 series models is very good. There's a new version expected in the next several months.The dev team is very good...one of those cases where a talented team has gotten mixed up with a publisher (Lago) whose reputation is . I feel the same about Feelthere and Wilco, too FWIW. It's like buying a nice juicy steak with all the trimmings, but you have to go through a Macdonald's drive-through to get it. It still tastes good, but it could have been sooooo much better without the cookie-cutter Macdonald's ambience detracting from the experience.CheersBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-V L-300Santiago de Chile

[Ricardo41 5,949]

If memory serves, the development team that produced Lago's MD80 is now independent. They have their own forum at http://www.flythemaddog.com. The latest update is 1.51E, which can be downloaded from the forum. The only real "sore spot" is the promised merge of the JCA models with Lago's virtual cockpit. Hopefully that merge will "emerge" sometime in the near future. ricardo