Well, It finally happened.

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Hi all,I finally did it. After simming for the last 4-5 years, I finally broke down and bought my first payware aircraft. (FSD Seneca)I just wanted to thank everyone who replied to me with advise in my previous post a few days ago. When I bought this aircraft I expected a frame rate decrease in the worst way, but when I got it up and running I didn't see more than a 2-3 fps hit over the default aircraft on my system. The only real difference that I noticed was that when changing views in the cockpit, the textures take about a second and a half or so to load, where as the default aircraft it's pretty much instant on my system.My only question now is this. To anyone who knows this aircraft really well. Is the performance of this aircraft as good as FSD makes it out to be? I ask this, because when I load it with two people and about 40 lbs of baggage. I can sustain a climb of approx. 1500 ft/min and 120 kts with only 32 inches of manifold pressure. Now I know that this is a turbocharged airplane and it's going to be fast, but is it supposed to be this fast?At the time of my first posting, I was pretty sure that I wanted the Seneca over the Flight 1 Cessna 421. Now that I've got the Seneca, and I've seen just how good it is. I can't wait to get my hands on the 421. I might even look in to the Dreamfleet stable for the Cessna 177 Cardinal. I've heard a lot of good reviews about that aircraft as well.Thanks again.

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Hey, thanks for the info.By the way, nice system specs. I have a very similar system to yours.AMD Athlon XP2200, 512 SDRam, ECS K7S5A MB, GF4 MX 440 64 Meg, Win XP Home, and a Sony Trinitron 19" Monitor.

[Guest SoarPics]

Don't forget the RealAir Simulations SIAI Marchetti SF .260. One of the best ever!!Some many great airplanes, and so little time to fly. :-)

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I've heard a lot of great stuff about that aircraft as well.I'm going to take it one step at a time right now though. I'm kinda partial to the GA twins mostly, but I also like good high performance singles. I'm going to be shopping a bit more now that I know a bit more what to expect from a payware designer.

[Guest frankcubillos]

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[Guest RichardL]

Hi Gary,I have a suggestion which might remedy the screen display lag.I don't have access to FS right now, so I'm going from memory.Look in the drop down menu that has the World Scenery. In there you will find scenery listings with a check box for those that are active. Their numeric ranking can be changed by selecting one then moving it up or down in the list. Look for one that identifies the window views and move it to or near position 1. That may help the screens load faster.Richard

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Thanks for the tip, but it's not the terrain textures that take a bit to load, it's the aircraft textures. I'm not really complaining about how long it takes for the textures to display. It's only about a second or so, where as for the default aircraft it's almost instantaneous.The only thing that I was curious about was if the power curve of this aircraft is accurate or not, but I've been learning the proper procedures outlined in the POH that comes with the aircraft. I've also done some research on the real Seneca V and I've found that the flight model is fairly accurate.