From the official annoucement over at FTX/Orbx forum . . . "Featuring

Orbx Aircraft ..... as Homer Simpson would say; "Mmmm.....".Wonderful!Davido.

It looks decent... wish they'd delete the "reflections" from the plastic covering the gauges themselves.... For their first aircraft, yeah it looks pretty good. We'll see what sort of GPS units we get - I'd prefer a spot for the RXP ones ;) Also, I'm sure its only beta but I would like to see a smooth round spinner - it appears you can see the polygons or vertices from that nose-on shot.

It looks decent... wish they'd delete the "reflections" from the plastic covering the gauges themselves.... For their first aircraft, yeah it looks pretty good. We'll see what sort of GPS units we get - I'd prefer a spot for the RXP ones ;) Also, I'm sure its only beta but I would like to see a smooth round spinner - it appears you can see the polygons or vertices from that nose-on shot.

I actually like the glass reflections on the gauges-looks very realistic to me. That is one thing that has bugged me-we have ultra real outside views of aircrafts down to rivets and oil stains-but the actual gauges for the most part look like perfect hand painted gauges with you looking straight at them (no parallax)-and thus not like really the real thing- including the glass reflections that sometimes on a sunny day you have to cup a hand over to read.

Looks good - will be interesting to see more screenshots as work progresses.An option (like in the Realair Duke) to replace the GPS units with Reality XP 430/530 units would be great.

Looks good - will be interesting to see more screenshots as work progresses.An option (like in the Realair Duke) to replace the GPS units with Reality XP 430/530 units would be great.

I agree on the GPS upgrades. A lot of folks are saying real similiar things. Maybe ORBX is listening.RayM

Jean-Luc and I have already discussed him working with us to allow RXP fitment of gauges. I think you'll need to wait until you see our gauges in operation before pulling anything out of the cockpit though ;)

Jean-Luc and I have already discussed him working with us to allow RXP fitment of gauges. I think you'll need to wait until you see our gauges in operation before pulling anything out of the cockpit though ;)

Thanks for the input John. There you are folks. Stay tuned.RayM

I actually like the glass reflections on the gauges-looks very realistic to me. That is one thing that has bugged be-we have ultra real outside views of aircrafts down to rivets and oil stains-but the actual gauges for the most part look like perfect hand painted gauges with you looking straight at them (no parallax)-and thus not like really the real thing- including the glass reflections that sometimes on a sunny day you have to cup a hand over to read.

I guess to each his own lol.... From the limited flying I've done I hardly ever noticed reflections... granted I wasn't staring at the instruments through my VFR training either... ;)

From the official annoucement over at FTX/Orbx forum . . . "Featuring

Boy..thank goodness, you can walk away from your computer, with this aircraft!!!Check out this link....Fly at your own risk...well..in the real world, that is...lol!http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://...ved=0CB4Q9QEwBA and....the poor jogger!http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-18134-A...sh-kills-jogger Here is a good youtube video of a manu-rep speaking about the EVOLUTION model. Kidding aside, it really seems a hot-rod! Here's the vid...

I wonder if it will be possible to couple autopilot/FD system to the Garmin units in WAAS approaches? This is a big one for me. Will WAAS approaches be available at all?

YES GOOD QUESTION!

I wonder if it will be possible to couple autopilot/FD system to the Garmin units in WAAS approaches? This is a big one for me. Will WAAS approaches be available at all?

Boy..thank goodness, you can walk away from your computer, with this aircraft!!!Check out this link....Fly at your own risk...well..in the real world, that is...lol!

As to the history of the Lancair, the certified fixed gear version has now evolved into the Cessna Corvallis. Yes, these planes are fast, livelier at the controls, but not inherently dangerous. Stall speeds will be somewhat higher, and that's something you have to watch for. Personally, I much prefer the control response of these aircraft types over the typical Cessna 172/182 & Pipers. Just a lot more satisfying to fly. L.Adamson

sooo is this plane now a Cessna or is Lancair still a company?