http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BxTSq8BnVQ

The sound effects in Flight are really nice. Thanks for the comparison flights.

Hey,Thanks for that! The Maule looks really good!

Thanks for the video. It really illustrated well the differences between each simulator

Ok my whining about FSX...Seeing that departure from 04R and looking straight ahead where (microsoft) blew the top off the Pali Mountains so that the Pali Highway runs up and over the top... just makes me cringe every time I see that. Scenery not bad tho.And with FLIGHT seeing that little glance to the (edit: oops right... military right) and the unmistakeable shape of Diamond Head.... No those are not tears!!! I have allergies!!! OK???Awesome Departure Stall btw... really had that nose up.

I've been flying both Maule's tonight in FSX and Flight. I have some addon's like Bluesky Cali Scenery, ezdok, and A2A Accu-Feel so what I am flying looks, sounds and feels tons better than the FSX showed in the videoThe FSX Maule VC panel is very blurry in several areas and some of the gauges are not round like the OAT gauge. Everything looks like it just needed new textures and some reworking to look right. I found that the FSX Maules only non-working items where the transfer pumps and cabin air. Not bad for a default aircraft. I found more that didn't work in payware planes.The Flight Maule does look more refined. The cockpit is way better looking than the stock FSX Maule. The night lighting is far superior than FSX on all levels, the in-cockpit sounds are as good IMO as Accu-Feel. HOWEVER... many items do no work in the Flight Maule.EGT bug, Clock/Timer, Auotpilot, Comm Selectors, Cabin Air, Alt Air, and Test Knob for Navs. I also found the plane real itchy to control while flying. Not sure why but the planes nose dropped when I added the first notch of flaps then raised when I added the rest. It did this every time for me. (and yes I did start out with zero flaps and not -7) The engine is way more powerfull I think in Flight. I had a hard time because I kept overcontrolling the throttle to maintain a constant speed in cruise and approach. The FSX Maule is simply a dream to fly. It did everything I wanted it to and didn't seem like I was chasing it like in Flight.What I think is... If Flight has released with the entire world, all the planes as were in FSX to the same quality as what was released and had worked with REX, ORBX and others and released it as FS12 or 11.. whatever... We would have had a freaking awesome flight sim unrivaled by any other product ever made in this genre. I would have paid alot of bucks for that...It's sad that Flight got such a bad rep becuase there is some serious promise here. Not enough to hold my attention now.. .but what if...."however... for a free product I say it's a winner"

Edited March 3, 201214 yr by P47D

The fishbowl effect that is in all Flight planes is evident in this video and on a bright sunny day the instruments are very dark - not possible to read most of them, while the radio display is far too bright. Time code 2:39.The only time the Flight instruments can be read is when they are in direct sunlight.In contrast, the FSX view looks undistorted and instruments can be read at all times, though the radio display looks a little faded.

on a bright sunny day the instruments are very dark - not possible to read most of them, while the radio display is far too bright. Time code 2:39.The only time the Flight instruments can be read is when they are in direct sunlight.

The lighting problem can be resolved just by turning the interior or panel lights on in each aircraft. What I like about the Maule and the Vans for example is that you can change the brightness of the lights from dim to bright. The pictures below demonstrate what the Maule cockpit looks like with lights off and lights on. Regarding the radio display being too bright I thought the same whilst I was doing the beta but then after some thinking I wondered if it was because more power was available from the battery to power the lights on the radio and then when you add more lights in the cockpit then it can decrease as more power is being shared with more things. If you look at the images I posted, when all the panel lights are on then the radio lights are actually dimmer than when the panel lights are off.Craig

"however... for a free product I say it's a winner"

Its not free, Maule is payware!

"however... for a free product I say it's a winner"

Its not free, Maule is payware!

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Edited March 3, 201214 yr by arsenal82

The lighting problem can be resolved just by turning the interior or panel lights on in each aircraft. What I like about the Maule and the Vans for example is that you can change the brightness of the lights from dim to bright.

This is true, but one should not have to turn on the panel lights in bright daylight to be able to read the instruments. With all the lighting work done, why this cannot be done correctly is a mystery.

 

This is true, but one should not have to turn on the panel lights in bright daylight to be able to read the instruments. With all the lighting work done, why this cannot be done correctly is a mystery.

Well yes I agree, in a way our eyes have ways to decrease and increase the light to make things better when sunlight is shining in our eyes. I know for example when I have sat in a cockpit and taken pics of daylight outside then the cockpit becomes so dark in the picture because of the exposure, where as if i take a pic of the cockpit instruments then the outside view is just a big white light as if a nuclear bomb has gone off.Would be good for example if the exposure would automatically change depending on where in the virtual cockpit you were looking at.

Edited March 3, 201214 yr by ckukmale

Perhaps it was taken into account how much everyone complained about FSX being too bright and they went a little far

Its not free, Maule is payware!

Thanks for the unnecessary correction. I of course meant the actual game of Flight...

Its not free, Maule is payware!

Heh...it's Mauleware. :)