August 17, 201214 yr http://forum.avsim.n...-and-ms-flight/ Learning to fly gliders since 1980Stopped using flightsims for good since early August 2026, after 34 yrs using some really great specimens... If I'm asked to name the preferred one, after all these years, MSFS 2024 is my answer without hesitation.(No desktop :-// after the last one crashed for good, so no simming, but I keep polling AVSIM - my main ludic activities spot since around 2006...)
August 17, 201214 yr http://forum.avsim.n...-and-ms-flight/ Over the years, I found results so mixed.............in these different sims, that I just didn't care anymore. The perfect effects, would be pleasing though. I'd start in the "soft field" departure mode, in which the stick/yoke is full back on the takeoff run. Some aircraft drag the tail through the asphalt. Some want to immediately roll side to side, as if their about to stall & cartwheel. Some do okay. But in reality, I still don't find desktop sims, good enough for consistent short field/soft field takeoffs............or tailwheel practice. In other words, the tailwheel practice won't qualify for a tailwheel endorsement.
August 17, 201214 yr @LAdamson: Yeah, I got excited to try some soft field take-offs but the Carenado Archer II with flaps down actually can't even pull the nosewheel off the ground until well after it can rotate with flaps up. :( I am sure, as people really knowledgable with XP claim, that the sim supports the physics to handle most situations correctly, but I think sims shouldn't expect years of dedication from authors to get decent physics from the planes. I hope as time marches on, this side of simulators find improvement.
August 18, 201214 yr Author I hope as time marches on, this side of simulators find improvement. X-Plane's FD engine is powerful, of that I have no doubt, but on each new version of the simulator developers have to wait a long time for stability. In the end it certainly pays, as the guy who pushed me (I am glad he did...) into X-Plane10 told me regarding X-Plane9, which is the version he still uses with all of the good scenery and aircraft add-ons. I look fwd for 10.30, maybe 10.40 because by that time the present version should have reached stability and the best add-ons can make it's way :-) Until then, and even with the limitations, I am really enjoying X-Plane10 Learning to fly gliders since 1980Stopped using flightsims for good since early August 2026, after 34 yrs using some really great specimens... If I'm asked to name the preferred one, after all these years, MSFS 2024 is my answer without hesitation.(No desktop :-// after the last one crashed for good, so no simming, but I keep polling AVSIM - my main ludic activities spot since around 2006...)
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