The Diamond DA20-100 Katana.

 

I know a lot of people love this airplane, but I could never get it to quit veering to the left. For me a complete waste of money.

F.O.C. : shorlty after i bought it there were no more airac updates

boxed version of CS757: never got it flying

abacus 787: my 1st aircraft, not using it anymore.

 

Non regrets: radar contact

multicre xp

pmdg md11

ifly 737ng

 

John

I'm beginning to understand why so many people dislike CS's 757 (even though it's not completely done yet). Boxed purchases never saw the latest updates that made it flyable and actually enjoyable. It's still CS's fault not allowing boxed versions to be updatable, but still...

maybe I have had bad luck, but anything that I have bought from just flight, wilco and abacus, sadly ended in the bin, I also find that most Fighter a/c suit their name because you have to fight them to make them fly! and none that i have tried so far are anywhere close to being realistic

strangely enough compared to others i got on alright with the cs757 given its limitations

and it goes without saying that pmdg and orbyx have raised the bar a few notches.

 

 

May I just commend you sir, on a fantastic user name.... :lol:

The other purchase that I'm clooooooose to regretting is the upgrade from Just Flight's Traffic X to Traffic 360. While I can maybe accept that the greatly reduced volume of movements I'm seeing at my local airport (EGCC) may actually be more realistic than the taxiway queues I was seeing under Traffic X, I'm not convinced by the lack of variety of takeoffs : Leaving the sim running I clocked twelve takeoffs in about three hours, all but two of which were British Airways "Speedbird" call signs. The same time period in real life had takeoffs from many different airlines, at least according to Flight Aware. I've also seen AI flights in mid air with their doors opened and passenger stairs lowered. Traffic 360 may have a lot going for it, but there's definitely more than a few rough edges to it in dire need of a service pack.

 

Couldnt agree with you more. Its sucky and unrealistic. Every airport the gates are full to the brim even on a lower setting of only 45%. Barely any takeoffs and landings, and the most annoying is the sound. The engine starts , takeoffs and landings sound like sort massive blow dryer. Then it suddenly stops. Hardly airport enviroment sound. And you cant even reset the AI for weather. you have to go into fsx settings.

Support is non existant. Emailed but no reply.

Now after 12 pages, can we come to a general conclusion, and a verdict, and most importantly a recommendation to developpers?

 

Maybe some one can create a graph of the worst, and so on developpers?

 

As I said, this thread is worth its weight in gold, on how NOT to do it.

Now after 12 pages, can we come to a general conclusion, and a verdict, and most importantly a recommendation to developpers?

 

Maybe some one can create a graph of the worst, and so on developpers?

 

As I said, this thread is worth its weight in gold, on how NOT to do it.

 

Good idea just the same some of the stuff reported is actually great in FS9. Something about the port over must not have gone good. Feelthere's product in FS9 aren't that bad and this has nothing to do with lower standards in FS9. When people complain about performance issues and features not working that I know work in the FS9 version there's a larger issue. Maybe the concept of a bad port over is in order but to blanket say a product is bad that ran issue free in FS9 is a bit much. FSX is demanding and if an add-on is not done right FSX will have issue with it. That's the larger story here. It seems most products outside of Captain Sim that was built originally for FSX have no issue. Feelthere has gotten dumped on and it's a bit unfair seeing as they got it right in the FS9 world. Whoever did their port over (or port overs in general from different developers) needs a lesson in how to do it right. That's where the spotlight should be.

Pretty simple really: Different strokes for different folks.

 

In reality, the number of quality addons are few and far between. The FSX addon market is tiny and there is little money to be earned, but just like in every hobby there are some wanting to earn money from it, but very few succeed - some beacuse they are unprofessional and don't really know what they are doing, others because they did poor market research.

 

I counted my "approved addons" and came to the conclusion that I only buy stuff from 6 addon developers. The rest of the bunch I shy away from (or they remain undiscovered), some because of abysmal quality, others because of poor usability and some because they aren't distributed by my preferred retailer.

Great thread!

 

Bottom line to the poor products or support:

 

I just read every page and now I am saving a couple of hundred dollars on things I had on my list to buy.

Like no more CS for me!

 

Greatness are the developers that communicate - for good or bad.

 

Great developers for communication and that show pride in their product (from products I own):

 

#1 Virtuali - maybe not a sugar coater but he is an amazingly helpful guy

#2 Orbx (I really like those guys - I think JV does really care & listens)

#3 FlyTampa

#4 Pete Dowson

#5 RC4 ronzie

#6 Opus

#7 Nickn - GEX

 

When they say things like "Yeah that is a good idea we might do that" - Brilliant answer no matter what their intention!

 

Products I think could be better:

 

imaginesim - Should be called "Closer to default" rather than reality.

CS - Space Shuttle - Yeah kick me where it counts for buying that

 

BEST of the BEST IMO:

#1 J41 - But it is a bummer that the ice on windscreen does not work and they fail to seem to care (F86 got it right - so not impossible). Please do a J41 SP4 (as they said SP2 did not have much to it but a couple of small fixes)

#2 Orbx

#3 A2A

#4 RC4

#5 Duke

#6 FSCrew

 

I sure do not understand the FSX developers philosophy of not hyping a product by not answering questions....heck even if you have answered it a hundred times before.

Enjoy that people are asking.

Try using a canned answer that you just copy and paste takes less time than saying "that has been asked before"

What's really great about this thread is the developers that aren't mentioned.

What's really great about this thread is the developers that aren't mentioned.

 

What do you mean?

 

 

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Hi,

 

Guess for me it would be two items, I was able to get a refund on the first one.

 

1. Audio Environment

2. Captain Sim 707

What's really great about this thread is the developers that aren't mentioned.

What do you mean?

 

For example, Captain Sim gets mentioned a lot. A2A doesn't seem to be on anyone's regrettable purchase list.

 

Hook

Well PMDG was mentioned too but the reasons aren't always about lack of quality.

I'm sure someone bought A2A training and maybe regretted it or found it didn't have what they wanted.

 

I don't really pay attention much to the purchased mentioned due to complexity of the aircraft (NGX) or that it's not something they use often so it was a regrettable purchase, like orbx sceneries.

 

The bad apple product posts are the ones I really take note of.

 

 

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