I have a hunch that this will probably become one of my favourite FSX airliners ever...

 

Three engines, yet beautiful elegant design unlike DC-10 and MD-11 with engine just sticking back there. Technologically very advanced and safe airliner compared to the competition at that time.

 

And I love the look of Tristar's wings, with flaps down they have such a unique look.

Hi,

 

Could you call that an Easter Egg then? 

 

Just wondering.

If they've announced Wednesday, have your credit card ready for Friday lol!

 

You know how these "announced in advance" release schedules can go.

 

We are all set for tomorrow.

See you on the other side...

I have a hunch that this will probably become one of my favourite FSX airliners ever...

 

Three engines, yet beautiful elegant design unlike DC-10 and MD-11 with engine just sticking back there. Technologically very advanced and safe airliner compared to the competition at that time.

 

And I love the look of Tristar's wings, with flaps down they have such a unique look.

 

lol I love that engine sticking out the MD-11 and DC-10 style/ look wise love those planes funny thing is I used to not like to much the L1011  style/design wise but as I got older my tastes have changed and I really think its a beautiful plane.

It has been released....

i am downloading with 700 bytes/s :S

13 days remaining.. better server would be good

@A32X

 

I just tried after reading this and I was getting 8.6MB a second!

It doesn't come from "us" - the files are delivered via Amazon Cloud Server so speed shouldn't be an issue.

Definately nothing at your end that could be affecting the download speed?

yea it jumped to 10mb/s a few seconds ago (maybe it was a firewall issue on my end, dont know... or amazon regulates speed somehow)

 

will test it later today. thanks already for giving old planes a chance in fsx. i really thought nobody is going to do this.. thanks !

Got it, a bit mixed opinion about it but overall I think it's great.

 

Graphically it looks good, especially VC is just beautiful, outside model texturing isn't that sharp though. Soundpack is fantastic of course as it's developed by TSS.

 

Direct lift control mode is somewhat modeled like they promised, it works like trim though, you can control the reflection of spoilers through trim controls instead of it responding directly to yoke inputs but I guess there are some FSX limitations with this kind of things too.

 

It flies nicely, however I find it to be a bit overpowered on takeoff & initial climb and slow down too fast on landing, but other than that I find the flight model to be very believable, and of course engine performance and such stuff can be tuned later.

 

 

Overall I think this is definitely the best classic trijet for FSX so far, way better than CLS DC-10 at least.

 

Definitely worth the money, I think I will start flying some charter flights with this, now only thing I need is Black Box to release their A330.

Thanks for the info.

 

How are the rest of the systems?

 

Lee

Will there be a demo version of the TriStar?

Direct lift control mode is somewhat modeled like they promised, it works like trim though, you can control the reflection of spoilers through trim controls instead of it responding directly to yoke inputs but I guess there are some FSX limitations with this kind of things too.

 

Not a good start.  B)

Looks good. I need an indepth report on systems to be honest before I invest.

Looks good. I need an indepth report on systems to be honest before I invest.

Ditto here too

Direct lift control mode is somewhat modeled like they promised, it works like trim though, you can control the reflection of spoilers through trim controls instead of it responding directly to yoke inputs but I guess there are some FSX limitations with this kind of things too.

 

The aircraft uses a significant amount of custom-coding for the DLC system but due to FSX limiations it does have to make some use of the trim system.

 

Will there be a demo version of the TriStar?

 

Possibly but not yet.

 

It flies nicely, however I find it to be a bit overpowered on takeoff & initial climb and slow down too fast on landing, but other than that I find the flight model to be very believable, and of course engine performance and such stuff can be tuned later.

 

The FDE was developed by an ex-airline pilot and was tested by current pilots, however feedback is very welcome (especially if you are/were a pilot on the real TriStar).

 

 

If anyone does encounter any issues or wants to report feedback to us, please contact us directly as I can't promise to read every post here.

 

Thanks

Martyn