A bizjet from 20-30 years ago is exactly what I want. I don't need to always fly, say realistically, or "up to date." That's the beauty of a simulator. I guess I can live with a more complicated autopilot, but no FMC, I'd rather be looking out the windows than pressing buttons...

I'd love to see Milviz do a classic Lear 35. I have a lot of maintenance experience on that model, and though they can be a p.i.t.a. to work on, I'm very fond of them.

I think Milviz is thinking about doing a C21/Lear 35 which will be great if they do.

 

Martin

 

 

 

I hope so! at last a good editor who makes a bizjet!

Personally, I don't want an overly complicated bizjet. If you have a bizjet that's has an FMC, LNAV, VNAV, and G1000s, than you might as well be flying an airliner anyway. I prefer bizjets like the Citation Excel, Falcon 50s and 2000s,  and the older Learjets as well. Anything that doesn't have more than a simple autopilot. I like a combination of GA and airline flying. You get the speed and range of airlines with the simplicity and ease of GA flying. 

 

Well ... I do like the "overly complex" business jets. They can fly faster, higher and sometimes farther than the typical airliner, and they can get into places an airliner usually can't shoehorn itself into. All that combined with the convenience of modern avionics would be a dream come true for me.

Personally, I don't want an overly complicated bizjet. If you have a bizjet that's has an FMC, LNAV, VNAV, and G1000s, than you might as well be flying an airliner anyway. I prefer bizjets like the Citation Excel, Falcon 50s and 2000s,  and the older Learjets as well. Anything that doesn't have more than a simple autopilot. I like a combination of GA and airline flying. You get the speed and range of airlines with the simplicity and ease of GA flying. 

Might as well be flying an airliner anyway?

 

An airliner that can cruise at Mach 0.95 at FL450 and land on a 3000ft runway.

 

 

The fact that there ISN'T a (correctly modelled) G1000 in FSX (or FS9, or Xplane) to date is also a bit of a problem. Having the option of having it (instead of a reskinned FSX GPS) would be great.

 

And yes, I'm talking about all the PFD/ND info too, with EGPWS and 3d terrain showing on the PFD with selected runways etc.

 

3d terrain would be almost impossible to model in a sim that's not thousands of dollars

Nothing is impossible. 

 

Except weather radar. Weather radar is impossible.

 

I'd love to see a PMDG quality biz jet, but I doubt we'll ever see that happen. The market is too small, and the manufacturers have a history of being against providing information or even permission to model the aircraft. (Gulfstream in particular). Dassault was like Gulfstream for a while, they recently gave another developer permission and that company is putting out the Falcon line starting with the 7X. Unfortunately they don't have the same reputation for quality as PMDG, so we'll have to see what comes of that.

Nothing is impossible. 

 

Except weather radar. Weather radar is impossible.

 

Weather radar emulation is possible.

 

Having a weather radar that actually works and shows areas of rain on the radar which you can then use to go around rain and not see rain where it isn't and see rain where it is.... not so possible.

 

the Q400 radar apparently uses the weather area zones as depicted by the weather stations in FSX. If there is light rain inside one station's area, and heavy rain in a different stations area at the same time, the radar will depict light rain in the former and heavy rain in the latter.

 

The exact location of those rain areas will always be inside the right area, but you're looking at accuracy that's only down to the nearest 10nm or so.

If a real world weather radar showed rain where it isn't, and didn't show rain where it was, but was kinda accurate to the nearest 10 miles, it'd be listed as inop and probably need to be repaired at the next opportunity! lol.

 

That's all we can get in FSX though.

3d terrain would be almost impossible to model in a sim that's not thousands of dollars

2d representation of Terrain (which is generated from similar data) in an EGPWS type implementation is already available in PMDG's very own 737NGX.

 

It's simply a difference in presentation. 

(Simply, as in thousands of man hours to program).

LeeL, on 29 Jun 2013 - 06:16 AM, said:

 

3d terrain would be almost impossible to model in a sim that's not thousands of dollars

Actually it IS possible. It isnt too complex (relatively that is. depends on skill levels and such..) to draw the actual image. However one does have to jump through several hoops to get it into the sim be it a undockable popup or VC gauge. Conforming it with the outside world in a collimated HUD (like the Rockwell HGS-6000) is also a tricky piece of work....

Yeah it would be tricky but sounds cool. Would performance not take a hit?

Yeah it would be tricky but sounds cool. Would performance not take a hit?

 

Depends on how the dev goes about it. Properly optimised it could take a few frames off, properly optimised and multithreaded (this is one of the other big challenges) it will have zero impact on frames.

What are you waiting for then lol

What are you waiting for then lol

 

To get out from under the pile of work placed on me at Milviz so i can carry on with R&D...