FSX-MS Real Air Duke v2.0 Released

[robert young 2,897]

Shes a dream to fly  B)

 

I have a problem though, my left landing gear never comes down for my landings. I'm well inside allowed speed so it must be something else I'm missing.  :blush:

 

Hi Bunkers,

 

Please have a look at my post just a few above this one. You need to turn off crash detect and damage.It's in the Flying Guide. Thank you.

[Bozdog 63]

Other half out tonight so planned a good session on GTA...and now I see this !

AGH!   I couyld live without it  going to upgrade as Real Air  deserve the support of the FSX community.  I have both the Duke's and the Legacy and have logged support calls (mainly for general info on "what does this light flashing mean").

Rob has always got back , quickly politely and factually.  Some of my questions he must have secretly thought "is he really asking this?..." but his reply was always helpful.

 

A good product is nothing without good customer support which can be rare these days.

 

credit card at the ready for when I get home  ;-)

[martin-w 3,235]

Nice very nice, lovely flight dynamics, and frame rate high for me.

 

Very pleased. Congrat's to Rob and Sean.

[vonmar 122]

Looking good!

 

http://s8.photobucket.com/user/VMartell/media/RAD-V2_zps9c671449.jpg.html

 

 

[Burgman 0]

Wow! 

 

Looks good. Flies good. Is great! 

 

Transposed titles for the forward and rearward cabin views and a lack of clickspot to close the pop-up GPS, and that's about it for the picking of the nits from me.

[anfield ace 5]

Hi Guys,

 

You've all got to buy this release, its brilliant, what good quality releases Real Air put out! There's are one of the best FSX add ons available for GA flying!

 

Well done Rob and Sean!

 

Mal...UK

[robert young 2,897]

Wow! 

 

Looks good. Flies good. Is great! 

 

Transposed titles for the forward and rearward cabin views and a lack of clickspot to close the pop-up GPS, and that's about it for the picking of the nits from me.

 

To close the GPS pop up, don't click on the pop up but on the actual VC gps. That will close the pop up. I know that isn't obvious at first, for which apologies,  but it will be after one go!

Hi Guys,

 

You've all got to buy this release, its brilliant, what good quality releases Real Air put out! There's are one of the best FSX add ons available for GA flying!

 

Well done Rob and Sean!

 

Mal...UK

 

And thanks for your great contributions too Mal. All the best.

[cavaricooper 2,614]

Rob/Sean-

 

As a Turbine Duke owner, may I inquire what your plans are for updating that version as well?  I am hopeful that we too will receive the "upgrade" treatment very soon.  I for one am happy to pay for it and support RealAir- your airplanes are the only thing that occasionally tempt me away from my 737NG and 777

 

Congrats on a great release!

 

C

[Gregg_Seipp 568]

Took her up for a couple of flights.  This version seems to have a bigger personality to me.  When you start the engines they make you worry that they just might not start...similar to a RW airplane.    But they do.  All the switches have good sounds...a nice touch and, especially if you have external hardware like me, so you get a sense of the switch moving (nice if you can't see the switch when you move your hardware switch...like the cowl flaps!).  Flight model landing at Martha's Vineyard was a little less stable, I thought, than the old one...personality...more like planes I've flown in the RW (there was some wind that was messing with it and I had a sense of the air that I get on other great FSX airplanes).  The jittery dials made it more real.  Nice brake sounds.  Also, you can actually taxi this airplane...didn't have the sense of sliding I get from most other FSX airplanes.  Who knows if I'm imagining that improvement.

 

EDIT: I have to add that the gentle rocking of the airplane when it's sitting with the engines running idle is really cool.  Also, the P-factor on takeoff.  Not sure if that's default or not but feels very real.

 

EDITEDIT:  I keep adding more stuff as I notice it.  Nice touch with the little skip when the landing gear goes up and down.  Has anyone else noticed the flutter of the flaps when they're extended? 

 

Gregg

[Christopher Low 5,352]

I have now successfully downloaded the version 2 installer, so I hope to at least try a quick test run tonight.

[tttocs 301]

For all those inquiring about the Turbine Duke upgrade, I expect the best thing you can do to make that possible is to support this update. :-)

 

Mine's purchased, DL'ed and installed, but I won't get a chance to try it until tonight.  That durned work thing.  I haven't looked forward to a plane this much in a long time.

 

Scott

[KingGhidorah 209]

I found it convenient that all of my Acufeel and Ezdok cameras and settings transferred from the old Duke without me having to do anything, because the plane is named the same.  One thing that I did notice immediately is that the cowl flaps have changed from a three position switch to switches with multiple positions and the Lua script that I used for them doesn't work anymore.  The manual needs to be revised to reflect this.  They now have multiple positions that can be assigned using default cowl flap increase and decrease commands.  All of my other Lua stuff for the lights appears to operate them fine, so there was no need to revise any scripts so far.  The rudder seems a lot more sensitive than before, and I'm not sure that I like that-but I'm not planning on changing my linear control sensitivities for just this plane.  Just a tiny bit required as the turn is entered into, and then just the weight of the foot to carry thru the turn.  Landing behavior appeared to be a little more 'natural', since I can't think of a better way to describe it.    Despite advice from above, I do have crash detection and collisions enabled (for other planes) and had no trouble belly landing or any problems (yet) with the gear being damaged in flight.  Maybe not the game changer of an upgrade that I had built myself up to expect, and I wasn't sure what to expect since I don't have the Lancair, but my first impressions are positive. 

 

The manual seems to indicate that we should tone our realism settings for torque and p-factor down?  I have all of those sliders full to the right, because that's what most planes require, and I don't want to have to change that every time I fly this plane, and have to manually reset LOD radius, Texture Max Load and all the rest of the things you have to do when you change a slider.  I wonder how bad we are undermining Real Air's careful flight tuning if we have them all full to the right, as I do?  The only thing I noticed was just a tiny bit of right rudder trim required at high power, and i would assume that is realistic anyway.  Otherwise it feels pretty much just like the old Duke.

[TrafficPilot 121]

Hurrah! DX10 + a RealAir addon = total immersion!

 

Off to purchase the upgrade tonight.

[Samaritano 304]

Just downloaded the Duke. I wanted to show my appreciation to Rob and Sean for their continuing support to

the FSX platform. This is my first ever Real Air product.

Right now I'm reading the manual. It'll be a while before I can fly this beast.

[Kwacker 0]

Hi Rob,

 

Question - could there be / is there a discount for Turbine Duke owners as was very reasonably provided for the B60 owners when the Turbine was released?

 

Would love to pick up this variant as I buy as many of the Realair planes as I can because of the quality and cutomer service - very happy to support the great work Realair does. That said, I can't justify to myself the full 30 Euros as the model is so close to the Turbine and inevitably I'll end up splitting flight time. Just a thought, I understand if you see things differently.

 

Thanks,

Simon.