Hi guys , I am a global express pilot and I am looking for a sim to install on my computer that is realistic as possible to allow me to practice cockpit procedures , any advice or tips much appreciated .

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I would base this decision on the aircraft type you fly and the availability of high-fidelity addon planes for a particular sim, so ...

I fly a Bombardier Global Express (GLX) or BD-700 in the FAA world

My apologies for misinterpretating Global Express in your opening post.   :blush:

 

That type will be hard to find on any flightsim platform, I assume.

I have been looking but I am new to the sim world and it seems that there are so many posts that are just rubbish it's hard to find out cold hard facts if a GLX sim product does exist at all , hence my post here for help .

No GLX that I know of for any, the avionics would be hard to code and model.

 

There is a Challenger for XP10 but that won't help

Hi.

 

A quick search for pictures of said plane (I'd never heard of it) returned also these links. There seems to be a BD-700 for X-Plane and one for FSX:

 

 

http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=14868
http://simplane.wordpress.com/category/x-plane/bd-700-global-express/

 

http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/2351/fsx-bombardier-bd-700-global-express/
http://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/3441/fsx-bombardier-global-express-xrs/
http://forum.avsim.net/topic/264621-global-express-xrs-fsx-released/

 

 

I use FS2004 and have no idea how faithful these planes would be to the real thing, nor how accurate the sim itself would be. Keep asking - someone will be able to give a good run-down of advantages & disadvantages for both planes and for both sims.

 

Best regards,

Dave

I don't use them but can safely say that they probably won't help him

I fly a Bombardier Global Express (GLX) or BD-700 in the FAA world

While it is not a full-fledged commercial release, this freeware model available here is a fair representation of a Global Express XLS version:

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=143852

 

 

File Description:

Bombardier Global Express XRS - FSX Native Model. The Global Express is a growth from the Challanger 601 series. The Global Express cruises at an airspeed of 488 kts and has a maximum altitude of 51,000 ft.. The aircraft is powered by 2 BMW\/Rolls Royce BR700-710A2-20 Turbofan engines, rated at 14,750 pounds takeoff thrust. The cockpit features the Primus 2000 system. This package contains both 4:3 and Wide-Screen 2d panels, as well as a fully interactive Virtual Cockpit. The gauge system was designed to use the freeware FMS by Garett Smith (honeywellfmc.zip) available exclusively at AVSIM. By Fr. Bill Leaming & Richard Schwertfeger, October 2009.

Thanks , so what program does this run on ?

Thanks , so what program does this run on ?

FSX of course, as well as Prepar3D...

Coming across this thread, I think it's kinda sad that business jets are so undermined in the flightsim community...

 

And the coolest of the sky are the guys cruising at FL480 and M0.90 above all comercial traffic and in uncontrolled airspace.

Coming across this thread, I think it's kinda sad that business jets are so undermined in the flightsim community...

 

And the coolest of the sky are the guys cruising at FL480 and M0.90 above all comercial traffic and in uncontrolled airspace.

Think part of it, as I understood it, is Gulfstream threatening lawsuits for anybody who tried to model their planes, although I don't know if that was payware only or if that was in general. Things I have read are conflicting, so that part's a little unclear to me.

Kevin, I personally received a Cease and Desist letter from their legal department after posting some WIP shots of a G500 freeware I'd been working on for FS2004 oh so many years ago... :mad: