It really is hard to believe that this stunning model was released in 2009.

Massive respect to Jim Rhoads and the team at Flight 1 for this beautiful creation.    It flies like a dream, it looks stunning, it sounds fantastic, it has all the bells and whistles, the G1000 is about 90% functional (no VNAV), the rest of the C510 systems are about 99% functional, and.... well it's just a blast.

My 2nd favourite aircraft add-on, jointly, with the Majestic Q400, with the NGX in 1st place.

So here, on approach to Tirana (LATI), Albania, from our origin of Munster/Osnabruck (EDDG), is;

 

The Flight 1 Cessna C510 Mustang.    :smile:

 

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Truly is.  I've spent many hours, flown to many places in her. Sad that they've abandoned any new development on it.  I have yet to hear if they will develop planes for P3D.

It's a great plane, but the G1000 is too heavy on performance... their King air is a different story.... great plane and decent performance... honestly other than climbout the king air with speed mods is almost as fast as the mustang.

 

I hope they make an M2 with VNAV someday

I went for a real flight in one last week - the real world version is an awesome aircraft.

As nice as they look, the talk about performance load had always kept me away from Flight1 aircraft, up until I bought their King Air.  That one's really nice, but I still find it a bit demanding in terms of frame rates.  Which has only served to reinforce my decision to not look at any of the others, which everyone says are more demanding yet.

Well they only really have two glass aircraft, the musang and king air.  King air is far far better on perf.  I found the king air is only slightly worse than the duke v2 when it comes to amount of fps and fps variance.

It's a great plane, but the G1000 is too heavy on performance... their King air is a different story.... great plane and decent performance... honestly other than climbout the king air with speed mods is almost as fast as the mustang.

 

I own both, and get better frames in the Mustang than in the King Air.

 

Plus the King Air is a totally different proposition.  It's a utility vehicle :smile:  It has none of the magic of a VLJ jet, and I vastly prefer the FDE on the Flight 1 Mustang to the Flight 1 King Air.

Well they only really have two glass aircraft, the musang and king air.  King air is far far better on perf.  I found the king air is only slightly worse than the duke v2 when it comes to amount of fps and fps variance.

 

I was counting reports I'd heard of siginificant performance load on their g1000 equipped T182T. So I guess that was two releases prior to the KA. ^_^   Regardless, I shied away from both.  But if the Mustang is that much worse than the KA, then I was smart to stay away!

 

 

But if the Mustang is that much worse than the KA, then I was smart to stay away!

 

It's right about where the Turbine Duke is on my rig...if that's any indicator.  But development/fixes are unlikely.  It doesn't work with vPilot.

I was counting reports I'd heard of siginificant performance load on their g1000 equipped T182T. So I guess that was two releases prior to the KA. ^_^   Regardless, I shied away from both.  But if the Mustang is that much worse than the KA, then I was smart to stay away!

 

Yes but to be fair, you're just going on other people's opinions.   Ryan clearly sees better performance from the King Air than the Mustang.   I see the opposite.   Their little T182T G1000 is by far the heaviest on my system!

 

I have a very mid range system (i7 2600k) and manage to run the F1 Mustang just fine, at 29.9 FPS (locked 30) almost everywhere, excepting hotspots like London, Seattle, etc.  I fly out of FlyTampa, UK2000, Aerosoft large airports in it all the time.    

 

The reports about the F1 Mustang being hard on frames were mainly around 2010 when it was released....   (which is was  - on 2010 hardware :wink:).

 

It's funny how people here just choose who they trust, who they empathize with, and then go with anything those people say, often completely ignoring or unacknowledging what other, often newer people on the scene have to say on matters.    

 

...but by all means, pass the Mustang up - your loss. :smile:   .......but this thread was to pay respect to the vast work, research and labor that went in to creating it though. :wink: .... scroll back up the thread and look at those pics and tell me that that is not a drop dead gorgous aircraft for FS.

 

 

......but this thread was to pay respect to the vast work, research and labor that went in to creating it though. :wink: .... scroll back up the thread and look at those pics and tell me that that is not a drop dead gorgous aircraft for FS.

 

I'm with you.  I don't know whether to laugh or cry that they're not moving it forward.  Ah, sigh.  I'm glad they made it and really enjoyed flying it.  I'll be looking forward to whatever high-quality VLJ replaces it.

It's funny how people here just choose who they trust, who they empathize with, and then go with anything those people say, often completely ignoring or unacknowledging what other, often newer people on the scene have to say on matters.

 

True enough; I apologize for not at least acknowledging your experience with both, while focusing on Ryan's opposite experience.  In all fairness, I could likely run this jet just fine these days; some of my biases regarding performance were formed when my simming pc didn't quite have as much power.

 

Also, in all honesty, if I'm interested in a particular aircraft enough, I don't mind purchasing and forming my own opinion. ^_^

Nice shots

No question that the F1 Mustang was an innovative plane very much ahead of its time when it was released, and still holding its own amongst the best all these years later.

 

BTW, I also run a modest system and can generally fly the Mustang without difficulties into all but the more serious frame-eating areas. 

 

Oh, and if you weren't aware of them, definitely try out the "High Sierra Edition" liveries.  There are several different complete interior packages to choose from - all beautiful.

 

Scott

That's a coincidence I only just switched my attention from PMDG to the Mustang and did a flight for Blink air, a Mustang specialist VA.  http://blink-virtual.com/blinkvms/index.php

 

This plane is gorgeous and super hi fidelity and the glass panel is stunning and it includes WAAS. There is a mod on the forums to switch of the co pilot screens to improve performance