Just a heads up for prospective SSW A310 pilots...Make sure you press 'Shift-H' before takeoff to turn on the Pitot Heat. There is nothing on the panel to turn the Heat on or indicator to tell you it's active.I was flying and had the autopilot go crazy on me only to find out the probes had froze up on me. You'll have a very wild ride when that happens...Hey Alex was this thread helpful to you??? :-) Just wondering since you started this thread, haven't heard from you since...

>Hey Alex was this thread helpful to you??? :-) >Just wondering since you started this thread, haven't heard>from you since...Hey dilloll0, I dunno about Alex but for me it was very helpful. Thanks for the tips also, keep them coming. Good real hardcore simulation indeed. Deserves some attention.

Awesome review BeachAV8R... :-eek Talk about detailed. I wonder what you think of this package now that it's fixed. Your glowing reviews puzzles me since I found the package unflyable until now...

>Awesome review BeachAV8R... :-eek >>Talk about detailed. I wonder what you think of this package>now that it's fixed. Your glowing reviews puzzles me since I>found the package unflyable until now...Probably that's because they are sometimes too much glowing. The result of having nice personality.

Which one should I get for my next payware purchase, the thing that is appealing about the Maddog is that more airlines use the Maddog than the A310.Jeff

>Which one should I get for my next payware purchase, the>thing that is appealing about the Maddog is that more airlines>use the Maddog than the A310.>>JeffI guess it's not the right thread but I also would like to hear if Maddog is a hardcore sim and if it is good in FS9.

Tough choice. Take both!

The only MadDog worth getting right now is the version Flight1 will be releasing. The Lago version has no support to speak of and is far from being a finished product.The A310 is now finished (I'd say 95% away from being the standard FS2k4 product. This is because the lack of interactivity in the VC). At this point you really don't need to contact support on this package which is a good thing because SSW's support leaves allot to be desired. I will say this, you have a much better chance of talking to SSW about support issues than you'll have talking with Lago about the MadDog. If you do talk to someone at Lago these days they don't tell you the truth about issues or the status on future patches for this product.I don't think the choice is hard here unless you don't mind getting screwed on your purchase. Once Flight1 releases their version that will be another story. At this time you either buy a completed product or you purchase a product that's missing and/or lacking in a many critical areas (although I did praise the MadDog when it was first released but the lack of growth over the months since has waned on that view point. Features and updates promised have never seen the light of day). I bought the Lago Maddog and just like the SSW A310 it could be a great package if time and effort was put on it but I have little faith when support has become basically non-existent. My vote would be for the completed A310 but to each his own...

Thanks, dilloll0, for you short review on Lago's MD. As to A310 I had all alfas and betas of it. Now that it is almost completed I'll afford myself to mention that I was one of the direct spearheads of this project in the early stage. I'm really glad Evgueni has brought it up to this point. Congrats to my friends at SSW.

>Jeff the FDE is solid to me but I haven't checked the numbers>yet (I guess I'm still in shock it finally works). I don't>know if I'd say the A310 climbs like a rocket but it does>pretty darn good (better than most). I believe the real world>A310 is no different than most other Airbuses as they all have>exceptional climb rates.The A340-200 and -300 suck.

I see the "Always Start with Engines Running" in the preferences doesn't work! And I am not too keen on the Font on the whole panel, overhead, etc. Very burry. got to get face right up to it to read it.

yes it was thanks! I've been busy with work to post much the past few daysAnyway, I guess I was mistaken? I thought this was the first airplane to be able to nagivate entirely in the VC without the 2d panels! Guess I was wrong, without full vc functionality I won't purchase it. Too bad as she seems like a great add-on otherwise

You're thinking of the WILCO A320. There is a dedicated WILCO A320 forum on AVSIM. Quick thoughts on the WILCO A320- No 2d panel.- Innovative VC (released for FS2002 so way ahead off its time). - Some technical issues/bugs that wll never be resolved (although it is patched to make it work in FS 9.1)- I guess 85 - 90 % functionality (no show stopping bugs but some things don't work 100% correct.

I appreciated this thread and your contributions here. This thread put the SSW A310 back on my mind and in fact I bought the add-on last wednesday ;)

>Probably that's because they are sometimes too much glowing.>The result of having nice personality.I don't feel the review was "glowing"...especially if you take it as only a singular part. I flew it, commented on what it did, and made my write up. When I write my reviews I try to keep things proportional to the product. So if the product has 100 great features to every 1 bad feature I try not to front load the review with all the gripes..I try to be fair and present the product with a fair representation of that ratio. I could certainly write a 3-page article berating any product..but that wouldn't be very representative of the product. Nor would I supress faults that I felt needed mentioning. It has been awhile since I re-read my SSW review, but I think I did mention that it had some problems with altitude hold during turns and intercepts and a few other bugs.Also keep in mind that the SSW review was not supposed to be a single, stand-alone product review...it was only Part 1 of a 5 part series and the theme was "Airbus vs. Boeing"..so the article wasn't supposed to be an exhaustive review of the SSW per se. In fact, I think the article becomes even more fair when you read the other 4 parts including the summary in which I compare the SSW Airbus with the three other aircraft I wrote about:SSW Airbus A310: http://www.simhq.com/_air4/air_125a.htmlLevel-D 767: http://www.simhq.com/_air4/air_126a.htmlPSS Airbus A320: http://www.simhq.com/_air4/air_127a.htmlDreamFleet 727: http://www.simhq.com/_air4/air_128a.htmlBoeing or Airbus: http://www.simhq.com/_air4/air_129a.htmlI appreciate that you might think I have a nice personality...but I think the articles give a true sense of what the products are about although obviously the collective wisdom of hundreds of other users certainly will uncover many more bugs that I probably recognized or experienced. With that in mind I'd suggest that anyone that is ever interested in a product take every review/article as just a piece of information to be included with many other pieces to form a solid judgement on whether a product is worthy of your hard earned money. :)Regards..Chris "BeachAV8R" Frishmuth