Carenado Cirrus (XP) Released

[alexcolka 183]

Beautiful pics! thanks to all for the info. On my wishlist.

[anthony_d 32]

Just bought this plane.  It's my first G1000 plane, so I wanted a modern GA plane to complement my steam gauge collection.  I've only completed one circuit so the remarks below are only first impressions.

 

The good points:
-  It looks good

-  Flight characteristics feel very stable.  There's no twitchy responsiveness here.  Stall speeds with flaps up and down are fairly close to the book.

-  G1000 features a big step up from the default displays.

-  Sounds are very convincing.  It sounds like a smooth modern engine compared to the rough old pistons.

 

Bad Points:

- Frame rates dropped massively  from 65fps in my Baron V35 to 25fps in this plane.  It seems like CPU has a much bigger draw time compared to the CPU.  I hope this can be improved upon.

- Brakes are very twitchy.  If you just touch the brakes on the rudder pedals, you'll shoot off to the left or right because of differential braking.

- The parachute system is not modelled (in so far as if you pull the handle, the flight will reset).  It's not a feature I'd use often, but it was a ground breaking headline feature for the real life version of this plane.  Parachutes are modelled in xplane, so it's a shame this feature isn't implemented.

 

Uncertain Points

- Conversely nose wheel steering is very sluggish.  Looking at the design of the plane, I get the impression that the nose wheel probably has no steering capability.  In which case I'm wandering if the rudder should have any effect at all at slow taxi speeds.

-  It's not a fixed blade prop, but prop speed is linked to throttle.  There's no constant RPM with this propeller.

[Comanche 417]

I pretty much agree with your good and bad points. Although, I am not having the frame rate issues with this plane. so far, it runs about the same as the other Carenado g1000 planes for me. I seem to be in the minority here, since I've been reading a lot of comments on other forums about this plane, bringing their system to its knees. Hopefully they will optimize it better and find out why its such a frame rate hog.

 

I was hoping the CAPS system would be modeled since the Vflyteair  SR20 has it modeled and I remember someone from their team saying it was one of the easiest things to do in X-plane. I love Carenado planes, but in this case, I think I prefer the vflyteair version. I like the way their version flies compared to the Carenado version. I know they are not the same plane (SR22 vs SR20) I have a few hours in a real SR20 and that's what I'm judging it by, So it may explain why I feel the SR20 is more familiar to me.

 

 

Rob

[Pugilist2 878]

Frame rates are terrible for me as well.  Hope it gets fixed in a patch.