Flight 1 Mustang for Prepar3d is out!

[Guest JustanotherPilot]

Out of my price range...$A66 getting a bit cost prohibitive.

[howevr 39]

Out of my price range...$A66 getting a bit cost prohibitive.

 

Actually Steve its around A$46.00. The Flight1 website has not been updated to show the new US$35.00 price point.

 

Cheers

 

David Howe

[Anxu00 176]

 

 

is it available for FSX-SE?

Yes, it has been available in FSX-SE since version 1.09.  However, the FSX-SE version will not work in P3D.  You will need to buy again if you want P3D.  I would suggest holding on until the dust is clear as Flight1 lowered the price for all version, but the current download at their site may not been updated with the new price yet.

[Christopher Low 5,332]

The ironic part of this story is......after wanting a P3D version of the Mustang for so long, I am now considering whether I actually need it! I have been enjoying flying the A2A Simulations Piper Cherokee 180 this year, and I have recently purchased the Piper Comanche 250. I have hardly touched the latter so far (I am currently checking out all of my UK airfields in the Cherokee, and looking for obvious visual issues during final approach to all of the runways), so there seems little point in grabbing the Mustang just because it is there. The two A2A Simulations aircraft can get in and out of a lot more airfields than even the Mustang (which has pretty impressive capability in this department for a jet), and I am really only a "low and slow" VFR flyer. The advantage of the Mustang over these two is that it has two engines that balance each other out (and no propeller torque), so it remains stable in flight without engaging the autopilot. Yeah, I know. Call me an amateur. I can take it :wink:

[npole 21]

The 3D model looks very nice, but the textures.. oh man.. that's average at the best, the internal especially looks like textures from Arma2 vehicles, everything is so flat and unrealistic IMO.

[Jim Robinson 122]

You're attitude towards payware developers is wearing very thin. Maybe you should install the SDK and give this development business a try for yourself, I think you'll reach the conclusion that payware addons are more than reasonably priced, especially after you've watched your payware addon "outsell" the retail outlets by a factor of 100 on the torrent sites.

[npole 21]

You're attitude towards payware developers is wearing very thin. Maybe you should install the SDK and give this development business a try for yourself, I think you'll reach the conclusion that payware addons are more than reasonably priced, especially after you've watched your payware addon "outsell" the retail outlets by a factor of 100 on the torrent sites.

 

 

Attack other forum members and being polemic is against the forum rules, you should avoid that please.

I don't have to install any SDK, i'm not a addon developer, I do another job, I am a customer and as customer I'm entitled to criticize the products.

Returning to the thread, as I already said, the textures aren't nowhere near the quality of the 3D model (that is very nice), so put the two together will make it even more evident.

We have good example of well textured aircrafts in P3D/FSX, I don't think I have to post a list for you to compare.

The piracy is a problem indeed, but it's no way related to this critic, nor it is a justification: it's not because of the piracy that an artist put less effort to deploy his/her product.

If you believe the aircraft is OK, and I'm wrong, post your facts (if you wish), but my attitude isn't surely a problem of you if the forum rules are respected. Thank you.

[Jim Robinson 122]

 

 

I don't have to install any SDK, i'm not a addon developer

 

That was obvious 44 posts ago.

[npole 21]

That was obvious 44 posts ago.

 

You must have missed the first of my previous message... and it was the first for a reason.

Have a good day.

[dbw1 444]

I find it smooth (4770k, 780gtx, win7-64, 16 gigs ram, 27" monitor 2600x1440). G1000 is nice to have. Glad I bought it. Fun machine.

[Gregg_Seipp 565]

Based on JLuis review, Flight1 does have some significant opportunities with this excellent aircraft!  Looks like not much has changed (haven't seen any change list yet). I have flown the Mustang in its previous versions so very much and loved (and sometimes hated) it.  If you don't have the Mustang and are thinking of purchasing you'll probably find the textures could use some work.  (I've made some small changes that help on mine...improving shadows and such.)  The sounds, to me, are excellent!  The feel in the cockpit is nice and the flight handling is really good.  It was my 'go to' airplane for checking out a new area since it has such a nice view out the cockpit window.  The documentation that comes with the airplane is excellent!  But, above all it's really, really just fun to fly. 

 

In terms of the flightplanning, You can't save a flight plan and can't use airways to flight plan...wish you could but it's still fun.  A lot of time I would just go up and fly it VFR and have a blast.  The view out the cockpit is really nice for sightseeing.  Sometimes I'd take it up for IFR but I'd just do a point to point flight plan or something simple most of the time.  It does use Navigraph and you can use SIDs and STARs.  Also, big plus, it has icing effects and you see ice on the wings and windshield so keep those heaters on.

 

A year ago I made some changes to their FDE and I'd absolutely love to give it to them so they could make it work with the FADEC.  (I matched up the power settings to RW flight videos, climb times to altitude...matched to the climb time in the manual, power settings on final, improved idle N1, flaps bloom and such).  I've put more effort into this aircraft than any by far.  Still, at lower power is where it really shines, matching power settings to speeds at level flight and decent.  I also did some work to help it hold ILS glideslope but not that much.  A little bit of integration to match their FADEC and I think they'd love it. 

 

I do think that this is the best BizJet out there hands down (with nods to some other people who are doing some new work).  It's single pilot, hard to get overwhelmed since you have a FADEC and everything is so organized.  Much of the MFD and PFD are functional and work properly.  It's business enough to fly into any major airport and yet it can easily land on less than 3500 ft of runway.  It can make what would be a long flight fairly short, it's great for island hopping around the Caribbean (though, due to it's average endurance, don't expect to be able to do that in the Pacific.  It is possible to fly from the US to Europe making stops in Canada, Greenland, etc.) 

 

If they fixed nothing else in the airplane, I hope they fixed the transponder bug which was reported in the previous version (for VATSIM, etc.).

 

Overall, it's a lot of fun.  It's heavy on frames but if your system can handle that, it's a lot of fun for VFR, decent at IFR, single-pilot, and easy to manage. 

 

Gregg

[BlueFinn 21]

I've had the Mustang in FSX and I loved it very much. But now im kind of in a difficult phase where I should decide between the Mustang and the Citation X, on one hand I love that you can fly the Mustang out of small airports, but I hate that its so slow during cruise. Thats where I like the Citation X, it can fly up to Mach 0.9, which is pretty fast.

A pro for the mustang is that its superb for smaller legs. A pro for the Citation is that its great for medium and long range flights.. Really difficult to decide

 

The ideal plane would be the Falcon 7x, which can land on 1000 meter runways and is still a fast aircraft. But Wilco is still working on it.. and I havent really got high hopes for a wilco product

[hjsmuc 393]

Based on JLuis review, Flight1 does have some significant opportunities with this excellent aircraft!  Looks like not much has changed (haven't seen any change list yet). I have flown the Mustang in its previous versions so very much and loved (and sometimes hated) it.  If you don't have the Mustang and are thinking of purchasing you'll probably find the textures could use some work.  (I've made some small changes that help on mine...improving shadows and such.)  The sounds, to me, are excellent!  The feel in the cockpit is nice and the flight handling is really good.  It was my 'go to' airplane for checking out a new area since it has such a nice view out the cockpit window.  The documentation that comes with the airplane is excellent!  But, above all it's really, really just fun to fly. 

 

In terms of the flightplanning, You can't save a flight plan and can't use airways to flight plan...wish you could but it's still fun.  A lot of time I would just go up and fly it VFR and have a blast.  The view out the cockpit is really nice for sightseeing.  Sometimes I'd take it up for IFR but I'd just do a point to point flight plan or something simple most of the time.  It does use Navigraph and you can use SIDs and STARs.  Also, big plus, it has icing effects and you see ice on the wings and windshield so keep those heaters on.

 

A year ago I made some changes to their FDE and I'd absolutely love to give it to them so they could make it work with the FADEC.  (I matched up the power settings to RW flight videos, climb times to altitude...matched to the climb time in the manual, power settings on final, improved idle N1, flaps bloom and such).  I've put more effort into this aircraft than any by far.  Still, at lower power is where it really shines, matching power settings to speeds at level flight and decent.  I also did some work to help it hold ILS glideslope but not that much.  A little bit of integration to match their FADEC and I think they'd love it. 

 

I do think that this is the best BizJet out there hands down (with nods to some other people who are doing some new work).  It's single pilot, hard to get overwhelmed since you have a FADEC and everything is so organized.  Much of the MFD and PFD are functional and work properly.  It's business enough to fly into any major airport and yet it can easily land on less than 3500 ft of runway.  It can make what would be a long flight fairly short, it's great for island hopping around the Caribbean (though, due to it's average endurance, don't expect to be able to do that in the Pacific.  It is possible to fly from the US to Europe making stops in Canada, Greenland, etc.) 

 

If they fixed nothing else in the airplane, I hope they fixed the transponder bug which was reported in the previous version (for VATSIM, etc.).

 

Overall, it's a lot of fun.  It's heavy on frames but if your system can handle that, it's a lot of fun for VFR, decent at IFR, single-pilot, and easy to manage. 

 

Gregg

Gregg, thanks for the good summary. How would you compare the textures to the Citation X or the Flightsimware Lear 35?

 

Screenshots anyone?

 

The price is really ok I think.

[dgraham1284 92]

 

 

Screenshots anyone?

 

 

 

[hjsmuc 393]

Very nice, looks as if the model is still holding nice. What about the cockpit? Sorry, I must have one of my penny-pinching days, I usually fork out the money first and then think about the product :-)