I'm confused about why they don't make the RR-powered 773.

 

You have to remember the CS757/767 is designed after the original production model in the 80's, and models the original FMC of the day, which was the first used in commercial airliners. As such you had to manually setup your approach profile, similar to the way the Q400 does. You need to define a end of descent point, which the FMC then can calculate a descent profile from. Newer FMC versions do this automatically, which users of CS 757/767 assume should do too, while in fact the way CS modeled it is prototypical for it's day. The original Flight Factor 757 for X-Plane 10 was also modeled this way.

 

Thank you for your comment Tom, I was not aware of that. I will check for it when I schedule a flight in my 767 next time.

 

Cheers

Frank

Well, since I had all the other CS airliners and the C-130 etc, I thought I'd be a 'completist' and get the CS L-1011, since it's about the only CS aeroplane I didn't own. I do have the Just Flight L-1011, but for 9.99 dollars, which translates into 8.45 in Sterling, I figured I might as well have the CS Tristar as well.

 

Be interesting to see which one I prefer - gonna try that comparison this evening. I know not everyone likes the slightly 'lighter' sim treatments which Just Flight add-ons tend to be, but personally I quite like FS aeroplanes which will load an FS flight plan into their FMC and which will start with Control+E. Sure I have the PMDG NG, FSL A320, iFly NG, QW BAe146, Mad Dog etc, but sometimes I just like to kick the virtual tires and then go with something that makes things easy, and those CS and Just Flight add-on aeroplanes will let you do that. :-)

 

 

For $10 these are all a steal for what you get.  Planes that are fun to fly and throwbacks to different era in aviation.  
 
Sheesh lighten up and fly high!  lol.  I'm going to do a gravel runway landing in Alaska with the 732, what they are great for and currently IRL do.

 

Good point.  You are right.

Absolutely. Sure the FSL A320 and the PMDG NG are absolutely amazing, but, for example, the FSL A320 cost me well over 100 quid and the PMDG birds aren't much less. Yes, you get what you pay for with those things, and nobody forced me to buy them, but those CS birds are considerably less than a tenth of that price in the present sale and will let you do much of the same thing as those far more expensive offerings. Not only that, one or two of them are themselves just as amazing in their own ways. You won't find a better 727, nor a better 707, or C-130.

 

For ten bucks, you really can't go wrong with those things

Sheesh lighten up and fly high!  lol.  I'm going to do a gravel runway landing in Alaska with the 732, what they are great for and currently IRL do.

 

I completely agree with all of the points you made in your post. These are great aircraft to just 'jump into' and enjoy flying for the pleasure of it without spending 30 minutes or more getting started. Don't get me wrong, I have a couple of PMDG airliners, the iFly 737 and the Majestic Q400 and I very much enjoy flying these too but I have to be in a certain disciplined state of mind to use them! The CS 732 is a very good product, though not perfect but neither is the alternative 732 from Milviz. I have both and there really is very little to chose between them, although today the CS definitely wins on price! Unfortunately as I have almost every CS airliner the only thing left for me in today's sale is the 737-100 addon but I might go for it.

 

Bill

I picked up the complete C-130 collection and decided to splurge and also get the 767 Base and the -200 expansion.  

I'll be pretty busy for the next few days, lol.

Just picked up the L10ll, 727 and 737.....all of which I already owned for FSX but wanted to port over to P3D.  I consider $10 a reasonable upgrade fee and already owned a bunch of the expansion packs which work anyway in P3D.  Looking forward to a 727 flight coming up but first I need to jam in an FMC or the CIVA INS....I am not using the mediocre one CaptainSim gives you.

I just got the 777. I had the PMDG 777 in my FSX days, but when I moved to P3D I couldn't bring myself to buy it again. I know this won't have anywhere close to the same level of immersion as the PMDG but I can live with that. It's nice to have a 777 in my fleet again.

 

I was also going to buy the 757 (and maybe even the 767) until I realised they are not compatible with P3D 

I just got the 777. I had the PMDG 777 in my FSX days, but when I moved to P3D I couldn't bring myself to buy it again. I know this won't have anywhere close to the same level of immersion as the PMDG but I can live with that. It's nice to have a 777 in my fleet again.

 

 

The CS 'Cripple Seven' is actually pretty good. It was the first half decent payware one for FSX one you could get, the AeroSim one coming out a bit before it and beating it to the draw, as they also did with the 787 but AeroSim add-ons have fairly simple avionics by comparison (no FMC unless you add one, as I did at the time). By comparison, the CS 777 has a decent FMS which can also connect to your mobile with their funky little app for Android Devices. Sure it ain't a PMDG one, but for less than a tenner it's not bad at all.

Kudos also to Captain Sim for another little-spoken-of-feature...actually providing a clickable table of contents in their PDF documentation. 

I was also going to buy the 757 (and maybe even the 767) until I realised they are not compatible with P3D

 

It does require a little bit of manual work, but the CS 767 can be made to mostly work in p3d. The only things not working for me are the ACE utility (I think that's what it's called the one for setting passenger loads etc), and the tcas doesn't work right. Other than that it's the best (only) 767 that works in p3d. I picked up the -200 last night to complete my collection.

I decided to purchase the P3D version of the TriStar. Looking forward to powering up those Rolls Royce RB211s!

I just got the 777. I had the PMDG 777 in my FSX days, but when I moved to P3D I couldn't bring myself to buy it again. I know this won't have anywhere close to the same level of immersion as the PMDG but I can live with that. It's nice to have a 777 in my fleet again.

Hi Neal,

 

LOL - same boat - as of this day I've completely refused to buy the same piece of code twice and I don't see it changing... Especially at the $100.00 price point... Yeah - yeah - all the work that goes into the port - - - doesn't warrant 100% of the purchase price OR more - - - no thanks - - - to be fair I'm not aiming this at PMDG - just in general the payware vendors that utilize this practice...

 

Regards,

Scott

Attention all Multi Crew Experience users.

 

Do not miss this opportunity.

 

In case you didn't know, all CS aircraft are fully supported, and even provides a virtual flight engineer for those that need one. Only exception is the C130 which we intend to support this year.

 

David has a few CS aircraft related videos. And here is a Tristar threesome