July 11, 20178 yr Hi everyone! I started getting that all familiar rush today... You know, the one you get when you've learned most of what you can learn about a certain addon aircraft and you start feeling the need to move on to something new. I was browsing through the websites of several flight simulation related stores and it dawned on me that there is not a single Fokker F70/F100 addon (the long gone Project Fokker and the abandonware Digital Design don't count). Now, granted, even in real life they weren't all that popular, it was mostly European carriers that used it but it was different enough from any Boeing/Airbus that it seems to me there should be a fair amount of interest on these two planes, certainly enough to grant a modern simulation from some developer. Am I the only one feeling there is a void that needs to be filled? Cheers, Achilleas Achilleas Moraitis Greek Airports Project Current rig specs: TOSHIBA Satellite L50-B-23P, Intel i5-5200u 2.20/2.70 Turbo GHz, AMD Radeon R7 M260 2Gb, 2x4Gb DDR3L RAM 1600MHz, SSD 256Gb, Windows 10 Home, Prepar3D v3.4, IVAO & VATSIM
July 11, 20178 yr Author That's very interesting, I didn't know that! Cheers, Achilleas Achilleas Moraitis Greek Airports Project Current rig specs: TOSHIBA Satellite L50-B-23P, Intel i5-5200u 2.20/2.70 Turbo GHz, AMD Radeon R7 M260 2Gb, 2x4Gb DDR3L RAM 1600MHz, SSD 256Gb, Windows 10 Home, Prepar3D v3.4, IVAO & VATSIM
July 12, 20178 yr I agree. I still keep FS9 running so I can use the Project Fokker F70. It was a great aircraft up to and beyond some payware of the time. I hope Lionheart develops the F70 alongside the F100 - it was a more useful and more popular aircraft. It should not mean a huge amount of extra work as they shared the same cockpit. KLM is still flying some F70s in Europe. John
July 12, 20178 yr Quote Lionheart Creations has a Fokker 100 in development. Wow, indeed: http://www.lionheartcreations.com/Lionheart_FlightSimulations.html see at the bottom of their web site. This will be an interesting addition to my hangar, even if it may still be a long way down the road. Thank you for the heads up, John. Cheers Frank Frank Hoehn I7-6700K, Asus Z170-A, 32GB DDR4, GeForce GTX 1070, Samsung 850 Evo 500GB, Samsung 850 Evo 1TB (P3D), WD Blue 4TB, Win10 Pro 1803, P3Dv4.4
July 12, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, betelgeuse said: KLM is still flying some F70s in Europe. Unfortunately not for long. On October 29th the last F70 flight will be flown. Location: Vleuten, The Netherlands, 17.3dme SPL 108.40 | Simulator: FS2024 System: AMD 7800X3D - Gigabyte X670 - RTX 4090 - 64GB DDR5 - 2 x 2TB SSD - 32" 1440p Display - Windows 11 Pro
July 12, 20178 yr While i respect every developer in FSWorld, this won't be a great Fokker version unfortunately. Systems depth will be minor. I really hope they change their minds about this, but i don't think so. CASE: Fractal Terra Silver CPU: AMD R5 7800X3D 5.0Ghz RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 GPU: nVidia RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · SSDs: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 PCIe · PNY XLR8 CS3040 2TB M.2 PCIe · VIDEO: LG-32GK650F QHD 32" 144Hz FREE/G-SYNC · MISC: Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Joystick + Throttle Quadrant · MSFS2024 · Windows 11
July 12, 20178 yr Author 55 minutes ago, Nuno Pinto said: While i respect every developer in FSWorld, this won't be a great Fokker version unfortunately. Systems depth will be minor. I really hope they change their minds about this, but i don't think so. Hi Nuno! Wouldn't it be great if Lionheart were to partner up with Flight1 or DA or whoever owns the rights for the F70/F100 and use those systems? Of course this being the FS community this will most likely never happen... Cheers, Achilleas Achilleas Moraitis Greek Airports Project Current rig specs: TOSHIBA Satellite L50-B-23P, Intel i5-5200u 2.20/2.70 Turbo GHz, AMD Radeon R7 M260 2Gb, 2x4Gb DDR3L RAM 1600MHz, SSD 256Gb, Windows 10 Home, Prepar3D v3.4, IVAO & VATSIM
July 12, 20178 yr But of course! I'd love to have a good Fokker model. DA's version was outstanding, if only they finished it :( CASE: Fractal Terra Silver CPU: AMD R5 7800X3D 5.0Ghz RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 GPU: nVidia RTX 4070 Ti SUPER · SSDs: Samsung 990 PRO 2TB M.2 PCIe · PNY XLR8 CS3040 2TB M.2 PCIe · VIDEO: LG-32GK650F QHD 32" 144Hz FREE/G-SYNC · MISC: Thrustmaster TCA Airbus Joystick + Throttle Quadrant · MSFS2024 · Windows 11
July 12, 20178 yr Author Or at least refund part of the price to those who bought it with the promise of a VC... Achilleas Moraitis Greek Airports Project Current rig specs: TOSHIBA Satellite L50-B-23P, Intel i5-5200u 2.20/2.70 Turbo GHz, AMD Radeon R7 M260 2Gb, 2x4Gb DDR3L RAM 1600MHz, SSD 256Gb, Windows 10 Home, Prepar3D v3.4, IVAO & VATSIM
July 12, 20178 yr On 11.7.2017 at 3:14 PM, amoraitis said: Am I the only one feeling there is a void that needs to be filled? Cheers, Achilleas No, you are not alone. I´d love to have one in P3D!
July 12, 20178 yr Author Perhaps if a large enough number of simmers existed Flight1 might consider giving the project another look, like they did with the LevelD 767 (another oldie but goldie). Cheers, Achilleas Achilleas Moraitis Greek Airports Project Current rig specs: TOSHIBA Satellite L50-B-23P, Intel i5-5200u 2.20/2.70 Turbo GHz, AMD Radeon R7 M260 2Gb, 2x4Gb DDR3L RAM 1600MHz, SSD 256Gb, Windows 10 Home, Prepar3D v3.4, IVAO & VATSIM
July 13, 20178 yr On 12/07/2017 at 0:36 PM, amoraitis said: Hi Nuno! Wouldn't it be great if Lionheart were to partner up with Flight1 or DA or whoever owns the rights for the F70/F100 and use those systems? Of course this being the FS community this will most likely never happen... Cheers, Achilleas Maybe it has. But I live more in hope than expectation. John
July 13, 20178 yr Author 20 minutes ago, betelgeuse said: Maybe it has. But I live more in hope than expectation. Don't we all? ;) Achilleas Moraitis Greek Airports Project Current rig specs: TOSHIBA Satellite L50-B-23P, Intel i5-5200u 2.20/2.70 Turbo GHz, AMD Radeon R7 M260 2Gb, 2x4Gb DDR3L RAM 1600MHz, SSD 256Gb, Windows 10 Home, Prepar3D v3.4, IVAO & VATSIM
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