It's released (as can be tread in the headlines) but does anyone have it? How is it, on the frames and in the system replication, eye candy...etc etcThanks in advance!Rob "Holland&Holland" de Vries http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Flying.gif"To go up, pull the stick back. To go down, pull the stick back harder"

I don't have it, but remember it's Wilco Fleet, not a PIC product, so though some of the systems will be modelled it won't be as much as for example the Cap'nSim C130. It does look nice though but I'm all spent out until the 13th :(

Given that the real thing hasn't flown yet, how can we know the realism of the systems modeling?

Duh...you're right but given the fact that airbuses are known and flight systems are pretty standard in the bus (after all airbus is all about standardization) so an estimated guess ....:)Rob "Holland&Holland" de Vries http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Flying.gif"To go up, pull the stick back. To go down, pull the stick back harder"

ah, A320 PIC cockpit and FDE with a CS C130 MDL? :)

je wordt steeds grappiger naarmate je ouder wordt ;)Rob "Holland&Holland" de Vries http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Flying.gif"To go up, pull the stick back. To go down, pull the stick back harder"

The HUD alone suggests to me that I stay clear of this add-on. The display is off-center and the horizon line is nowhere near the visual horizon, so there's no way you can visually gauge climb/descent path, POI etc. It looks to be basically just a see-through monocolor ADI mounted above the glareshield.CheersBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-V L-300Santiago de Chile

How would you know the realism of the systems modeling anyway unless you had an opportunity to fly the real thing?? As far as I know pilots have learned to fly the "real thing" a long time before it took to the air for the last 35-40 years; perhaps even longer. Craig

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not really. It's not been until the mid 1980s that simulators got good enough to be used for training cockpit procedures.It wasn't until the mid 1990s that computer aided design and wind tunnel technology became good enough that a decent approximation of the flight model could be created for the simulator without collecting data from the real aircraft.And even then you still need testflights to find out the boundary conditions, which usually leads to design changes as there are always unexpected things.Computer technology has come a long way but we're a longer way still from fully understanding the atmosphere and the way it interacts with objects moving through it that are more complex in shape than a brick.

Is there a forum for this 'bug' ridden aircraft please?It won't fly level with autopilot and the autothrust dosen't work either?The manual is pathetic and lacks technical and proper instruction.Shame really, this one could have big potential