P3D V3 SVMI-SVMD (Learjet 25)

[737guy1 39]

Just enjoying the new OpenLC and the amazing Learjet 25 from Xtreme Prototypes!

 

The flight into SVMD (Merida, Venezuela) is very scenic!  The scenery I used for the aiport is freeware: http://www.fs2000.org/2015/12/10/fsxp3d-scenery-merida-svmd/

 

2017-9-15_10-59-15-190 by Mitch Haughee

 

2017-9-15_11-30-56-930 by Mitch Haughee

 

2017-9-15_11-42-38-739 by Mitch Haughee

 

Hope you enjoyed looking!

[MartinRex007 390]

Nice shots, thanks for posting!

[ryanbatc 12,770]

NIce shots!

[John_Cillis 2,406]

Nice aircraft!  Does it have a virtual cabin?  And how is the VC, is it immersive and realistic?

John

 

[737guy1 39]

7 minutes ago, Cactus521 said:

Nice aircraft!  Does it have a virtual cabin?  And how is the VC, is it immersive and realistic?

John

 

Yes, to all of the above.  It is all very well done, inside and out.  With 2.1 being out, the simulation itself is about as real as it gets.  The only knock I have on it is that I believe it to be over-powered.  I have adjusted the .air and .cfg files to my liking.  If anyone else feels this way about it feel free to let me know and I can give you my files and see if you like it.

[John_Cillis 2,406]

18 minutes ago, 737guy1 said:

Yes, to all of the above.  It is all very well done, inside and out.  With 2.1 being out, the simulation itself is about as real as it gets.  The only knock I have on it is that I believe it to be over-powered.  I have adjusted the .air and .cfg files to my liking.  If anyone else feels this way about it feel free to let me know and I can give you my files and see if you like it.

Yes, sometimes I have run into underpowered or overpowered aircraft that require a few tweaks.  Carenado's Mirage is the closest to specs I''ve seen when cruise power is applied.  It also lands at Piper's advertised touchdown speeds.  I also like their 525, those are currently the only two add-ons I have for P3D since their A36 fills the niche for piston driven aircraft.  I will probably add the Cardinal at some point just because I find it one of the sleekest looking piston aircraft.  Might also add the Premier but I will take my time enjoying what I have.  Currently I have a flight in progress, the Mirage from Napa to Reno at FL180.  Flying it over my MSE V2 California scenery.  I don't plan on getting California V3, since the V2 scenery blends in well with my FSEarthtiles resolution, having a small footprint and impact on the sim.  It looks excellent in the flight levels and even at 1000 foot AGL it looks good.  It took half a day to download and install though!  It did not recognize P3d V4, so I had to manually add it to my scenery.cfg, thus it ended well.

I might get the Lear 25, love the Learjets, the 24 is my favorite!  I remember the Lear in the early versions of MSFS, we've come a long way!  Kudos to third party developers and their hard work.

John

[edpatino 1,959]

6 hours ago, 737guy1 said:

The flight into SVMD (Merida, Venezuela) is very scenic!  The scenery I used for the aiport is freeware: http://www.fs2000.org/2015/12/10/fsxp3d-scenery-merida-svmd/

If you want to try a donationware (PayPal) scenery for SVMD, go here: http://davidmaldonado684.blogspot.com/

The runway is sloped as in the real life.

Cheers, Ed

[ryanbatc 12,770]

The real Lear 25 is quite powerful - I haven't flown it in a while but I'd guess its close to realistic 

[MartinRex007 390]

They worked with a Learjet 25 pilot during development and he makes a few statements in the manual regarding this model, so I suspect the performance is pretty realistic. You really have to manage the power in this beast, more than once I've heard the over speed buzzer!

[737guy1 39]

My logic comes from watching footage of the aircraft.  If you watch it, or look at flightaware data on climb rates, there's a discrepancy.  This addon out of the box will having you at mtow going up at 3000fpm in the 30000s.  No way lol.  It's not that good.  Not without bleeding off a ton of airspeed to briefly reach that rate at that altitude.  And 90 percent rpm climb? Sure. But you're not going to pull over 6000fpm at low altitude.  Not unless you're super light.  And at cruise you have to bring power back into the 70s like 75 on the rpm.  Which the real aircraft is cruising using about 90 percent rpm.  I've got mine up to 86-87 and that's the best I can do with the simulator limitation.  

 

The 25 is 3000lbs lighter than the 35 at mtow.  And that's mostly because it has smaller wings I think.  It also has 1000 lbs LESS total thrust than the 35.  I believe the max climb rate is 6300fpm in a Lear 25? And the 35 is around 4300?  My point is those numbers differ so much not because the 25 is a miracle jet, but because the 25 is limited on how much weight it can carry because of the wings.  So it will climb faster on less powerful engines than the 35 because of that decrease in weight. And slightly less drag because the engines have a Lower profile.  

 

Obviously most of this is just my opinion and I'm not a real pilot! :p 

[MartinRex007 390]

Makes sense, good to check out RW flights using flightaware, will have to check that out. I use it for routes but didn't think to use it for RW climb rates!

[ryanbatc 12,770]

But they're also more concerned about fuel economy...  so they'll be at reduced power settings.  

In the sim I'm not paying for gas - if the acft can do it - I'll push it to MMO ha!

[737guy1 39]

40 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said:

But they're also more concerned about fuel economy...  so they'll be at reduced power settings.  

In the sim I'm not paying for gas - if the acft can do it - I'll push it to MMO ha!

I'm at Mach .8 at 86-87 rpm.  At that altitude it will go to 90-93 rpm.  So it's still reduced thrust for cruise, but a more realistic value in my opinion

[RobertBernardK 7]

On 9/15/2017 at 7:31 PM, 737guy1 said:

Just enjoying the new OpenLC and the amazing Learjet 25 from Xtreme Prototypes!

 

The flight into SVMD (Merida, Venezuela) is very scenic!  The scenery I used for the aiport is freeware: http://www.fs2000.org/2015/12/10/fsxp3d-scenery-merida-svmd/

 

2017-9-15_10-59-15-190 by Mitch Haughee

 

2017-9-15_11-30-56-930 by Mitch Haughee

 

2017-9-15_11-42-38-739 by Mitch Haughee

 

Hope you enjoyed looking!

Hi! 

Great shoots!!  SVMD it's a hard approach, between mountains. This repaint it's available?  Where I can download?  Only found some November's and YV3087.

[HLJames 2,568]

Very nice shots...love the Hot Rod Lear25!

HLJAMES