Does it have rain on windscreen effects and how is the interior lighting?

52 minutes ago, warbirds said:

Does it have rain on windscreen effects and how is the interior lighting?

 It has one of the most epic windshield rain effects I've seen!  http://forums.x-pilot.com/forums/topic/14702-tbm-900-release-week-day-4-rain-effects-release-in-hours/

Edited October 20, 20187 yr by strider1

Much as I admire the visuals, is it worth $64.95?

26 minutes ago, olderndirt said:

Much as I admire the visuals, is it worth $64.95? 

Well they could of just done a nice plane using all the default XPLANE stuff and charged $30 than lots would of complained about the realism. What would you have chargedf if you had spent hundreds of hours on modelling, programming, writing handbooks, testing than realeasing knowing you would have to deal with all the release headache. I could only assume your time isnt worth much... PS Just flight arnt cheap but currently doing some of teh best releases, you get what you pay for.

1 hour ago, olderndirt said:

Much as I admire the visuals, is it worth $64.95?

It takes more work to do deep systems modeling as well as a pretty 3D package, so I think this is a good selling price for this kind of aircraft in X-Plane.

I haven't bought it yet... still on the fence, because it would just be for personal fun and not a candidate for where I spend most of my flying in the FSEconomy game (love the speed, but not enough seats). I would like to see a PC-12 modeled to this extent, and I would happily pay $64.95 for it.

The biggest thing is they have figured a way to do realistic rain without affecting FPS too much, which has always being a problem, teh fact it is affected by prop wash is more amazing..

Bought it but haven't had the time to take her up in the air yet. Have been sitting on the tarmac and just fooling around with all the buttons and it sure seems like a labor of love this one. The maintenance system is really interesting as it tracks expenditures made. Must try to get some time to fly it as well...

Is it Goranized ? :-)

Meaning, extreme in details and in accuracy in as far as it is possible given the underlaying platform ?

I will not be able to buy it right now, but plan to, so, please keep feeding us you lucky owners, with all of the possible feedback ;-)

17 minutes ago, Von Target said:

Is it Goranized ? 🙂

Meaning, extreme in details and in accuracy in as far as it is possible given the underlaying platform ?

I will not be able to buy it right now, but plan to, so, please keep feeding us you lucky owners, with all of the possible feedback 😉

It's definitely Goranized. I accidentally found the retractable cup holders whilst changing fuel tanks

 

Even the Circuit Breakers are modeled.....first time I've seen that! If one pops the electronic device is dead until you reset it just like in RL. Very cool!

What a great aircraft, even if it is costing me a fortune in virtual repair bills!  🙂

My first two landings were of the crash variety (too steep of a descent, big bounce, I over corrected with the rudder when it started to go sideways, spin-outs and nose-ins ensued), each one racked up about $750K of repairs, then I blew up a few engines through hot starts until I figured out what I was doping wrong...I think after about 5 hours on the hobbs meter I'm up to around $2.4m in repair bills...I did try to do as many repairs as possible rather than replacing components but in many cases this was not an option.

This is certainly a very in-depth, well done aircraft that doesn't let you cut corners.

Is there any forum where owners are discussing the pros and cons on this new aircraft? I've only found the one announcement in xplane org/ general.

Same question,,,looking for more opinions.

2 minutes ago, warbirds said:

Same question,,,looking for more opinions.

The support forum is here:

http://forums.x-pilot.com/forums/forum/228-tbm-900/

Edited October 22, 20187 yr by RudiJG1

Thank you for that.