January 8, 20206 yr I've become interested in the Aerosoft DC-8. Before buying, a few questions: 1. Is it a worthwile purchase, bug free? 2. Is there a source of historic routes and flight schedules available on the internet? 3. what's the best way to get historic weather? Thanks!
January 8, 20206 yr Hello Ricardo, 1. Absolutely, it is a real gem. Works very well, is beautiful and keeps you quite busy during flight. The CIVA INS is the best I have ever seen in any model. It is really a different experience compared to modern jet airliners. 2. You could use http://www.timetableimages.com 3. Normally Active Sky, but I doubt that it will provide you with historical weather as far back as the 1960s. You could, however, try to find the weather on the internet and then set it accordingly in your simulator. Peter
January 9, 20206 yr This is a great addon. It takes some talent to fly this plane as the autopilot is extremely basic. The engine performance is spot on with the tables.
January 9, 20206 yr Agree with the others, the DC-8 is nice. I wish it had a weather radar. I'd also suggest taking a look at the Coolsky DC-9. That has aged really nicely and is also good historic flying. Flying SIDS/STARS by VOR only in either aircraft will keep you on your toes. You can find some old approach plates online as well which can be fun to try and fly with. Now we just need airport sceneries and GSX to have a 60s mode! 5800X3D | Radeon RX 6900XT
January 9, 20206 yr It is a really good add-on. Navigating by INS works perfectly. It just all works. It also is one of the earlier aircraft add-ons with the windshield rain effect, which puts it in the ranks of a modern add-on in my opinion. The only thing it doesn't do right now is crossfeeding fuel, but the dev has mentioned as possibly doing that, after he finishes an automated flight engineer. @cwburnett I have fitted weather radar to my DC-8. You can replace the fake radar gauge with a working gauge, there are instructions in the DC-8 forum on the Aerosoft site as I recall. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
January 10, 20206 yr Flight Scheduler (freeware) has historic schedules from the 1950s up to 2010-ish. Routes can be filtered by origin, destination, aircraft type, flight duration or airline. It isn't available anymore from the developer, but I saved a copy of the last version 1.7 to my dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e77ix7djn6qtnu7/AAAne-ehOCGIcKm15rZzOj8Qa?dl=0
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