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Carenado's 390 IA Premier or Phenom 100?

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Like many I will be spending a lot of time at home for the next several weeks and I saw Carenado is having a sale.  Each are only $11.99, a true bargain.  They both look great (I luv eye candy).  Truly not so much into systems but would like to do a lot of hand flying with one and just relax zipping around the southwest, USA.   Any owners out there with which one they prefer (performance, FPS, realistic handling?)  Thx.

Edited by Clutch Cargo

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Premier.  It's faster which is why I like it.  Both have GTN user mods if you have that haha.   Handling is decent.

Edited by ryanbatcund

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Phenom100 all the way up. Search also in the forum for a recent post about panel modifications to the Autopilot and several instruments to make it work like the real plane, a must have.

Cheers, Ed

 

Cheers, Ed

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I have the Phenom 100 and use it regularly. The panel mods are nice to have (I don't use them) but not a "must have". If you're ok with the Phenom using mostly default sim gauges, you'll enjoy it. 

Phenom 100 with the Black Phoenix mod. Phenom 300 with Bert's mods.

Both need the GTN750.

-J

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Again, you do not "need" the gtn 750 or the mods to operate the Phenom 100 or 300. I use neither in both, and they both operate as advertised. 

For those of you who for some reason missed them, there're new mods for the Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 panels, that in case you want to pilot the Phenoms as close as possible to real life, with the addition of the GTN 750 and 650, can be found here:

For Phenom 300:

For Phenom 100:

Hope you'll enjoy.

Cheers, Ed

Cheers, Ed

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1 hour ago, Ricardo41 said:

Again, you do not "need" the gtn 750 or the mods to operate the Phenom 100 or 300. I use neither in both, and they both operate as advertised. 

Well they don't actually work great with the g1000.  The g1000 won't do very well if you fly online.  But yeah if you load a p3d flight plan and fly offline it will be fine.

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I do not have the 390 yet thinking about it, but I do have the Phenom300 and love it. One of the reasons being the interior has huge LCD panels so easy to see the moving map as you fly. Plus it looks really cool outside too. FPS is not a problem at all. Very smooth, but I would imagine both to be this way as they are smaller aircraft.

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