We just got the Spit IX - anything else coming soon?

Edited March 17, 20215 yr by Pauldoe

A F4U Corsair has been announced by Milviz.

Another Spitfire is on the way shortly, this time Mark I/II from Aeroplane Heaven, they're bringing their C-47 too, and they have a P51D Mustang coming as well. Classics Hangar are working on getting their Focke-Wulf 190 Dora 9/Ta-152 into MSFS and hopefully, they will also get their Messerschmitt bf108 in there as well at some point. Just Flight have their BAe Hawk on the way, DC Designs will possibly port their F/A-18 Super Hornet into MSFS, and I think they have some other military stuff up their sleeve too. There's an SR-71 on the way from Milviz, who also have an F4U Corsair pretty much ready to go.

I'm presuming Flight Replicas are merrily beavering away at getting their stuff over to MSFS in view of the fact that most of it can port over and function pretty well already, so that'd be a lot of military WW2 props and possibly their Me262 with any luck, plus a lot of their DC-4 and DC-6 variants.

In the interim, if you have any Vertigo Studios warbirds, they all port into MSFS very well, with the exception of their Panther, which can be brought into the sim but the jet engine on it doesn't really function that great although you can fly it. A lot of Just Flight/Aeroplane Heaven's stuff can be ported into MSFS as well, including many of their Spitfire variants, Hurricanes, Messerschmitt 109s, DC-3s, C-47s P-47, P-51 Mustang etc.

 

There is a US Army T42 Baron repaint over at TO.

You do need to bear in mind that Microsoft have sort of vaguely put a rule in place about add-on aeroplanes not having weaponry when sold in the MSFS marketplace. I say vaguely, because last time I checked, the Eurofighter Typhoon had an internal Mauser BK-27 cannon and the McDonnell Douglas F-15 had an internal M61 Vulcan cannon, and both of those are on the MSFS store. And most of the WW2 aeroplanes kicking around did at some point have internal weapons on them too.

Now of course the guns don't work in MSFS, and even if they did, theoretically you could say that they 'weren't loaded', but these modern jet aeroplanes are not for VFR trips to the Hamptons or a bit of crop dusting. They do at least have a bit of an excuse with old warbirds if they put those on sale, since these aren't going into combat ever again, but I'm not sure they're following their own rule too closely with those two air superiority jets in the mix. 🤣

 

SR-71 by Milviz:

Milviz SR-71 Now Being Developed for MSFS Instead of P3D – FSElite

 

I never understood the point of having military aircrafts in a civilian simulator. A trainer? Ok. But a fighter? You can't have a dog fight, you can't deploy weapons, you cant bomb a camp in syria or whatever. 🤔 Im not criticizing or anything, just wondering. Lets say that someone does an amazing F22. what are you going to do with it? Fly from Miami to Atlanta? i dont get it.

Edited March 17, 20215 yr by xender

2 minutes ago, xender said:

I never understood the point of having military aircrafts in a civilian simulator. A trainer? Ok. But a fighter? You can't have a dog fight, you can't deploy weapons, you cant bomb a camp in syria or whatever. 🤔 Im not criticizing or anything, just wondering

Studies have found that different people like different things.

 

18 minutes ago, xender said:

I never understood the point of having military aircrafts in a civilian simulator. A trainer? Ok. But a fighter? You can't have a dog fight, you can't deploy weapons, you cant bomb a camp in syria or whatever. 🤔 Im not criticizing or anything, just wondering

Well, technically you can have a dogfight, in multiplayer you just need to have a recorder going and yell 'fox 1', 'guns, guns, guns' or 'rifle' etc over chat when you think you have a firing solution on a target, then playback the video and agree/disagree that it was a kill, in much the same way as air forces do when they train. You could even have a 'moderator' (which basically the air forces have when they train) who tells you whether it was a kill or not and who sets up the fight scenarios. This is exactly what was going on when that F-15 went down into the North Sea a few months ago when the guy got target fixated and wasn't watching the fight's designated hard deck for the scenario.

Beyond this, Captain Sim made their Weapon for FSX which is actually pretty good fun and will let you shoot missiles, drop bombs and fire guns. Then you have all that Tacpac stuff as well, which will let you bomb the living bejayzus out of anything you like. Then you've got carrier traps, which are good fun and challenging, intercepts, formation flying etc. And don't forget that the very first versions of Sublogic Flight Simulator (even before it was an MS product) had a Sopwith Camel you could dogfight with. You've got airshow routines you can do as well of course.

Personally, I'd be inclined to use DCS or some other combat sim for this kind of thing, but these sims don't typically have the entire world in terms of scenery, whereas MSFS, P3D, FSX and XPlane do. For example, in MSFS, that Flying Iron Spitfire Mark IX which came out the other day would let you try and see if you could scramble from a UK grass airfield in Kent and intercept another aeroplane coming in from over France before it got to its target; you don't even need a Junkers 88 or a Heinkel He111 adversary model to try that, or even another player, you just need something to fly at a specific altitude and speed to replicate its performance, record it with a flight recorder, play it back and then off you go to try and get a firing position behind it before it bombs your favourite target in Blighty or whatever.

Not saying I particularly want to do that myself, but I'm sure many people would.

Edited March 17, 20215 yr by Chock

1 hour ago, xender said:

I never understood the point of having military aircrafts in a civilian simulator. A trainer? Ok. But a fighter? You can't have a dog fight, you can't deploy weapons, you cant bomb a camp in syria or whatever. 🤔 Im not criticizing or anything, just wondering. Lets say that someone does an amazing F22. what are you going to do with it? Fly from Miami to Atlanta? i dont get it.

Hey! I can still make it from St Louis to the 10 PM EDT St Louis Blues game in Los Angeles...   BOOM! 
Wife had opted out yesterday so no second seat needed.....  And the military is paying for the flight time. O2, and fuel....

 

Edited March 18, 20215 yr by fppilot

One of the wonders of being a simulator pilot is being able to have experiences you'd never be able to in the real world, like how to handle an F-15, or flying an SR-71 at 82,000 feet at Mach 3.2.  Flying high performance aircraft is fun, and if they are realistic too they're a stiff challenge to master.  The only RL aircraft I've ever flown are a C-152, C-172, PA28, and PA38.  

If for no other reason than curiosity I've always wanted to know how to pilot an MD-80, or a C-54.  A high fidelity simulation is as close as I'll ever get, but it ain't nothing.

 

Edited March 18, 20215 yr by Dutch727

The Fiat G91 can definitely drop ordinance, though there was a glitch where it hung around forever they had to fix.