Carenado's huge sale. Anything I need to have?

[BostonJeremy77 519]

1 hour ago, jon b said:

Here’s a question. I have the 360 but I also have always liked the look of the 330 so I’m tempted to buy it, but is there actually any difference in the cockpit between the 360 & 330 ? I fly in VR so if the cockpits are the same it might be a waste of time getting the 330 just for the occasional time I look at it from an external view.

I don't know. I haven't bought the 330 yet. But the screenshots look similar. And yeah, I kinda also like the look of the 330 better. 

[Mace 1,902]

3 hours ago, OzWhitey said:

Warning: IT'S A TRAP!!!

Admiral Ackbar!

I know what you mean about it being a trap, but I think it's less of a trap when these are on sale.  I mean I can spend $20 at a restaurant in an hour, or 1 minute in a casino.  Aircraft like their Phenom 300 once modded can be somewhat enjoyable, at least to me.  Carenado can be a sort of a trap at full price because they entrap and entice you with the nice-looking visuals but then you realize, "where's the beef!".   Luckily we have the GNS/GTN mods.

[CaptKornDog 281]

14 hours ago, Mace said:

Luckily we have the GNS/GTN mods.

Without the RXP GTN 750, I’d definitely have several Carenado planes in the boneyard.  At least it makes them fly able for the occasional flight in my sim.

 

For $10-20, I’d probably grab another one.  Anyone have thoughts on their Commanders, Navajo, or Do228?

Edited March 27, 2021 by CaptKornDog

[neilhewitt 493]

13 hours ago, Mace said:

Aircraft like their Phenom 300 once modded can be somewhat enjoyable, at least to me.

Absolutely agree. There are so few bizjets for P3D that I take what I can get. I don't point and click, so rather than mod the aircraft with something like the GTN, I use separate G1000 software running on another PC with appropriate G1000 hardware. But you get the same result - the aircraft is very flyable. I hacked the Carenado G1000 MFD gauge to extract just the 'extra' pages in their type-specific G1000 model and put them into a new XML gauge that I can display on a spare screen inbetween the G1000 units, and it works fine, if not 100% realistic. I've done the same trick for their TBM850. 

Shame there's no external (or even internal) replacement ProLine avionics that I'm aware of; the Premier1 would be much better with that. But as someone said up-thread, the ProLine sim seems to be miles better than their G1000 sim (which among other problems eats FPS because it's all XML... easy to customise, but inherently slow compared to C++ using GDI).

[Mace 1,902]

1 hour ago, neilhewitt said:

Shame there's no external (or even internal) replacement ProLine avionics that I'm aware of; the Premier1 would be much better with that. But as someone said up-thread, the ProLine sim seems to be miles better than their G1000 sim (which among other problems eats FPS because it's all XML... easy to customise, but inherently slow compared to C++ using GDI).

What would be nice is to have the Milviz Collins Proline 21 simulation that's in their King Air, in whatever aircraft we wanted.

 

[FPStewy 538]

1 hour ago, CaptKornDog said:

Without the RXP GTN 750, I’d definitely have several Carenado planes in the boneyard.  At least it makes them fly able for the occasional flight in my sim.

For $10-20, I’d probably grab another one.  Anyone have thoughts on their Commanders, Navajo, or Do228?

To me it's not a sale, it's probably what the planes should be worth at this point in time. But anyway you're right if it wasn't for the RXP GTN/GNS I wouldn't be flying much P3D GA either. I have the Chieftain and it's basically the Navajo with a G600 avionics and it's sad to say but it's my most use twin piston. I am going to splurge and get the Navajo just because clearing the alerts on the G600 drives me crazy.

I tried just for fun to put a flight plan in the Phenom G1000 one day and it took 3hrs compared to two min in the GTN.

 

[FPStewy 538]

4 minutes ago, Mace said:

What would be nice is to have the Milviz Collins Proline 21 simulation that's in their King Air, in whatever aircraft we wanted.

 

That was probably the best thing to happen to FSX. Replacing the panel with FSPanelStudio with an Aspen 1000 in any plane. If only that would have been developed for P3D.

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=fsaspen

[Mace 1,902]

1 minute ago, FPStewy said:

That was probably the best thing to happen to FSX. Replacing the panel with FSPanelStudio with an Aspen 1000 in any plane. If only that would have been developed for P3D.

http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=fsaspen

It's too bad that VC integration is so complex in P3D/FSX.  To me that would be a major plus if some sort of WYSIWYG editor for the VC's was implemented.

[blaunarwal 432]

On 3/25/2021 at 7:25 PM, BostonJeremy77 said:

What about Phenom 300?

Like this plane. Easy to fly. 

[Shomron 251]

On 3/26/2021 at 10:52 PM, thepilot said:

That begs the follow-up question, how well does it work?

Thanks!

I don't find any major flaw with it only you can load flight plans to the FMC but need to add the waypoints manually. Since the ATR routed are relatively short I don't find this a real issue.

From realism perspective it's Carenado... So don't expect anything complex

[Luis Hernandez 568]

I'm thinking about the ATRs, but the only reference I have is the Virtualcol one (that I flew in FS9, but despite having purchased it, I never flew it in FSX/P3D). Despite being light on systems (miles away from the MJC Q400 which I also have), it was fun flying it. However, I had to look for speeds somewhere else, because the Virtualcol one didn't have any.

Apart from the Hotel mode (interesting), the 4096 textures (I don't care, I end up reducing them to 1024) and the better 3D modeling, is it there anything interesting about the Carenado ones?

[djbully 210]

36 minutes ago, Luis Hernandez said:

is it there anything interesting about the Carenado ones?

They are cheap. That's about it! 

As long as you don't have high expectations you will be fine 🙂

Cheers,

Bully.

[Luis Hernandez 568]

2 hours ago, djbully said:

They are cheap. That's about it! 

Oh, then I'll pass. I have already Virtualcol for that, without the FPS impact in my laptop. Thanks for your reply!

Edited March 29, 2021 by Luis Hernandez

[BostonJeremy77 519]

So I ended up buying 13 aircraft. 😉 I have my hands full for a while. 

[CaptKornDog 281]

Still in the fence for the King Air 350 (purely because it’s cheap), Navajo, or Shrike myself.

 

Anyone have recent opinions on those?