I miss the realair lancair legacy so much

[Will Fly For Cheese 1,710]

 

Sometimes you come across as a really bloody clever bloke and well done you  -  for getting in the nest that is MS - I did that about 20 years ago for about six years - sorry everyone - I worked on Vista - only on the Video Compression side of things but nevertheless for MS.

And sometimes you come across as a chap who is trying to cross the Andes by frog Mr Barnard - (Captain Snetterton, I presume)

Don't let it run away with you. Let's keep the metaphor firmly in the realms of piloting an aircraft - don't let this whole thing get too far ahead of you.

Or you'll end up in Room 12B - which is "Being Hit Over The Head Lessons" and you're better than that. As well you know. . .

Edited May 3, 2021 by Will Fly For Cheese

[captain420 3,099]

5 hours ago, Chock said:

Steve McQueen and Bullitt is all you need to know to understand why that's not a good analogy.

Doesn't matter, you clearly get my point. Your suggestion isn't great either. Why would I load up a legacy sim with inferior aesthetics such as graphics and visuals, etc just to fly a plane I like. Personally, to me, the visuals, make up a huge part of the immersion for me when it comes to VFR flying, which I solely choose the lancair legacy for. FSX/P3D doesn't really come close to that when compared to MSFS now does it? Even with a fully blown FSX/P3D with all the addons, it can't even compare to vanilla MSFS.

In the end, I rather fly a not-so-great plane in MSFS with great graphics and scenery rather than an awesome custom 3rd party plane in FSX/P3D with outdated scenery and graphics.

[DavidP 1,410]

14 minutes ago, captain420 said:

I rather fly a not-so-great plane in MSFS with great graphics and scenery rather than an awesome custom 3rd party plane in FSX/P3D with outdated scenery and graphics

That's your right and power to you.

I on the other hand I would prefer the other - slightly inferior aesthetics but high fidelity aircraft and avionics that perform as close as possible to reality.

May be one day soon we will get both.

[Chock 17,769]

23 minutes ago, captain420 said:

Doesn't matter, you clearly get my point. Your suggestion isn't great either. Why would I load up a legacy sim with inferior aesthetics such as graphics and visuals, etc just to fly a plane I like. Personally, to me, the visuals, make up a huge part of the immersion for me when it comes to VFR flying, which I solely choose the lancair legacy for. FSX/P3D doesn't really come close to that when compared to MSFS now does it? Even with a fully blown FSX/P3D with all the addons, it can't even compare to vanilla MSFS.

Clearly FSX/P3D must have come close to having been an enjoyable experience, or you wouldn't actually be missing that aeroplane now, would you? And it obviously did compare to MSFS and even surpass it if you felt so strongly about what it was able to do that you went to the extent of creating a topic on a forum about how much you miss the experience it gave you.

You could try flying the aeroplane you like at dusk or at night or in IMC if the terrain is such a deal-breaker in P3D. Sure the view can be nice, but there is more to flying aeroplane than what is going on out of the window. You might also try importing the aeroplane into MSFS too. Dunno if it would work, but I guess it is worth a shot.

[himmelhorse 1,276]

9 hours ago, captain420 said:

Cause those are old and outdated sims and I deleted them a long time ago for MSFS. Plus how can you even go back to those sims after flying in MSFS? It's like driving a ferrari and then going back to a mustang. MSFS has spoiled me.

Outdated or not, not as pretty or not, they DO work 99% of the time.  This is a status not yet attained by MSFS. No doubt it will at some time achieve the greatness indicated by its potential.

There is not a lot NOT to love with P3D and Xplane, particularly if anyone has thrown a considerable amount of money at them.  

For me, I love them all and I aint not never ever going to delete them until MSFS is 80-90% consistently great.

Tony

[styckx 1,871]

My personal connection with the Lancair was the plane. The scenery. Meh.. The plane sold me.. It had soul.

So much so it got me neck deep into repainting so much I churned out some of my best work ever repainting it and the cockpit

Edited May 3, 2021 by styckx

[MattNischan 3,778]

2 hours ago, fppilot said:

Ferrari would never put an unfinished model out into the world. Without a finished set of gauges? A defective audio system (i.e. ATC, ATIS/AWOS).

Folks who say this never drove a late 70s to early 00s Ferrari. 😅 I still remember driving around a 512TR at work, RPM gauge bouncing everywhere, notchy metal H gate shifter that would catch if you shifted too fast, mirrors that were too small, leather dash that would curl up in the corners where the cardboard would get hot (even if you kept it out of the sun), a clutch pedal that was so crammed into the footwell that I had to take my shoes off, and the tinniest sounding "premium" radio you've ever heard. But it sure did look amazing, even if it was heavy. Just don't get a spider. They leak half the time and the other half the microswitches for the top need to be replaced.

I knew quite a few 348s, 355s, and 360s that had more shop miles than road miles. Oh, and your belts are shot after 5K, and the only way to do that service is to drop the whole engine down from the back.

Fun times, that era.

-Matt

[Alpine Scenery 1,609]

9 minutes ago, styckx said:

My personal connection with the Lancair was the plane. The scenery. Meh.. The plane sold me.. It had soul.

So much so it got me neck deep into repainting so much I churned out some of my best work ever repainting it and the cockpit

That looks really good, almost like the Ferrari of interior paint jobs. Speaking of such things, I never rode in a Ferrari as I'm not a car guy, though I did know a guy in college who took a loan out for medical school and used it to buy a $120,000 car. He then ran out of money to finish his schooling, so he had to go overseas (and then had to store the car), and I think sell it. Now this was in the early 1990's, so you can imagine the equivalent of how much such a car would cost today. I rode in his car a few times, I actually hated it. It was some type of Acura NSX, but it had been retrofitted with like $50,000 worth of specialty equipment. It was the most ridiculous, loudest, and silliest thing I'd ever been in.

I am still not sure if he ever finished school as I lost touch with him, but talk about the dumbest of dumb decisions. I don't know that he really used the school loan for the car (as they verify some of that, so not sure how he got away with it), but that was the STORY he told everyone anyhow (of how he afforded the car).

Edited May 3, 2021 by Alpine Scenery

[styckx 1,871]

1 minute ago, Alpine Scenery said:

That looks really good, almost like the Ferrari of interior paint jobs.

Thanks  I dumped an immense amount of time back in the day doing those cockpit repaints. That plane was my home for a long time.. I'm pretty sure that was the last aircraft repaint I ever did.. I didn't do many but the Lancair consumed about 90% of my aircraft repaint career.

[captain420 3,099]

No point in having a nice plane if the scenery can't be enjoyed by it. Especially when doing VFR flying in the lancair legacy. A nice plane like that deserves a sim capable of delivering the scenery to compliment it.

[Alpine Scenery 1,609]

I never owned the Lancair, that was the one plane I never got around to buying, i think I had every other major plane (almost). I had all the Milviz stuff, the A2A, the Majestic Q400, 70% of the Carenados, and the PMDG stuff. I'm sure there were a few other major ones I missed, but I spent too much as it was, so I had to find a stopping point. So much money on Carenado for planes and Orbx for scenery.

My favorite was the Q400 overall, if I had to pick one, but I had many favorites. A2A had some amazing stuff, but I wasn't into GA as much back then because the graphics and what not, in FS2020 I do more GA than the old days.

 

Edited May 3, 2021 by Alpine Scenery

[blueshark747 1,843]

51 minutes ago, Chock said:

Clearly FSX/P3D must have come close to having been an enjoyable experience, or you wouldn't actually be missing that aeroplane now, would you? And it obviously did compare to MSFS and even surpass it if you felt so strongly about what it was able to do that you went to the extent of creating a topic on a forum about how much you miss the experience it gave you.

You could try flying the aeroplane you like at dusk or at night or in IMC if the terrain is such a deal-breaker in P3D. Sure the view can be nice, but there is more to flying aeroplane than what is going on out of the window. You might also try importing the aeroplane into MSFS too. Dunno if it would work, but I guess it is worth a shot.

This is avsim....no prior sim was ever enjoyable and attractive before MSFS.

Users installed, loaded and have flown FSX P3D and XP11 for years with huge frowns and depression.

No one actually enjoyed those sims at all and spending thousands of dollars in payware addons and hardware for them was done out of pure misery.

@MattNischan Yup the F355s costly "mandatory engine out" maintenance service intimidated tons of potential used market buyers.

Even after they have become more and more affordable to purchase outright, that has been the biggest turn off with the F355.

 @styckxGorgeous paintwork on the Legacy!🍻

[Cpt_Piett 4,641]

It’s an awesome bird, one of my all time favorites. Let’s hope it arrives some day in MSFS.

Edit: and yeah, XP11 is an awful sim too, terrible scenery, totally worthless, wasted years of my life on that word not allowed. just appalling really. /sarcasm

To be honest, I’ve barely used XP since august last year. Not because it’s so bad. But because I find MSFS so much more enjoyable in so many ways. Is it perfect? Of course not. Not yet at least.
 

Edited May 3, 2021 by Cpt_Piett

[Alpine Scenery 1,609]

11 minutes ago, blueshark747 said:

This is avsim....no prior sim was ever enjoyable and attractive before MSFS.

Users installed, loaded and have flown FSX P3D and XP11 for years with huge frowns and depression.

The TrueEarth series for the european countries came pretty close to FS 2020 quality, I remember there were some airports on some islands (maybe ENAL, I forget), but they were very well done and high-res looking, and the PR was close enough to FS 2020. The problem was every time you had to shell out the $40 to $70 for the area then another $20 to $30 per airport, man that got expensive fast. Add in the plane expenses, and it was seriously thousands of dollars.

The clouds, water, and trees couldn't come close to FS 2020 though. FS 2020 left them all in the dust on that one.

Edited May 3, 2021 by Alpine Scenery

[blueshark747 1,843]

4 minutes ago, Alpine Scenery said:

The TrueEarth series for the european countries came pretty close to FS 2020 quality, I remember there were some airports on some islands (maybe ENAL, I forget), but they were very well done and high-res looking, and the PR was close enough to FS 2020. The problem was every time you had to shell out the $40 to $70 for the area then another $20 to $30 per airport, man that got expensive fast. Add in the plane expenses, and it was seriously thousands of dollars.

The clouds, water, and trees couldn't come close to FS 2020 though. FS 2020 left them all in the dust on that one.

There are still times in FSX/P3D for me that look better than MSFS.

There are also times/conditions where MSFS can look just as washed out and bland as XP11.

I still love the colors and atmospheric mood of FSX/P3D and imo MSFS doesn't replace any of the prior sims.

They are all just have a different character depending on what I'm in the mood for.

Indeed REX and ORBX products have shined the FSX/P3D platform up really nice over the past decade.