https://msfsaddons.com/2021/06/30/theres-probably-an-l-1049-super-constellation-coming-to-msfs-this-summer/

Never heard of this company, and this article first sentence states "Is PMDG getting some competition on the classic airliner category in Flight Simulator?" um are these guys planning on being on the same level of A2A (who has the best Connie in desktop simulation in FSX/P3D) or something? I will believe the hype if I ever see it.

Edited June 30, 20214 yr by jbdbow1970

I read about this one earlier this month and am excited about it.

Think I'll wait until A2A ports theirs over to MSFS. The Captain of the Skies features are a lot of fun. Screaming passengers FTW.

7 hours ago, jbdbow1970 said:

Never heard of this company, and this article first sentence states "Is PMDG getting some competition on the classic airliner category in Flight Simulator?" um are these guys planning on being on the same level of A2A (who has the best Connie in desktop simulation in FSX/P3D) or something? I will believe the hype if I ever see it.

 

They are a scenery company mainly specialising in French airfields that is moving into aircraft. I have their Brindas airfield, it is actually very good with lots of attention to detail and all sorts of interesting extra features.  Hopefully they will apply the same standards to their aircraft, we will l have to wait and see.

The aircraft addons they are doing seem rather esoteric with things like the Super Constellation and the Hindenburg topping the list.

I can understand people that are fans of the old school developers, that have established a rep in P3D and XPlane, being nervous about newcomers doing large complex aircraft,  but the best bet is wait and see what they produce and if it is overpriced or awful just do not buy it. You never know it may be very good.

 

 

Edited July 1, 20214 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

Been aware of this one for a while and I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with whilst also awaiting the other 'allegedly on the way classic' which seems to have gone a bit quiet in terms of news - the Wing 42 Boeing 247.

At this point it's quite a lot of fancy website screenshots and big claims by Red Wing for their Connie, as it is with that Boeing 247, but it would at least appear from their video that Red Wing Simulations have got a basic functioning aeroplane in the sim, so they are on track with their stated plan. Meanwhile, comparisons between this and the PMDG DC-6 are inevitable given that these aeroplanes were contemporary rivals in the 1950s, sort of akin to the 737/A320 and indeed how sims of these real-world competitors invite the same between FSL and PMDG. 

I wouldn't let the fact that it's not PMDG or A2A making this thing put anyone off though. As impressive as they are, neither of those two have a monopoly on either skill or passion, and we're already seeing some new MSFS developers come out of the starting gate and pretty much knock it out of the park on their first try, for example the Blue Mesh Caudron C.430 and the Big Radials Curtiss P40B, both of which are really impressive and particularly so for being a first shot from their relative developers.

It is worth remembering that FSL managed to surpass anything PMDG had done on their first ever release, although admittedly that was largely because it was something of a PMDG splinter group, but Majestic too knocked it out of the park on their first effort to the point where their Dash Eight Q400 could justifiably claim to be the best add-on airliner there is, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility for a developer to seemingly come out of nowhere and go straight to the top. It may also be the case that the price of entry for the Red Wing Simulations Super Connie will make it worth a punt, given that they are going for an 'early access' type of release.

1 hour ago, Chock said:

but Majestic too knocked it out of the park on their first effort to the point where their Dash Eight Q400 could justifiably claim to be the best add-on airliner there is

Majestic spawned from Fanda (remember their Q300?) and Samdim design. They were already veterans when the Q400 was released and not really their first trip to the big leagues....

4 hours ago, SAS443 said:

Majestic spawned from Fanda (remember their Q300?) and Samdim design. They were already veterans when the Q400 was released and not really their first trip to the big leagues....

That's probably true of most 'new' developer companies to be fair, I doubt many of them who create anything worthwhile have absolutely nobody on board with any experience.

Am I the only who who is seeing low quality texture or details in cockpit?

45 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

Am I the only who who is seeing low quality texture or details in cockpit?

Bit early to judge it. The exterior textures don't look to me like they would be the finished article, more like tests for fit and mapping, since you can see sawtoothing and waviness on the cheat lines and lettering. That might also be the case for the interiors as well. For example, the wing panel texture looks pretty low res to me, there's a lot of marbling, which is typically what you get with a low res proxy texture. Using low res proxies during development, early stage editing and testing is fairly common because it speeds up load times for testing other stuff if you aren't bothered what it looks like for such a test:

Edited July 1, 20214 yr by Chock

At 7:23 we are introduced to the new Eastern Airlines Connie behind the biplane of Eddie Rickenbacker (Connie pilot will be Arthur Godfrey).

 

11:36 Godrey shows the flight deck instruments

31:55 Godrey flies Connie on one engine... "Only the Connie can do this"...