Dear Simmers!

I would like to share a story with you all because something has amazed me a lot. And the developer behind this product has shown, an GA Plane can truly become not only study level, but also outstanding visual quality, system depth, immersive and have so many features wich even convinced me, as normally a P3D A320 and PMDG fan, a P3D beta tester, to step out of my comfort zone and fly GA in MSFS.

Some of you may know me, some not. I'm a passionated simmer especially in VR. I love being actual "there". The MSFS start was hard, not really convincing for me. I sticked at P3D first, thousands of euros invested in that platform. Some of you know what I'm talking about. Some not, that's ok.

But this is NOT about me. It's about a developer and true friend of mine. He became visible to me via P3D Beta testing. 

His name is @simbol. He is known from products like AILRP (P3D) and also does a lot behind the scenes, out of love, for level42, freedom FOX, immersion packages, etc. 

Simbol, his passion for development has reached me, other beta testers and others behind that and he has shown us things never shown before. He took us on a trip of his development, made us to beta testers and Involved us beta testers without hesitating, left handed and full of ideas, ups, downs, he worked in night shifts over more then a year, tears, persistence, courage, politeness and never stopped  making his dream, development of a very high level Sting S4 GA, for MSFS, come true.

When I sleep, he works, and we live in almost the same time zone ;-). 

We spoke about his plans. It was risky. Because MSFS was full of issues, full of limitations and full of changes from month to month. He was actually trying to develop something on a moving target. We have seen this more often. 

But Simbol is different. He does not stop. He finds ways of making his ideas come to reality. Simbol is a developer who wants the thing perfectly. No way he would not solve a problem. He has so many contacts. He helps others, others help him. He thought about this all before starting, invested lots of money BEFORE even 1 single copy can get sold. I'm talking about thousands of euros. Something we as users often do not see. Devs need tools, models, licences etc. Expensive stuff. But Simbol didn't hesitate. He got the needed approval of his other half (:-)) and started. 

He said...I will start developing a plane with features never have seen before.

One of his, for me now well known words, from Simbol:

"I need learn to walk first, then run!" 

Well, his learning curve was more like a runner being born. We had contact every single day over the whole development period. I heard him yell, getting angry, being MAD about the lacking SDK, he puked almost every day for the first weeks. But at some day his mind has changed. And then it happened. His positiveness, persistence, emotion, and motivation became to a standard. Since that day his learning curve was steep, the outcome is a masterpiece. 

I'm not making marketing here. I don't need it (I do this out of my passion as a user to thank him) and he doesn't need it as well. Because he has found his own way to reach his goals. 

But one thing is important. Money was not the main reason behind this. It was his passion and his dream. That is what he stands for. That is what is making him a top tier developer! Not only his products are great and have outstanding quality. But also his support. 

I know him. Support is important he told me. "I need to tread my customers well, they make this possible". "And this will help me being successful".

That's @simbol! A true one man company delivering his first GA Plane Sting S4 with the quality level at least at PMDG Level or even above!

Even I was confessed now, that GA is fun, especially in VR. Yes, the interested simmers need a good performing product too to use it in VR. 

Here are some features which are only a handful:

- Superb textures almost photorealistic

- Outstanding Audio\Sounds

- Realistic flight dynamics tested by real life pilots

- Exact 3d model developed with real data directly from the production company! It can't be done better!

- Top notch reflections

- Too Notch system depth

- A EFB packed full with features like wear and tear, tire pressure related to air temperature, maintenance pages, coolant wear and fill, oil wear and fill, battery drain and needed battery load, etc. Etc....

- Tires can blow at hard landings

- tired will wear more of at hard landings, depend on surfaces

- tires will drag if to soft

- brakes will wear off dependend on your usage. More hard braking is more wear and tear

- canopy could be opened at flight and you will get shocked! Sounds are blowing your head of! This is really immersive. How many pilots do forget to close the canopy at hot days

- Failures can be used with different features to set

- the animations are super smooth, stick, brakepedals etc.

- Brake pedal reflection on spring are even modelled!

- Rain at the canopy is super real

- powerfully 100hp engine fully realistic handling of the plane. 

- A BRS will save your life when the engine brakesy because you forgot to reduce power? Or did not check the oil? Pull the chute! You will be shocked when the rocket fires the chute out and you thumbling down.

-3 realistic flight models. One for the ground handling, one for the flighty one for the chute

- and I surely forgot the most to mention here.

All of this has convinced me, if a dev puts in his true emotions and passion, the product will be outstanding. Combine this with hard work, more then a year, much more, night shifts, tears, etc.....you will get a study level superb looking GA Plane from a dev who supports you when needed with never seen features before!

And this all for

Dollar 24,99! 

Here are some links to convince yourself. 

Some parachute impressions here

 

 

Article here FSElite

https://fselite.net/content/fsreborn-announces-sting-s4-for-microsoft-flight-simulator-comes-with-full-brs/

Twitch stream 3 hours with Simbol explaining his "Dream"! Not 1 minute boring!

Twitch Stream 1 with the developer explaining

Today streamed by

Twitch Stream 2 by BeMint

Discord link to join us and have fun with us

https://discord.gg/XC82TqvKQ3

Or at Facebook search for FSReborn

I know from him there is more to come....and the quality will for sure be equal to what I've seen here. The features? Under NDA 😉

I wish you all happy flying....and a nice Sunday!

Marcus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 15, 20224 yr by mpo910

He's a great human being and well deserving of our support.

And of course the most important part:

The product is already delivered to MS/ASOBO and waiting for approval to get into the store. Probably a matter of days.

For those already with experience on the Sting, could one say that it's in the former A2A class, who seem to struggle to make it into the MSFS market? If so I'd really look forward to that great little plane.

And yes, @simbol has proven not only to be an outstanding developer but also a valuable contributor to AVSIM.

Kind regards, Michael

Hi,

Does it use custom avionic or default MSFS ? 

Pierre

3 minutes ago, pmb said:

For those already with experience on the Sting, could one say that it's in the former A2A class, who seem to struggle to make it into the MSFS market? If so I'd really look forward to that great little plane.

And yes, @simbol has proven not only to be an outstanding developer but also a valuable contributor to AVSIM.

Kind regards, Michael

Michael,

I do not have A2A. But the only thing not modelled with Immersion outcome, is the seat heater. The button works, the light also, but my seat won't get warm... 😂

No I'm serious here, we testers, incl Reallife Sting pilots, did not found a thing not working! Truly amazing. 

The EFB gives you so many opportunities to setup the things you like or turn of the things you do not like. 

And I am really a FSLabs and PMDG fan, not easy to convince at GA. This thing has changed my mind....the huge canopy glass cockpit, a dream in VR and great at 2d screen too. The sounds are rounding this up....

Marcus

24 minutes ago, mpo910 said:

Here are some features which are only a handful:

- A EFB packed full with features like wear and tear, tire pressure related to air temperature, maintenance pages, coolant wear and fill, oil wear and fill, battery drain and needed battery load, etc. Etc....
- Tires can blow at hard landings
- tired will wear more of at hard landings, depend on surfaces
- tires will drag if to soft
- brakes will wear off dependend on your usage. More hard braking is more wear and tear
- canopy could be opened at flight and you will get shocked! Sounds are blowing your head of! This is really immersive. How many pilots do forget to close the canopy at hot days
- Failures can be used with different features to set
- the animations are super smooth, stick, brakepedals etc.
- Brake pedal reflection on spring are even modelled!
- Rain at the canopy is super real
- powerfully 100hp engine fully realistic handling of the plane.
- A BRS will save your life when the engine brakesy because you forgot to reduce power? Or did not check the oil? Pull the chute! You will be shocked when the rocket fires the chute out and you thumbling down.
-3 realistic flight models. One for the ground handling, one for the flighty one for the chute

[...]

Bringing the detail level and quality of A2A's Accu-sim to MSFS.
In over 25 years of flight simming, I've only ever bought three add-ons of propeller-driven GA aircraft. This is nailed-on to become number four.

Simbol is one of the developers that I'm very happy to support.

14 minutes ago, Pochi said:

Hi,

Does it use custom avionic or default MSFS ? 

Pierre

Avionics is G3x. Sorry...edited this because I understood this wrong

What was important about the Airfame though, that the Reallife pilots give feedback that this thing flies like the real one. This feedback was given. Not directly of course. Simbol had to make many changes to achieve this. But the goals where reached. 

So I think, if a Reallife Sting owner tells you it flies like the real one, it feels like the real one and sounds like the real one....you have done a good job and a great product. 

 

Edited May 15, 20224 yr by mpo910

1 minute ago, F737NG said:

Bringing the detail level and quality of A2A's Accu-sim to MSFS.
In over 25 years of flight simming, I've only ever bought three add-ons of propeller-driven GA aircraft. This is nailed-on to become number four.

Simbol is one of the developers that I'm very happy to support.

....and my first GA! But such a nice experience. 

9 minutes ago, Pochi said:

Hi,

Does it use custom avionic or default MSFS ? 

Pierre

Believe it's the default G3x for now, as working title are improving the unit.  Little benefit in duplicating work.. expect @simbol to do his utmost to enable the use of any updated avionics as he has done with the PMS50 and TDS units.

This aircraft just became the third must-have GA bird for MSFS in my opinion... I always step back to marvel at the great ecosystem MSFS has sparked, and great to see all you amazing developers (such as @simbol , and also larger development houses) jumping in there and navigating the initial unknown waters, and grappling with shifting bases and taking advantage of fast incoming core features (like the prop physiscs and CFD) to release quality products. And on top of that this bird has innovations like the fully simulated emerg parachute, etc while also staying true to MSFS next-gen standards in terms of modelling and other simulated areas/components/etc as articulated so well by the OP. As the sim grows and developers learn their way in and out of the sim/sdk even more, it's only gonna get better!

Edited May 15, 20224 yr by lwt1971

I need no convincing to buy Simbol's Sling S4.  As I said in another thread, I'm anticipating this to the same degree of excitement that tube flyers anticipated the PMDG 737! 😎

25 minutes ago, pmb said:

For those already with experience on the Sting, could one say that it's in the former A2A class, who seem to struggle to make it into the MSFS market? If so I'd really look forward to that great little plane.

, @simbol

Hi Michael. I'm a long year a2a addict and beta tester on the Sting. It's hard to compare as a2a haven't delivered yet in the new world and we don't know what they will come up with. Some of their features are not needed anymore (like for example get around the flying on rails), others still not possible or not easy to do in msfs due to limitations like the walkaround we know from a2a.  In contrast we have interactive checklists now. But the Sting is for sure breathing and living plane like we know from a2a. It's reacting differently on weather and temps. Try to start it on a cold day without the Choke. And in some aspects its going beyond a2a level like tire pressure even reacting to weather, single tires blowing, single brake pad wear down etc... And that in persisting state for the full wear and tear. So I would for sure say if you accept that the Sting is a more modern Rotax driven small plane with newer avionics its def a plane that can drive even a hardcore a2a lover a big smile in the face.

Cheers T.

I fly tubes 99% of the time, however I’ll purchase this to support Simbol. 

Edited May 15, 20224 yr by Greggy_D

33 minutes ago, Greggy_D said:

I fly tubes 99% of the time, however I’ll purchase this to support Simbol. 

Definately!

Me too! 
Thanks @simbol for your continuous support and engagement in this hobby!