Anyone know of any good developers working on a Cessna 207 yet?

 

well nobody has replied since Friday - maybe it's because the C207 was widely regarded as a dog in the industry - now if somebody was doing a C206 (or the Robinson STOL version) then there would br more interest - bring on a 206 please

a steam 206 would be sick.

Its like the perfect GA airplane.

If I won over a million dollars I'd give half of it away and half of it to the 206. 

I had the Alabeo/Carenado C207 for P3D and liked it, but I don't think it was very popular generally; not many reviews, not greatly discussed on the various forums. Still, if they continue bringing their product line over to MSFS, we could see it one day. I would certainly buy it again. Weird to look at, but I rather like weird in flight sims.

I flew the c207… a lot back in the day…love that plane.

but, I’d take a 206 any day.

Edited September 22, 20232 yr by briansommers

On 11/21/2022 at 10:22 AM, Paul K said:

I had the Alabeo/Carenado C207 for P3D and liked it, but I don't think it was very popular generally; not many reviews, not greatly discussed on the various forums. Still, if they continue bringing their product line over to MSFS, we could see it one day. I would certainly buy it again. Weird to look at, but I rather like weird in flight sims.

The C 207 was very popular. 

Carenado has stated an intent to bring their entire P3D/FSX library over to MSFS, of which a C207 is included. No idea as to the timeline of each addon. 

Edited September 22, 20232 yr by STK

10 hours ago, STK said:

Carenado has stated an intent to bring their entire P3D/FSX library over to MSFS, of which a C207 is included. No idea as to the timeline of each addon. 

Yes, it appears they have slowed down a bit just lately though.  I am not even sure what their next release will be.

In FSX / P3D, I really liked their Apache, Navajo, and even the little Tomahawk.  No sign of them on the horizon. 

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

Yes, it appears they have slowed down a bit just lately though.  I am not even sure what their next release will be.

Hopefully it means they are putting in a lot more effort and will start producing better products..

There early products had a reputation of looking pretty but the FM was pretty generic, it followed the book numbers but that was about it, and there was no real system depth, lots of inop stuff and lack of detail and no failures.  Not bad aircraft,  just a bit generic. I fly the V Tail and Staggerwing all the time, they are decent products. But they are not a Comanche.

They did quite well early on because:

• MSFS 2020 attracted a lot of newcomer's to flight simming that wanted to just jump in and fly anything and everything without learning each individual aircraft
• a lot of the newcomers seem to fly in external view and hence did not really care  about the cockpit, just wanted a nice external view
• some people just like collecting aircraft for their hangar regardless of feature set
• the Carenado price point was regarded as a sort of bargain basement level and people did not expect a lot for that price

What has happened since is quite a lot of good aircraft with good system depth have started to appear in the lower price points and the next price point up now brings things like the Comanche  which is a different ball game and makes the Carenado offerings look a bit insipid 3 years on.

 

They do need to up their game.

 

 

Edited September 23, 20232 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

24 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Hopefully it means they are putting in a lot more effort and will start producing better products..

There early products had a reputation of looking pretty but the FM was pretty generic, it followed the book numbers but that was about it, and there was no real system depth, lots of inop stuff and lack of detail and no failures.  Not bad aircraft,  just a bit generic. I fly the V Tail and Staggerwing all the time, they are decent products. But they are not a Comanche.

They did quite well early on because:

• MSFS 2020 attracted a lot of newcomer's to flight simming that wanted to just jump in and fly anything and everything without learning each individual aircraft
• a lot of the newcomers seem to fly in external view and hence did not really care  about the cockpit, just wanted a nice external view
• some people just like collecting aircraft for their hangar regardless of feature set
• the Carenado price point was regarded as a sort of bargain basement level and people did not expect a lot for that price

What has happened since is quite a lot of good aircraft with good system depth have started to appear in the lower price points and the next price point up now brings things like the Comanche  which is a different ball game and makes the Carenado offerings look a bit insipid 3 years on.

They do need to up their game.

I totally agree, but unless they start linking up with people like Black Square, I don't think they will ever get better than what they are now.
I just don't think they can (capability wise) or they just don't want to put any more of their own time and effort in.

I do have the Comanche and I love it, but sometimes though, you just want 'that' make plane (like the ones I mentioned above: Apache, Navajo, Tomahawk) as A2A will never be able to scratch all of those itches! 

In the aircraft I named, they were all good enough in FSX / P3D.  Enjoyable to fly at least.  The Tomahawk is very simple of course, so that type of plane probably suits Carenado.  I actually enjoyed flying it more than the Just Flight version I had in Xplane.

Edited September 23, 20232 yr by bobcat999