Aircraft and Avionics Beta now available

[ryanbatc]

The avionics (CJ4 ProLine 21, C700 aircraft/systems + G5000, and TBM G3000) are just phenomenal.  PHENOMENAL!

We now have an incredibly capable arsenal of default avionics in the sim.... with FAR greater fidelity than even most payware addons in prior sims.  Add to that the TDS GTN 750/650Xi and the WT GNS530/430W and it's a powerhouse!

Christmas did indeed come early!

colors by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

c700aau2 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

tbm2 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

[BaronKen]

Might be a dumb question, but are current liveries for these planes still usable or do they need an update as well?

[Ricardo41]

11 minutes ago, BaronKen said:

Might be a dumb question, but are current liveries for these planes still usable or do they need an update as well?

The ones I use worked with no issue. The ones that won't work are the ones that change the panel .cfg file(s). But that has always been the case. 

[GCBraun]

Will the VFR/sightseeing game argument finally die with this? 

[lzamm]

For those who don't do betas, when's this going mainstream?

[BAW303]

Slated for January release

[guenseli]

1 hour ago, GCBraun said:

Will the VFR/sightseeing game argument finally die with this? 

Never! 

Also that MS will charge monthly and will switch off servers soon. 

There will never be a proper airliner !!!111!!

[bendead]

Anyone knows if it's possible to import simbrief plan on the Longitude?

[Swe_Richard]

24 minutes ago, guenseli said:

Never! 

Also that MS will charge monthly and will switch off servers soon. 

There will never be a proper airliner !!!111!!

🤣

[pmplayer]

11 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

 

 

Snow. The transition is pretty harsh right now. hopefully they add a gradient or something along the edges in the future.

Yes, this realy looks a bit "unreal", hope for some transition and gradient aswell..

Maybe they can work on this with some future updates .

 But things are going in the right direction i would say.

And great work from WT !!

cheers 😉

[lzamm]

1 hour ago, BAW303 said:

Slated for January release

Thanks. I can wait 🙂

[turbomax]

2 hours ago, GCBraun said:

Will the VFR/sightseeing game argument finally die with this? 

never,

proof: it is a game that runs on x-box instead of Linux. 😀

[Ricardo41]

1 hour ago, bendead said:

Anyone knows if it's possible to import simbrief plan on the Longitude?

No, not yet. Also, they had to remove the Navigraph charts integration (for now?).

[Zangoose]

I did a flight in the Longitude last night and it went really well - Even did a cheeky hold to see how it performed and all was good. 

 

In terms of snow - Does that depend on how made the airport and they have their own control over the snow? As I went to EFRO with the MK-Studios scenery installed and that was still covered in snow. 

[mpo910]

8 hours ago, Krakin said:

LM confirmed to Helisimmer that this will not be implemented in P3D. Part of the reason being that they do not want to break compatibility with their many third party partners.

I personally think that this is a wrong management decision (only in relation to the consumer market). This also confimes, that there is another piece of software from LM in use, for "other" companies and partners, beside P3D.

If a companie does not cope with the speed of the entire market, then the market can and probably will become disruptive. I don´t think that the P3D 3th party market is that huge anymore (Active development and active support by 3th party). 

So, now would be the time to make a huge step forward, brake with the exisiting products and build up an up to date environment to gain "new market". 

Of course this will be expensive for "us users". But honestly, ifI look how many users are buying products for the 2 or 3 other sim plattforms...there seem to be a huge interest to invest. But only, if the plattform is future (and feature) proof.

I for myself have "left the building" and went straight ahead onto the new gen plattform wich is evolving greatly and in a way that never happend before. Is it perfect? NO! Is it future proof? YES. Is it feature complete? No, but its growing fast. 

Marcus