I read on Carenado's facebook page something which surprised me quite a bit.  They mentioned they are addressing older msfs products and bugs and will fix them hopefully come January.

I consider this excellent progress for Carenado.  Even the fact that they have communicated this is a great improvement from years past...

carenado by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

 

That’s great to hear from a company that seems extremely quiet. I was thinking about them the other day because in my FSX days they always had an annual pre Christmas sale a few weeks before Christmas. I was hoping to see some of their MSFS planes go on sale, unless I missed it.

Well this sounds great.

I wonder if this also includes the planes they’ve made for Asobo updates?

I wanted to get the 182 but everyone says its trash. 

9 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

I consider this excellent progress for Carenado.  Even the fact that they have communicated this is a great improvement from years past...

 

4 minutes ago, fakeflyer737 said:

I wanted to get the 182 but everyone says its trash. 

 

I feel Carenado get some unfair criticism for their work not being atvthe same high level as the very best aircraft developers.

I had their Cessna Citation 560XL, plus both ATR 42 and 72 in P3D. For their price point, these aeroplanes looked great, performed well enough and had enough systems functionality to justify buying. Much more so than, say, FeelThere or VirtualCol aircraft.

Fair play to them revisiting and updating their older MSFS aircraft. Some less scrupulous developers wouldn't.

4 minutes ago, fakeflyer737 said:

I wanted to get the 182 but everyone says its trash. 

Not everyone.  It seems to be one of those things that if repeated enough, it has to be true!   Then again there are a lot of Carenado bashers that like to continually jump on the bandwagon as they think it makes them look like a 'serious' simmer. 

It is a simplistic aircraft for sure, but it has had a lot of updates, does fly nice, looks great, and I have had many enjoyable flights in it. Uses the default G1000NXi now of course. 

Worth picking up at a sale price I would say. 

The only thing I wasn't too keen on were the sounds, although they are now acceptable.  The FTsim ones have transformed it for me, just like with the Aerosoft Twin Otter and Default / Black Square Caravan. 

1 hour ago, bobcat999 said:

Not everyone.  It seems to be one of those things that if repeated enough, it has to be true!   Then again there are a lot of Carenado bashers that like to continually jump on the bandwagon as they think it makes them look like a 'serious' simmer. 

It is a simplistic aircraft for sure, but it has had a lot of updates, does fly nice, looks great, and I have had many enjoyable flights in it. Uses the default G1000NXi now of course. 

Worth picking up at a sale price I would say. 

The only thing I wasn't too keen on were the sounds, although they are now acceptable.  The FTsim ones have transformed it for me, just like with the Aerosoft Twin Otter and Default / Black Square Caravan. 

Is the AP decent? 

Does it work well with WT NXi? 

I might pick it up. 

I have more faith in the lottery ticket I just bought than in Carenado's "mea culpas" - which, IMHO, are nothing more than a desperate attempt to get out from under all the bad press they have been generating. 

With the release of AAU1 Carenado realized that they can no longer be asleep at the wheel and have to step up their game.

 

34 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I have more faith in the lottery ticket I just bought than in Carenado's "mea culpas" - which, IMHO, are nothing more than a desperate attempt to get out from under all the bad press they have been generating. 

With the release of AAU1 Carenado realized that they can no longer be asleep at the wheel and have to step up their game.

 

Hopefully they've had a look at the quality & ongoing support that FlightFX provide and realised that they don't make the cut anymore.

Time will tell, not convinced that the leopard can change it's spots though.

Hope they prove me wrong.

 

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I just want my Centurion🥲

26 minutes ago, Gazzareth said:

 they don't make the cut anymore.

The Flight Factor biz jets cost the same as the Carenado stuff but are lightyears ahead in terms of features and support. 

I'm not surprised Carenado doesn't have a Discord channel.🧐

1 minute ago, Ricardo41 said:

The Flight Factor biz jets cost the same as the Carenado stuff but are lightyears ahead in terms of features and support. 

I'm not surprised Carenado doesn't have a Discord channel.🧐

 

Absolutely, kind if blown away that they are adding the Elite II to the HJet as a free update......

 

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2 hours ago, Gazzareth said:

 

Absolutely, kind if blown away that they are adding the Elite II to the HJet as a free update......

 

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What’s an Elite II?

I'm still bearish on Carenado.  

18 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

What’s an Elite II?

It's a new variant of the HondaJet - Comes with some nice features like auto-throttle: https://www.hondajet.com/en/Products/HondaJet-Elite-II