Hotstart the Challenger with XP11 or XP12?

[JetCat 94]

Greetings pilots,

the Hotstart Challenger has now fully convinced me, but it is not yet clear which simulator will be the best platform for this (ultimate) masterpiece of a simulated airplane that was ever been developed. The Hotstart Challenger goes beyond the Fenix Airbus, amazing and I always thought the Fenix is the ultimate aircraft simulation.

What would you recommend as platform for the Challenger from the perspective of a graphics hound that aims not only for the best simulation but great visuals too, getting an older but fully established platform with full mod-support like XP11 where I can get OrbX scenery, national park and forest enhancements, volumetric clouds thanks to Enhanced Cloudscapes addon, and dozens of other mods and goodies...

Or step into the brandnew XP12 with beautyful new graphics effects, nice rain wet asphalt nicer airports and more, but being stuck with a kinda boring and simple looking default scenery for months because it will take an eternity until OrbX Canada for XP12 is finally released?

[GoranM 3,772]

Thank you for the compliments.

If you have both XP11 and XP12, why not purchase the XP11 version, and get the XP12 version for free?  

We updated the XP11 version for XP12, at no charge.

[Bjoern 1,157]

XP12 hands down. Have not spent a single second actually flying in XP11 since the first public beta of 12.

[Bill Alderson 24]

Been flying it in XP-12 with, mostly no problems.  It did CTD when trying to replay the landing but, other than that it works fine for me..

 

Anyone know if the HS TBM 900 is working in 12 yet?  I know Toto has been working on it but haven't heard anything about progress. 

[Sims Smith 302]

1 hour ago, Bill Alderson said:

Anyone know if the HS TBM 900 is working in 12 yet?  I know Toto has been working on it but haven't heard anything about progress. 

Should be : Anyone know when TBM 900 will be out for XP12 so that I can finally retire my XP11!

[Franz007 500]

4 hours ago, Bjoern said:

XP12 hands down. Have not spent a single second actually flying in XP11 since the first public beta of 12.

Same for me.

[GoranM 3,772]

We don’t have an ETA for the TBM yet. 

[MrBitstFlyer 3,877]

10 hours ago, JetCat said:

Greetings pilots,

the Hotstart Challenger has now fully convinced me, but it is not yet clear which simulator will be the best platform for this (ultimate) masterpiece of a simulated airplane that was ever been developed. The Hotstart Challenger goes beyond the Fenix Airbus, amazing and I always thought the Fenix is the ultimate aircraft simulation.

What would you recommend as platform for the Challenger from the perspective of a graphics hound that aims not only for the best simulation but great visuals too, getting an older but fully established platform with full mod-support like XP11 where I can get OrbX scenery, national park and forest enhancements, volumetric clouds thanks to Enhanced Cloudscapes addon, and dozens of other mods and goodies...

Or step into the brandnew XP12 with beautyful new graphics effects, nice rain wet asphalt nicer airports and more, but being stuck with a kinda boring and simple looking default scenery for months because it will take an eternity until OrbX Canada for XP12 is finally released?

I have XP11 with all the Orbx TrueEarth sceneries installed.  All I have done is linked to those sceneries in XP12, so you can fly with them in XP12.

[mSparks 2,086]

4 hours ago, Bjoern said:

XP12 hands down. Have not spent a single second actually flying in XP11 since the first public beta of 12.

think Ive had more "fun" in XP12 over the last few months than I did out of the entire run of XP11.

So as much as I love to hate XP11, got to agree XP12 hands down.

Oh, also:

 

 

[turbomax 3,286]

is the hotstart 100% VR compatible, and with no VR controllers required but all mouse controllable?

[JetCat 94]

Thank you for all the tips! And especially the tip with linking the OrbX scenery to XP12 is important because nice satellite images is important for immersion. I have seen on the OrbX website that all stuff is only available for XP11 that´s why I thought XP11 might be the better choice.

So this means for example this one:

https://orbxdirect.com/product/us-washington-xp11

(dedicated only for XP11) will work in XP12? 🙂 Wonderful!