27 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

This debate is further complicated by the X-Aviation BN-2B and BN-2T (turboprop) Islanders now having been updated for XP12 as well.

So many choices but sounds are so important for the Islanders and only Nimbus seems to get it right.

Edited July 14, 20232 yr by torfih

18 hours ago, torfih said:

So many choices but sounds are so important for the Islanders and only Nimbus seems to get it right.

Yeah your right there. The Nimbus sound is not bad at all although the Thranda seems subdued by comparison. The Islander was/is a very noisy aeroplane, that thin box fuselage acted as an echo chamber to the props and exhaust all at ear level and no soundproofing. How bad was it? you could have earplugs in and a headset and it was still a din. We measured the sound levels (crew concerns) and we got 150db on TakeOff. That is loud. Engines and airframe turbulence all contributed. 

Lot of jokes about the BN2 - best the British Rail ever made, 4000 rivets in close formation, rattle and roll box. But the airframe was solid and uncompromising which is why today there are still so many old Islanders about - no corrosion and new engines keep em running about forever. 

Spent an hour in the right seat of a BN-2 a few years ago, so the ones for XP are quite intriguing, but one turnoff about the aircraft in general is that is just. so. slow.

If anything, I think I'd go for the Nimbus, but the "custom sound plugin" point on its XP.org store page is a bit confusing. Does this mean it uses the old Dreamengine plugin or is it just an nfortunate description for fmod sounds?

No FMOD with the Nimbus just the normally ascribed sounds via XP and its own sound package, Missed the soundplugin - must be a description, they could have done other things with it not sure there.