So a lot of people in the flight sim community look up to FlightDeck2Sim.  He had this to say about the A2A Comanche, saying it's "one of if not the best GA aircraft I’ve flown in any sim":

This is from his recent video on the Comanche. For FlightDeck2Sim to say this is one of the best, and possibly the best GA plane he has flown in any flight simulator, well done A2A, well done.

Edited July 24, 20232 yr by abrams_tank

No bias from him. Love watching his streams.

1 hour ago, carlanthony24 said:

No bias from him. Love watching his streams.

Yeah, FlightDeck2Sim will usually say it as it is.

At about 44 he is stabilizing, and then at 46:00 he demonstrates the the old fashioned auto pilot a little bit. 

The magic of A2A combined with MSFS's world visuals & weather/atmospherics is the ultimate combination. To have a wholistic GA sim experience this close to reality is something else.. and the bar will be raised again with MSFS 2024 world visuals+weather, once A2A updates accu-sim for it as needed or not (would also be nice to be able to use the Comanche in relevant missions in v2024 if choice of aircraft is allowed for any of them).
 

Edited July 24, 20232 yr by lwt1971

although the a2a comanche is super nice model, been alternatively flying the bs bonanza and bs baron in between and they are nothing to sneer at.  different a/c types to be sure, but they are all excellent ga models. no doubt the upcoming bs dukes will be up there as well.

49 minutes ago, kdfw__ said:

although the a2a comanche is super nice model, been alternatively flying the bs bonanza and bs baron in between and they are nothing to sneer at.  different a/c types to be sure, but they are all excellent ga models. no doubt the upcoming bs dukes will be up there as well.

Same here.  Comanche is beautiful inside and out.  I also love the Baron and Bo.  Both the PA24 and BE36 make me feel like I'm there.

Yes the A2A Comanche is excellent, yes yes yes 🙂

 

13 hours ago, Fielder said:

the old fashioned auto pilot a little bit.

I must be getting old - I remember when that STEC autopilot was state of the art 😁

 

5 hours ago, kdfw__ said:

although the a2a comanche is super nice model, been alternatively flying the bs bonanza and bs baron in between and they are nothing to sneer at.  different a/c types to be sure, but they are all excellent ga models. no doubt the upcoming bs dukes will be up there as well.

A2A and Blacksquare have quite a bit different philosophies of development. On one side revamping, polishing the existing default birds, on the other side constructing a new innovative bird from the ground up.  

If I am not mistaken, the Blacksquare Baron & Bonanza do not have a dedicated complex combustion engine simulation like the Comanche, they have only partially reworked Asobo flight modelling, no new aerodynamics, their main focus being to revamp the analog gauges keeping the bland six pack+KP140 combo. No option for a hand on a/p à la STEC 2 😀 , no  engine analyser, no walkaround either.  

I don't buy many payware aircraft, not a question of money actually but of focus and if I had to advise a friend about buying a fast GA bird, the Comanche would be on top, overtaking my favorite so far which was the 310. Because flight simulation is a holistic experience : flight, engine, navigation. The Comanche is way ahead of a perfected default bird.

The Black Square lineup is way ahead of default aircraft...they do have custom flight models, and engine analyzers (EDM800).  They also model things like signal degradation for VORs, turbochargers, custom engine parameters (like an EGT spike while running with a bad mag etc), failure modes.  

Not quite A2A but not so far behind.  Frankly I don't think people read the manuals anymore so they don't even understand what they're buying.

I have no doubt that Blacksquare is an excellent dev. And that they'll get better from what I see and read now. We need more A2A. Still, today's news is the Comanche.

Be interesting to think what he feels the others are..

16 hours ago, lwt1971 said:

The magic of A2A combined with MSFS's world visuals & weather/atmospherics is the ultimate combination. To have a wholistic GA sim experience this close to reality is something else..
 

I agree. If there is a "holy grail" of civilian flight simulation for a GA aircraft in 2023, given the technology available in 2023 for home market computers, the combination of MSFS + A2A Comanche would probably be the closest we can get to such a "holy grail" of flight simulation.

MSFS + A2A Comanche is providing a level of immersion and realism in 2023 that is simply hard to beat!

Edited July 25, 20232 yr by abrams_tank

The Comanche is the shiny new toy now and a2a deserves praise for bringing it to msfs. But it’s not something revolutionary—accusim in its various versions have been around and appreciated. 
 

The big difference this time around is it’s been coupled to a sim platform that looks 100x better and runs 10x better than fsx/p3d. 
 

yup, the comanche is a winner and so are other models like the black square offerings in the ga segment. Good times for desktop simulations.