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My wild guess is the DHC-3 Otter, both radial and turboprop.

Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting.

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  • TikTok, finally, I'm sure we've all been waiting on that one.

  • Dominique_K
    Dominique_K

    Blackbird, Blacksquare, Blackbox. I dunno,  PMDG could  rebaptise itself Blackiron and A2A , Blackaccu ? PS Asobo would be, of course, Blackfrog.  

  • Enhanced your marketing a bit with a link 😉 And Tik Tok ... ? oooook ... sorry too old

A T-38 Talon would be neato. Steam or glass.

Rhett

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On 8/15/2023 at 3:37 AM, JaseMelbo said:

Wow, TikTok phobia is alive and well here lol.

Jase

Lol, are you surprised? I'm not. 

2 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

2016-9-8_7-32-49-820

I had the 732 in FSX/P3D. Not my best buy ever :   poor interior texturing , a cockpit  which had two options, either a pigsty or sterile, wobbling along VOR radials and weird behaviours in flight specially in high altitude crosswinds (pilot's incompetence or poor FDE ?) . So if it is 732 I hope for a product remade from the ground up.

But who is going to buy a 732 anyway ? A couple of nerds ?

Maybe me and a few other old fogey types that flew on them a lot!  

Britannia, Orion Aiways, Air Europe, British Airways and British Airtours, Monarch, Dan-Air, Caledonian. Good times and mucho nostalgia!  :biggrin: 

I even flew on an Air France one once and got upgraded to a first class meal when a pack of newspapers fell on me out of the overhead, and a Lufthansa one into Gatwick with just me and five other people on it.  Took off like a rocket.  I loved them.

However, if it was as bad as you say and this was carried over to MSFS, I would struggle to buy it, but most developers do improve them now.  The expectations on the standards have changed.

Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

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Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

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Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

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Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

Hell!  What happened there? :laugh:  This forum acts weird sometimes.

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Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

37 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

  The expectations on the standards have changed.

In any case Milviz has improved quite a bit over the last years (personal feeling). I am sure that their 732 would be much better but as we say in French chat échaudé craint l'eau froide 😄 (the scalded cat fears the cold water).  

The 732 would be nice, a BAC 1-11 or a Viscount too. Fond memories from Dave Maltby's. Yes Virginia, there was a life before MSFS 😁

Dominique

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I hope it’s an announcement that an aircraft is about to be released rather than another in development.

The B737-200 is the one I’m most looking forward to.

Dave

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3 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

2016-9-8_7-32-49-820

I had the 732 in FSX/P3D. Not my best buy ever :   poor interior texturing , a cockpit  which had two options, either a pigsty or sterile, wobbling along VOR radials and weird behaviours in flight specially in high altitude crosswinds (pilot's incompetence or poor FDE ?) . So if it is 732 I hope for a product remade from the ground up.

But who is going to buy a 732 anyway ? A couple of nerds ?

I doubt that the SR 71 is ready so I would bet the money for an Otter or... or ... or... lets have a dream... YES a Talon. 

I'm going to buy it!

FYI, if any of you happen to have some spare time in Atlanta, GA .. specifically at KATL .. there is a Delta Airlines museum on the property, and in that museum is a retired, but fully functional full motion Level D simulator of a 737-200.  It was an actual simulator used for pilot training back in the day, now its part of the museum.  A as member of the public, you can rent it for an hour, get a little training, and see how well your MSFS sim time prepares you for something closer to reality. I did it.. and well.. the passengers wouldn't have been happy ...  but I did manage to land us in one piece.

After that experience I'd happily buy Blackbird's offering to relive the experience and practice a bit more with the older instrumentation to possibly do better if I find myself with another opportunity at the full motion sim.

BTW, the museum itself is really great - you get to wander around up close and personal with a DC-8, 767, 747, and several other older planes.

6 hours ago, regis9 said:

I hope it’s an announcement that an aircraft is about to be released rather than another in development.

The B737-200 is the one I’m most looking forward to.

What you don't like news about news lol?

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5 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

What you don't like news about news lol?

Sort of not.

It's like Newsception. 😁

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7 minutes ago, chapstick said:

Well, it's a T6 Texan II. So add that to Blackbird's perpetual development queue I guess. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gNkYvZ5YKI

 

Says coming soon.  But that could mean anything I suppose.  My expectations on 'soon' would be in the next couple of months, or at least before end of year.

Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

I like to trick airline passengers into thinking I have my own swimming pool in my back yard by painting a large blue rectangle on my patio.

Intel 14900K in a Z790 motherboard with water cooling, RTX 4080, 32 GB 6000 CL30 DDR5 RAM, W11 and MSFS on Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD's.  Core Isolation Off, Game Mode Off.

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