August 26, 20232 yr I have delayed going to the Felis B747 in XP for a number of reasons none to do with Felis. I will come to that shortly. At now XP12 Beta 6, there have been other things to digest. SimHeavens data elevation smoothing has also been revolutionary. At this version of the program and as a flight simulation I can only say XP has become the reality of decades of wishful thinking about a pc based flight simulation. As a facsimile of the world it works seamlessly to produce a highly realistic but not photogramatic world view objects, landscape, geography, buildings roads traffic (maritime, rail and road) brilliant lighting control and well some amazing representations of real world look a like airports - all with moving traffic independent object lighting and dynamic arrays. Cloud representation is now of a very high quality and coupled with real time weather translation - credible and a great experience as well. So that is a subjective view from an older bloke who has had every version of simulator there has been going back to the era of 64 bit Commodores. Their light management and display is highly accomplished and shifting focus from in to out is not unpleasant but realistic experience now. You can always put the sunnies on if too bright! As a simulator it does the job pretty well of reproducing the performance realistically of the real aeroplane - so that is the only test - Does this fly like the real aeroplane does? We can debate the means of PC control - mouse and VR and the degree of desirable complexity of the programming to reproduce all mechanisms and controls and indicators - accurately and visually correct! XP12 achieves this but only in so far as any product producer, developer or private is able to capably program this model and its graphics and its motion or rotation of parts. Jump into the C172 or the Piper Cub - both are high quality simulations and fly just like their real world bretheren in terms of what you see and touch and what it does! High end of the scale in terms of complexity becomes fraught because your limited by the programming dexterity of who made the simulation. So now the Felis B747-200. This is a stunning achievement. This is the most faithful and complete simulator model I have had the pleasure of getting to operate in the sim. Yes it is an analoque era aeroplane but what a package from the check lists to the AVITAB subsystems and controls. Functional and realistic INS. Interior well looked pretty good to me but up front is where its at. Oh and outside it looks just like I expect a Boeing 747 to look like. Big Aeroplane! Good documentation to help you work it out or get to know the 747 or lets call her model number correctly the B742. Honestly I did not think it was possible to produce such a high quality simulation - you could do a type rating on it! Never would have happened without Laminar and XP12. An Ahievement for me! And that is it I think!
August 26, 20232 yr Sometimes a flight simulator can turn into a specific aircraft simulator, of high fidelity. There are a few specific aircraft simulators, like Aerowinx PSX for pretty much all of the rw 744 variants that were built, Airlinetools for the A320 in some of it's rw variants... In XP, now XP12, you can name the Felis 744, which I do not own, and the Hot Start C 650 which I also do not own, both apparently as close to the real thing as possible within the limitations imposed by XP. Around 2013 I started using a "P51D" simulator... The base was DCS World, and the module the then recently released P51D - first incursion of ED into the WW2 Era... Later I also has an UH-1H simulator with the same base flight simulation platform... In times of fs2004 / fs9, The BlackBox simulations Airbus 320 was my simulator 🙂 For curiosity sake and if I'm not wrong, Totoritko from Hot Start also cooperated with Felis in the implementation of some of the details of certain communication systems in the 742 (?) Congratulations for having reached the best of your expectations from the binary XP / Felis 742 !!! Edited August 26, 20232 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
August 26, 20232 yr Still waiting the failure mode added to make Felis 742 "could do a type rating on it". But so far I enjoy every bit on it in a normal flight, pass the last waypoint and flip that nav switch back to RADIO mode for arriving is one of the most enjoyable moment! To be a little picky, the Flies 742 still lacks some "organic feeling" to it's system, APU EGT didn't change based on load, the air pressure goes up or down linearly etc.... but still, it can be flown mostly "by the book"
August 29, 20232 yr Dear Peter / @JETPETER2, a GREAT READ !!! Thanks for the link !!! Being in a "State of Passion". all life long, for Flight / Aviation / in some way Simulation too, is a good part of your Secret 😉 Edited August 29, 20232 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
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