That's right, 100 airport and 8 aloft. That would be the closest to filling the airport with static planes, if I understood FSHud manual correctly.

MJC Q400 ... light years ahead of PMDG in terms of flight physics.

Be warned, there are some issues with the PBR textures at night.

3 hours ago, Luis Hernandez said:

That's right, 100 airport and 8 aloft. That would be the closest to filling the airport with static planes, if I understood FSHud manual correctly.

Did the test, sorry for no shots.

Picked up at EGLL RW 27L and took off, made a COMPTON SID, returned. 

At the beginning FSHUD took around 1 min to start spawning AI aircraft, or at least I wasn't able to glimpse any visually or in the TCAS, but then they started to grow in numbers.

When I landed back in 27R the ground was crowded 🙂 at least for what I am used to.

FSHUD injected default P3Dv5.4 AI.

I noticed a bit of stress in the CPU, sometimes one or two cores reaching 90% or more, T getting to 72 - 74º C but most of the time not higher than 68º C.

FPS never dropped and stayed stable at the 30 fps

I'm not using SMT, so just 6 real cores, EGLL was default and the area enhanced only by ORBX Global, Vector and LC Europe.

Aircraft was the FSL A321 SL.

 

17 hours ago, jcomm said:

I noticed a bit of stress in the CPU, sometimes one or two cores reaching 90% or more, T getting to 72 - 74º C but most of the time not higher than 68º C.

FPS never dropped and stayed stable at the 30 fps

Wow 😱😱 Better than I expected! Looks like I'll be purchasing. Thank you very much!

4 hours ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Wow 😱😱 Better than I expected! Looks like I'll be purchasing. Thank you very much!

Beware that I am only using the default AI liveries which is probably a lot less heavy than if you have a product for AI and get realistic liveries all around...

Naah, I use AIG with almost exclusive PBR liveries and just about every route possible and performance is excellent.  But be aware after about 15 minutes of ramp-up, given time of day, airports can get very busy ... lots of line up and wait.

BTW... continuing the Spirit of the thread... I just bought the iFly 738 MAX 🙂

Lot's of reading before I can try my first flight 🙂
 

BTW, the only available manuals / tutorials are in Spanish 🙂  Good opportunity to put my rough Spanish to test 🙂

 

Edited November 13, 20232 yr by jcomm

MAX hasn't been updated anymore. Is it already that perfect?

2 hours ago, Juliett Alfa Romeo said:

MAX hasn't been updated anymore. Is it already that perfect?

I really don't guess - but I am eager to try it !!!

Will report back when I can....

3 hours ago, jcomm said:

BTW... continuing the Spirit of the thread... I just bought the iFly 738 MAX 🙂

What a plot twist 😂

Looking forward to your comments!

5 hours ago, jcomm said:

BTW... continuing the Spirit of the thread... I just bought the iFly 738 MAX 🙂

I hope you enjoy it!

 

I am flying this aircraft on a round the world tour. Its a great plane to fly and has enough realism for IFR flights.

IFly I would say did a nice job with this aircraft. I will say their forum is also one of the better ones to get support.

 

 

iFly 737 Max is excellent ... they suggested they will make it V6 compatible at some point in the future ... are we there yet?

10 hours ago, CO2Neutral said:

iFly 737 Max is excellent ... they suggested they will make it V6 compatible at some point in the future ... are we there yet?

Not yet 😕

They say they're busy with the MFS port... Well, they all are these days, unless they're fully XP or Aerofly FS 🙂

 

The confusing part for me is how long these ports are taking ... example is PMDG, FSLabs, A2A ... 2-3 years for one aircraft?  No matter how I slice these realities, I can't see the profits here nor growth matching up with claimed sales/expansion for MSFS? 

An experienced 3D modeler could have all the components of a 737Max done in 2 months -- they are that fast, they have to be to survive in that industry. 

Code porting (the systems logic doesn't change) to WASM C++ est. 3-4 months for all simulated systems (which are fewer in MSFS than their prior efforts).  It's not GDI but still C++.

Wire up the models to the systems logic est. 2 months.  

Discovery (MSFS SDK) est. 1 month.

est. 9 Months is my conservative ... toss in another 2 months of UAT and we're still < 1 year to deliver.

My assumption is full time development teams (more than one person).  But clearly there still is not enough revenue to support larger multiple developer/modeler teams ... the timeline for delivery very much feels like 1 person full time and intermittent temporary contractors as funds permit.  Which is essentially the same model used in P3D and XP ... I think the hope many had was that MSFS would change all that, but it frankly doesn't seem to be the case in terms of timely deliverables.

I know the iFly team is small.  Shame MSFS didn't reduce their "share" (25-30%) from Market Place so as to provide a better revenue for 3rd party and improve overall eco system.

On 10/6/2023 at 6:53 AM, jcomm said:

yesterday I used my rather old Flight1 account to buy FSHUD.

Hi jcomm. I'm planning to buy FSHud but a couple of questions please. Are you still able to recommend it after a few weeks of use? Seems all the videos and reviews are with MSFS and I'm a P3DV5 user. One video I just watched said the program did not recognize addon airports, only default. I assume this is an MSFS thing. 

Thanks