2 hours ago, David Roch said:

☺️

What is really very surprising is the path taken by this package!
After wandering around China, it then made a stopover in Turkey and is currently in France... It is expected in 8 days at my place.
I suppose it will make a little trip to Bolivia then to Senegal between now and then.

FedEx apparently has big problems with the cost index of its aircraft!!!

I’m jealous of all the places it got to visit! 😀

If my shipping log is to be believed (I have to wonder if something is not reporting in the right order) mine went Shanghai - Oakland - Sennan-Shi (?) in Japan - Oakland - Memphis - Montreal - Halifax and now out for delivery.  All makes sense except the Oakland - Japan Oakland part, I’m assuming that’s a tracking issue.

I remember buying a Fanatec wheel and it went Los Angeles - Heathrow - Toronto - Halifax…literally flew over my house twice 😂

Edited February 3, 20251 yr by regis9

20 hours ago, MikeV1 said:

The routing of these packages is incredibly fascinating. Previous orders from Winwing went from PVG/AMS and then a truck over the channel. 
 

I believe ours was making its way to the UK together as I too have an ETA of Feb 10. So far, it has visited New Delhi, Dubai, France but as of 9:30 this morning:

International shipment release

DARTFORD GB

03/02/2025 09:34

Mine has just arrived. 

I don't quite understand this FedEx thing, because it looks like it's going to go from Paris by land, and they didn't send it by plane. In any case, it's definitely closer than further

Mine is stuck in Paris for two days already, coming from Ankara.
The reason why did FedEx decided to send it via Paris remains a mystery to me.

AFAIK, there are 6 FedEx flights weekly between Ankara and Tel Aviv and the distance between Ankara (Ankara Esenboğa Airport) and Tel Aviv (Ben Gurion Airport) is 570 miles.
In another hand, Ankara is 1614 miles from Paris Orly Airport + Paris Orly Airport to Ben Gurion Airport is another 2044 miles >> 3658 miles instead of 570.
Go figure... 🙃

5 hours ago, MikeV1 said:

Mine has just arrived. 

Mine also arrived in Dartford, so I HOPE will be tomorrow 

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by rutrA

I received mine last night, my initial thoughts after setting it up and doing one flight:

- Set up was real relatively straightforward although the instructions perhaps could’ve been better.  There are two clips that appeared to be for cable management that I couldn’t really figure out what the instructions were trying to tell me, but they don’t seem to be crucial to the operation so right now I didn’t bother doing anything with them.

- I bought the table clamp as well and once I got it all assembled, I was able to attach it to the edge of my desk on a very angle so it wasn’t taking up desk space and also more closely mimicked the alignments that this would be in on a real aircraft.

- the quality seems quite good, especially at this price point. Long-term durability, of course is a bit of an unknown, but as of now it has a good tactile fuel on all the buttons, and the build quality appears to be quite good.

- the setup of the supporting software is a bit of a pain as it didn’t find all the Microsoft flight simulator folders it needs (actually it didn’t find any of them) and while some were obvious like the community folder, some were a bit more challenging to figure out what they were asking for. The instructions for the software aren’t as clear as they could be either, there’s a whole section where it appears that you should be able to load a set up for key presses, but it doesn’t work that I could figure out.  However, in the end, it doesn’t seem like it actually matters. I couldn’t find useful information on this anywhere in the instructions. 

- in the sim I was very impressed. The screen is quite clear and bright and once you get the Sim running it all just works well for the most part. I did run into a few things where the screen stopped showing what was on the in SIM screen, however usually pressing a button on the in SIM unit would have the hardware catch up.  It is interesting as clearly the display is not just passing through what is on the screen in the Sim, which I guess makes sense given that you’re not having to undock a window and drag it over.

- I also have a Skalarki MCDU which provides an interesting opportunity to compare this one given that it’s much much cheaper than the Skalarki unit was.  In short, if the Airbus version of this existed when I was in the market for an MCDU, I would never have bothered looking at the much more expensive Skalarki MCDU.  It’s also nice that it doesn’t require a connection beyond a usb.  My Skalarki unit used a VGA (which I had to convert to DVI), power and USB connection- lots more cables on my desk.  Unless the winwing one ends up not being durable long-term, or something like that, I honestly don’t know why anybody would spend money on a Skalarki one unless they are building a full cockpit or something like that. All of this assumes that they will sort out the issues around broad aircraft support, etc.

In summary, I’m super impressed.  There’s a few little niggles to work out for sure but this is a great piece of equipment, especially at the price point. I had only planned on buying the 737 version but I may end up splurging on the 777 and 747 versions once they come out, it’s that good.

 

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by regis9

Thanks for this interesting review, Dave 😉

Nice surprise while drinking my (4th) coffee this morning!
"Out for delivery"
🎉

Got mine yesterday. Working extremly well and after swapping the Default Font with the Fenix MCDU Font via SimAppPro the overall Look-and-Feel is terrific!

19 hours ago, David Roch said:

Mine is stuck in Paris for two days already, coming from Ankara.
The reason why did FedEx decided to send it via Paris remains a mystery to me.

AFAIK, there are 6 FedEx flights weekly between Ankara and Tel Aviv and the distance between Ankara (Ankara Esenboğa Airport) and Tel Aviv (Ben Gurion Airport) is 570 miles.
In another hand, Ankara is 1614 miles from Paris Orly Airport + Paris Orly Airport to Ben Gurion Airport is another 2044 miles >> 3658 miles instead of 570.
Go figure... 🙃

Ouch.....hope it reaches you safely soon 🙂

Pre-ordered from the EU site on Jan 18th. Status is still on 'Pre-Ordered'. 

Main store page still shows ETA>45days.

I really hope that the wait isn't gonna be long, but I doubt it...

Thats why we ordered by Global Shipping.

Mine is OUT for Delivery :) 

8 minutes ago, rutrA said:

Thats why we ordered by Global Shipping.

Mine is OUT for Delivery 🙂

Too bad they charge shipping costs (+ import taxes?) for that. Otherwise I would have tried that as well.

11 minutes ago, rutrA said:

Thats why we ordered by Global Shipping.

Mine is OUT for Delivery 🙂

Yipeeeee..best notification ever when your item is out for delivery 🙂

7 minutes ago, UltimateAntic said:

Too bad they charge shipping costs (+ import taxes?) for that. Otherwise I would have tried that as well.

Just 30 dollars. Looks like is no taxes. If you don't exceed a certain amount. But it also depends on the country you live in.

16 minutes ago, rutrA said:

Just 30 dollars. Looks like is no taxes. If you don't exceed a certain amount. But it also depends on the country you live in.

Others say you will receive a bill for customs and vat charges in a month or two later....I doubt this is the case in my country. I only paid the $32 shipping charges.