March 24, 20251 yr Just saw a blurb on this... Normally I'd not even consider an alpha, buuuuut... it's MilViz/BlackBird and one of the aircraft I've been pining for (a Hi Fi version of) in flight sim, so...hmmm. "LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE"...???
March 24, 20251 yr No more alphas for me. Remember FSS E-jets? Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
March 24, 20251 yr Yea, not interested in another alpha and Blackbird has been kind of inconsistently of late. MSFS 2024. Primary Planes: Black Square TBM850, Duke, Baron, Caravan; A2A Comanche; FSReborn Phenom; Fexix A321; PMDG 737-7, 777: Utilities: Active Sky (Passive Mode); BATC, FSLTL.
March 24, 20251 yr Author 10 minutes ago, chapstick said: Oh look, another sketch add-on release scheme. Hard pass. True - could be another one like their Piaggio for P3D.
March 24, 20251 yr Author 26 minutes ago, sd_flyer said: No more alphas for me. Remember FSS E-jets? Meh - MilViz/BlackBird are well established and have a successful history of delivering Hi Fi military addons to...The Military (for IRL pilot training!). Whereas FSS came from out of nowhere and seems to be stuck in neutral... Maybe seems the same, but I'm willing to cut BBS/MV some slack because they've done (a LOT) of (really) good work before. Edited March 24, 20251 yr by UrgentSiesta
March 24, 20251 yr Author 23 minutes ago, Cognita said: Yea, not interested in another alpha and Blackbird has been kind of inconsistently of late. How so? They've been doing well with the T-6A II - it works in v2024, and it was very good in v2020. in v2020, the F4U was great, the PC-6 was solid, and the C310 was consistently lauded as one of The Best addons for v2020. And again, on the T-38C (which they dev'd in P3D for the USAF) is still a great, Hi Fi addon and easily one of the best .mil addons ever in any sim. The only addon I've been disappointed with is the T-45, but even then, it was coded by India Foxt Echo, who didn't put a lot of work into the systems or flight model (the 3D model was the same that MilViz built for...you guessed it... the US Navy!). Edited March 24, 20251 yr by UrgentSiesta
March 24, 20251 yr I'm not opposed to buying into an Alpha depending on the state it's in and the cost savings. However, I do recall buying into the alpha (or was it beta, or maybe a pre-sale) on the Milviz King Air way back when and the unapologetic debacle that followed with that so I'm a little gun shy on this one. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
March 24, 20251 yr The whole "limited quantities available" comment just irks me and makes it feel like too much like a marketing scheme for me. So they are literally asking for a limited paid alpha group? To each their own! Have a Wonderful Day -Paul Solk
March 24, 20251 yr Milviz made probably my all time favourite addon but they have always had an equally top class BS department😁
March 24, 20251 yr Author 1 hour ago, regis9 said: I'm not opposed to buying into an Alpha depending on the state it's in and the cost savings. However, I do recall buying into the alpha (or was it beta, or maybe a pre-sale) on the Milviz King Air way back when and the unapologetic debacle that followed with that so I'm a little gun shy on this one. Totally agree - that was definitely not their best work/service. And agree - I'm not willing to buy into something unless I get a plane I can actually fly right when I hand over the money (my understanding on the King Air was that it was rather like a KickStarter and that it took literally years before a usable addon was available).
March 24, 20251 yr Author 39 minutes ago, psolk said: The whole "limited quantities available" comment just irks me and makes it feel like too much like a marketing scheme for me. So they are literally asking for a limited paid alpha group? To each their own! Agree it's cheesy sounding. It's obviously not an available quantity thing; I'd think it's more along the lines of "are you really serious" or something. Obviously not appealing to many/most customers...
March 24, 20251 yr Author 13 minutes ago, Rusty Spanner said: Milviz made probably my all time favourite addon but they have always had an equally top class BS department😁 Yeah, Colin has made many, many "aspirational" comments over the years where the product showed up years later or still hasn't (e.g. the SR-71 that has been shown flying in MSFS and looks largely complete (graphically)). Also they've shown their T-38 from P3D in MSFS and that's held up by some contract issue or something... BUT, again, this 130J is a project they've been working on for IRL military training, so I give it a higher chance of actually releasing for simmers like us. Fingers crossed and we'll see what they say...
March 25, 20251 yr When it is released, I hope they include the civilian L-100 variant, too. They did mention it many moons ago. Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting. https://rationalwiki.org
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