39 minutes ago, UrgentSiesta said:

@lwt1971 I listened to V1's video, where Nick is doing a shared-cockpit ride along with him. Nick was sharing info about both the addon and the IRL aircraft, and V1 was saying how he was blown away by the amount of detail particularly in the Starship.

Nick himself (very humbly) shared that, in his honest opinion, the BS Starship is indeed the most complex/complicated GA addon ever made for MSFS. He believes - in that regard, at least - it's peer-level to the Hot Start Challenger 650 in X-Plane. Which AFAIK, is generally regarded as one of the most complex "First Principles" flight sim addons of all time.

For e.g., in another comment: he said the reason he developed all the system visualization in the EFB was to really demonstrate to flight simmers that all the systems/physics simulations are actually happening behind the scenes, even tho it's otherwise invisible to them.

I'll tell ya, I was really torn between getting the iFly 737 or Starship this month, but listening to Nick has pushed me firmly back over to getting the Starship. I have plenty of under-utilized airliners, anyway 😁

 

I get you Urgent... not sure how I can pass up on this one with this much depth of simulation be it systems, physics, avionics, etc. And this is the first iteration, imagine what's to come in the future.

I for one am glad about the likes of A2A, BS and devs like Nick, and other dev houses really raising the bar of the GA scene in MSFS!

All about over-utilizing our wallets in order to have the luxury of under-utilizing a vast array of choices for our personal MSFS fleets 🙂

 

Sounds can make or break an addon....

Thankfully Boris does incredible work.

Absolutely.

I’m loving this “ digital preservation “ aspect of modern flight simulation. 
I like an aviation museum as much as anyone, but being a pilot I also find them incredibly frustrating as I just want to jump in and fly the machines and flip their switches,not just look at them.

And this is why I really love flight simulation.

 

3 hours ago, jon b said:

I’m loving this “ digital preservation “ aspect of modern flight simulation. 
I like an aviation museum as much as anyone, but being a pilot I also find them incredibly frustrating as I just want to jump in and fly the machines and flip their switches,not just look at them.

For me, I have no desire to actually fly a plane or be a pilot in any way, shape or form, and yet I too can have a huge hangar of all sorts of interesting aircraft and go "flying" around in them. I mean, hedge-hopping in a B36? Cruising low'n'fast in the Bugatti over Miami? A Bell 47G around SF Bay? And nowadays in an environment that is (apart from the PG tree blobs) pretty much exactly like a (if not "the") real world? What's not to love?

I don't have any other computer games or simulations (OK, one pinball game) as I'm just not interested in games or role playing. But I've always been interested in planes since my Airfix and Observer's books childhood, and to be able to do all this sort of thing is just magic.

Most of what folk here are raving about with this Starship will be superfluous for me and never get used, but it sure looks purty and I'll have to clear a bit of space somewhere between that B36, the He111 and all the various Cessnas and Pipers to make room for her.

And that's why I love flight simulation, but never took it up until recent years. Never been interested in moving one bit of wire frame graphics around other bits. But now, with products like this - wow!

 Gorgeous bird

 

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I found a really good article on the Starship over at FSElite:

 

First Look: Black Square Starship - FSElite

https://youtu.be/1Cs-brIDdOw?si=Q59PWGqWFsZMk0d0

4 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

https://youtu.be/1Cs-brIDdOw?si=Q59PWGqWFsZMk0d0

Reminds me of being about 11 again 🙂

Not a GA guy or business aviation guy, but this plane is really grabbing my attention. The video presentations are great and I’m strongly considering buying it. Not sure what itch it’s scratching, but it’s definitely working!

3 hours ago, SKEWR said:

Not a GA guy or business aviation guy, but this plane is really grabbing my attention. The video presentations are great and I’m strongly considering buying it. Not sure what itch it’s scratching, but it’s definitely working!

Maybe you will turn into one now!

Can’t wait for this.  I’m an 80s kid, and this was always the coolest plane ever.  
 

Should be a blast to fly in the sim. 

Anyone living or visiting the Western Oregon or Washington state areas, should check out the Evergreen Air Museum in Mcminnville, Oregon.  They have a Starship on display outside.  If you go inside, you can see the Spruce Goose and many other exhibits.

Mike

 

Today is the day.

But despite all the hype, this won't be a day one purchase for me. I'll spend a few days seeing what others are saying about it before I buy... 

...but only because I'll be travelling for a few days from today, so I'll only be able to get my Starship fix second hand.

Have fun everyone - I know this is going to be a beauty!

I will wait for this mini heatwave in the UK to pass first. I probably won't be flying anything until then 🥵