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why no DC-8 ?

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I know about Ablomis, but I want a TU-154 NOW! 😊😅😅 Not waiting for years, or forever... 😉Exactley! The dream would be if Just Flight released a TU-154/134 in the same standard as the F-28 or similar... Or Fenix quality... A dream!!!

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  • I agree; the DC-8 is conspicuous by its absence, as is the VC-10. In fact, there is a stack of vintage jet airliners missing in MSFS. 

  • Not exactly a jet - but the Viscount as one of the most succesful International aircraft - would be a winner

35 minutes ago, buspelle said:

I know about Ablomis, but I want a TU-154 NOW! 😊😅😅 Not waiting for years, or forever... 😉Exactley! The dream would be if Just Flight released a TU-154/134 in the same standard as the F-28 or similar... Or Fenix quality... A dream!!!

For this you’ll need to go back to fs2004….

59 minutes ago, buspelle said:

I know about Ablomis, but I want a TU-154 NOW! 😊😅😅 Not waiting for years, or forever... 😉Exactley! The dream would be if Just Flight released a TU-154/134 in the same standard as the F-28 or similar... Or Fenix quality... A dream!!!

Im willing to pay up to 200usd for a Tu-154 with Justflight quality

Juan Ramos
 

Totally agree! I double that, price to me is not important as long as a TU-154 is on "final approach" Whatever the developer wants, I will pay! As long as its a TU-154 at JF or Fenix quality! Thats for sure! 👍

I'm actually going through a process of re-installing my various P3D installations right now, specifically to be able to access some of the wonderful old planes I had back then. Bit of a mixed experience, what with the complete lack of memory on how to do stuff there and the now seen as really horrible graphics, but already some success and fun. Approaching having a very nice VC-10 setup in v4 with True Earth in place - obviously not up to MSFS or XP levels visually but if I focus on the plane and don't do my usual rooftop levels of flying it will be acceptable. 

And then I can start on the DC-8, C54, C5 and all the other ancient stuff sitting around in the hangars. May have to go back to FSX to use some of them though.

Oh, I forgot - also got a working (if not truly wonderful looking) B-58 and XB-70 back in my virtual skies.

Apart from anything else, I'm sure the time and effort required to produce aircraft models to the current standards expected for the likes of MSFS is so much greater than it was back in the day. And that is going to mean much less variety and far fewer models in future. Unless the processes for creating them are improved by MAsobo, I guess. 

And lastly a quick word of praise to JustFlight. I couldn't get my original VC-10 to load correctly in P3D and contacted them. Turns out the version I had was a purely FSX version (I hadn't recorded it as such in my spreadsheet and it was probably one of my very first addons), but they still had a VC-10 Pro version for P3D on the site. It was on sale anyway and then they gave me a bunch of extra points in my account which meant I got a nominally £50 package for under a tenner! Never thought I'd buy another P3D addon, and yet another sign of JF's exemplary customer service. 

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an airplane nobody seems to have remembered is the Bristol Britannia - one of the most beautiful passenger airplanes built - just the engine start proceedure would be a lot of fun to have modeled

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8 hours ago, Rattso said:

an airplane nobody seems to have remembered is the Bristol Britannia - one of the most beautiful passenger airplanes built - just the engine start proceedure would be a lot of fun to have modeled

Some of us remember those (well, not first-hand, I'm not that old) but in another thread I mentioned that we need a CL-44 which is the Britannia's Canadian brother I think.   I remember flying a Britannia in...maybe FS2004 or FS2002?  It was a long time ago.

Flying Tiger Line CL-44 with the swingtail....

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12 hours ago, Rattso said:

an airplane nobody seems to have remembered is the Bristol Britannia - one of the most beautiful passenger airplanes built - just the engine start proceedure would be a lot of fun to have modeled

Would be a great Local Legend I think.

3 hours ago, Mace said:

Some of us remember those (well, not first-hand, I'm not that old) ...

 

I am. As a boy I flew in a Britannia from London to Singapore, via Bahrain and RAF Gan in the Maldives. That actual aircraft is now preserved at Duxford. 

 

 

Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting.

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4 minutes ago, Paul K said:

I am. As a boy I flew in a Britannia from London to Singapore, via Bahrain and RAF Gan in the Maldives. That actual aircraft is now preserved at Duxford. 

 

 

Flying into and out of Gan must have been unforgettable.

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1 hour ago, Mace said:

Flying into and out of Gan must have been unforgettable.

What was more memorable was paddling in the sea while we were refuelled - I'd never experienced such warm sea water. 

Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting.

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I'd love to see a DC-8 and a classic Tupolev, a Handley Page Jetstream and BaE JS31/41 and a Do-228NG.

Edited by amsfsx02501

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as an ex Brit - the Britania would be nice - but I still prefer the Viscount for a local legend

I was on the Viscount - that left Munich - just before the crash of the Friendship that killed so many of the Manchester United playersWe were on our way to Cyprus - and heard about the crash when we landed in Athens

A Viscount and a Friendship are also at Duxford

Edited by jaytee73

4 hours ago, amsfsx02501 said:

I'd love to see a DC-8 and a classic Tupolev, a Handley Page Jetstream and BaE JS31/41 and a Do-228NG.

PMDG have effectively wasted their opportunity with the British Aerospace Jetstream 41. I doubt that we will ever see it again, but I am fairly certain that plenty of flight simmers would love to fly it in MSFS 2024.

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I loved the PMDG J41, lots of fun.

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