jon b

Our 747’s were upgraded to the LCDs about 20 years ago, although I think some full motion sims retained CRTs. The story at the time was they were stopping production of the CRT displays so upgrading to LCD was mandatory. I’m inclined to believe that as upgrading to LCD screens would cost money, and the operator wouldn’t spend a single penny on anything that made a pilots job easier (revised symbology)unless they absolutely had to.

On your recommendation I splashed out on an 89 pence 24 hour rental and took it up last night. Yes a very nice handling flight model. My only wish would be an option to completely ditch any form of GPS and just have a set of radio heads. But yes very nice, I’ll pick it up when I get back from holiday I think.

I seem to remember the BB boss explaining on a video that there was going to be some feedback from users on the pitch, he said essentially it was very accurate but due to people’s home controllers and profiles it was going to feel off, so they were thinking how to address that. The actual BB Addon to one side for a moment, the 757 flightdeck itself feels great to me, it seems like the perfect blend of analog and digital, the Goldilocks flightdeck I think.

Ha, yes I do exactly the same ! I’ve been flying heavy jets for 30 years but in comparison to this gentleman I’m just a beginner. He’s too modest to mention it but I’ve a rough idea of his CV and it’s incredible! It makes me laugh sometimes when people here have absolutely no idea of his level of experience, and that’s not just in real big jet flying but in flight simulation too. Yes, a real asset to the forum and we should indeed shut up and listen.

👍 glad you’re in !

I had that issue , I also added a path to my community folder into the 2020 version box so both boxes were filled in and tried again and it worked, it may just have been a coincidence but it worked when I tried again

Sleep well Glenn 😴👍

I had that issue, I closed it down with task manager and restarted it and it worked

I’m not really sure why that should be relevant, we’re all friends here, there’s lots of real world pilots and lots of real world sim experts here all just hanging out and helping each other. Please let’s not get into some sort of rank pulling exercise by playing the real world license card, we’re all sim enthusiasts at the end of the day, but just for the record I’ve got 4…an ATPL, an ATP and 2 CPLs 🥳😀

I had exactly the same issues, even after I actually managed to download the aircraft it wouldn’t install, I think a path to 2020 and 2024 has to be entered in the settings otherwise you get an error, for me at least. Just keep plugging away, closing the app and trying again it eventually works

Well there’s some who are even claiming any medical issues are far too much of a coincidence and are probably a smokescreen!

I’ve been flying this little Alpha Jet some more the last couple of days and I’m sorry to have to report to you (for your personal finances) that the more I fly it the more I’m liking it. It’s a really nice flight model but it’s subtle and takes a little time to fully appreciate

I don’t know about you but I’ve had enough of opinions for one day, I’m referring to the disgusting torrent of “opinions “ on that discord platform and YouTube about the delay to this product. I was talking to a young simmer at the flight simulator show the other weekend and he’d never heard of avsim , although the individual himself was a nice guy I can’t help thinking we’re somewhat lucky to be sheltered on here from the “opinions “ of volatile youngsters. My other thought is remember how nice it was before flight simulator magazines and the internet, you’d walk into a physical software shop , head straight to the simulation shelf and spot a fantastic looking new flight simulator box you had no prior knowledge of. You’d then devour the description on the back of the box , inevitably make the purchase and head home as quickly as possible to load it up, while hoping you didn’t have a corrupt disc or cassette. You’d never even know if it had been delayed in any way, compare that to the last 24 hours of bile on the internet because the 757 hadn’t arrived on time.

It’s that good is it ? Actually don’t tell me , I don’t want to know🙉🙈

I’ve not noticed but this needs to be returned straight away if it’s been removed, it’s been a feature of flight simulator since the 80’s.