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Wow we totally agree for once 😂

If you were in Europe it was better. Cause meteoblue was in Europe and their short range modelsand forecasts were reasonable. USA weather was nothing remotely close to "live.". Plus current sim isn't just metar it's a blend of models.

I'd rather have accurate weather when I depart or arrive at an airport and a few strange clouds aloft. METARs are usually pretty accurate especially at towered airports they have the ability to generate SPECIs every 5 min or so. Aviation Go/No-Go decisions are usually based on METAR/TAF and pilot reports. The METAR allows tower and radar controllers to assign a runway and approach in use, and the current conditions at the field determine IFR/VFR and what airfield lighting needs to be set. METAR also plays a big part when it comes to alternate airport assignment. At least in the USA, prior to Asobo enabling METARs, meteoblue did a horrible job of representing the weather in relation to the actual METAR/TAF. Then again, a large downside of voxel clouds is that one can see through them pretty easily. IRL even a thin stratus cloud structure is nearly 100% opaque. In the sim you can be in a few-thousand-ft thick cloud and see the ground lol. The upside is that they can look really quite realistic. BTW, even XP12 has these weird cloud structures from time to time - I just don't think any sim can perfectly render the world aloft and on the surface. Overall I think Asobo's blending of metar and enroute weather is reasonable. It needs improvement, sure, but it's reasonable.

I really would like to do a nice video comparing both but I have no clue how to record a video nor do I have proper equipment hehe. But lately I can say that SI has done pretty well vs BATC being just okay and sometimes less than lol. But one can't forget the prices... I guess if someone requires excellent ATC on each flight, SI is really the only way. Maybe I should preface that last statement with "realistic ATC" then pick SI. BATC is ok for a lot of airliner simmers but continues to struggle for slower aircraft and point to point flights, still struggles with vectoring etc. SI can also handle outside of the box thinking while BATC just can't. You gotta pay to play.

This looks really good. Nighttime airport and city lighting is still waaaay too bloomy. Airports are dark and hard to find irl when nestled into large cities. You have to look for a dark spot irl. Runway lights in the sim are always set to stun but irl it can be very difficult to pickup a runway at night.

I rarely fly the same plane or leave the same airport. It's a cool option though!

Totally thought the king air was in the water LOL Nice pics!

disregard wrong plane lol

Finally the H225 is flyable again. Sadly it doesn't have that lovely flight model that originally was created by HPG. It is stable though. I can't seem to get AP working though. Curious if anyone else can? There's issues with liveries though - overlapping dynamic registration even with no entry added in the GUI.

I own the first one and it's come a long way systems wise but the textures are horrifically out of date on the interior and cockpit. Not acceptable in 2026. Which is odd because the exterior is pretty decent.

Interesting. I use some other UI mods like the hide toolbar one so it probably conflicts.

Saw some updated pics from their dev update... it appears they are using the WT framework and not the synaptics version. To me though it looks beaver DAM good! lol! Yeah the SVS is "garminfied" but i think WT has done that for performance among other reasons. For a product at this price point it's not a huge issue at all imo. They're going to make a word not allowede ton of money from this product. Simmers have wanted something like this for decades! Let's hope they have incredible sounds to match - sounds are soooo important.

If you guys have a strong video card there's a texture mod for the cockpit. I think it was originally released as 4k but they had to drop it to 2k for non PC users https://flightsim.to/addon/116702/fsreborn-phenom-300e-hd-cockpit-textures

It's taking so much longer than I originally thought. Tim is making a couple as well. More textures needed for LOD issues (some textures disappear when zooming out etc). We're also trying to do a basic dynamic registration version. And the paints should work with all variants. I'm actually fighting with that stupid two oh six showing on my dynamic reg variant and I need get rid of it before I upload it... but that's my last issue lol

Flying private jets irl is going to be out of reach for like 98% of people though. Even if flying airlines is annoying... I had looked just for fun to charter a very small jet down to FL for my family (6 of us) and it was totally not affordable. My spouse and I both have nice careers as well. Maybe with a larger jet two families could split the cost but still imo, it's far far more expensive than seats on Delta.

100% Sadly the pirating of addons ruins it for everyone. I do buy things on the MP but prefer direct from developers... it also makes repainting quite difficult without access to 3d files, and LOD 0 files which are usually locked behind DRM. Additionally, flight model cfgs are locked behind DRM with Marketplace addons. As for Cowansim, I wish Josh success. But I've not flown those birds in quite a while, they're not on par with the Taog helicopters by a longshot. edit: Oh obviously the other positive of MP is visibility. And Xbox... which sales vastly outnumber PC.

Imo yes. Rauls stuff has more like overall depth with all the pax simulation stuff and fbo etc. You get a lot of bang for the buck. I love his phenom too I just prefer the c680 fm

They'll be plenty of ugly retro ones 😂 I prefer modern and stylish paints lol

What? It loads the moment you start up the SI app. I see AI traffic right away.

There are some rough spots on the C680, they're aware. I wouldn't say the entirety is absymal though. I would agree it's not up to the latest 2024 standards however. What it lacks in visuals is very much made up for with incredible sounds (the best bizjet to date) and maybe the best bizjet flight model (potentially tied with FlightFX Hawker). The C680, E55P and H25B all have superb systems. Sometimes it's hard for me to decide which to fly!

I thought SWS is doing a classic dash 8?

It's comparable.

I would recommend the twins for sure! ;) Lots of power, great cockpit visibility, such a pilot's plane... plenty of knobs and switches and stuff to go wrong hehe

I also highly recommend 7S3 from Bill Womack (I think it's Orbx maybe?) and S43 Harvey from them as well!