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We all know that actually says more about how much pressure Boeing was able to put on the FAA to wangle a similar type rating so as appeal to its customer base's suits who wanted to save money on type rating training costs, than it does how similar the original 737 is to the most recent one. 😉

If they model the JT8D engines with a degree of realism, then it would be a welcome addition for sure with plenty of point to the fun that would open up. Not a great deal of that fancy FADEC malarkey with that old engine, so it would be fun to play about with the EPR for take-off calculations, not to mention that a well-modeled JT8D would mean they had a good basis for doing other stuff with that engine (and variants of it), which includes the A6 Intruder, A4 Skyhawk, B707, B727, DC-9 and MD-80, Caravelle, Mercure etc. Really one of the main points of a flight simulator including old aeroplanes is that it can offer us the chance to have a go at flying things which we could never do for real. It's a big part of their appeal for many people.

Yup, hoping the 441 makes it into MSFS soon. It's a genuinely stunning aeroplane in real life; if I ever won the lottery it'd be what I would buy.

Are you running the sim as an Administrator?

It's not the only outrage either. The rocks arranged on the left to stop cars driving on that grass, look like they might be granite, however, they look slightly too smooth to have been quarried in that area and transported locally for such use and besides, everyone knows the rocks in the Alps are a mixture of limestone, slate, granite and gneiss, so they should not all be that colour. I'm sure that quite understandably, this'll be a deal-breaker for many.

Be good if it does. Everyone who flies for real knows you take those fancy overpriced bits of plastic (oops, I mean wheel fairings) off your aeroplane if it flies off small poorly-mown grass strips where there is frequent rainfall. What would be even better, is if you could simulate the strip having been mowed recently, so that your aeroplane ends up with a load of damp grass stuck all over the underside of the thing. 🤣

Anyone know if the grass in any way simulates variations on wheel drag based on length/wet/dry?

If you want an A4 Skyhawk which does support the VRS tacpack stuff, this one does: https://secure.simmarket.com/indiafoxtecho-a-4efghk-skyhawk-package-p3dv4.4.phtml

It is possible to make them do that, but typically what you will need is an add-on aircraft which has TacPack capability: https://www.vrsimulations.com/tacpack.php P3D does have a lot of that stuff under the hood, but what you have to bear in mind is that the reason Lockheed Martin develop it, is so that they can create custom solutions which are based on the program's capabilities, which are then supplied to military clients for use in tactical training, based on those clients paying a lot of money for a training solution tailored to their needs. The commercially available standard version we have is simply a by product of what they really wanted it for. If you have FSX, there is a much cheaper solution, which is this: https://www.captainsim.com/products/w001/index.html

Just a quick heads up for anyone who is looking for a decent Firefighting aeroplane, the just-released Flight Replicas Douglas DC-4/C-54 Skymaster/ATL98 Carvair, has a firefighting variant of Aero Union's C-54G, N2742G. The VC in this variant has a firefighting panel which includes a system master switch plus numerous system status lights and the VC for this variant also gains a payload drop button on the yoke. There are two versions available, one for FSX/SE and one for P3D V4.1.

I run my own training company where I teach people how to create special effects, edit video, audio, images, code websites and so on, usually on things such as After Effects, Final Cut, Premiere, Photoshop etc. I also produce a bit of that stuff too and have links to other training companies which I do work for: Here's a pic of me doing that at the BBC in Manchester a couple months back, where I was running training sessions for London-based training company, Soho Editors: http://creativetrainingandproduction.co.uk/news.html

Nope, just for the challenge of doing it in the lesser program, I'm using FSDS instead. I spend a much of the time teaching people 3DSMax, so the last thing I want to do is play around with it when I get home as well LOL, so I figured I'd see if FSDS was up to making a decent model of it. Al

I'm going to probably have to make something along those lines, yeah. At the very least some kind of mast for it. Al

Apparently that one was just over a month. Al

LOL Al