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Consensus is this is a value added update?

I’ve flown the plane enough to remember it felt completely different than any other plane I’ve flown. It felt like flying a sorts car while being as heavy as a dump truck. Always a fun thing to fly. If the developer can’t understand how an airplane can literally feel heavy and require more pressure to move the stick while being very tightly rigged and responsive and find a way to make that feeling come through on a desktop sim…..then that’s on them.

Because unfortunately, there is a large group of people who think that they can actually fly one of these planes in real life if they can fly it in the sim. I used to be one of them growing up. It’s a confidence thing. I get it. But it’s weird too.

Good write up! Thanks!

Because they shouldn’t be trash at this price level when said price level commands almost perfection. Leonardo Maddog got SLAMMED for being in the same price point because textures were terrible when it initially released. It’s a new era of Flightsim, if you’re going to charge the same or more than the likes of Fenix and Pmdg….which are still and now the gold standard, you better deliver. If not, it looks lazy and unpolished. We aren’t in a sim that’s so strapped for resources that it’s either systems and FM fidelity or graphics. We can have both. It’s been proven.

Great post! Genuinely keep it up! We need more people like you around here.

Your comment about the controls. This is highly promising! It’s been awhile since I was on the jet IRL….something like almost 4 years and hearing that the controls are responsive but not twitchy is how I would describe the real jet. Are you able to elaborate more about what you “feel” when hand flying the jet? I don’t have the time right now to fly it so I’m not purchasing it until thanksgiving or so.

Good to know! We never had it at my airline. Wish we had lol.

On the 75, Pressing the altitude knob does nothing in the 75 if memory serves me correctly. That said, if you are doing ATC stepped downs, just recruise the box on your cruise page in the ALT field and the airplane will cruise descent. DES NOW puts you in descent mode. If you want that, then use it. But if you want stay in cruise mode, then do the procedure I just mentioned. As far as deleting altitude constraints, the 757 doesn’t have ALT INT so it doesn’t behave like other Boeings. On the legs page there’s a DES DIR prompt. You either pun an altitude in it or it has boxes and you just choose the fix that you want to go back to loaded altitude constrains. When you choose a fix or an altitude in the DES DIR prompt, it deletes all the altitudes to the fix you selected or the altitude you entered. Like i said, I can’t remember if you put an altitude or a fix in the DES DIR prompt.

I apologize but I’m genuinely confused. Are you saying I’m wrong or the individual you quoted? I only ask because your subsequent thoughts are a darn good write up of the differences between the 75 and 76 and it’s very accurate. I think we agree.

Unfortunately I won’t have a lot of time to use MSFS so armchair pilot reports are all I have at the moment. When flying the actual jet, it’s heavy on the yoke. But yeah it doesn’t take a ton of yoke displacement to get things going. It’s really hard to explain but ultimately, it is what it is. I miss the jet to be honest. Hoping the BB one is able to bring back some memories.

That is unequivocally NOT how a 757 feels or flies. It’s not “sensitive.” It’s a dump truck. It’s heavy on the controls. HOWEVER….:It’s rigged unbelievably tightly and well. You gotta get the nose where you want it but there’s absolutely no give in that process. In other words, it points to where you point it and it’s springy but it’s not light and sensitive. They said they had a 737 guy tune the FM. Super sensitive pitch is what I would expect for them to implant coming from someone what hasn’t flown the plane. If this pilot has, it must have been a long long time ago.

You’re making a lot of assumptions and generalizations. I don’t understand why. Anyways, I plan on buying it. I never said I wasn’t going to based off the cabin or anything else. Personally, I think it would be foolish for someone to pass up on this if they have been looking for a solid 757 just because the cabin was word not allowed. That’s just me though.

Pretending to be an airline pilot on a PC/console game then dumping on someone who pretends to be a passenger on the same platform. That’s a really odd flex, but whatever floats your boat. Now that we have gotten that out of the way and you have given your opinion on matters of first world proportions… Did it ever occur to you that people use this game for different reasons? Your cognitive rigidity is astounding. Might want to work on that. I am a 737 captain. Been doing it for some time now. I started my joy for aviation as a kid….in the back of airliners. Go figure. That said, I still use this game that I grew up on to capture my love of airliners, aviation and flight in general because when I’m at work, there’s so much word not allowed red tape that I can’t enjoy flying like I can when using MSFS. There’s very little room too. It’s usually in retrospect because it’s heck of a lot more important to be focusing on safety and other things. It’s also a lot of pressure knowing that this is what I use to put food in my family’s belly. ALLLL TTTTHHHIIISSS TTTOOO SAY…I truly enjoy sitting in the back of these pretend cabins with the intent to capture my pure joy of flying. To take me back to when I was a kid. To enjoy these airliners in a way that I could never as a line pilot. Dude, come on. I seen a lot of your posts and your better than what you showed today. Much better.

I agree with you. A bunch of streamers doing point A to point B flights doesn’t show much. It shows the airplane can do just that. In order to see if bluebird delivered what they have been touting for multiple years, we need videos to showcase systems behavior and FM behavior that goes deeper than just flying it. We also need to see these behaviors be isolated under certain circumstances. These type of videos don’t exist at all or are extremely hard to come by. I am limiting these types of things to YouTube videos because that the main source of reviews these days. Gone are the days of full page reviews on the avsim servers in my opinion.