Dominique_K

They generally are powerful machines, meaning a thrust to weight/aerodynamics ratio which makes them interesting to handle at takeoff and approach/landing. I use them for short cruise flights.

Looks good to me. Everything thar moves on the ground below gives a sense of depth to the simulation when flying in the 6/7k feet. Trains were long overdue. Hoping for some steam locos too 🚂😄 !

I miss having an easy access to charts but never went with Navigraph that I find too expensive for my particular use of the sim. The new product is certainly more attractive in this regard.

https://www.spitfires.com/post/ale-delivery-spitfires Hey Flyingiron, you might do this in the next Spit' iteration, adding a couple of casks below the wings !

24 h is all that I need to fly everywhere in the world with the proper live weather at the time I fly.

I am for duplication when it brings something better. For instance the P51. I am no fan of AH and I long for A2A bringing me back Glamorous Gal. I am glad there are two Porter, the MV being better than the MSFS default.

Good to once again see that MSFS jumpstarted a developer vocation. I hope he could make some partnership with knowledgeable guys on the engine and FDE sides. The artistry looks certainly top notch. I went to refresh my memory about the bird and learned that it was also a bush plane ! Good to know… https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2002/april/pilot/ford-tri-motor-5-at

Hmmm... Should I ? OK... There are indeed two schools of simmers : those are never satiated by what is on the market and always willing yet another model and those happy with a few good more refined models. I don't know what you call a simsnob - I don't even want to know as I may be part of this crowd 😋 (snob moi ?) - but I know that If this hobby has high quality simulations today it is because a lot of us have for 40 years been pushing hard and loudly developers to do their best. Not river counters but simmers willing to find in a simcraft some of the idiosyncrasies of the real thing. Perfection is not of this world but a good approximation which goes beyond being screenshot fodder. There are the softcore and hardcore simmers. I'd call myself a midcore 😄.When I buy an aircraft known to be a groundlooper b*tch, I want her to ... groundloop.I want some quality and time to enjoy my purchases. A simcraft is not like a tissue paper you discard after a couple of sneezes. And politely saying it on a forum, is not moaning. I would call it market feedback 😉

there was a rumor some 5 years ago, on the DCS forum, of some joint work with Orbx. Never went thru I suppose.

MS had three iterations of a Combat Flight Simulator 20-odd years ago. I dont remember whether it was the same engine than their civil sim though. I went with the competition then. Microprose and Jane’s 😉.

I love flying warbirds, old and new, but operational weapons have no place in MSFS. It is not a question of morality (your word) at all, I am not a pacifist, far from it, I am a pragmatic. Adding a military dimension to MSFS would necessitate a huge investment in programming : ballistics, air and ground damage modelling, adversarial AI, combat avionics, campaign scenarios etc, Quite a heavy job . I’d prefer Asobo not to lose focus on seasons, a more sophisticated ATC , air dynamics etc 😉. So much still to do . PS and water masks 😂

I said it before, I say it again. They should close shop and have the team play the sim 8 hours a day for a whole week. Most of the bugs and UI unfriendliness would be gone… WT was not acquired by MS if I am not mistaken. They are a subcontractor to Microsoft like Asobo is.

None 😁. I would prohibit them to buy anybody. I believe in the competition of the little guys.

An original project to be sure !

tantalizing

😄 I wonder how many airline pilots who do now their 9-to-5 with United, Frontier etc. after retiring from the Armed Forces started to learn how to fly with a T6A.

The Texan is equipped with a KLN 900 COVR (bendixking.com) but the U.S. Air Force Mulls Avionics Replacement Program for T-6A Trainer - Defense Daily I quote The T-6A has been “GPS non-compliant since 2009,” according to a slide from an Air Force T-6A industry briefing in March on the possible avionics replacement program. The aircraft’s KLN-900 Navigation System is not compliant with area navigation (RNAV) 1 operations which limit flight path deviations, and the plane may not execute RNAV standard instrument departures, obstacle departure procedures, and standard terminal arrival routes. The aircraft also may only execute RNAV instrument approach procedures during the day under favorable weather conditions. I am curious to see how Milviz (I will not have this Blackbird nonsense 😁) has simulated the P&W PT6A.

Its a trainer for ‘light attack and armed reconnaissance’ missions.

Let us now make way for the chorus of lament : What ! Yet another military aircraft ! This is a civil sim ! 😉 Interesting choice, a Texan II. Never heard of an ADV version though. I thought that A2A would do one as they worked on one for the US military. Milviz was swifter.

In any case Milviz has improved quite a bit over the last years (personal feeling). I am sure that their 732 would be much better but as we say in French chat échaudé craint l'eau froide 😄 (the scalded cat fears the cold water). The 732 would be nice, a BAC 1-11 or a Viscount too. Fond memories from Dave Maltby's. Yes Virginia, there was a life before MSFS 😁

I had the 732 in FSX/P3D. Not my best buy ever : poor interior texturing , a cockpit which had two options, either a pigsty or sterile, wobbling along VOR radials and weird behaviours in flight specially in high altitude crosswinds (pilot's incompetence or poor FDE ?) . So if it is 732 I hope for a product remade from the ground up. But who is going to buy a 732 anyway ? A couple of nerds ? I doubt that the SR 71 is ready so I would bet the money for an Otter or... or ... or... lets have a dream... YES a Talon.

Milviz reaching out to the 15-yo girl market is not news enough for you, Sir 😁? Now speaking of black, the boomer in me offers this

Blackbird, Blacksquare, Blackbox. I dunno, PMDG could rebaptise itself Blackiron and A2A , Blackaccu ? PS Asobo would be, of course, Blackfrog.

True ! Never post from memory, seated on a long chair by the pool 😄 ! I was half right though it is the rightmost button but it is the black one.