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.

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

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 😉

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.

With AP on, to level off you gently bring the aircraft level with elevator and trim and then push the small red button on the right on the yoke. Add some trim if beeped.

If my memory serves me well, there was a thread long ago, for the P3D version, where Scott G explained that the Comanche was naturally noisy and showing how he added soundproofing material to the fuselage interior. If you have set the optional soundproofing lining in the Maintenance page in the tablet and have the Comanche headset on, and still are annoyed by the wind noise, I would say there is something wrong with your setup (hardware or MsFS).

Is your cabin vent control all the way forward ? And have you sound proofed the aircraft ?

There are indeed two schools of simming. I bought the Carenado Skymaster and Abaleo YMF5 in FSX and found them soulless, uninteresting. And not so well finished… Minimal after sale support too. The Comanche is not complicated at all to fly even if you go full monty but the aircraft - how to say it ? - involves you in the flying. And the A2A support is excellent.

Just flew, in the Comanche, a short flight over Croatia at 6000 feet MSL. Relatively close to the ground then, summer heat over hills and forests, wind at 5 kt gusting at 9, it was quite bumpy all the way. I was stunned how realistic was the feeling. Not overdone. Not even comparing to P3D which has very unconvincing turbulence effects but even with other MSFS aircraft I own. The addition of Asobo and A2A turb' programming is something to behold. I finished the flight hand flying an ILS in this bumpy air. Concentration was in order. I had also a failing cylinder but this is another story 😃.

Let me put this way. This morning I tried to drive a plastic stake into the garden ground. I couldn't because I don't have a sledgehammer. This is how much rain we have had for weeks.