CaptainNick

IS it me, or does the fuel flow seem a tad high..otherwise this is great. WT has been a godsend to flight simulation.

Good lord this is a thing of beauty. Bye bye BS TBM, hello Meridian! Will be my new old love in FSE. Amazing job! 

27 minutes ago, Aristoteles said:

On a side note, anyone knows if FsEconomy database has this particular airplane or is it the first time it has been developed for flight simming?

It is there as Piper PA-46 Meridian, its OG Name prior to the M series rebrand. I have owned one in FSE for a many years. Used to fly the Carenado one in p3d with it.

port the 210, 1900 and the emb 120

I get in the 50s-60s on my 4k TV. I use Track IR when in 2d, so my first concern was a higher framerate to keep up with Track IR's polling (it is trash below 40's) and then maximizing eye candy but not at the cost of keeping framerates in the 50's. As such, while I have alot of things on ultra, I do keep my LOD's at 100 and have some of the annoying post processing stuff turned off. I set it once and then forget about it. No need to babysit FPS beyond the initial setup. Same thing for VR with my G2. I put the settings to get me the best framerate first, then found a happy medium that allowed great framerate (using the toolkit etc) with decent visuals. Set it once, then I turned all the overlays etc off.

22 hours ago, desbean said:

It’s beautiful to look at, I’ve watched lots of videos of it, and I like vintage airliners, but all of that complexity with no copilot, in a plane that was flown by three in reality, is more than I want to learn to do or to actually do. Bring in a copilot like the PMDG DC6 and I’ll buy it. I’ll even pay double!🙂

FS2Crew is available for it

Current favorites getting a lot of use in VR are the A2A Comanche and the Black Square Analog King Air.

Bring on the Vtail and finish the Aerostar.

Been flying her in VR a lot. The king is back. And boy have they set a benchmark.

22 hours ago, environmental_ice said:

anyone with this attitude has clearly never been on an A220 #1  and #2 doesnt care if the freeware one ever comes out at all. The latest development while exciting is clearly over a year away which is disappointing. According to Synaptic alot of work is still left to be done with texturing. Look at what is being done with the A21N in Horizon Simulations. Look at what is being done with FBW. The old jokes about Virtualcol are tired. At the end of the day just getting a decent looking model out for MSFS opens up the doors for talent to come in and take it to the next level. Even in 2023 with plenty of mods to improve aircraft we still have comments like this who dont see the entire picture. What a shame

The entire picture? VirtualCol makes trash add ons worthy of inclusion on an Abacus boxed set for fs9. You seem desperate to want a 220 no matter the quality. I think most of us here would rather not see a VirtualCol one get released, than they continue and thousands of people get duped on the marketplace by it thinking it is something it’s not. But hey, if you want trash so bad I’m sure you could reach out to them and send them some cash to finish the project…

Oh….no….whatever will we do….#sarcasm

And if they include the terrible sounds from the g1000 182 we can just swap the FTSim soundpack in instead

P3D: Maybe? If they do like PMDG did with the  NGXU then possibly.

Maybe they have gotten smart and did simultaneous dev work in MSFS.

My young daughter ripped out the light switches on my Alpha somehow. Emailed them several times to enquire about paying for and ordering some replacement switches but never got a response. Honestly I like the equipment having both a launch Alpha and a launch Bravo but if my Alloy RD1 pedals ever take a dump (not very likely since they are straight metal) the Charlie pedals would not be on the list due to their lack of any support.

4 hours ago, Malaromane said:

That would certainly make me happy! My GA favourite aircraft.

I have no actual guess as to what the July surprise may be but I share @ErichB's sentiment that regardless of what it is, I'm grateful for the level of support we've received from MS/Asobo thus far.

Well I think GotFriends stopped working on theirs for msfs due to Asobo having the Diamond license. It would be an easy one for them to whip up.

Pilot Controlled Lighting, and an EMB120 😛

A DA50....

1 hour ago, jarmstro said:

What's the difference between the Comanche and an Arrow?

Bigger/higher performance wing. It’s closer to an early Bonanza vs something like a 172. 

7 hours ago, sniper31 said:

Agreed. I have had as many of their birds as well. Everything from the venerable B-17G to the fun little Cub to the Spitfire and everything in between. I spent the absolute majority of my time in FSX and P3D in A2A Accusim aircraft. It will be a happy day for this simmer when I see the release notification. 

Their Cub was criminally underrated. Yeah I know it’s small and slow but was an absolute gem, especially in VR.

17 hours ago, lwt1971 said:

737 NG Driver's latest thoughts on the AAU2 787 (video below), some excerpts/quotes:
- addressing some comments on my videos: people only seem to recognize two levels of simulation: captain scam level, and study level ... 99% of flight simmers are looking to aircraft falling inbetween (when did people last run a triple hydraulic failure?) ... not everything is black and white. Even for the two study level aircraft (i.e. PMDG 737 and Fenix A320) they both lack some features that the other have
- most important for a SOP A->B flight in an aircraf add-on: good flight dynamics, good systems, very good visuals, EFB, etc (we are still talking about a computer game here and it's about the overall impression the aircraft leaves)

 

 

This right here is the name of the game. I think it is crazy that people are upset because the people who brought us the BEST stock G1000 units in any sim/game to date because the beta lacks some random obscure thing like hydraulic pump 4 off while holding the ident button and clicking their heels three times and saying their is no place like home doesn't cause *insert random thing it should do based upon their extensive knowledge of watching youtube videos*.

These planes are shaping up to be the BEST stock airliners ever included in a game and will allow us to do everything short of failures etc to make 99.999999999% of actual users flights be able to follow the checklists/flows and fly them correctly. 

But hey...its trash because I can't hit the intercom button and call the flight attendant in for another coffee refill.

As cool as this could be....their recent 314 leaves a bit to be desired. This may be decent for those who don't have the Longitude already. I have spent a lot of time in the longitude and frankly a half baked X just doesn't excite me as much as something else could (like say a hawker or a big Embraer Praetor etc)

I believe the giant negative vs in vnav at tod is fixed internally as seen in the video, according to John, one of the package testers for WT on their discord.

Looks like your at the service ceiling and very slow as well??. I imagine it wants you to put some power back into it and speed up so your not sitting on the top of the yellow area of the speed tape.

There is a very good argument that it is the best overall ga twin in the game right now. Well worth the purchase.

Something to be aware of: track ir in-game tracking is massively smoother at higher in-game framerates. Tracking is incredibly smoother at a 60fps in game than 30. It’s useable at the lower framerates but not nearly as fluid/lifelike as 45+