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Bent pins can cause this issue and others, thankfully its only a bent and not a broken, I do not believe either AMD or Intel would RMA that CPU if the pins are bent or broken.

with 1500 you could easily do an I7 4790K, and a Sabertooth motherboard with a gold rated 800+ watt PSU and a GTX 770. That would yield you some really really nice frames in FSX, albeit after the proper OC'ing and FSX tweaking was done of course.

I have both Orbc CRM and KJAC as well as many other airports in the area like KBZN. I personally like the detail that Orbx goes into, and KJAC looks really good. That being said, KJAC is a tricky airport to get in and out of. Its perfect for turboprops especially ones like King Air's, D-8-400's, and ATR's. 737's under full power and flaps to 15 degrees take off easily enough, 757's need about flaps 25 and full power (Quality Wings 757) to take off with a full load.

Good to hear TSS is still around... was beginning to wonder if they called it quits.  The very best sound sets I've ever heard.. and they REALLY DO record from the real planes.

TSS just released their MD-11 sounds and are finishing up work on their 747-800i sounds for those of you who use the PMDG expansion or especially the SkySpirit 747-8i pilots will really appreciate their works....

For you PMDG/Overland MD-11 pilots out there, enjoy:

I love Carenado planes, and have a good sized fleet right now... The TBM is a really fantastic plane, if not their best... when the bug report came out, they got right on it with that plane. The 15 buck version of the G1000 in that plane is not to shabby either. The only two things really missing are the WX and Nav/updateable, otherwise if functions as the real one for the most part.

 

 

But like others have said... we should continue to encourage their progress... and they really have moved it up with each release.

I personally am a huge fan of their Beechcraft 1900D, its better than the PMDG one, and that is THE ONLY time I have ever been able to say that about Carenado. Also I talked with Christopher Peterson the lead of Turbine Sound Studios and he stated on his Facebook page that they are working on an HD Pilot edition soundset for the B1900D, once I get those sounds in, it will be near perfect, albeit their FMS is extremely basic, I am most willing to let it slide as it is Carenado's first ever FMC implementation.

I didn't think the Milviz 350 is out yet.

It is not, unless you Pre_order, and even in the Alpha state that its in, its better than any other simulated turboprop including the JS4100 from PMDG.

I have a neat little ASN story....

I was flying my QualityWings 757-200 in Delta Colors, flew out of KATL in partly cloudy weather, altimeter was 3001 in HG, it was quite nice, and a rather uneventful takeoff and climb to FL300, and at FL300 you are mostly above many major convective weather systems. Well I check my ASN weather plugin (which comes FREE with ASN, it installs to what ever aircraft you want as a 2D popup) and sure enough I have some really nasty weather in front of me. The weather pattern was a small squall line with some high altitude nimbostratus and I was going through a lighter part of it, so no coruse correction was taken, well suffice to say between my Accu-Feel 2.0 and ASN settings I was getting bounced around a little bit, nothing too concerning but it was cool to get that realistic turbulence feeling from the cockpit. Fast forward to my landing at Tampa International using the BLOND FOUR STAR with transition to ILS 01L Cat II-III approach, I was at the trailing edge of a large convective CB weather system. The decent and progression through the STAR went quite smooth a few bumps here and there, but on finals, oh man, lightning every 5-10 seconds, my AP system was barely keeping on the ILS, but I had 3 mile visibility and I decided to go manual, I had to fight just to keep the 757 straight and manage the decent appropriately, luckily for me I was not in the system just at the tailing edge so very little to no microburst probability. I ended up landing with a 5 degree pitch angle at -187 ft/m and a little left of center line and 1 section past the "touchdown blocks". So far ASN is the ONLY WX system that has ever pushed my piloting skills in a tube liner and especially in smaller GA/Regional aircraft, ASN actually makes me take a real good look at the convective weather systems in my route of flight, and their ATIS at 122.00 is ALWAYS correct.

From what I have read Milviz has pulled out pretty much everything on the King Air 350i, including professional testing by King Air pilots. I do wonder if Milviz had some help from Rockwell Collins for their ProLine 21 system, and also wonder if they had some help from Beechcraft as well, would not surprise me if they did.

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And how do you backup this statement? Because I haven't seen any microburst/windshear related bug reports submitted to us or any other reports about it non being realistic. Do you actually know what a microburst is? If you don't, I'd suggest go study about them and then judge how realistic or unrealistic ASN implementation is.

 

If you know, you'll certainly know about all the properties it has (the applicable range, the windshear intensity, the centrifugal nature of the winds, the strong downdraft in close proximity to the ground, the "invisible" nature of it). In this case, please be specific about what it is in ASN implementation that you think is not realistic and we'd be happy to listen and improve upon it (if actually a valid point is made).

 

Some things are simply not a matter of a subjective opinion ("I like this more than that"). They are either correct or wrong. To achieve a realistic result in a simulator a developer has to adhere to the laws of physics and strictly defined specifications that are documented by extensive real life studies (like the ones NASA has done for microbursts)  and only use subjectivitiy (from personal real life experience and/or feedback from experts) to fine tune the result. The core specs/implementation though are a given and they do not change. 

 

BTW, the video in post #13 does not show a microburst, but wake turbulence. This is a completely different effect and obviously this is not detected by the predictive windshear function of the radar. 

 

Thanks,

I for one have been using ASN now for 4-5 months, I did the free 7 day unlocked trial (which BTW is a PERFECT way to sell the product, that is 1 thing that sold me). However after using REX Weather, FSX Default, OPUS (which is a good WX system), and even FSGlobal WX (which is accurate but just does not "feel/look" right), I have to say that ASN brings the best realism to a WX engine. I have not run into any microbursts as I try to stay away from intense storm systems on approach, however I have experienced some wake turbulence and I agree that it is a bit strong, that being said it is impressive that ASN even brings this as a feature that works in FSX. The ASN team in my honest opinion are the best in the business when it comes to WX integration. I recommend to most people to use ASN for the WX and REX4 for the textures, the combination of the 2 is almost sheer perfection.

Indeed Milviz put lots of effort into their Avionics, FDE's, and Sounds. However to my knowledge A2A is the only company to ever do something like artificial aging.

As far as I know NEITHER product goes that far to my knowledge, the only developer to ever simulate that in FSX is A2A. However the KA350i MIGHT, and I emphasize MIGHT, its just a speculation on my part and that speculation is about 10% certain.

I don´t know whether you´ve checked my profil but Ive written there the system specs: My CPU is rated at stable 4,5 GHz, 8 GB RAM and a good GTX 560 SC grafics card. I had pretty good frames, mostly on the limited 30 FPS. AI was set to arround 60% (I dont really know it correctly). 

I did forget to mention that the AI was set to 10-20 autogen AI, as in cars, trucks, and stuff. Airline AI some people have it set as high as 50-70%. I personally fly only in multiplayer so I have 95% of the AI turned off. Just be wary that even with a really good CPU and a high clock speed with plenty of fast RAM, AI will still hit your frames hard if you set it too high.

Thanks for that explanation. I was just going over that section too. It is entirely possible that I was under 1200 AGL.

I am not familiar with the AP systems on the 777, however, from the ACI video I do know what a MB when at 1500 AGL or lower has a very high chance to become fatal. This coupled with what was just said by vr-pilot makes for a very bad time indeed. ASN really does know how to make a pilot scared and sweat about 10lbs on approach with inclement weather.

Name: Beechcraft King Air 350i Promotional Video

Category: Aircraft Specific Historic Videos

Date Added: 07 August 2014 - 01:19 PM

Submitter: Spartan0536

Short Description: King air 350i Promotional Video

I found this video to be simply superb, it really shows that the King Air is truly the King of private turboprops. I did not make or record this video, this video is the sole property of the Beechcraft Corporation, this video link was uploaded to AVSIM for the enjoyment and appreciation of the quality that Beechcraft gives to its customer base.

Post Source: A tribute to the King Air 350i & the Milviz 350i project

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This is not a request for an update, I understand this is the most complex aircraft that Milviz has developed yet, and as such to ensure high quality they need time. This is pretty much a tribute to both Beechcraft and Milviz for outstanding products and dedication to their customer base, this video brought a tear to my eye, I hope you enjoy it!

Active Sky Next is pretty accurate in the simulation of microbursts, sometimes a microburst will not set off windshear warnings until its too late, and there have been situations where no windshear warning was given in a microburst. The really scary thing about mirobursts is that they are in effect undetectable, even with high gain penetrative RADAR systems. There are tell tale signs to look for but nothing that can guarantee that you are looking at a microburst, the general idea is to stay out of high density CB's when on approach.

If you are using Active Sky Next, what it sounds like you had hit there was a microburst, they tend to hide in thunderstorms and they are VERY deadly at low altitudes. There is a special version of Air Crash Investigation that you can watch on youtube, I high recommend you watch it as its very informative. There is a reason why a majority of pilots do not like to fly through CB's especially on approach or landing.

While I'd prefer a PMDG bizjet style setup I'd be happy with QW style and level of systems from Carenado.

The only way your can put Carenado and PMDG in the same sentence and expect something is visuals. Carenado's goal has never been high fidelity systems, now QualityWings style avionics IS doable by the Carenado team, their goal is to develop popular aircraft with moderate level simulated avionics, and FDE.

My issues that I have noticed.....

The COM switches were INOP and I could not switch between COM1 - COM2

The Sounds are pretty bad even for a Carenado aircraft, I am hoping that either AREZONE or TSS will release a sound pack for this plane.

The documentation on this aircraft from Carenado is really limited when compared to their other releases

Very limited functions of the G600 suite even when compared to the Piper Jetprop.

Now despite these issues I love flying this plane, it seems to handle well and for my first flight I shot a perfect ILS in solid IMC conditions so it does navigation correctly. After doing some internet research on the actual performance profiles for the Seneca V and making my on VREF manual, I flew the plane according to spec and it operated within a 2-3% margin (VREF was set for ISA) and the landing speeds we pretty spot on, this plane CAN be a joy to fly, they patch the reported errors and either they make the sounds better or someone makes an HD sound pack for this and its solid gold.

If I remember hearing correctly, Carenado recently hired on some new coders, I am not sure from where or how experienced they are, but this could be a reason why they are going for a more advanced flight systems model. Carenado & Alabeo have grown a lot over the past 2 years, in product sales and in man power, their whole "3D knobs" technology was brought in by a new team member that was hired on about 1 year ago.

I want to emphasize that I have no evidence to back this up, no official postings, none of that, its all rumor & speculation. That being said, the rumor does add up at least in a logical sense.

Gregg_Seipp said; "Honest question:  why would folks get this if they had the Duke? "

 

 

 

Current model plane with 2013 configuration. A 34 year age gap between the two. Carenado Graphics... it's new!

 

 

I was all hyped up to buy this after having been in the real one, and requested it for a couple years... but now I'm all "King Air" happy these days, having dropped 120 on F1-200 and the Milviz 350 (MilViz 350 pre-order people where given the "alpha" test plane just the other day... Game changer folks! and that's the alpha!)

 

 

And so it goes... my need for reasonable speed (at least 300 knots), has dropped me outa this one for now... But I'll get it in a month or so.

The Milviz KA350 is simply put the single best modeled turboprop to ever grace a public flight simulation program, ever! Milviz certainly has a winner on their hands and the modeling is superb, the lighting even more so, I swear some of the pictures look just like the real thing.

I for one am impressed with Carenado, over the last 2 years they have grown as a company, their earlier products even had lasck luster FDE's, since then they have improved visual quality, FDE's and now systems. If they improve their systems simulation (I am not expecting PMDG, more like QualityWings) and then they work with say Turbine Sound Studios for their sounds, then we would be talking about a whole new kind of Carenado. That being said I was going to buy the H850XPR anyway, this is just more of a reason for me to throw money at the screen!

It is confirmed that Carenado will be featuring for the first time full Navigraph capabilities on the H850XPR as well as a brand new Rockwell Collins ProLine 21 system! It will take more time, but hell I will take quality over quantity any day, case and point the PMDG 777 or the now QualityWings 737 Classic.

You seem to think that I'm agitated. Cynicism is not automatically hysterical.

 

In any event, I certainly didn't miss your point. I would seriously contest your characterization of FSX as "streamlined" in its interface. There's nothing streamlined about changing key bindings in it and how much of that is still inadequate without a paid for version of FSUIPC? I think people just keep forgetting how many utilities they can't live without in FSX before it becomes adequate. Its fair I suppose. When you have to have this many its easy to lose count.

Textual wording is often misconstrued as it carries at best little inflection, however you are correct that just FSX default is lack luster at best, I for one am running about 6-7 additional programs that enhance FSX to be more stable and realistic. That being said with any popular flight simulator you will have plenty of 3rd party enhancements that range from WX systems, to tweaking tools, to aircraft.

Oh goodie. Being lectured is fun on the internet.  :rolleyes:

 

However, your point is a bit inconsistent. On the one hand you say consumers want things that are easy, on the other you don't address the fact that X-Plane's interface isn't a problem because its not easy to use, merely that its different but ultimately more powerful than what we have in FSX.

 

This is all about inertia. Easier does not equal better. Easier is also relative. Easier in the short term versus long term. Blowing air out of a case is not the same thing. You're describing an act which is not normal to day to day use. Interacting with a GUI is. GUI interactions are implicit to using software. Its one thing to refuse to do an auxiliary action to preserve your computer's functionality over time, its quite another to be unwilling to indulge in learning something new in a software environment.

 

Yet again I must repeat the same dull refrain people keep coming up with here: why can people learn to program complex FMS' or navigate VORs or learn to comprehend SIDs and STARs and min max the hell out of cfg files but won't make a passing attempt at using a perfectly useful interface? There is no reason and to hell with this consumer market nonsense. If they released a new MSFS with a GUI to match the modern world it should annoy these people just the same as XPlane except they'd accept it because it would have the MSFS brand on it and they'd flock to it like lemmings completely unconsciously doing for MSFS what they won't do for Xplane. I think a lot of this interface resistance is merely a result of looking for reasons to not get invested anyway. Its like buying a house based on the finishings without paying heed to the foundation.

 

Its funny that people who live in a niche market who know how limited their resources are would be so pigheaded about assessing their options. It also unfortunately damages us all.

Once again I think you are missing the point, its not that EVERYONE has to have a streamlined UI so long as its functional, the consumer bias is a GENERALIZATION. I am not saying DO NOT buy XPX, I am letting the person know that the UI is not as streamlined as FSX/P3D WHICH IS THE TRUTH. Given UI is NOT everything and as I have stated before XPX IS A GOOD PROGRAM, if it was not I don't think there would be many people who would use it. I do have a preference for FSX/P3D but that does not mean I do not take XPX seriously, hell I used to fly in XPlane back in the 6-7 days and even then it was a good program, I have flown about 10 flights in XPX on my friends system, it ran great, looked good, flight physics were a bit different from FSX but not unrealistic, certainly more realistic that STOCK FSX, P3D is more on par with XPX default physics. The only thing that made me raise an eyebrow was the UI, which in the end did not stop me from using the product for a few hours. I will leave you with this, there was a Delta pilot recently who got mad at an ATC because he was told he was on the wrong taxiway, another pilot responded with "Settle Down, Captain Happy".