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Gordon Hutchison

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  1. Holy word not allowed - poor Matt!

    I started watching his streams as "Belynz" back in the FSX days, always entertaining.

    I'll fondly watch that famous Q400 shared cockpit stream when he flipped the props to cut off just after takeoff 🤣

     

    Blue skies pal!

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  2. PMS50 can be updated as it uses either the MSFS default Navblue data, or Navigraph if you have a subscription for it.

    TDS GTNXi uses the acutal Garmin GTN trainer to simulate the 750 GPS and cannot be updated by developer or customer (only when Garmin decide to update the trainer) - such as the Flight1 GTN unit you previously used.

    I'm assuming it's the Flysimware’s Cessna 414AW you are buying - it also works very well with the default MSFS GNS530 which has been recently improved by Working title.


  3. 25 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

    Now this is strange.
    Do you own some the excellent Carenado aircraft in MSFS, such as the Mooney, Seneca, C377, or C195?  Have you tried them?  Or are you just another one jumping on the 'bash Carenado' bandwagon for no reason other than to try to look like a serious simmer?  :laugh:
    So now they are trying to improve their other products, as people have requested, and this is what you say about them.  How about if they don't try.  what do you say then?

    Some of their aircraft have issues to be fixed, I agree, but I know developers who seem to get a lot of accolades and are far worse. 
    I took my Airplane Heaven Chipmunk out for a fly last night after an update, and ditched it withing minutes. Awful to fly, poor modelling and texturing, and a sound loop that I thought people had stopped producing since about 2005.  Dreadful.  Now that was a waste of money.

    I have never felt like this about a Carenado aircraft, which are not marketed as 'study level' aircraft by the way, maybe to allow the sim snobs to steer clear in the first place, but they are generally pretty good for the price, and have a big market.

    Or course, some simmers who consider themselves to be in the 'upper echelon' don't like the mass market, or the simmers who aren't always into deep systems or 'study level' aircraft.  Almost like uneducated minions who are infecting their sim.

    Well tough.  Those simmers are in the mainstream, here to stay, help drive revenue for the sim.  They also tend to buy Carenado products, enjoy them, and don't complain too much if you don't need to lean the mixture exactly to the book as you gain altitude.
    Horses for courses.  I am appreciative that Carenado are at least trying to update and upgrade ALL of their back catalogue at least, and I can't see why anyone would want to criticise it unless out of some kind of unfounded malice.

    I've been an avid "simmer" since around 2010 from the FSX era, through the P3D v2-v4 then onto MSFS. Also dabbled in XP11.

    I've seen Carenado consistently release subpar (at their price point) addon aircraft for every sim platform they've developed for, the sheer rate that they pump out addons speak volumes. Their 3D modelling and texture work is top notch, I'll give them that. Buying a Carenado addon always been a lottery, some are not too bad whereas others release with frankly mind boggling bugs that make one question if they test addons at all before pushing them out the door. Compound this with their legendary lack of customer communication, buyers have always been left wondering if Carenado will ever release fixes for their products. I remember when it was largely left to Bert Pieke to release mods in his spare time to fix show stopping bugs in Carenado planes for FSX and P3D.

    During the FSX/P3D era flight simming was far more niche than it is now, primarily thanks to the popularity of MSFS. With new developers showing what is possible at the $20-$30 price point (SWS Kodiak, FlightFX Hjet and Vision Jet etc) it leaves Carenado looking like a third-class developer, they have nowhere to hide now.

    I'm not a flight sim snob in the slightest, your post seemed to insinuate that was my agenda - I'm simply tired to seeing simmers parted from their cash for sub-par products (however visually striking) and left wondering by Carenados radio silence if fixes and updates will ever come.

    Perhaps in this new MSFS era they'll up their game as the competition for flight simmers hard earned cash witn be much stiffer than in FSX times....but I'm not holding my breath.

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  4. 7 minutes ago, dmwalker said:

    You can see a precedent just down the list of topics.

    OP originally posted the topic in the MSFS forum, didn't belong there.

    Hanger Chat is the place for these topics.

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