Gregg_Seipp

I get that and agree. There is certainly value for GA (particularly IFR) and, I think, a lot of it. I had done most of my flying in the US, only occassionally flying overseas but I find that, with SI, flying there is pretty fun and I've been on a tour, travelling through France, England, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Greece and all over. If I were flying VFR, I'd probably stick to the US, mostly until they make more improvements there. Yes, the more "features" you add, the more quirks you're going to run into, but it is getting better. (I'd like to see active Restricted Areas and MOAs too.) Good to hear about their Class Bravo handling. The one cool side effect for me is that I fly into stock MSFS airports and don't mind so much doing it since you don't feel so "alone" there and you get some reasonable ATC there. So, it saves me that money and it opens up a whole lot of airports that will never ever be improved because there's no money in it. Yeah, I'll get back to single-pilot flying again at some point.

I've been off-and-on using SI for a year. About 2 weeks ago I decided to try it again and was, also, impressed with the improvements. Vectors have come a long way. Not perfect. I fly almost exclusively IFR, almost exclusively biz jets (lately). Traffic is, in general, very well done (apart from that one airplane that sits on the taxiway in front of you for 20 minutes for no apparent reason, blocking your way...thank god for the Zap airplanes in front of you button!) I flew into Istanbul the other night and could see 32 airplanes active (about 4 or 5 on the ground, the rest in the air). In terms of vectors, it's far better but has some rough edges. Sometimes it takes you miles and miles away from the airport to vector you back in (even if there's no traffic). Sometimes it points you right at the intermediate fix in the opposite direction and clears you for the approach like that, so you're left to self-vector your way out of it. Using the copilot for Comms is pretty cool but has rough edges. He/she likes to call for taxi. It's almost a hobby, I think. Halfway to the runway and ask for a departure brief? They call for taxi. Ask for them to switch to tower...they might or might not switch to tower and they might, instead, call for taxi...or do nothing. Climbing out through 15,000...say anything to them...they might just ,you guessed it, call for taxi! You kinda get on edge about it. This is with their premium voice thing and, despite the fact that it "has memory" it doesn't seem to have a lot of awareness yet. Checklists have mixed reviews with me. You don't want to answer with voice...takes way too long...assign a button and respond with that. I'm, also, trying to get it to do "copilot stuff" like raise the gear on command, handle flaps, set FLC or YD...no luck yet, though, supposedly, it can. Still, I do like the fact that it handles the radios, particularly on climbout and approach. Overall, despite the weird glitches and long vectors, I really like it. Fairly realistic traffic that ATC interacts with, reasonable departure procedures, reasonable (usually) arrival procedures. And, for me, it helps to have the copilot (even with its quirks). Works pretty well in VR too which is most of my flying these days. Just my two cents on it.

Interesting. A couple of months ago I said enough. I'm not buying any more airports. It's too much. You have all these platforms offering a section of airports, you have to remember where you installed them from, install them and deal with issues. And when a new sim comes out it can take a year or two before they're compatible again. I just took a deep breath and said no more. I just decided to go explore, even if the airport is awful (in fact, the worst scenery in the sim is the airports) I'll just fly into them anyway and enjoy the scenery all around. Yeah, they can be pretty awful but between the price, the trouble and the maintenance, it's too much. Maybe the paradigm will change. Maybe default airports will improve. I hope so.

Haven't flown on it in years. Has their coverage grown? Might sign up again.

I have to agree. So far I'm finding much to like and little to complain about. There seems to be a higher level of depth than the Longitude which is saying something. It also works really well with VR (some don't yet) and the cockpit view in VR is something to experience. I have my own list of things I'd like improved...I think we, probably, all do. But, it feels right flying it, it's single-pilot certified, and it's fun. Not to take anything away from the Sovereign for those that want a two-pilot aircraft.

I did my first full flight with the Phenom last night. I used to fly the Aerobask one in X-Plane quite a bit and had been waiting a long time for it to show up in MSFS. Overall, my impressions are good. The flight model on this one feels about right...what I would expect. It's relatively nimble and has a 'single-pilot' feel to it. It doesn't have Along Track Offset (a limitation of the implementation of the G3000 done by Asobo) and it doesn't look like CSC is implemented (autothrottle-lite in cruise). But, there are a lot of little things that it does do. I was a bit surprised by the climb angle in FLC...15 degrees nose up. My landing was with a light headwind right on speed and it used less runway than the Longitude (Thrustmaster PENDULAR Rudder Pedals) normal braking....maybe 3500 feet? I did get a pretty big 'wobble' just before touchdown. I had cut power around the threshold which may be too soon. Researching this, seems most pilots pull power at 50' or less, though, the lower you pull power, the more float you get. If you want some great videos on how professional pilots fly it and the procedures they follow, what they think about, check out this channel... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VqahmO1Oz4 Some excellent stuff in there. Highly recommended. In terms of other things, I think the click spots could use some work. I have to 'search around' the switches and knobs for a place that works. The landing lights could be brighter. In VR, the EFB location causes some neck strain...be nice to see it moved forward to the front of the window.

I'd love both the M600 and the E300. I hope that, someday, we'll have Along Track Offset in the avionics. Maybe in the next avionics update? Gregg

Wow, surprised nobody's interested in it.

I was looking to see what Avsim thought of this new product line coming out. Looks promising to me. The cost is supposed to be around $350 USD for the base units with $99 add-ons. I'm wondering if the throttle axis will be full range (as opposed to the bottom of the range being a button like we've seen in the past). A full range means you could have idle reverse, reverse prop, etc. Thoughts? https://meridiangmt.com/ Gregg

I'd think Working Title would have to fix that.

You may be right. I thought the Longitude had the G5000. The Longitude looks like the same package and doesn't have ATK offset and I'd think it would be the same. To me, it's the one big missing piece. Love to see it.

Really looking forward to this one. Also, hoping Working Title implements Along-Track Offset in the G5000. Gregg

Just an update. They took care of my issue and got me a new download. Gregg

Oh, I didn't check spam. GMail spam and trash both delete everything older than 30 days so do I need to wait a certain amount of time before requesting a new one? Gregg

I bought it for FS2020 and got a new PC. I keep asking them for a new download but they haven't answered. Kinda makes me think twice about buying KRDU, which I want. But, if this is the support? Perhaps they should think about selling through folks like Orbx or Contrail. Gregg