Gregg_Seipp

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

That's what I did. Thanks. That gives a FOV of 0.8. I have to say, though, there's a lot to like about the wide FOV. Having looked at it, it gives me pause to think.

I just ran across this thread. I'm flying the Fenix. 55" TV and 32" from the screen I get vFOV at 94 degrees. 94/57.3 = 1.64. Brought up debug mode and my default FOV was about 1.08 (ish) at 50%. I kept scaling my camera zoom all the way down to 10% and got FOV up to about 1.4. That's astonishing that 10% zoom couldn't get up to 1.64! I set up a flight and, weirdly, it looked pretty good. Some things were weird. I seemed far away from the PFD but couldn't really move forward because the dash would block part of the PFD and any adjustment to fix that would have messed up the view outside and enhance a "fishbowl" effect. Leaving my original view was the only real option. Tried a few landings. Have to say, it seemed about right...which again, to me, was very strange. Maybe I did something wrong? Are these setting similar to anyone else? Also, anyone ever hear of "Panini" projection? I wonder if that would help? Gregg

I like the idea of pilot controlled lighting, particularly at uncontrolled airports. What I'd be even more interested is that Asobo would implement runway and approach light brightness as is outlined in the ATC manual. It's not complicated. (And I'm a big fan of the lighting improvements Asobo has already made! Sorely needed!) Gregg

I wonder what the cockpit configuration will be like.

I enjoyed that plane.

I ask myself, what if you paid real people to do this instead. Gregg

Yes, KBNA. Ugh. I was tired when I posted.

I just spent a week at an apartment on 3 mile final to runway 20R at KNBA. Airliners (B73X, A32X and regional jets) flying over the apartment at about 1,000 feet every 3 to 4 minutes from early morning into the night. I sat on the back deck listening to them approach and then flying overhead and was utterly amazed at the enormous power of the airplanes. It doesn't come across in the sim and not even if you sit at the observation point at the airport. From underneath you hear and feel the immense power and the weight of them all around. It was so cool and gave me a perspective on airliners that I never had before. I highly recommend that you try it if you get the chance! Gregg

Now, if they can please add obstruction lights. That'd be huge!

Yes, I was using the one from the home screen. I'll look up the new one. Thanks for letting me know. I used the ones for Atmos, Enviro...is there another for weather? Yeah, in terms of the GUI, it's pretty bad and I have been scratching my head what they were thinking. You can load a setting but you can't really tell that it's loaded and in use by looking at the screen other than the sliders appear. You can load a setting and then change the sliders but can't save it as a new setting for yourself. Looks like there's a different path, another way in which you *can* load and edit and save (to the cloud?). Why two ways? But, then will it be loaded again when it restarts? I can't tell. Can you "unload" one? Can you disable what you a setting...disable Wx, atmos, enviro? It would be nice if the home screen showed you your state...what settings you had loaded, let you edit it and save it locally and give you the *option* to upload it to the cloud. (There's no point in posting every, sometimes, crappy setting to the cloud for everyone to fish through.) The foundation of the product is solid and effective...huge potential...they just need to think it through. Also, I've found it's best to leave it off until your airplane is loaded. At least on my rig, it really messes with the Free Flight screen. Would be nice if they would just make it load when the flight loads and activate your preferred settings and show you what settings you had loaded and shut itself down when the flight ends. Again, basic. Gregg Gregg

My thoughts after getting it. I'm using a preset (AB MSFS) with some haze effects (I've always felt that visibility in MSFS is much to high, particularly in the summer). To me, it adds a depth to the atmosphere that the default doesn't provide. You get the sense that you're flying in an atmosphere. You also get a sense for how high you are or how far away something is. This gives you a better sense for how large something is since you have a sense of how far away it is. It also hides some of the distant weirdness that can happen...where LOD ends...where cloud patterns sometimes repeat. Psychologically, it has a surprisingly big effect. It's not perfect but a pretty happy medium. I hope that they enhance the product to make automatic adjustments based on visibility, precipitation, atmospheric particles, etc. Gregg

Nope. Happens to me too.