UrgentSiesta

What Id give to see an Eagle QA’s flight demo! All the ones I’ve ever seen are the Charlie’s, which lack Fly-by-Wire

I’ll see your Golf and raise you Boating. 🤣

The two shortest parts of the flight are what keep me coming back to XP: Ground handling and takeoff/landing. But since those parts naturally bookend every single flight, they have an outsized impact on my sense of satisfaction with any given flight And even tho I have some of the best aircraft addons for each sim, I’ve yet to find an addon where I prefer to fly it in MSFS than in XP.

It’s quite simple, really: IniBuilds intends to be the PMDG of Airbus. As such, they’re not going to cede the penultimate Airbus to anyone.

Excellent! 👍 Yeah, I’m sure you would’ve had to abort IRL, but this is one of the distinct advantages of simulation! 😎

It’s helpful to remember that P3D is, first and foremost, a com/mil/gov training & simulation tool. And it’s heavily weighted towards not only multi player, but also multi domain training (eg, ground and sea as well as air). And while it’s clear that there is a trend in professional sims towards higher visual fidelity, it’s just as clearly not the primary focus. Further, given LM’s own statements about separate simulation paths within in their own portfolio, it well may be that P3D is more or less in maintenance mode, even for professional users. I.e., it’s good enough to fulfill current or relevant training pipelines. So there’s literally no incentive for them to beautify the sim for consumers (especially since MSFS has already won over the vast majority of former P3D users). And given those alternative LM sims and the lack of advancement on P3D, it may just be that there simply isn’t enough headroom in P3Ds codebase to create an MSFS competitor in any case. Which means the next version of P3D for consumers, IF there will be one, likely would be P3D in name only. No compatibility - AND no developers. So, no - it’s best just to enjoy what we already have. There’s still quite a bit of enjoyment to be had, especially with those P3D addons that remain BETTER than anything available in MSFS. 🤙

JYW: Also JYW: 🤣 I’m definitely laughing WITH you, my friend! 🤙

I can appreciate this. But if your products are selling well, what it really means is that you need to grow the team. You’re going to run into the same problems as you raise the fidelity level of your addons, even if only in aggregate. Either way, whether a couple more jets or half a dozen twins, it’s going to lead to a large amount of tech debt either way. In any case, I’m a happy camper with your Lear and Lancair. And I’ll be happy to grab up your turboprop when that happens to come along. Many thanks for the great work!

This is the money shot for me 😁 =

Decided to do something a bit different today: The Aerial Simulations F-117 stealth "fighter", now native for MSFS 2024. Beautiful model, relatively basic systems, but still a cool addon with some neat features. I have more pics from the flight, but time is short, so here's a little teaser: The Office (note the gold coated windows that help block radar from entering and then reflecting back out of the cockpit):

Mmmmmm…bacon roll. 🤤

Yeah, it’s a shame how IRL doesn’t match the sim well enough !! 🤣🤙

They’ve built a really good rep. And I guess they can only map so many VORs…🤙

Kinda similar for me. Garmins give a fairly consistent UX and are pervasive in MSFS. Steam gauges are similar. Trying to take on multiple avionics suites is about as much fun as randomly switching smart phone OS’. To borrow a phrase, “I’d Rather Be Flying”

Oh, my - that could solve a Lot of nit picky issues for me. Must investigate.