UrgentSiesta

Only reason I haven’t bought that Mi-2 yet is because I have the Mi-8 & Mi-24 in DCS and I barely have time to take them up any more… But I’m sure I’m gonna break down at some point and get it, if for no other reason than to support the dev. It’ll go on sale sooner or later and that’ll be the thing that finally hooks me.

TL, DR: If I had to give up ALL my fast jets in MSFS, X-Plane and P3D and I could only keep ONE, it would be the AzurPoly Rafale. It is exquisitely modeled inside and out, and everything seems to work. It’ll even import flight plans and all that jazz. To me, it is easily as good as Taog’s Dauphin. But being a 4.5 Gen jet, it has all the advanced systems and glass cockpit stuff that our old school Dauphin lacks. One of my favorite features is that they’ve fully recreated the Dassault On Speed/AoA HUD display for landing, along with the synthetic vision runway. Makes IMC landings very fun, and I end up using it for any ILS equipped runway because getting All The Things correctly aligned takes some effort. It’s fast, even capable of Super Cruise, can carry 3 HUGE drop tanks for ferry flights, handles awesome and will basically do any maneuver you want. My ONLY “criticism“ of it is that, like all 4th/5th Gen Fly By Wire jets, it’s actually quite smooth and easy to fly. That’s why I still like the Aero Dynamics T-38C - it will bite you if you don’t fly it right Hope that helps! 🤙 @sniper31

My only problem with it is that it’s hard to get the grass and tree branch stains off it. It’s a BLAST at low level!

Yep - that one is on my disk, too! But I’m scared of heights, so I can’t climb up to the cockpit 😂 j.k. That’ll absolutely retire every airliner I own when it finally gets to FS24. 😎

all we need is for FSL to finish their MSFS Concorde and I bet we’ll finally be able to welcome Ray to the club! 😁

Agree entirely. The cockpit texturing in the original F-22, and their interpretation of the avionics was sub-par, IMHO. The YF-23 has a fictional F-23A variant that has a distinctly F-15E-ish cockpit that’s quite well modeled. It’s a pleasure to fly.🤙 And yep, I am FOR SURE waiting for the Black Friday sale to get the new version. I’m getting that “upgrade discount” one way or another. 😂 Ive got to have it in my collection, but I’m patient - and cheap Rafale is such a sweet jet! I don’t even care about the weapons, it’s just great to fly it like peace time 🤙

All I need is ALT and HDG 😁

Looks like the developers of the very nice YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter (and that other 5th Gen stealth jet that should’ve lost the ATF competition) are asking for community input on their roadmap. They’ve made it rather easy to vote: StrawPollTell us what you'd like to see from Top Mach Studios | 20...What is your opinion? Vote now: Saab JAS-39 Gripen E/F, Mig-29M/K Fulcrum-D or Mig-35 (Mig-29 Fulcrum-F), Lockheed Martin F-16C or V (IFE and Blackbird are currently developing the FThere’s a list of addons already in dev, too. FWIW, I voted for the Gripen because austere highway ops in the woods are fun, and the Chinese J-15 because hulking ski jump carrier-capable fighters based on the mighty Su-27 are something everyone should try. 😎 Also those two because TMS are already doing a bunch of Russian and American jets, so we need to flesh out the global selection. Surprisingly, they’re considering Yet Another F-16 variant even tho there’s already one released and two more on the way. 🤷‍♂️ Anyhow, I’m hoping they’ve taken note of the incredibly well simulated AzurPoly Rafale and are raising their standards accordingly. 😁👍

Amen 🙏 Neither a good P-51 Civ Mustang, nor Super Hornet. Prepar3D lives on! 😎

Yeah, I’m apparently “essential”, too! (See, Mom - you were right: I AM somebody! 🤣) Along with the lawn service for all the rich folk…!

Yeah, I can see how it could negatively affect devs. Though I can’t remember ever seeing it on my own aircraft up close like that… I don’t believe it’s “by design”, though. It seems very much like a side effect of something else to which gear visibility is tied. Is it possible that gear have no LoDs of their own, and so get culled earlier than they should…?

I never understand where those comments come from. Any sim is whatever you make of it. 🤙 In re the view from on high, you might be pleasantly surprised, esp getting up there and then down.

Looks like the pending A2A Lancair Legacy RG is going to have a sweet set of pilot relief modes! The advanced TruTrak Sorcerer autopilot: It includes NAV and ILS tracking, VS and IAS modes, altitude preselect using its own built-in altimeter, GPS Steering, two different forms of VNAV, an optional autotrim module, on top of overspeed and minimum speed protection. All of these features have been custom-programmed, and three custom fonts have been created for the sake of accuracy. I knew I shoulda signed up for that Beta program when I had the chance 🤣 Looking ever more like a fantastic addon 😁👍

For you? Done and done. 👍 I used one for @Stearmandriver’s RVR/visibility setting in, too. That’s a good one!

Such a strange hill upon which to plant your flag. Y’know, corps are allowed to set their own standards, right? And some of them choose to be more conservative than any official ratings systems? In any case, there are people with money out there who don’t want their children (or themselves) exposed to any sort of perceived “violence”. And so since there’s nothing to be gained from crash animations and money/market share to be lost, it seems like a decent call to make. It’s also consistent with Asobo’s standard of “no weapons” in the Marketplace. I don’t agree with it myself, but again, I’m always working towards the IRL standard of never crashing in the first place. And when I do, I don’t need a voyeuristic animation to help me work harder to avoid future errors. 🤷‍♂️

Absolutely. 💯 😂

I bring up other titles because of the incredibly myopic perspective of some folks. Most of my comments here are in response to the ridiculous assertion that “Asobo don’t understand flight sim or flight simmers”. When we peel the blinders back and actually take a look at the world around us, we see that many of these claims of “developer negligence” can’t be reasonably be supported. Once you realize that most other sims out there have these issues, you might realize these are actually rather difficult issues to resolve. You should try it - It really helps assuage the bitter anger. 🙂

Yep. They’re great jets, and I don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water. But at the same time, it’s an area that could use some improvement in terms of inertia and ground effect. 🤙

It also keeps a steady stream of future Serious Simmers coming in to the hobby. Yep - some of those noob Xbox gamerz kids actually get hooked and turn into cranky old timers like us! 😂 Add to that, we know for a fact that some folks will not only become Serious Simmers, but then go on to get their IRL wings 😁👍 All because “gamification” works. 🤙

You got this all on a separate DMZ/firewall, right? The bad bots ARE out to get all of us!

Thank you for adding this in! The leap forward in visual quality AND systems fidelity of the Default aircraft in MSFS is unprecedented. It reminds me of @MattNischan’s Longitude “Not Study Level” video from awhile back: 2 HOURS of all the Hi Fi systems included in the Longitude - a FREE Default addon for many of us. IIRC, this was where I learned that MSFS’ default avionics are tracking GPS satellite locations and reception(!), and that the Longitude’s systems take into account arcane metrics like hydraulic temperature(!). Seems like Serious Simmer stuff to me 😎 And from what’s been shared so far, the pending Expert Series Praetor is going to push the Hi Fi boundaries even further!🎉

Yep. Dou you know I’d they ever settled on a redux of their FSX Conquest for MSFS?

Would you consider allowing some of us to add to the list - with a Publishing approval by you before it goes live?

Agree. 👍 All that stuff is up to the devs. Some addons do it well, and others not so much (ground and flare aren’t great with PMDG, IMHO). One of my pet peeves is addons that will still happily lift the nose on rollout even tho you’re well under Vmu (I still need to report that to FSW re their Lear). Also the lack of any lean or inertia when turning (the Longitude does this pretty well, which is a nice surprise). Anyhow, I’m just glad the options are there AND a growing number of devs are taking a crack at those more advanced features. 🤙

FWIW, I have a 12gb 4070 and an old 5600x cpu. While I do occasionally get “vram” warnings with some addons at the beginning of the flight, they go away after the first minute or so. I can’t remember the last time the sim crashed on me, so it’s just not affecting me. Give the $1 trial a shot. Could work just fine for you. 🤙