David D1ZY

I just picked this up for FS20. While I feel like the modeling is excellent and also a joy to fly I’m finding some pretty glaring issues. 1- Fuel burn is far from realistic. A full tank yield an average range of 30 miles. Yes just 30 miles. The consumption ratio is obviously way too high. Tested this 5 times with various load configs and empty still cannot get much further than 30 miles before needing to refuel. Very odd. 2- When set to hide doors the flight ends with having to restart or end flight. Yes I know the sim setting for this can be disabled to avoid this, but that’s something nobody should have to do. 3- After shutting the engine off and all power etc. the engine audio externally continues to be fully audible, as if it was never shut down. Rendering the Kiowa cold and dark after a flight should also be silent. 4-The cockpit audio with engines running is very very quiet. Too quiet. I have to turn up my speakers so high that ATC sounds like they are behind my chair with a bull horn at my head during any communications. Badly balanced cockpit audio. i don’t want to sound like it’s a bad add on, it NOT! It’s mostly really quite nice and fun to fly. I think the texturing is actually quite good and shows a lot of care taken into creating it for Flight Sim. There are a few other minor bits that don’t quite add up but not big enough to really make any fuss. The 4 issues I mentioned are in my opinion in need of developer fixing. As is for the money it feels like some corners were cut to bring it to marketplace. The fuel issue is the most annoying. Were it not for that and being forced to 35ish mile refueling throughout the flights I’d be less concerned with the other things. But all together It just shows a lack of refinement for a relatively high asking price. I eagerly await a patch.

I just got the Fenix A320 and discovered it requires a separate app of their making to be running in the background while MSFS20 is also running. If the FenixSim A320 app is not running, then use of the A320 in MSFS20 is problematic to say the least. Has anyone noticed if while running the FenixSim A320 app, any conflicts with other MSFS20 aircraft? I think (??) I may have in regards to the T6Adv by BlackBird. While the FenixSim A320 app is running at the same time then starting a flight with the T6Adv results in a situation where it cannot be started at all. Selecting “Ready to Taxi” from the tablet, the plane just refuses to start. No matter if I restart flight completely or reload a new flight, no start. So again, I am asking if anybody else has had this problem or other problems with other MSFS20 aircraft becoming basically unusable when also running the FenixSim A320 app? It would be nice to know what aircraft are not compatible with the FenixSim A320 app.