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156€ haha 🤑... looks like prices are not just spiraling completely out of control for food and energy. But it is so great to finally be able to test planes, it was always my wish of having the demo version of addon-planes similar to demos that are available for almost all videogames. To check for visual fidelity, see if there are graphics and cockpit system glitches. Awesome I think I´ll get this plane for 6 bucks and test-fly it a bit. Always wanted to have a classic 737 with Smith Industries EIS, and the full retro instruments! And there is even the -600 version available. https://secure.simmarket.com/css-737-classic-(30-days)-msfs20.phtml

Boring... hm... I thought that too and therefore was just flying the most complex and most epic study-level airliners for years, like the Fenix Airbus or the HotStart Challenger and stuff like that. But Black Square released their Piston Duke a while ago. That made me come to the conclusion when getting a fully to the core simulated GA plane with every engine feature simulated, every piston able to fail, every spark plug able to foul or fail, every single electric circuit and circuit breaker simulated and every single light bulb in the whole plane simulated - that is absolute awesome and no longer boring at all. It´s almost like buying a car. A flying car... It´s like owning a real awesome retro-Cessna. Cats of my age must slow down a bit and sometimes fly just for fun to enjoy the forests and national parks with huge bushflight wheels mounted on the plane, and not only fly jets. 😺

Hmmm that old X-Plane 11 problem again.... there where mods available for X-Plane 11 to enhance the night lights and make street lights highways etc. visible up to 10.000 feet or more. Awesome, highly recommended. There will be the same mods available soon to solve that problem for X-Plane 12 to. Users of high end computers must not be punished and getting their visual feast degraded by unnecessary FPS-optimizations. 🙂 An ultra setting should really challenge the performance a computer can give up to it´s limits, just like the Witcher 3 UberSettings and UberLOD mod, and should not be downgraded to "a new secret medium graphics setting that is just called ultra" in the options menu. 😉

The serious volumetric cloud visuals conaisseur will demand the freshest and newest X-Plane 12 served... 😉

Relax. Chill. No manuals needed to fly it! 😉 And who reads manuals anyway ... manuals would bore me to death even if they where available as audiobook version with campfire sounds available on YouTube narrated by the best Creepy Pasta storytellers. If you have a bit of knowledge of Airbus and Boeing flying you´re already fully in, the rest you will learn by trying while flying and one or two more tutorial vids. Just watch a 20 minute Foxtrott Alpha video how that FMC is programmed correctly, and watch a video about how an ILS-autoland is done and scribble down a few notes what buttons to press (it´s a bit more buttons, not just APPRoach like in an Airbus, it is similar to landing a Boeing 737 or a CRJ700) and you are good to go on your first flight. Here are some scenery and cloud screenshots from very low altitude, I cannot do that with the Challenger from 40.000 feet... so I had to roll-out a good old Cessna. The visuals are absolute gorgeous, everything looks sharp and clean and awesome and stylish, and the new clouds look superb. The visual level of detail on the ground is so beyond awesome, the night lighting is the best I have ever seen! Everywhere on the ground you will get power poles with cables between these poles, radio masts, traffic lights, cars casting real headlight shine while driving, fully 3d-modeled street lights next to every road or highway, and of course houses apartments gas stations and so much more. I have never noticed how much awesome visual stuff and tons of highest-quality graphiccs details are going on down there while being on flight level 400! 😉 But the realism the cockpit system features the top-notch flight dynamics are what really shines - after having enjoyed X-Plane once (with a good addon-plane of course like the HotStart Challenger) there is no going back to any other lesser sim. Never! 🙂 The airplanes feel so incredible alive and realistic, react to physics in such incredible realistic ways, weather and turbulence and icing is a real danger (unlike in other sims "let´s fly into Tornado Bethany with 500mph winds with a Piper Cub and get default_turbulence.anim animation played" realism level as shown in a dozen YouTube videos every time some hurricane or tornado occurs somewhere). In X-Plane your wing will stall when icing occurs, the weather radar must be observed closely or the plane will get ripped apart by turbulences or thrown over and tumble down in strong winds. The flight physics weather realism and cockpit and system features of X-Plane are beyond awesome.

Hmmmmmm not sure not sure anymore about the radio sounds 😉 Today I stumbled upon one YouTube comment from 5 months ago with someone mentioning "GTN 750 and NDB audio is not functional" (which are probably navigation beacon morse codes, while the GTN 750 is a specific addon I am not interested in anyway because it´s too modern in a retro Cessna and uninteresting for VOR navigation. LCD-screens are reserved for jets in my world *ggg). But it´s an absolute awesome plane and can even be equipped with tundra tires and vortex generators and many other customizing features. Exciting! Unfortunately almost all new reviews are for the Garmin 1000 NG version, while the analog version reviews are for it´s ancient absolute outdated X-Plane10 or 11 version, and not for the brandnew and overhauled and remastered XP12 version. Is the analog version of the C172 having all the exact same tuning and customizing options like tundra tires, LED-landing-lights, removal of wheel fairing and other goodies?

Hi pilots, I would love to buy the Airfoillabs Cessna 172 - it´s the best of the best, that´s the Piston Duke of X-Plane! - but before buying I want to know a specific certain detail about this plane... Can the volume knob of the radio panel be operated by me to make morse codes and beeps of VOR stations, beacons and middle and inner markers be audible? Thank you very much in advance for your answers! 🙂

Good morning pilots, hope you have an absolute awesome weekend. Oh I am sure you have when having that awesomness of the newest X-Plane 12 experience. 😉 I would like to know how to contact the HotStart Challenger 650 developers. I have googled everywhere but unlike Fenix (Discord) and iniBuilds (Discord and Forum) I was not able to find one single contact form, chat, forum, or anything. I have so many great ideas to enhance the HotStart Challenger even more (you might love it: one idea is adding a Ferrari LaFerrari or that new BMW SUV from X-Plane 12 instead of that boring black van when calling Nicky for a car, a red carpet from the car to the entry door of the Challenger, I would like to see the handrests of the cockpit seats animated and lowered, makes the cockpit even more cozy and awesome! And I also wanted to notify about a bug in the front gearwell that only occurs in persistant mode, the mode when the "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT" flags need to be removed from the plane first before starting her up. And I have finished a complete cockpit texture overhaul to make the cockpit 100% brandnew looking and shiny like a new coin and need to ask the developers if the cockpit texture and bumpmap files are copyright-protected or if I am allowed to upload cockpit and interior mods to the flightsim.to aircraft modding page. Because I like my private jets exactly just like my yachts Lamborghinis Ferraris mansions and space ships: squeaky clean and factory-fresh factory-new. ☺️ And of course I need to congratulate the devs for creating the most AWESOME plane. The most awesome epic aircraft ever made for any sim! ☺️

Oh wow this is one hell of an impressive sim now! 🥰 Beats most top-quality payware scenery addons of FS2020! My new top-notch go-to ultra high end feelgood sim! Finally brought everything to life, Avitab is running and connected to Chartfox, navigation computer database for XP12 updated, now I just have to connect X-Plane 12 to LittleNavmap (which is sometimes very difficult, need a lot of plugins that don´t function correct, I hope I can manage that too to make X-Plane 12 perfect.) There is no going back to lesser simulators now after having tasted X-Plane 12 and the HotStart Challenger once. 😊 Oh it even simulates bird activity, birds nesting etc. and warns from birdstrikes in the ATIS. Oh and I received an 38 pages long SIGMET yesterday evening... it even simulates that. Best and most realistic aircraft ever made! Oh I got kinda bored after flying Airbusses for almost three years, they became too predictable over time ... here I finally a brandnew even more enhanced and sophisticated simulation experience with so much new exciting ultra high tech stuff to learn!

Praise the iniPrince 350!

Another X-Plane 12 sale on Steam. 🙂

How does the crossfeeding of the fuel tanks work? The manual just says "the crossfed tank must have it´s fuel pumps off to prevent too much fuel pressure" that´s all. I have set both tanks to crossfeed (red handles between the front seats) and switched off the fuel pumps of the tank with less fuel and switched on the wing fuel pump for the tank with too much fuel but I had a fuel imbalance of 30 gallons after a two hours flight today.

Is that big weather radar update now coming with terrain radar echoes that was praised in all YouTube videos a few months ago? Lovely - I hope that means the Hotstart Challenger and the TorqueSim CitationJet 525 will get that soon too?

Hi pilots, since last autumn most of the lighting effects of my favorite A320 have disappeared. The iniBuilds 320 V2 for Flight Simulator 2020! Is there any chance this will get ever get patched? Today FS2020 got a small patch but the bug is still there.

Awwww 😍 I thought I could never fall in love again.... but maybe tonight I will welcome my new Airbus into my life. So that means it will get released rather soon and not in two years or more? # 3, 2, and 1 of my nine cat lives will soon have true meaning and purpose.

The repaints are awesome. 😉 How is the newest Cirrus 22 for Flight Sim 2024 Premium Deluxe Edition doing? Same superb quality like the FS2020 version? Are new even more enhanced features to the Garmin 1000NXi added?

The altimeter is very accurate. You need to round up or down for the correct number. 🙂

No nuclear power plant is needed for my rig with efficient 65 watt Ryzen 5 and proud owner of currently no graphics card. 😄 (That is no graphics card down there in the PCI slot but a card offering space for 4x NVMe drives.)

Of course it needs an offline-mode and function just like the good old FS2020 with all that streaming-stuff made purely optional! My internet is very good but way too slow to handle all that streaming-stuff. And that BlueBid 757 - will it be the original classic authentic-style 757 which means slightly curved CRT-screens and brown authentic Boeing shag pile carpet, or the new version with LCD-screens and blue carpet? I want the authentic original old version for the ultimate retro 757 experience. 🙂 Just like the Fenix Airbus that represents an EIS2 cockpit Airbus from 2005 when equipped with the digital ISIS that was brought into Airbus cockpits in the years 2004-06, I would like to have the 757 also representing a certain era and technology style of aviation. And the coolest stuff in cockpits is not always the most brandnew and most actual cockpit layouts.

That would be so great having the legend releasing this year! But I somehow doubt a FS Labs Airbus release in the near future because I remember watching videos of the allegedly "finished and surely almost ready to release" Fenix and Black Square Piston Duke ..... for years, before they finally released... 😄

I hope bunnys and hares are still there in FS2024. They are so cute and sometimes I even see them on the parking lots of airports hopping around.

That bring me home button is an interesting piece of technology, I have noticed it in a few private airplanes (I think even some newer TBM have it.) Unfortunately no one has ever recreated a functional simulation for this magic button. That is the battery 2 button that must be switched off. The electric circuit schematics should look like this to get the yellow emergency battery failure removed from the ECAM: Hm... not sure 🙂 I never had any payware version of a Vision Jet and I am seeing this cute and also strange little jet for the first time ever in a simulator. (Have flown it only once so I don´t know much about it´s systems and stuff, that´s why I cannot answer all questions.)

They allowed to do even more stuff than just modifying a little bit of flight dynamics, Salty Simulation completely tried to overhaul the 747 and FlyByWire polished up the systems of the default Asobo Airbus NEO to almost perfection. WorkingTitle fully overhauled the Garmin 1000 and G1000 Next-Generation that was installed in most GA planes. Black Box completely redid the cockpits of the default Asobo Baron and Bonanza and the TBM with steam-gauges before creating their own planes (the awesome Duke series.) Let´s hope this trend will continue because I want that beyond impressive Asobo 737 MAX brought to absolute Fenix system-depth perfection. 🙂 Lovely and great things surely await with these beyond impressive new generation of default planes! But I think the iniBuilds Airbusses are not allowed to be modified that´s why the FlyByWire team is never touching them or releases any mod for these.

This guy has severe psychological issues, narcissistic power-abuse. He spend a good time flagging literally EVERY single one of my postings (even from the year 2021) for no reasons whatsoever. I only discussed technical and engineering stuff on these forums, mostly about airplanes and systems and nothing about simulator-issues because... well ... I never had any technical issues or any problems with Flight Simulator 2020 whatsoever. 😄 There was no critics the opposite was the case I mostly hyped the simulator and especially the Fenix Airbus, and never had any problems. It begun suddenly and out of the blue for no reason in 2022 or 2023 not sure which year it was, with almost getting a mail daily "I have broken this rule and I have broken that code of conduct, and this posting from February 2021 broke that forum rule, and that posting from November 2020 broke that rule, and that posting on page 34435 of 546435675672 from January 2022 was suddenly flagged because of this or that" blah blah blah blah blah (but without actually breaking any rules, I discussed mostly technical and physics stuff over there.) And it was always this Hester-guy behind that, and in the personal messages. Some day I wrote my "friend" a personal message what kind of personal vendetta he has with me in that forum, and I wanted to know exactly what was wrong with a certain posting that obviously broke not one single code of conduct. Only some stupid angry short answer came back "I am now banned for 7 days for transgressing some conducts"... and since that day I am blocked permanently in this forum for years now, and that ban was never removed. Better avoid this power-monger at all costs, NEVER talk to him directly 100% ignore him, never answer on any PN, NEVER answer on any of his postings, 100% ghost him. Because as soon as he ever notices you in that forum - you will be hunted down in a witch-hunt that NEVER stops until a reason is found to get you deleted there. Maybe he even finds a posting from the Flight Simulator 2004 A Century of Flight era that broke some "code of conduct" as excuse to ban you.... 😄

It should be removable on the copilot side in the Airbusses. It breaks the immersion when that suction cup iPad always shows the same operating system page I am currently filling out on my iPad mirrored on the copilot side too.