ATRguy

I’d love if Leonardo tackled the 717. It would be fantastic.

You can do it in the real plane too. You shouldn’t, but you can. In the real plane, there is a detent you need to lift the safety over to pull it into beta and reverse, but you can absolutely reverse the prop airborne. Ask me how I know lol.

I’m saying windshield wipers on turboprops are generally garbage lol. The Saab wipers aren’t great and the ATR is worse.

They don’t work in the real plane either, so unexpected realism?

Honestly? The Black Square Caravan will hopefully right a lot of the wrong with the Van. But right now, I got nothing. The default Beaver might be good, but I haven’t flown it yet and I’m away for work for two weeks here.

The step is the same as getting a boat on plane. It’s when the float comes out of the water enough and is up on plane like a boat hull

Quite a difference in what they’re trying to achieve here though.

The water physics are… okay. I took the Caravan for a quick spin the other day, and despite there being a LOT wrong with the airplane itself, it handled on the water pretty decently. It steers okay, idles along at about 5-6 knots which it should. It jumps to the “step” but having it actually flow onto the step would probably be extremely difficult. I tried all this on calm water, so I didn’t try sailing it or rolling a float or anything like that. I didn’t try step taxiing. Landing is hard simply because the water is hard to see, so it’s like glassy water IRL. I haven’t tried docking it, but I did shut it down in reverse and the prop stayed on the pitch locks properly, which was nice to see. Interesting they got that right when so much of the Caravan/PT6 is wrong. It’s not amazing, but it’s the best seaplane sim I’ve ever seen so far. 2000 hours on floats IRL here.

I don't quite get it, really. It's far and away the best airliner for MSFS2020/24.

They're all simulated in the Fenix too. Go pull the 115V-80hz CB and watch your EFB stop charging.

2020 does this as well.

It was the best in MSFS2020, so it would be reasonable to think the same in the new one.

Not when it’s presented as terribly as you did, no.

Why do people keep saying this when it's just not true? The weather radar works just fine, at least as good as ActiveSky in P3D, and shows what's ahead. I'm turning away from this storm, the weather radar is showing the precip off to my left, and you can see the rain falling visually. No other sim has rain like MSFS, where it moves dynamically. I've flown approaches where rain is moving across the approach path and it's very eerie, because it looks word not allowed real. This isn't MSFS of four years ago. It's come a long way.

That has never happened to me once. I have only ever seen a connection issue a few times, and for less than 30 seconds. On reasonably good internet in Canada.