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As we now know it's an early Connie, I'm sure it will be very impressive but my tastes lean more towards the Super Connie (or at least an L-049 with the Radome option). As I noted on the other thread(and A2A, please DO NOT takes this as me raining on your parade), it's most likely a no-sale for me from a aesthetic/version point and I hope one day they will add a Super variant. If they were include the radome nose option, then I may consider buying it.
 
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I will be sticking with he JF Connie. With JF I have a choice of models to fly. I am also afraid that like Carenado A2A are pricing themselves out of the market.

Also Wit Accu Sim I like to have a choice of purchasing it or not but with recent releases A2A leave you with no option but to have Accu Sim.
 
Boy we are a spoiled lot today. I m getting it because its a connie. The fact that Accu will manage some of the sytems to reduce workload should make it a buy. A2A know teh market they will get plenty of buyers. I like many have being waiting on a decent FSX connie.
 
huub vink said:
Another missed opportunity to create something surprising..... Really nice for the people who were hoping for this, but I would have liked something which would have made a lot of people say "Wow, why didn't make anyone this model before".

Huub
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Could not agree more Huub.
More duplication.
Much as I'm a Connie enthusiast I won't bother with this one as a matter of principle (and a certain amount of bloody mindedness!) :redfire:
 
wombat666 said:
Could not agree more Huub.
More duplication.
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Well, that's like saying it doesn't makes much sense to open a gourmet restaurant because there is a McDonalds on the other side of the street.

The JF/AH Constellation offers various models for a few bucks but at the cost of numerous errors and inaccuracies. The A2A Constellation will be as realistic as it can get on a dektop flight simulator. Different addons for different target groups. Everyone who wants to know how it was to fly and operate a Lockheed L-049 Constellation will be very excited about the upcoming A2A model!


Greetings
Tim
 
Tim-HH said:
Well, that's like saying it doesn't makes much sense to open a gourmet restaurant because there is a McDonalds on the other side of the street.

The JF/AH Constellation offers various models for a few bucks but at the cost of numerous errors and inaccuracies. The A2A Constellation will be as realistic as it can get on a dektop flight simulator. Different addons for different target groups. Everyone who wants to know how it was to fly and operate a Lockheed L-049 Constellation will be very excited about the upcoming A2A model!


Greetings
Tim
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I agree. :encouragement:

+1 for Connie
 
wombat666 said:
Could not agree more Huub.
More duplication.
Much as I'm a Connie enthusiast I won't bother with this one as a matter of principle (and a certain amount of bloody mindedness!) :redfire:
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Have to say i completely fail to understand that, Wombat. How can you not bother with one of top devs outthere (not to say THE top dev ! ) releasing a model of the original Connie when you specifically say to be a Connie enthusiast ?.... Sure, the L-049 happens to be my very favourite version of the Connie so i am bowled over with extacy but i did count on A2A going for the Super G (because there are still a few flying) which i would've been over the moon about just as much.

Oh, well, i guess it must be your bloody mindedness indeed... :teapot:

(it might be more wishfull thinking (which *did* get me my beloved L-049..) but why did A2A go for the L-049 while there are no more airworthy species around ?... Could it be because they plan to, later on, upgrade their L-049 to L-749, subsequently L-1049 and maybe even 1249 and 1649A ?.... Without too much effort they could transpose these versions all into militairy counterparts too. They'd have bread on the table for many years to come just be introducing the basic Connie to start with.... Clever ?.... I bloody well think so !... ;-)

cheers,
jan
 
Look at it this way, Its a start, with the 049 it could be painted up as the later 649/7 .. if we ask very nicely maybe we can get a retrofit with the radar nose and a pannier/speed-pack just for those extra paints :encouragement:
 
IMHO

From a business standpoint, I think that A2A would already be aware of the JV/Manfred Jahn "Team" C-47 and would consider that building their own version would be a questionable decision...at this time. The new DAK is earning it's following...look at the hits on it's dedicated page. It is a very....very....good airplane.

There have been many exceptional models from the A2A team in the last few years. The choice to build the Connie is a lovely transition from their recent single engine training simulators back into to a classic, big airplane that was the last of it's lineage. Of course, it certainly opens the door to the variants down the road as well...even better.

With the DC-6 coming from PMDG and now the A2A Constellation it feels like a very large development gap has been filled. Both will be an automatic for me and very much appreciated.

Possibly the C-46 would be a great addition, but what about the B-25 or other absolute must do airplanes? With so many still to be developed "opportunities" out there and so few companies capable of producing models for the evolving simulator environments, it's obviously going to take some time to hit all of the targets.

Bottom line...I'm going to need a really good set of headphones for this one. :encouragement:
 
Reverse snobbery...it's a thing.

A2A charges a very fair price for what you get, and what you get are the most realistic simulations of interesting aircraft available. It's fine if that's not what you want. There will be plenty enough who do.
 
I Like The many CONNIES out there..they satisfy my "WALTER MITTY needs to be a Line Captain Of The Planes Of Yesteryear..Flying Any Complex Airliner "SOLO" has to be a task?.. Even more so on a "DESK TOP SIM".. After all I'm no Howard Hughes..LOL!


 
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I also would have loved the Super Connie but just the fact that A2A is doing a Connie with all the realism of Accusim, it will be aircraft on par with the PMDG DC-6. I for one am very excited about it. Don't know if I can afford it any time in the near future, but one day! Good pick A2A!
Ted
 
Tim-HH said:
Well, that's like saying it doesn't makes much sense to open a gourmet restaurant because there is a McDonalds on the other side of the street.
The JF/AH Constellation offers various models for a few bucks but at the cost of numerous errors and inaccuracies. The A2A Constellation will be as realistic as it can get on a dektop flight simulator. Different addons for different target groups. Everyone who wants to know how it was to fly and operate a Lockheed L-049 Constellation will be very excited about the upcoming A2A model!
Greetings
Tim
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JFTR, you will never ever get me near a 'Golden Arches' outlet, IIRC the first and last time was around 1974 ............... :barf:
I may consider (consider? I'll get it anyway) the A2A Connie at a future point, but it ticks me off when so many interesting projects 'announced' in the past fall by the wayside.
And FYI 'bloody mindedness' is a carefully cultivated trait and highly prized in Oz.
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The A2A Conny will be a sure buy for me.
Just as a coincidence, two hours ago while waiting for a train with my son, I heard an awesome sound of multiple radials at work somewhere in the sky. Then I saw the source - it was the Breitling Super Constellation flying very low underneath an almost solid SC cloud base, probably on it's way back home to Switzerland. Hair raising! I thought about the A2A news and if I hadn't ears I would have smiled all around my head :)


Cheers,
Mark
 
I will have to see whether I want to get it or not when they release some screenies then ill make my decision. But no doubt about it this is going to be a fantastic add on.
 
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