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Carenado Fokker F50 Released

F50 Released

Ok, I'II get the ball rolling ,

A very short over view, installation went quickly and as with most Carenado a/c lots of eye candy. Reviewed the many PDF files and went for several VFR flights with no real concerns,very stable, taxi, take off and landings were straight forward. Must admit the landing was much like the Aerosoft Twin Otter, you need steady pressure on the yoke when landing or one finds that it wants to float when you cross the button of the runway. Having never heard the roar of a F50 in real life I will suggest a thumbs up on the engine's sound files ... it gets the job done. One concern I will mention is the nose wheel landing light, when it's on it covers the entire top portion of the wheels in a bright white light, very unrealistic in my opinion.

Just a few thoughts

Cheers for now
 
I've been very impressed by Carenado's X-Plane offerings, and the one Cessna Mustang i have of their for FSX/P3D ( except for their resource hog G-1000 ). I'd be curious as well to know about this..
 
Ok, I'II get the ball rolling ,

A very short over view, installation went quickly and as with most Carenado a/c lots of eye candy. Reviewed the many PDF files and went for several VFR flights with no real concerns,very stable, taxi, take off and landings were straight forward. Must admit the landing was much like the Aerosoft Twin Otter, you need steady pressure on the yoke when landing or one finds that it wants to float when you cross the button of the runway. Having never heard the roar of a F50 in real life I will suggest a thumbs up on the engine's sound files ... it gets the job done. One concern I will mention is the nose wheel landing light, when it's on it covers the entire top portion of the wheels in a bright white light, very unrealistic in my opinion.

Just a few thoughts

Cheers for now
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Thanks for that, Aircanuck. I checked the Avsim forums and the general consensus seems to be that this is one of Carenado's better offerings - relatively free of bugs out of the box. I think I'll pick this up once it hits the vendors, since I have a PCAviator coupon burning a hole in my pocket.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if a Icelandair/Flugfelag Islands livery is included? I didn't see one on the Carenado site, but wasn't sure if it was 'in hiding'. Many thanks.

http://www.airlineupdate.com/content_public/airlines/airlines-iceland/airiceland.htm
 
No - unfortunately the Icelandair/Flugfelag Islands livery is not included. Maybe Jeansy will have it on his list ....

Kind regards

Dirk
 
so far, so good..

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Jan, can you advise me on the file size of the VC Mdl and external Mdl files? Just curious as I bought the Cheyenne III back when it came out and I have horrendous VAS consumption issues with that model. I have discovered it's internal Mdl files are huge and likely are a big part of the VAS over-usage.
 
StormILM said:
Jan, can you advise me on the file size of the VC Mdl and external Mdl files? Just curious as I bought the Cheyenne III back when it came out and I have horrendous VAS consumption issues with that model. I have discovered it's internal Mdl files are huge and likely are a big part of the VAS over-usage.
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So that is why I have been having trouble with the Cheyenne 3! Is there any way to fix it short of taking it up with the developer?
 
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