Flight1 Super King Air B200 Released!

Thank you for searching those prices. But since I fly intensively five of these add-ons and having now more than 20 hours with the B200 the comparison leads me to the opposite conclusion : the price is high but match the quality if you compare with the other products...

That said, I don't understand the purpose of the discussion : if you find it too expensive, spare your money. If not, fly this excellent plane and pay the people who worked to make it. That's very simple.

Coming from Gran Canaria, with stop in Rota and Annecy. Great fly, 6 hours of realistic flying and discovery of the documentation and the highly valuable informations of people who know the plane and speak about the add-on. Then landing in Courchevel this evening. Real (perfect) weather. Courchevel is always a challenge, but this plane flies very well. Thanks to flight1, certainly one of the best trip I've made on FS these last years.

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I don't know the details but I'm willing to bet Jim from F1 would say the G1000 programming was more complex than the NGX's glass portions.

Additionally (this is totally my own theory) they may be trying to recooperate some cost from the Textron royalties for their Cessna based products. I don't think Raytheon received any royalties from this production but I'm not positive.

Plus it also has some maintenance stuff and additional features. The price is up there but fair from my experience with it do far.
 
wapanomi said:
Thank you for searching those prices. But since I fly intensively five of these add-ons and having now more than 20 hours with the B200 the comparison leads me to the opposite conclusion : the price is high but match the quality if you compare with the other products...

That said, I don't understand the purpose of the discussion : if you find it too expensive, spare your money. If not, fly this excellent plane and pay the people who worked to make it. That's very simple.

Coming from Gran Canaria, with stop in Rota and Annecy. Great fly, 6 hours of realistic flying and discovery of the documentation and the highly valuable informations of people who know the plane and speak about the add-on. Then landing in Courchevel this evening. Real (perfect) weather. Courchevel is always a challenge, but this plane flies very well. Thanks to flight1, certainly one of the best trip I've made on FS these last years.
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These shots are fantastic! I was already wanting the B200, but these make me want all those sceneries as well.
 
A flight like this is the reason why we spend time and money to find and try the work of talented guys like you. So, thanks for the appreciation ! The shots are raw, FS is not. The most notable add-ons are France VFR Rhone alpes photoreal (no autogen) and Courchevel of LLH simulation (Meribel is on the other side of the same moutain, so consider buying the bundle). The region is wonderful, the perfect place to fly around.
 
ryanbatc said:
I don't know the details but I'm willing to bet Jim from F1 would say the G1000 programming was more complex than the NGX's glass portions.
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Personally, i doubt that. When PMDG released the 737 NGX we had a pilot from South African airlines and post his exact procedures for a flight from i think johannesbourgh to somewhere north. Every switch every dial, every check mark and procedure was documented for us. i still have the collection of those posts btw.. The result was that many of us wanted to see if PMDG was blowing sunshine or not so we decided to duplicate the guys flight. Everything he recorded and reported on the bridge of the real 737 was right there on the PMDG. Every instrument, every switch, does exactly what the boeing pilot manuals says their supposed to do, when they're supposed to do it.. No, the G1000 is a walk in the park compared to what they did with the NGX.. I've never seen anything so bloody detailed as that thing. Not even other PMDG's..
 
wapanomi said:
Thank you for searching those prices. But since I fly intensively five of these add-ons and having now more than 20 hours with the B200 the comparison leads me to the opposite conclusion : the price is high but match the quality if you compare with the other products...

That said, I don't understand the purpose of the discussion : if you find it too expensive, spare your money. If not, fly this excellent plane and pay the people who worked to make it. That's very simple.
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We are discussing, chatting about the Flight1 King Air FS Addon...One dude advice about the release, other folks like you write your impressions...others talk about the price. The product is all, 3D model, texture, gauges, manuals and price.

Fantastic if you are very satisfied (B200 have quality, it's obviously) but please not see any critic as an attack. The price is a weakness of the product.
F1 B200 is superb, textures, 3D model, Flight model...and as I said i'm a proud owner of a F1 Citation Mustang since 2009. But the market said thaht other developers offer more at lower prices.

Enjoy!
 
Any repaints out for this yet? Also i see F1 has closed their support forum to "registered purchasers." I think I know commercially why they would want to do this but the non-visibility of user comments that it leads to is not making this potential owner rush to buy it. IMHO this tactic risks being self defeating re potential sales as having user comments - not just the dev's marketing page and patter - is a normal and expected part of any e-commerce business today. Grateful therefore for this thread and its helpful feedback.
 
I am a Beech fan

I own Carnado C90,the Realair Duke,the PMDG B1900's and the old Aeroworx B200 as well as the Freeware AFG etc

Sorry I cannot see 60 bucks with just the Garmin for it

And although the Carenado is VERY GOOD it just lives up to the FS9 port to FSX Aeroworks exteriors once you get the Panels going


My 5 Cents


Roland
 
Well there's the maintenance module, failures, safe taxi, highly functional systems... You're paying for all that added stuff and in the realm of PMDG, Majestic etc

They have a 30 day return policy too
 
it just lives up to the FS9 port to FSX Aeroworks exteriors once you get the Panels going
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Never have found anything quite like the Aeroworx to match immersion, startup sequence, systems and failures. Exterior model is perfect from all angles and beats other freeware models, eg AFG and IDFT etc. Hoping this might be its match.
 
I found this to be about on par with the Aeroworx version. I ran the port for a while but the fps were dramatically low in FSX.
 
If you modify the VC with more modern gauges (Off PMDG in my case) Aeroworx FPS run 32-35

Anyway hard to get by in these days i think and VC in the new ones is better

Roland
 
I tried tweaking for hours a ported AWX B200 but there seems no way around the loss of functions and related clickspots to make it free enough of annoyances to be worth the effort.

For me the B350 is a bit too much aircraft and into commuter size equipment. I want to squeeze in and out of approx 2400' runways like I can with F1's PC-12 (my current favorite turboprop) with the added authority (and operating costs!) of this handsome fast twin.
 
If you don't mind the glass I think this is the plane for you. With the Blackhawk engine mods I frequently get speeds in excess of 310 KTAS in the lower FL's. I do push the engines hard but the gauges are in the green and usually I'm following the perf tables (yes a nice set included).
 
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