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New planes and repaints wishlist for FSX

My uneducated guess is that unless something in this voluminous list is already in development. . .and I mean "well" into development, you're looking at at least 1 to 2 years before it would surface as a WIP The days of 3 or 4 or 6 month turnarounds for aircraft, especially payware are far behind us. Too many demands by users for intricate modeling details, system specific details, integration of specialized avionics packages, on the nose or it isn't worth paying for FDE's and so on have pushed development times for many companies to the point that. . ."is it done yet" or "do you have a release date" aren't worthy of an answer until it's reached the 2yr mark in the process, lol.
 
Wish lists are just that, wish lists. I think that devs can get some sense of what their customers want by such a list. Chances are no dev is going to do a one off prototype that only a few would want.
but
wouldnt it be great is their was a reply saying "now that you ask, we have a boondoggle f49 in the works"
 
falcon409 said:
My uneducated guess is that unless something in this voluminous list is already in development. . .and I mean "well" into development, you're looking at at least 1 to 2 years before it would surface as a WIP The days of 3 or 4 or 6 month turnarounds for aircraft, especially payware are far behind us. Too many demands by users for intricate modeling details, system specific details, integration of specialized avionics packages, on the nose or it isn't worth paying for FDE's and so on have pushed development times for many companies to the point that. . ."is it done yet" or "do you have a release date" aren't worthy of an answer until it's reached the 2yr mark in the process, lol.
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Speaking as a developer for many years in the MS flight sim world, I think not only is this absolutely right, it needs to be said.

Commercial developers have raised the quality bar again and again to the point where I (and so many others) just can hardly tolerate the level we had even 5 years ago. Now, to sell, a product needs be not only visually stunning and authentically detailed, and it also must have a deep and carefully realistic systems implementation. Long gone are the days when a low-res model and textures along with simplistic systems based entirely around what the sim itself has built-in would suffice.

Freeware developers have followed suit. The high-quality freeware of today would put to shame the best commercial quality from the last decade. The bar is amazingly high and getting higher - and that's a good thing for all of us.

But.

It all takes time, and in commercial development, time is money.

The flight sim community gets impatient with both long development cycles and higher prices. But they are the inevitable result of the demand for ever higher quality products. There is no magic bullet. People who haven't been involved in the development of high quality airplanes just don't quite understand the level of effort and tedium involved in getting hundreds and even thousands of details not only right, but working together.

Thanks for saying this.

Dutch
 
The XP-67 is an interesting design and might be cool to fly also, but to pick a nit it was a McDonnell design not a Douglas design from waaay back when they were independent companies before they merged and then Boeing swallowed them both up.

This may not really fit into this list as it is an already existing plane, but I'd like a more realistic flight model for the simple boring old Cessna 152. The 2 existing payware models either climb like a bat out of hell on departure or sinks like it's carrying a ton of lead on final approach.

More in line with this list how about some early pioneer pre-WW1 designs.
 
I see one added to the list, the F-105 , couple years back there was one in development but I don't recall who it was?
 
P-51d

Can someone do this repaint for the Warbirdsim P-51D???

Capt. Ivan L McGuire, Danville, IL, 364th Fighter Squadron. P-51D 44-72821 C5-J “Plastered Bastard” (L&R). Capt. McGuire’s replacement a/c which was eventually sold to Switzerland as J-2112.
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My AC list yields for aircraft that I hope to be new developments that are done to meet up to day qualities. I mean like our C-47, or Aircraft by Milviz / A2A / Ants Trojan.


C-7A Caribou (coming up, just wait.....)

F-105 Thunderchief (wasn't Milviz on that one???)

C-123K (hopefully, a new one native FSX, not revamped)

B-25 Mitchell (long overdue)

C-119

C-46 Commando

Helio Courier


Cheers,
Mark
 
Small European taildraggers payware looks and with a very good FDE.

Like Danish KZ 7
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Polish built RWD-5. This is a very famous plane. It still has the record for being the lightest plane ever to cross the atlantic non stop.
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French built Jodel DR 150 Mascaret. Ooooh, those gull wings. In my eyes, the prettiest GA plane ever made:applause:
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The Saab Gripen/Viggen families would be very welcome (we already have a very good J35J Draken that doesn't get the recognition it deserves. It's free, too)
The Sepecat Jaguar family is long overdue.

Dave
 
Roger-Wilco 66,

if I may ask, is there really a DHC-4 / C-7 Caribou in the works by a developer? That would be very nice.
The only "serious" model I know of is the Virtavia variant, but thats quite some years old.

Kind regards,

Oliver


P.S.:
@Mejborn,

you probably already know it, even though its not a DR150 model, the excellent frenchVFR site has a "new" (2016) FSX/P3D model for the Jodel D-112.
It has those typical wings too and usually the quality of FrenchVFR's airplanes is very good.
 
Curtiss C-46 Commando
Fairchild C-119 (G & J)
Breguet Br.1150 Atlantic
Fiat G.55 "Centauro"
Fiat G.91R & PAN
Messerschmitt Bf.109 B/K
Messerschmitt Bf.110 B/G
Junkers Ju.87B/R Stuka
Grumman F9F Cougar
North American F-86D/K
North American FJ-2/3/4 Fury
Bell 47J Ranger
Sikorsky HH-3E/F
......
:wavey::wavey::wavey::wavey:
 
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Roger-Wilco 66,

P.S.:
@Mejborn,

you probably already know it, even though its not a DR150 model, the excellent frenchVFR site has a "new" (2016) FSX/P3D model for the Jodel D-112.
It has those typical wings too and usually the quality of FrenchVFR's airplanes is very good.
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Thanks for the HU :teapot:. I´m downloading now. I didnt know about the 2016 version of the Jodel D-112. I hve the old one.
 
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