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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Turbine Duke Out Now

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Downloading now!!! THX for the Wonderful News!!!!:jump:

........and the rumor was true,"Release in February"
 
YEAH!!! You have no idea how long I have been wanting to see these words posted here:ernae: I even took a little bit of an FSX hiatus until this release. :)

Cheers
TJ
 
Too bad I can't afford it until the 1st of next month :(

You will all have to post reviews and screenshots to tide me over until then.
 
Heck yeah!! Lets see some pics and your thoughts from those grabbing it now..some of us have to wait!!

Thanks!!:wavey:
 
I'm at work but I will post when I get home in 2 hrs unless someone beats me to it...

FPS... not quite as good as Carenado's latest, but not as bad as Mustang/PMDG etc

Here's a quick breakdown of my payware against default C172 VC. I always conduct tests without vsync and all traffic, weather, and autogen is off. Test mid day at a 60% vc zoom at Edwards, avionics powered up.

Carenado 1st gen stuff (Arrow/Seneca/Cherokee/Mooney) = equal with stock plane
Carenado Bonaza F33 = 80% of C172 (ie I lose about 20% fps compared to default c172)
Lotus L39 = 75%
Orbx Lancair = 70%
RA 1st gen stuff (Scout pack, SF260 etc) = nearly equal or 90%
RA piston Duke = 70%
RA Turbine Duke = 65% (with new VC options enabled, otherwise same as piston)
LevelD 767 = 60%
ES Citation X = 55%
F1 Mustang = 50%

Obviously, others will get different results but I notice this stuff because I'm not running the latest n greatest Sandy Bridge CPU :) If you have a somewhat modern PC you'll be just fine with the Turbine Duke. My system is circa late 07 early 08 so I'm starting to notice the increase in FSX modeling and decrease in my fps LOL
 
I am not going to buy it yet, but I know that I will - sometime in the not too distant future. Realair are one of the very best 'manufacturers' IMHO. Despite all of my recent aircraft purchases I still use their Spitfires a lot of the time. I even go back to the (pretty old) SF260 some of the time.

The turbine will make it most attractive for me - lots of power for shorter take-offs ;)
 
No photos or numbers - just a big "mwuuu-Haaa-Haaa". She's a sweetie. Like Ryan, I'm flying a Sandy Bridge machine, but mine's new. The new Duke is butter smoothe. I think the PT-6A modeling is spot on. As usual, Real Air can do no wrong.

By the way, time to stickie this.

Glenn
 
few more

What a fantastic model....see the "dirty" window in the last shot?
Another winner from the Real Air Team:salute:

The shots were in Cork,Ireland
GEX Europe-FPS set at 40, these shots were between 34-38 FPS!!!


Rick

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Had her up for 1.5hrs and my frames expectations are about on par with the post above, but pretty much close to the non-turbine. Once up in the air though, what a pleasant experience. Stable and remarkably responsive. Never did like the drone of turbines, but I'll have to get used to this!

Take-off and landing are very similar to the piston, and landing (I inadvertently had selected the shorter dirt runway at Kingroy AUS) I figured why not. Perfect touchdown, a bit hot, but F2 reversers were smooth and predictable.

She's a hoot for sure!

Cheers
Larry
 
Tracon said:
Oh my word someone do tell me how the frames are!
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In average my rig runs arround 25FPS(win 7 Nvidia ACC SP2)

The Turbine Duke(as the B60) does a 30 in outside views and a 21 in VC(B60 a bit higher in VC(22FPS) maybe the turbine instruments)

Roland
 
A few pics at dusk (yeah I turned off most the settings cause my PC is old school)... my favorite time to fly!

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I'm having a pretty major issue at startup. When my left engine starts it goes to 100% throttle and spins me around in circles. I have no control with my X52 throttle. The right engine is fine. I just keep mashing buttons until I can get the left engine to go back to idle. Last time I started her up I spun around about a dozen times...

I have also had some prop animation problems as well. Occasionally the prop disk will stop spinning.


Any ideas?
 
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