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Which aircraft do you miss the most from FS9?

AusWilko said:
I miss the freeware interactive 737, it had a voice checklist that followed your steps through, at the end of shutdown he said something along the lines of lets get out of the straps and have a cold beer, flew that thing heaps and to my shame I can't remember the author, lost it 2 computers ago.
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Sounds like the Air Scheffel 737.
 
My most missed aircraft plus a head's up

For default fs2004 aircraft... I would say the Cessna 182S.
Speaking of the Cessna 182S... A.F. Scrub released a FSX native version of the aforementioned plane.
 
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Bjoern said:
I can wrap up what's present and upload it, but there's gonna be one catch: No questions that can be answered by reading (what's present of) the manual are allowed.
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That sounds like an awful lot to take on, Bjoern, but I appreciate the offer.
 
The Aerosoft Do-27, which was a very advanced model for its time. The Flying Stations Canberras, and the Lionheart Junkers W33 would be great candidates for an FsX upgrade in my book.
 
Craig Taylor said:
That sounds like an awful lot to take on, Bjoern, but I appreciate the offer.
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It is.

Next to the base pack, I have eight or ten different aircraft folders for a few common 727 configurations. Each repaint I've installed was checked against the real aircraft in terms of features (hush kits, nose brakes, engine model, avionics and weights, etc...) and put into its own aircraft folder, if necessary. In each aircraft folder, with the exception of the repaint specific textures, everything else links back to the base folder where the actual model, panel, sound, etc...files reside. [Fltsim.x] entries for a repaint have to be changed or amended in places or the paint won't work. Ditto for the texture.cfg. Do not use the one from the repaint. If a new 727 variation is required, a new model folder has to be built from the config file repository in the base folder and the appropriate aircraft.cfg template has to be adapted to the new variation before the associated repaint can be installed.
It is comparatively exhausting to set up and maintain, even for me (not gonna lie), but it's the only way to avoid wasting hard drive space while providing as many realistic 727 configurations as possible. It will at least allow you to have National's/Pan Am's anemic -7A powered -200 models coexist with some later -200 series freighter conversions with uprated MTOW and newer engines like the -15 or -17AR.
There is, of course, the possibility of a "ready to go" package with Tom's default paints, but I figure that the long winded, steep road is much better in teaching users the intricacies of configuring and maintaining their 727 variations.

But once you're past that, everything in the simulator is business as usual.
 
Ferry_vO said:
The Aerosoft Do-27, which was a very advanced model for its time. The Flying Stations Canberras, and the Lionheart Junkers W33 would be great candidates for an FsX upgrade in my book.
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Actually I still fly the FSX version of the DO-27 (in P3D) after one or two tweaks to the glass. It's one of my favorite aircraft.
 
Bjoern said:
All I have for a good 727 in FSX is something built on Tom's freeware 727 models. There are limitations to the virtual cockpit model and, of course, the simulator, but I've used a FCOM to implement as much of underlying logic of the real bird as I can. It has custom FDEs for most engine variants and most weight configurations, engine limitations and shenanigans like realistic startup, hot and hung starts, something akin to APR on the -17R, a load manager, automated v-speed bugs and F/O callouts and while the switch sounds aren't realistic, at least the trim clacker sound is.

The problem is that requires an awful lot of time to install and setup which is covered in 15+ pages in what exists of the manual, that the manual itself is incomplete (there's custom checklists though) and that it absolutely requires Tom's model, regardless of what one thinks about its VC textures. No Captain Sim and no TDS exterior model.

I can wrap up what's present and upload it, but there's gonna be one catch: No questions that can be answered by reading (what's present of) the manual are allowed.
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You mentioned you were tackling Tom's 727 a while ago. (Beyond what's already on your site)

Been waiting ever since.

Knowing your work, it'll be stellar.
 
Stefano Zibell said:
You mentioned you were tackling Tom's 727 a while ago. (Beyond what's already on your site)

Been waiting ever since.

Knowing your work, it'll be stellar.
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My thoughts exactly. I think I'd like to give it a try, but I wouldn't have any time to devote to it until next month.
 
thefrog said:
Actually I still fly the FSX version of the DO-27 (in P3D) after one or two tweaks to the glass. It's one of my favorite aircraft.
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Hi theFrog.

This is one I'd love to get working properly in P3D. Would you be so kind as to share your fixes?

Regards,A.
 
Rancho JEN's Cessna C-152 taildragger. As much as I like Didier Lagaffe's C-150K Tundra taildragger, I still have a soft spot for R-JEN's as I actually managed to create a paint scheme that looked pretty good on it.

Being a fan of low 'n slow flying, I'm a big fan of ultralights in FS, and there was a nicely rendered RANS S-12 Airaile that I really liked. Oddly, it didn't include any figures - pilot or passenger - on board.

A bit O/T, but one thing I really miss from FS9 are some Ontario sceneries that I flew out of or into frequently; Picton, Bancroft, Peterborough, and Haliburton-Stanhope. They'd all been nicely rendered in FS9 but haven't been recreated for FSX.

N.
 
Actually, two series of planes, would be the old prop liners from Jens B. Kristensen, though we have some those from good developers now, like the Argonaut, and the Hauke Keitel models. I liked that they made those old, rare propliner/cargo planes, which we're finally starting to get more of for FSX.
 
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