The first bush trips were bush trips but now days they are more like sightseeing tours.
I’m currently just loading the bush trip flight plan in the world map and flying it with the Comanche that way.
Turns out it’s actually more fun this way because you get to control the weather, you have ATC if you want it and as long as you save each leg as an .FLT file you can pick up exactly where you left off (can’t do that in a bush trip).
Downside is the flight plan gets lost after the first leg but I just load it into Little NavMap and I’m good to go.
Right now I’m flying the Czech tour in the Comanche.
Lotsa fun and I don’t really care about the ‘achievements’
There’s a handy little program called Mission Changer. It lets you modify the actual busthrips and use the plane of your choice. You can also change time, weather, multi-player:
You also eliminate the ridiculous external view HUD that they decided to make mandatory in Bush Trips. I haven’t flown one since. No, I don’t fly in external, but it would be nice to jump out there and take a screenshot since these trips take you over some of the most beautiful places in the World.
I’m flying all the bushtrips from the world map now so I don’t have to deal with things like returning to a trip the next day and starting back at the beginning of the leg with your plane at 10,000 feet and all your settings gone.
I could give a monkey’s **** about the achievements. It’s not like you get anything.
Word around is that this is best aircraft ever released on any sim. A2A should be proud of this label.
Another thing i noticed is how responsive A2A are. You can see their passion when they reply to even the simplest questions on their forums and on their discord.
A ground breaking first product, a very responsive and helpful attitude towards customers and a very quick first update.
The only real complaint I have with them so far is that they have not released a new product since the Comanche was launched 3 weeks ago! This is pretty bad in my opinion!
This AC is all I have been flying since it launched and I could really do with them sorting this out pretty sharpish and coming out with a new one at least every couple of weeks max! Come on A2A … You know it makes sense
PS: Last 2 paragraphs said very much tongue-in-cheek but I can’t lie, I am very much looking forward to their next AC
You’re not alone. Been seeing similar cases all over the place, me one of them. They’ll roll the rest soon. Scott mentioned there is still one final “rounding-up” update for the Commanche and then they’ll start with the next aircraft.
I used what may be an unofficial list, despite it being hosted on the A2A support site.
I didn’t find a few LVARS though, like the switch for 8.33Khz support. The event I use for every other plane to switch channel spacing doesn’t work with the Comanche.
Probably the best GA aircraft. DCS has some mighty impressive military aircraft, and although I don’t fly tubeliners (yet) I’ve read great things about PMDG’s 737s.
I flew my first Comanche flight from KORS to KBVS in the Puget Sound area for some pattern work. While rotating, my first reaction was “oh cool, X-Plane.” After a few jaw dropping sorties, I began thinking so much about that comparison that I went through the conniptions and gyrations of reinstalling XP12 (what a pain…plug-ins, folders, sub-folders, product validation for every add-on, etc) so I could compare the Comanche to XP’s excellent SF260. Yep, similar, but the Comanche’s flying experience is better. I don’t know how A2A pulled it off, but the feeling of inertia (?) and delayed but not sloppy input response compares to no other aircraft I’ve flown in any sim. Maybe the Cliffs of Dover Spits and Hurricanes, but that was ages ago. Since the vast majority of us don’t have the benefit of FFB (unlike driving sims), A2A has done a heckuva smoke and mirrors job in the graphics department to give us that “I’m almost really flying” feeling without physical control feedback. As others have mentioned, it’s also easier to fly than most other aircraft in this sim due to its realistic handling behavior on the ground, in the air, and during the transition between the two. It all makes sense.
I’m on a Comanche hiatus until I get a flight yoke (should be good to go mid-month). It’s that immersive that I don’t want to fly this with my otherwise excellent VKB flight stick.
And i also have to say that i’ve had, hands down, the “smoothest” landings i’ve experienced in any GA, with the Commanche.
I mean heck, i’ve never really cared about landing rates before… until i started flying the Commanche. Now i take joy in tracking all my landings rates (just for fun) lol.
I haven’t flown the King Air for a while but they’re about the same. The Commanche’s frame rates are very comparable to any default GA in the sim. A2A did a heck of a job.
Only thing i would mention is that the Commanche tends to not like low frame rates (20 and below) when flying in “heavy” sceneries, as it tends to micro- oscillate a lot…but i hear that Scott already took care of this and the fix is in the pipeline for the next update.
