I was flying over LA last week in the Longitude with real traffic on and another flight ahead of me was coming right towards me but even higher at FL600. At first I assumed it someone in the Darkstar but as it got nearer, its flight number showed up “NASA806.”
Upon looking it up on Flightradar24, it appeared to be NASAs own U2 research plane or ER-2. Sadly, I couldnt zoom in enough to see it in detail. But I’m curious as to whether it would be modelled anyway? I use FSLTL base models so I doubt it but thought it would be worth asking.
The fsltl injector runs in the background, I think the first bit of info is telling you the data received “C172” and then the end bit is telling you the model fsltl is using to represent this “172SP Asobo”
You can see here it is using an Asobo 172 to represent a Cessna 182.
So I guess it’s a case of looking here next time you are near one or physically going to have a look (which will be much more fun).
There’s no ER-2 model in the sim or any of the traffic add-ons, unfortunately.
As recently recounted in another forum, Military AI Works (MAIW) was working on porting over their P3D Military AI to MSFS and was about to release an F-15E package when Asobo changed a lot of the underlying AI tech, and all the work they’d done on the conversion broke with a sim update. They were apparently disheartened to waste all that time, and instead of restarting the effort they just decided to focus all their efforts on Prepar3D and give up on MSFS.
I’m honestly surprised more devs have not thrown the towel in with the constantly moving goal posts and forced breakages. Must be incredibly frustrating.
Maybe Asobo could look into getting the rights and including it in a future update of 2024? After all, its quite a unique bird with its high flight ceiling. And landing is supposed to be tricky from footage I’ve seen.
