Watched today the Dev stream and the 3rd free aircraft was mentioned to be Piper PA28 Dakota 236. What thoughts do you have? I love the Carenado airplanes, because they have very good 3D models and textures. They look almost photorealistic, and love how good they respond in the air (handling in gen…

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As long as I can use it in career mode it will be awesome and at the rate in career mode I’m landing at small airports more than big ones so I’d honestly rather operate regional aircraft than the heavy ones

Meh I like Carenado stuff. I have times when I fly that I want to do ‘everything’ and will choose a higher fidelity aircraft A2A/JF/SWS/BS etc etc. Other times I need to get started and out on the runway as soon as possible and get flight time in before kids come back from the pool or a dog’s goin…

That’s fine. I speculate that we won’t know whether it has a HDG Hold, ALT Hold, or any other AP functionality until it’s released.

I further speculate that there will be a number of further complaints in this thread that Carenado ‘isn’t as good as A2A or Just Flight’ that are super helpful to no one.

I agree entirely with this post - 100%

Their F33 Bonanza is actually pretty decent. Seems to fly per the POH for the most part. The sounds are a little weak, but they upgraded the instrument textures and with dual GTNxi/GTN or GNS support it’s a fine addon for the cost. I also like Piper so I’m excited to get the Dakota!

Carenado has had their middling reputation for ages and I’d argue they’ve outgrown it enough that I don’t see the merit in the case against them anymore. They are a “sweet spot” dev to me. Well-made, nice looking and nice sounding planes you can jump in and fly with generally good flight models. Sim…

Do we know when this hits the sim?

June, according to the latest roadmap. [image]

Carenado Piper PA28 Dakota 236

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