Released today for Microsoft Flight Simulator, I think it’s a great product from Heaven Designs! Is anyone flying it already?
Teaser trailer:
Some quick screenshots I took:
However, I haven’t managed to find documentation or some best practices for how to reach max cruise level, how best to fly and land, etc.
Absolutely supersmooth to fly around.
Easy to control…nicely modelled. Extremly nice.
Thank you Heaven Designs. There could be more liveries for example the German Eurohawk Prototype or other countries. 5 liveries are included US Navy, USAF, NASA and two fictional camouflage schemes.
@HeavenDesigns please could you make a X-47B.
Free? Pay? Link?
It’s payware ($15) and available on the marketplace, I don’t know about external stores.
15:bucks at the Marketplace
There seems to be a serious issue with this add-on, at least on Xbox. After about 2 hours of flying, the framerate drops to like 2-3 fps. It becomes unusable. Probably a memory leak or something. Since the developers have no contacts, I hope they read this and manage to fix it.
Now you can play a game that simulate your playing a game. LOL. :).
Just kidding this looks really interesting and something totally different. :). I may have to check it out. I wonder if in the real world drone pilots have to undergo the same training (or close to) as flying pilots? Thoughts?
The very reason I like this add-on is that it’s a completely different experience. Flying the drone is very easy but the bulk of the work is done by the autopilot. Cruising at 60,000 ft is an interesting experience for sure. Also, it just looks menacing and cool. 
Today i had similar issues. After flying for 4 hours there were extreme framerate drops and stuttering on Xbox SeriesX.
After SU 14 everything runs supersmooth. No Issues. Awesome.
Check out their YouTube channel and maybe comment there:
I got a pretty quick answer to the question of a non-marketplace release which is sadly a no.
Really shame but as a PC player the limitations (can’t use with M3 for one) and slow update cycle prevent me buying it as well as difficulties in direct support as you’ve mentioned.
Maybe when it goes on sale.
They released the propeller variant on inibuilds so don’t know why they didn’t do the same with this one.
What a beast! Well worth the money. Maybe there’s a camera pointing directly downwards with zoom? A fun drone and a refreshing change.
Thanks but the problem seems to be solved now. Sim Update 14 and the recent update for the Hawk most certainly cleared the issue. I also managed to get on the developers’ Discord and they’re a friendly and awesome team, we discussed performance a lot and they’re extremely helpful. Smooth sailing now, I can only recommend their drones.
Maybe it’s on the co-pilot’s side, the upper screen you mean?
Thanks, will check it out.
Anyone know what the Ground Crew - Co-Pilot option is supposed to do?
I’m assuming it’s to have the avatar show in the right-hand seat but I can’t get it to show even the defaults one.
Other than that a fun bird to fly. Couldn’t find anything that didn’t seem to work besides the above.
I do think that some of the default camera views co do with some tweaking but a lot of that would be personal preference.
If it was possible to get a few extra features, I’d like to see:
For the sale price though…not bad at all.
You can enable the co-pilot avatar in the settings, on your own screen in front of you.
Yes that what I tried but still didn’t show up
