I’d like Orbx to repair their London scenery I have payed for it… no improvement yet, I tried update a few times already. It should not be that difficult to leave evering out that was in the UK update and scale things properly.
On the positive side… for aircraft, keep an eye on Zlinn ! they really know how to make small aircraft (Savage Cub, Savage Carbon, Shock Ultra…)
Personally I am a Carenado fan… I think YMF5 is one of the most beautiful old aircraft in MSFS. Handling is difficult, the engine feels sluggy, but this heavy taildragger… that looks… that sound… I love to see it in screenshots. Another one: Aerosoar, watch them. One for the looks/design also, it could be their last freeware product, they really set out to draw attention on flightsim.to with this !
If you’re looking for another good addon, I highly recommend EFB (Electronic Flight Bag)
I actually bought it (today) from Simmarket but Aerosoft are also selling it.
Like Flightsim.com (who don’t have their own products but used to have the best file database for mods when I started with the internet) - Aerosoft have been around for ages. I bought stuff from them over 25 years ago for FS95 and FS2000. Against them JustFlight could be considered a newcomer. And Aerosoft always had very high standards when it came to their products. And I guess that’s the main reason they’re still around, while dozens of others have come and gone in the meantime.
Their plane was not the best looking but I considered the Maddog 80 to be the MOST complex plane made in ANY sim. I dont know if Leonardo wants to spend all their money and time on an airliner that is retiring world wide now. This plane would also have to be better visually than their model in FS9 and FSX.
The „modern aircraft“ stuff is just one side of the medal. There are just as many people who love the older aircraft as there are peoole who want to fly the latest models only and drop everything that‘s retiring in RW.
I personally can‘t see anything interesting in A350 or B787 flights but love to manage radial engines like in the upcomimg PMDG DC6 or using old aircraft like the DC9. There is a market for all of the planes and Leonardo have been extremely successful in P3D with their maddog line.
I am not saying I would not buy it. Consider it already in my hanger. Problem deals with econnomics and our, still, current world condition (Covid 19). I have hope the they will produce the MD80 just as well as they did and not take the route of some others (UUhmm. cap…usdfnnn …sim) and do a half bake job. If so they should have given us some sign by now of them even trying?
I don‘t think we have to worry. Leonardo are passionate about their addon. I think CS have disqualified themselves from any useful comparision in the sim community. To me Leo are on par with PMDG, A2A and FSL. It‘s a wonderful addon striving for maximum realism and satisfaction. I love it. ^^
Quick question. Were you one of the ones who jumped in the MADDOG slammed the throttle full and wondered why it always flamed out on takeoff. I remmebered the whole community complaining until we findout thats what did happen in real life on a real plane if you slammed the throttle forward. To me this was the closest to REAL you could get in a sim. I forgot to turn on my heaters and window defrost flying over the ALPS. Failures was off but I still was introduced to the ground at a high speed.
Lol no I usually do my calculations and stick to the procedures in these kind of aircraft. But I tried the drama for fun indeed ^^ I fly a turbo prop in reality occasionally and know how sensitive turbines are to temperature and around their max rated settings Normally I don‘t abuse them
I can recommend Macco for airports. I have both airports EGCC and EGBB and downloaded via there own Manager software, which now includes its own METAR, ATIS and Scratch Pad as well.
They are regularly updated via the Manager, and these updates are well before the Content Manager get’s updated.
The link to his website is: https://maccosim.com/
We spoke about addons for previous flight sim versions, in this case Lockheed Martin’s Prepar3d. CS is Captainsim who did okayish addons for P3D but built an overpriced frankenstein of the Asobo 747 with a 777 3D model. Leonardo Softhouse (I think it’s the right name) are an italian developer who created FlythemaddogX which is a high quality version of the MD80 series which is basically a modernized DC9. They are expected to come to MSFS too eventually. No idea though when this will be.
Edit: changed the text slightly to be correct about Leo
thanks ! i come from x-plane and only get used to the FSX/Prepar3D studios ! i have fsx also but only did the flying school with Rob, had never many addons.
the justfly PA-28 i fly at the moment seem quite decent aircraft what i can say. hope we see more decent aircrafts in future, developer need time i guess.
cheers
I have payed for it… no improvement yet, I tried update a few times already. It should not be that difficult to leave evering out that was in the UK update and scale things properly.
Normally I don‘t abuse them