A huge issue with the Kitfox in my opinion. Well, two really but one might be a deal-breaker.
First, the flaps aren’t modeled on the aircraft. They are on the flight model, but not the visual of the plane. For a bush plane that’s a big deal as you would look over for visual confirmation while flying all the time.
The other glaring issue IMO is that it makes all your scenery look horrible out the glass. Go to an outside view or another plane and its sharp as a tack, but inside the scenery looks all muted and low res.
That is true, but it looks horrible. I think it’s probably a low resolution fingerprint transparency texture that is just wrong. It honestly looks horrible. It looks like you turned your graphics to low setting.
I don’t disagree. A quick port from X-Plane from a developer that has many complaints from the X-Plane forums on that variant that he does not fix or update the aircraft.
We can only hope that the injection of sales from MSFS will allow him to focus on these glaring issues.
The only save here is the price, but even at this price with these problems the only market for this plane IMO is those who are huge fans of the kitfox, trent palmer, bush pilots etc…
Not a recommended purchase for the average pilot even at 8 bucks.
Found this in the other post, in case folks want to give constructive feedback to the creator. I think I will have gotten my $8.99 enjoyment out of it when it’s all said and done, but hoping for the fixes as well.
I’ll try the “windshield effects” next time I fly it. Shouldn’t have to do this with payware obviously but at least I know I can fly it and enjoy the scenery.
No, still too much RPM on ilde, so you touch too fast on general, if the are some obstacles on the aproach that doesn’t let you make a lower angle aproach.
For short runaways it’s doable, but a nice challenge, you must nail it, touch soon, braking but not too much, get the sick back when you know it will not takeoff again, and then brake full
But for on the wild landing the same problem … not posible.
Might not work for me then until they fix it. I’m looking for planes I can run my STOL course with. That requires you to come down and land quickly, spin around and take off again. If it’s too “floaty”, it won’t work well.
I’ve created a scenery, but haven’t released it yet. It’s for a new event they just had in Arkansas a few weeks ago called ArkanStol. There are 4 runways and you have to take off and land at each one in order, with the best time winning. It’s essentially a timed course run. The guy that designed it flies a Kit Fox, so I was really hoping it would be viable.
Trent Palmer tried the X-plane version, and I’m not sure it’s the same flight model, looking at the files from this one it seems they took the Savage Cub as base. But looking at the performance, it matches the values from a Kitfox m7 STi from their web.
Also this one is a model 7, and he has a model 5. Anyway, I would like to know what he says about this model, if you feel the “flaperons” or not.
