It will be even better because JF is rebuilding its flight model from scratch. I bet they will improve a few other things in the process as well. This company is very good with keeping their planes up to date.
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Even the Gee Bee by GotFriends is at 1,99. I’m having a great time with it even if areobatics aren’t really my xup of tea.
Heh I like the GF GeeBee but it’s ginormous. Not something for a little grass field like it looks like it would be. For a great sport/aerobatic aircraft, possibly the best in the game is the freeware DeeJing RV4.
So I went and got the Carenado Seminole, another candy-pop comfort food aircraft but I’ve had it on the wishlist for time immemorial and it’s in an envelope/type that I don’t have covered. Not exactly a baby 414, but solid little twin.
Got the CH47, and what a deal with the British supercarrier expansion if you already have the initial SC. Heli AND the carriers for less than just the heli.
I think that’s it, just aircraft for this round. So those two and the 182RG/P2012/Bell 222UT and the Shorts which I already nuked(ugh).
Still torn on the Gosshawk, wish it had the cockpit configuration of the T1 
they need a good TA4J
Contrail just expanded their summer sale, which now includes Samscene3D (25% off), AUScene (50% off) and Seafront Sims (40% off), among others. Impulse’s 50% off sale is ongoing. A good time to be buying if you’re into Oz scenery!
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Hi @JakTrax78. One airport that I’m considering in the current sales is EBLG Liege. I’ve read your prior posts about Liege (back in January I think) and I think you were disappointed with the overall performance and an ILS problem. I’m wondering if you know whether this is still the case?
(In case it makes a difference, I’m on PC having switched from Xbox Series X a few weeks ago.)
On Xbox is was THE most unusable airport I’d ever come across. For some reason, M’M’s optimisation always seems to be quite poor, even using higher-end PCs. That said, it wasn’t particularly stuttery — the Xbox’s memory shortage problems at times appear to be triggered by any number of different issues relating to optimisation.
I have often thought about ‘rebuying’ it for PC as it is an airport I want in the sim. But overall, I was quite disappointed with it. Not only due to the issues on console, but also because the airport felt a bit sparse (not enough airside/landside ground clutter). On PC I imagine the likes of FSLTL will make it feel much more alive; plus there might also be more clutter for PC.
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Thank you for your considered reply. I’ll give this one some thought.
FSDT’s summer sale started today with 40% off all their products, including GSX Pro, until 4th August 2024.
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Just to round up what I think are the best buys, now that all stores’ sales are in full swing:
AUScene (all products - 50% off, Contrail, IniBuilds, Orbx)
FSimStudios (all airports - 50% off, Marketplace)
Samscene (all products - 25% off, Contrail)
Verticalsim Ontario KONT (£6.29, Marketplace)
XWind Studios’ Kristiansund ENKB (£6.60, IniBuilds)
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I’ve backed way off of scenery as I think they’re going to be a long process converting to 2024. 2020 is even expecting a big wave of world improvements. If waiting on MP updates for Vegas is any indication. Aircraft can be modified to compatibility in a vacuum.
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Agree, till November only planes 
airports are likely to need less work than planes though, if any.
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For all we know the new PG and what could be a massive autogen library with better AI may make half the airports we’d replace tolerable in its native state. Just look at all the new ground ops/objects in the background of the trailer.
I’d bet landing at a local municipal airport wont have half a dozen 40’x100’x60’ tall random giant corrugated buildings and a tower that would make many international airports jealous.
Do you think it’s still worth buying city add-ons? I can’t see them upgrading cities beyond the current level of PG — in other words, I don’t think we’re going to get hundreds of hand-crafted cities with full night-lighting — but the World Updates for the current sim have frequently added POIs in large cities.
Airports I’m confident buying still. I can’t see default airports in FS2024 offering much more than we get in the current sim, unless Asobo hands over the hand-crafting reins completely to the likes of IniBuilds or Gaya. And even then, they’re likely to be slightly scaled back to keep payware options open.
Effects mods such as the aurora by South Oak and //42’s new SimFX (and its associated immersion packs) are a no-go for me as I believe a lot of these will be native to the new sim.
The pg is getting so good, look at London now!
I still like the city addons, you can’t beat good quality hand crafted for detail but tbh unless you are flying a heli below 1000ft it’s getting hard to tell them apart.
City packs have the biggest impact at night. PG cities look quite poor and generic in the dark — just a load of lit windows (with no variation between buildings) and red aircraft hazard lights.
Compare that to Orbx’s Sydney, or Drzewiecki’s Chicago (which looks gorgeous, despite being a bit overdone). Of course it helps when the city is in close proximity to its airport; good examples being Calgary, San Diego, Houston Hobby, Dallas Love Field, Honolulu, Chicago Midway, London City, Barcelona, Brisbane, Adelaide…
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Almost every add-on will work is the official line so it would cause quite some uproar if most of it didn’t.
Every add-on purchased at the Marketplace, was the exact wording. However I suspect their mentioning the MP exclusively was just to cover their own backsides — after all, they can’t speak on behalf of other stores they’re in no way affiliated with.
The slightly concerning thing is that one reasonably big dev (Impulse) has stated that they will administer a ‘small charge’ to make their sceneries compatible. They might not have to do anything at all but they seem to be anticipating a certain degree of revision — so I really hope every other dev isn’t going to jump on the bandwagon. A ‘small charge’ could very quickly turn into having to fork out for every payware airport a second time!
As it stands, there’s been no indication as to whether third-party content will work seamlessly from the get-go, or whether the devs will have to make small but time-consuming adjustments. Based on logical thinking, all the DEM and TIN data that’s been collected over the last four years will presumably be transferred to the new sim? Maybe some of the older World Updates will be redone but I doubt Asobo are going to want to do it all over again unless current tech allows for better scanning.
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To be fair to Impulse, which are after all a business having to make a profit, in that recent road map update they also said that people have already started to sit on their hands and defer purchases until MSFS 2024 is out, and that other devs are seeing that too. Also they previously noted that their hard work and ability to make money off it is being undermined by illegal copies appearing as soon as they release a new product. Must be very hard for them.
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Yes but devs sell on the MP and on their own websites and/or third party stores and the content will be the same so if it’s on MP regardless of where you purchased it’s covered from how I interpret it. So it is really almost everything other than for a few products that are not on MP at all. I guess the biggest risk is for a lot of the .to stuff. Not long now to find out for sure.