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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Flight Model and Aircraft Systems?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Interior and Exterior Graphics?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate the Audio and Aircraft Sounds?
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On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being best), how do you rate your Overall Enjoyment of this aircraft?
As per attached image the elevators on the 747 GST are reversed, they go down when you pull back on the yoke but aircraft behaviour is correct. I am pulling on the yoke here. Also the wingflex is all wrong, it should flex up not drop in +g loading which is most flying situations it will do. The high speed ailerons go up or down during banking, these are also reversed in this pic. Overall its an Aeroplane 707 level model, sorry but it is. Your default 747-8 is far better.
This aircraft initially sparked my desire to purchase it, but the actual quality has been extremely disappointing, leaving me with regret. I sincerely hope these issues will be addressed promptly. I purchased the Premium Deluxe because of this aircraft, but I am deeply disappointed.
Here are the problems I’ve noticed:
LOD (Level of Detail) distance is too close. Even a slight zoom-out drastically reduces the model’s quality.
texture decals are overall incorrect. The painted surfaces appear excessively matte.
Material assignments are wrong, leading to texture errors on the radome.
The logo decal on the underside of the fuselage is improperly painted. This seems to be another material assignment error, as visible brush strokes from Substance Painter remain on the logo I think
navigation light under the nose protrudes outside the fuselage.
The elevator animation is inverted. During flight, some control surfaces do not move symmetrically.
Incorrect smoothing group assignment for the 3D mesh. The right cargo door and the fuselage have mismatched smoothing groups.
There are more issues, but thinking about them further only drains my energy. If these issues are resolved within the next few months, I would be truly happy.
There seems to be an issue with the model.xml and the LODs which are set up on this aircraft as well as on the 747 LCF. The cockpit model looks splendid, however the exterior appears broken from a normal distance - only close up it starts to look fine. However even in this case there are floating beacon lights and rivets, so many objects are misplaced from a configuration point of view. Exterior lights also pretty much seem to be inop.
The gear is mostly broken and stuck in some strangely angled position as the aircraft would steer on ground.
The engine sounds miss some rumble - currently the engines sound more like the ones from the 747-8 which shall not be the case.
Overall I have to say that this and the LCF are the least enjoyable aircraft besides the PC-24 currently. I really look forward to see this fixed soon.
Apart from the LOD and animation issues, the model itself is actually very nice (up very close).
But what is absolutely atrocious is the audio. The engine sounds are just horrible! There is no idle howl sound or whine on spool up that you’d get from the PW4000 engine. It’s more like a kitchen appliance.
LOD problems still exist for this model from the latest update. Let us hope Jorg’s comment about aircraft being updated server side doesn’t mean we still wait months for them to be updated.
I am not sure why the cockpit door/partition doesn’t open, or that we otherwise don’t have the ability to walk through it, when the upper deck, crew rest area, and others are modeled. They look great – I’d sure love to be able to go back there without switching into dev camera! Why are the walls and doors non-permeable to our camera, when they are on the 747-8?
1.Unable to set the first digit of squawk code, spin the corresponding knob and it only changes the second digit. Is that by design?
2.the F.O. sits much lower on the seat than they should be.
@SeedyL#4042
We dont seem to be getting these issues fixed.
Elevator is full stick back, thats a full stick forward movement.
The rest are obvious.
How can we get them fixed please?
Rgds
Jon
I don’t say this lightly, but this aircraft truly needs to be rebuilt from scratch—excluding the systems developed by Working Title, which are solid.
Jörg recently made some pointed remarks about the state of the H225, but in my opinion, this particular aircraft is in the most problematic condition of all those included in the Premium Deluxe edition of 2024.
With all due respect, considering the quality of the exterior 3D model and sounds, it’s difficult to understand how this aircraft passed quality control and made it into the simulator in its current state.
Extremely disappointing.
I have to disagree somewhat here. Most of the issues are basically configuration issues like LOD models switching too early (which leads to textures looking strange from a normal viewpoint) or the animation of the elevator being reversed.
The model and textures look great, the interior (including areas you can visit using drone cam) look splendid.
Clearly no need to start from scratch, however it needs fixes and cleanup as it cannot show its full potential yet. Also some additional features would be great like wingflex.
