Please use this thread to provide general feedback and impressions about this aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. For all bug reports, please create a new topic (or upvote an existing topic) in the Aircraft & Systems section of the forums. Please use the full bug report template when creating a new bug report.
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?
I get no plane sounds with this. All external environmental sounds working fine, wind, birds chirping, traffic etc, but the plane itself is completely silent. No door sounds, no switch clicks and most importantly no engine sounds.
Figured out my sound problem. Seems to be a bug affecting some streamed planes, if you delete the plane’s folder from the StreamedPackages folder the game will redownload it and hopefully fix any sound issues. So now I have sound!
Haven’t actually flown yet as I’m just poking around the cockpit after firing up the engine. Found the slats control on the stick which is quite neat but there’s some issues with bindings. If you use the mouse you can incrementally extend or retract the slats. It uses the spoiler commands but it seems ‘increment’ and ‘decrement’ spoiler commands do nothing so you have to use ‘extend’ and ‘retract’ spoilers which is full on and full off, no incremental adjustments. You can use a spoiler axis just fine, but as the real thing is a two way button on the stick I’d rather use a hat on my stick to do the same. Minor niggle but thought it’d be worth reporting.
Edit: actually ignore all that. It works fine, there was just a bit of a delay using the increment/decrement commands for me. Working just fine!
I really like that livery customisation thing in the notepad. GotFriends always come out with the good stuff! Now to fly.
This plane is pretty awesome. It’s like a Savage Cub on steroids. I took off at a place with a 20 knot headwind and was in the air a couple of seconds after throttling up. It’s really fun to fly, the handling is great both on the air and on the ground. It’s easily one of the best new planes for 2024.
It’s an incredible plane and is definitely going to be a ‘main’ plane for me for a while, fantastic for exploring. The only issue I have may very well be a skill issue but the tailwheel seems to behave strangely for me and every time I’ve landed it I’ve spun out. This may be normal for taildraggers and I’m not used to them and add to that I have a twist rudder, but I wonder if there’s something going on with the wheel sensitivity vs the rudder.
Yeah, the flight physics on this one reaches the closest to the real taildraggers on the ground handling. Two-wheel vs. three-wheel touchdowns, you have to be on those pedals and dont let that stick move forward after the touchdown; I’ve paid for it in the sim a time or two. It’s a lot of fun, and it allows FS2024 to show off those low-level graphics—truly stunning IMO.
I’ve been waiting for it more than all the other flying machines in the new sim! It looks great! But someone messed up something in the alignment/CG of the aircraft and actually in the cargo/payload loading management. There is also a very strange behavior of the flight model at low speeds (I have real experience on dozens of different aircraft (unfortunately not on it), but if there are practically no questions about the X Cub (it is understandable and correlates with my experience of flying on taildraggers), then I will not understand Norden in any way… If we take the previous virtual years on Savage Cub/Carbon in MSFS2020, it becomes even more unclear - why is this so?
I deleted my post as I was wrong the fuelling does work, but along the same lines I do see that you cannot make the pilot any heavier than 165lbs in the cargo version at least.
