Would pay big for a quality heavy bomber! Incidentally, any news on Microprose new B-17 game? Radio silent for a while now…
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Aeroplane Heaven have indicated they are working on a Lancaster. Hopefully A2A’s B-17 will make it to the sim someday!
Be cool having a properly done B-17 
I liked AH’s B-17F the most in earlier sims. I even got it working in this sim a couple of years ago (without cockpit interaction) - looked and flew very nice!
having said that I’ll almost certainly shell out for that Lancaster 
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Awesome aircraft the best of that era for me although I’d certainly have a Lancaster in the hanger aswell.
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I have A2A’s B-17 for FSX and I would happily move mountains for them to bring it to FS2020! In fact, anyone doing a good detailed rendition would immediately get my money!
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The DC-6 (available from PMDG) was designed and built based upon the B-17. It had “modern” features for flying passengers and cargo like a nose wheel instead of a tail wheel. The startup and flying experience is probably very close to the B-17. Might be worth learning until someone brings the B-17 to MSFS.
I’m sorry, I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying? How was it designed and based on the B-17?
Completely different companies, might as well be completely different centuries as far as timescale is concerned, engines are completely different. How was there anything about how the Douglas DC-6, a derivative more of the DC-3, “based on” the Boeing B-17, other than the fact that they’re 4 engine low wing monoplanes?
The Boeing 307 Stratoliner was based on the B-17, but that’s no DC-6. The Boeing 377, based on the B-29, was a contemporary of the DC-6, however, and kind of sort of similar. The DC-6 did have the more reliable R2800 engines over the 377’s R4360’s.
The comment about learning how to fly the DC-6 until someone brings a B-17 to MSFS has some validity, but, if anything, the Boeing 247D would probably be a better choice as far as similarity is concerned.
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I believe Aeroplane Heaven are doing a Lancaster?
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Oh, don’t mention the B377! 
If A2A bring that here, I’m gone! 
Would be pretty cool to be able to get the 17 cruising and head back to the belly turret and climb in there for a spin around and get a sense of what that must of been like back then for the gunner aswell as get some unique views.
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I would love to get a B-17 in the game. The problem with the A2A B-17, however, was that they didn’t model anything on the interior outside the cockpit. I believe somebody else did a B-17 for FSX that did model the full interior. Aeroplane Heaven maybe? Or Flight Replicas? Like you, I’d really want the full interior modeled.
That was the super nice thing about FSX was it’s ability to do shared cockpit, so, you could hook up with somebody else, let them fly the plane, and, as you noted, head back and handle the other tasks. Even better if multiple people could get together to fly the plane.
I think you could do that in one of the other flight sims, maybe the Disney produced one, I forget the name of it, way back in either the late '80’s or early '90’s, around the same time as Red Baron. They’re all mixing together for me now.
Edit: Oh, I think it was literally called B-17, and the purpose was to fly B-17’s in a shared cockpit mode.
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I have a vague idea there’s a WW2 bomber ( well a bigger one than the Mosquito FB ) in some form of progress for DCS - which is naturally multicrew - but I can’t remember if that’s actually happening or if it’s wishful thinking! there are some for the latest IL-2 definitely but that’s… it’s own thing.
Yourcontrols for MSFS does work, after a fashion.
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As much as I’d love to go on DCS it just isn’t the same not having that real world feeling to fly anywhere you want. It just doesn’t feel the same, frustrating because it runs really well and planes are moddled brilliantly. Just cant enjoy only having small sections to fly about in.
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Not a big Steam Gauge guy, but I’d happily learn it for these two!
Hi, is it possible to get this B-17 working in MSFS (similar to the MilViz F-86, flyable even if not with a working cockpit),
thanks
Fulvio