Iâm going to focus on the premium aircraft:
- The 787-10 Dreamliner: it is disappointing and mind-boggling that Asobo, or whoever was in charge of developing the Dreamliner, thought that we simmers were either fools or would be too excited to notice the haphazard development of that aircraft.
First they just slapped an enlarged version of the PFD, colors and all, on the HUD! They basically âpaintedâ it upon the glass as though that were another display mirroring the PFD, We complained about this, and they decided to replace it with another counterfeit "HUD display which was green, but placed just a few inches behind the glass, with absolutely no alignment whatsoever.
Now, on their third try, theyâve almost got it, but still have it curved like the glass, even though it should be flat and upright at zero degrees (the glass is just a window through which the display is seen, the display is not on the glass, so has absolutely no reason to follow the concave shape of the glass or its tilt). And even now, the HUD is still not correct. One vital symbol is missing, and that is essential for maneuvering. This symbol is the little circle. There are 2 circles, one big and one little. You need to align these 2 in order to fly correctly. Itâs like leaving only the horizontal bar of the flight director, and excluding the vertical bar. You can see both circles aligned in this pic:
And this brings me to the opacity of the HUD. The HUD is tinted magenta, dichroic of course (allows magenta light to pass through while reflecting its opposite color, green), but has 100% transparency and 0% opacity. The HUD now has 25%+ opacity, making it difficult to use, and making it possible to have shadows cast on it, and lights reflecting off it (also compare the size of the circle):
So much more on the HUD but letâs move on to our next issue.
These folks, having noted that for some reason, when the 787 is level, the nose gear doesnât touch the ground, attempted to fix this issue but were too lazy to do a little research. In their attempt to have the 787 completely level, they decided to pluck off the nose landing gear from its hinges so it would be able to touch the ground while the aircraft is level. They convinced themselves that weâd be too naive to notice. If only theyâd done just a little research, they would have found out that on the ground, the Dreamliner is not 100% level. Its nose tilted slightly toward the ground kinda like the CRJ, but not as much. Only slightly.
Take a look at these pics. You can see how much the strut is compressed and how low the nose of the aircraft is:
IRL:
In-Sim:
IRL:
Now compare to MSFS and you see how the strut has been stretched and since it still canât touch the ground, they took it off its hinges:
Also, the swing of the nose gear should be 70 degrees on either direction, making a total of 140 degrees. Here in the sim, itâs 60 or less total. So bad that even the turning, which btw is much less than IRL, still sees the wheels going perpendicular to where theyâre actually facing. Basically skipping sideways while turning.
The little interior windows they provided to make wing-view cameras from, they didnât even bother to align with the windows (exterior) Theyâre placed higher than where the windows actually are.
Iâm giving all this detail on the 787 just to show how bad these premium aircraft are made. The Longitude is another one. âOh we collaborated with Cessna⊠blah blah blahâŠâ Yet they didnât notice that the Longitude has no strobes on the wingtips, only nav lights, and that the strobes are included in the beacons and flash red for beacons, red/white for beacon and strobes. Just generalized and slapped lights on it like on any other conventional aircraft, then mismatched the exterior light buttons e.g: pulse button rather than making the lights flash alternately, controls the fake strobes, etc.
Every premium aircraft has this hurried, uncompleted and haphazard development, and to add insult to injury, theyâre encrypted so no one can fix them. If youâre gonna encrypt the files then, for goodnessâ sake, fix the aircraft! Why does the Longitude, a premium aircraft, not have a cabin?!!
And for the love of everything good, fix the decaying performance. 50 fps beginning a flight, and you canât do more than 3 hours before youâre on 10 fps for no reason. The 787 can fly for 10+ hours but you canât do that here because by the time you reach your destination, you only have 5fps.
And give us a tiller axis for goodnessâ sake, and we should be able to turn this tiller even with the aircraft stationary. Right now, you have to be going a certain speed for the nose gear to turn, making it impossible to make little adjustments while taxiing very slowly. How ridiculous to make us turn an airliner or a jet like the Longitude with the rudder pedals.
