Bought this after reading the battery issue was solved. Quite like this plane. Noticed a few issues though: engine noise a bit too loud, could barely hear the radio. I heard some barely noticeable looping sounds whilst in cruise as well, seems I’m super sensitive to that stuff as it rarely gets mentioned. Sounds seem to be legacy as well, no changes when moving head around cockpit or when opening and closing the doors and windows. I did a hour and a half flight and had no problems with the battery cutting out so that does seem fixed. Yoke animation seems a bit off, like when you pull back the elevator is at full up or down position when the yoke is only half way back, same with the ailerons, they are at full up or down position when the yoke is only about half way left or right. A bit odd.
I quite like how it flies and bounces around in the air, feels very good. Trims out pretty nicely as well and I found myself just steering gently with just the rudder for parts of the flight. Seems to be very forgiving on the ground though, maybe a bit too forgiving? I mean either my landing skills in tail draggers has massively improved over the past few weeks or this plane’s a bit easy to land, no bouncing or drama like I get from some other tail draggers, but then again it is a pretty slow and low powered plane I guess. But aside from landings maybe being a bit too easy I really enjoyed flying this around, both whilst cruising along on steady course and finding a few valleys to have a bit of fun in. It does require a bit of rudder to coordinate the turns or even to initiate them which is nice to see. Clicking on the wheels to change from ■■■■■ (edit, lol this forum censors the word ‘náked’), fairings or bush amuses me a bit but I did end up accidentally clicking on that hotspot a couple of times. Haven’t tried the float model yet.
Model and textures look great. I love the look of the cockpit, very 1950s USA. Instruments mostly all look crisp and readable apart from the compass which looked a tiny bit lower res than the other bits but it wasn’t too bad. I like how the keys move during flight as well but shame the radio receiver cable is stationary. That vintage radio also looks pretty good!
Overall I quite enjoy it!
Oh, actually one thing that does annoy me and it is very minor and petty: The PDF manual. Not complaining about the contents of it but the page layout. It shows two pages side by side as one page when it seems to be formatted so each individual page should show up nicely on a 1080 monitor:
And it’s not my page layout settings as I have it set to show single page only and the front cover is displayed just fine like so:
As I said this is an incredibly inconsequential and petty complaint to have but it irrationally annoys me lol. Aside from that the manual is visually quite nice and whilst not that detailed explains most the things you need to know about AH’s rendition of the plane pretty well and the rest is covered by the in game checklist either the one by the passenger side or using the actual in game checklist feature which is nice to see as not all devs bother with this!
Oh and I really like that tail wheel model.
edit: removed some stuff about flaps being wrong as I was somehow mistook a clearly labelled handle lol.