All I want to know if is if we can adjust the volume of the engine sounds to suit our liking within MSFS or the LH load mags or iPad?
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Normally, yes. There is an engine sound slider.
Yes you can, but Iād like to remind you that in a cockpit of MD you actually canāt hear the engines.
Sound sets coming with LSH MD are alwaysā¦ need workā¦ I think itās bc itās kinda difficult to get sounds from live plane this days as there are like less than 10 of them are still operating. I expect alternative sound packs to be released. Not a showstopper for me presonally bc, as Iāve said, engines canāt actually be heard at all in the cockpit of a real MD and LSH cockpit sounds are good enough usually.
That is correct, and I have experienced no fps degradation over time in long flights, unlike what happens in FBW a320.
Donāt take me wrong, I believe noone could do a better job than FBW by modding for free a stock plane, but that comes with a few issues that are not present here.
I did NOT say that about the Concorde and I dare you quote me.
I said the Concorde was not a studio level plane and that I had never flown in it, but that I imagined it flew in a similar way in real life, and actually it does, they have compared the flight metrics to the real one.
I should not take the bait from you, but I am saying it flies like the real thing because of three reasons:
1- As I said I flew many times in it, many of which in the cockpit.
2- I checked with pilots (as stated before)
3- The developers have checked that the numbers of the plane are the same as in real life
This is so true, we are in the verge of an incredible studio level plane being release in the sim and some are fixating on the resolution of the dust textures in the cockpit and the roundness of springsā¦
How demoralizing.
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Yes you might not have the time to look at textures, but tbh no matter what influencers said, with the price tag itās highly likely they can mostly get back their P3D customer base plus a few summers who donāt care it donāt look as good for other msfs planes and the price tag.
And I am not saying ppl will fly the default Asobo planes instead of this due to textures, if I am a simmer who want to try what a study level airliner is about, you have in similar time frame the PMDG 737 and Fenix A320. All considered similar system depths compared to the MD80. Except for MD80 die hard friends, if one is wanting a short haul narrow body airliner, all three qualify, and at such case price and look did weight a lot on decision making. Just normal consumer mindset. If one product cost significantly more and perform similarly, you better be much better in other less important thing like finishing.
Nobody can guarantee they will continually upgrade the plane, and no one can guarantee those wonāt be a upgrade pack. Seriously, I think around 50 euro is kind of the psychological mark for a lot of simmer out there.
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Great thanks for letting me know engine sounds can be turned up if need be.
Hopefully the FTsimplus below will assist in the meantime; their sound packs in MSFS have been a game changer for me.
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Then they had better re-evaluateā¦ Because the ppl want textures that are photo real, they want flight models as real as it gets and systems. To be frank if anyone is going to nit pick a spring or textures, I highly doubt the level of complexity is for them. These devs are not huge and they have to pick their battles!
The plane is sold on its sytems and complexity, not how round the spring isā¦ Thats an easy fix, if the systems are trash out of the gate, it fails IMHO.
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Well, canāt argue with that. Iād say that I hope ppl will turn to MD again when (not if) textures and model is updated, but I donāt really care if they will 
. Everyone is free to decide if the plane is worth it for their needs and wants and I know that it does for mine. But yeh, yer right, I am one of those long time P3D users.
Well, LSH is in the market long enough to be known for doing exactly that, continually upgrading the plane. There were some price rises, yes, but updates were always out of charge for current users.
Except -83/88 extensions, those probably will come as upgradable pack too.
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Hopefully it will be, I fully agree thatās up to the dev for the strategy and resulting earnings. Just to say why there is the strong feedback for it.
I actually personally wanted it to release for a long time but tbh, the time frame with pmdg and others makes me unlikely to buy it anytime soon. You only have so much to spare at a time.
For track record, after seeing captain sim behaviour I would say take any long term reputation with a grain of salt. Anyway really hope them success. Somehow if later they decide to offer discount to boost sales is bad for early adopters. It sounds more logical to me to offer early bird discount and increase it with expansion packs
Regarding Texture Quality you should never forget, that what you see in videos is at least 2 times rendered. Even Screenshot are most times compressed. So you most likely never see the real texture qualitiy, unless you see it on a monitor live in the game.
The Maddog is a fine piece of aircraft for the MSFS. And compared to the market, the price seems to be more than fair. You can not always take the pmdg dc 6 into account, because that plane is compared to the market to cheap.
And regarding the sound we only have beta versions in the moment, so that have not to be final yet.
Resuming:
- great textures ( imho - some of the best textures in msfs yet)
- great modell - extern and intern
- great system depth (you can hear the oxygen flow louder, if you switch boom to mask - who needs that??? But it is simulated.)
- great documentation (imho - one of the best in msfs yet)
- great load manager and performance calculator ingame in efb
- great AFMS and it seems a working ACARS
- simbrief support
- custom made autopilot (no copy paste Asobo stuff)
- you can even bring your own soundfiles for some crew messages or background music into the aircraft
- a lot of customization options (no autobrake or yeah autobrake, no TAS/SAT or yeah TAS/SAT , cone tail or flat tail and more)
- failure system
- and more
Of course there will be some downsides at the beginning, like no weather radar, but that means it is always the fault or lazyness of the devs.
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These were just posted by @jerkq on their Discord forum. Yes, this looks horribleā¦ā¦ā¦. I mean I can even see individual scratches in the overhead panel. How unrealisticā¦
Seriously, it looks great to my eyes. Do you all normally fly a plane with your eyes an inch from the panel? No, neither do I. At any normal vantage point, the cockpit looks fantastic.
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are the textures the only issue you guys care about ?
anyone interested how the flight model is and performence in the air ? systems, FMC ? looks like is not so important.
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Weāre all different in what we want to see with the hard earned money we spend, that said if youāve never flown the mad dog in previous sims give this one a go. The Boeing is going to be the most popular in most peoples eyes and understandably so. The mad dog compared to the 737 is very niche. Letās face it, bank accounts are going to take a mega hit in the next few weeks. If the A310 hits us soon then omg I need another job to top up.
Price will always be contentious if over a certain point.
Opinions are always going to be varied, I will end up with them all at some point, in fact just received an e mail from just flight with my discount on the 146 as I have it in p3d which I will now happily end my time with.
Such an expensive time to be a flight simmer, bring it on I am just off out to go busking to get more money lol.
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For the price itās about every aspect. Also the looks. If looks are so unimportant why pay twice when you have the exact aircraft in an older sim which accomplishes probably everything msfs does and more but lacks visuals?
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Is there an exacly releasetime for satturday already?
I want this plane asap, as msfs is my first flight sim and so never owned a MD before.
I care less about the graphic (specally if half of the posts is about a single spring, wich inflight i bet would nobody look at), much more important for me is the depth of systems and looks like the MD should deliver that well
Because I donāt need to spend hours of my time and several gigs of Orthos and weather plugins for MSFS.
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I think this is because everyone have faith all those will be great. So nobody bothers criticise that. But frankly speaking I feel the price vs textures might need a bit of revise. The market tbh is quite different from back in p3d era, msfs is indeed a much bigger platform. Hdd core fans will take it at a cost will those drawbacks, but a lot of marginal customers factors in more. And I would say for a lot of amateur sim pilots, purchasing study level airliners will at need only 1 plane for each class. Then you have to face that ppl might take the PMDG over MD82. Yes pmdg might be underpriced for what the market was, but itās how the commercial world works. If your competition undercutting price with similar quality or better quality, you lose customers to them
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You must be joking. Seriously. I totally agree this might be the deepest modelled aircraft for MSFS. But stop saying that textures are on that level as well. It is just misleading. That is my whole point. In one of the youtube videoās above the reviewer is saying it looks fantastic without any criticism. That is what I am objecting against. It is not providing objective reviews for potential buyers.
Look at your own screenshots. This is just not what you can do in MSFS. And that is OK. But stop telling people that this plane is fantastic in all aspects.
People should be aware that for 75 eur youāre getting a very deeply modelled aircraft, but the looks of P3D. If you donāt mind the visual aspect, I really wish you all the fun of the world with it. But donāt tell us we are not allowed to say that the looks arenāt that great.
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Does anyone know what time it is releasing tomorrow?