My like on your post was mostly for the finger 
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That is a very good finger photo, too bad the huge airplane appeared just as you took it.
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Not sure if this will work when B-36 has 10 engines but MSFS2020 has only 4 throttle assignments.
Ive asked Virtavia for their throttle assignment recommendations for Bravo and any other throttle controllers.
I’m too lazy to use my Object Remover on my phone.
This is from a film with James Stewart. B 36 takeoff and landing Re edit in UHD 4K! The film is called Strategic Air Command from 1955.
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I wonder how many Stream Decks it would take to map the critical dials on that thing. Ha! 
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Thanks to the ability to have multiple pages per device, not as many as you’d think. I have an SD Plus (8 buttons, four knobs, display/spi ribbon), SD XL (32 buttons), and a SD Mini (six buttons), all of which can cover about everything via Spad.Next.
Welp, if ever Shared Cockpits becomes a reality, someone can be a very happy Flight Engineer on this thing.
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I’m going to guess that with a Bravo or something similar one could assign one three levers for the 6 radials (2 each) and two for the jet engines.
I’m curious to know how the mappings are for this plane.
The movie is on Amazon Prime - at least for the US market. It’s worth watching! Also, there is a thread on this over at the Outhouse with feedback from a few buyers.
True!
I have an XL and a Plus, and it’s amazing how many things I can map.
I wouldn’t mind having 3 or 4 SD Studios for this beast!
(My wallet would complain mightily, though… 
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People today worry too much about textures and graphics. I had my first Flight Simulator on a Commodore 64 back in 1985, and anything that we get today is a vast improvement on what we had back then. It was done by Bruce Artwick, the forerunner to what you have today. Bruce Artwick - Wikipedia
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I got it since I couldn’t resist just looking over all the cockpit work. It does look good and some of the levers and switches are functional. Hoping that more comes later… and that the other quarters are rendered. Would love to go down the tunnel to the rear quarters. I am bound to using FSUIPC for throttle assignments since I use an older serial port PFC Cirrus II BATD. Gave up on finding a way to assign individual throttles and just assigned the generic throttle, prop, and mixture which allow me to enjoy flying it.
Hope someone does an in depth review video soon.
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Virtavia advised they used same throttle mappings as Hughes Flying boat,whatever they are.
EDIT: 8 engines,2 engines per throttle assignment. I guess it would be the 4 jet engines on 1 lever for B-36.
First video/review… it’s really quiet for me on my weak speakers, but at least you can see her in action.
I’m about 80% sold at this point, having seen her in person at the USAF museum and just the sheer size and the engineering involved, and since no one else will probably make one. The price point is good too. It’s funny, I love the P-47 more but I’ve been holding off from the AH one for hope of a sale, while I’m about ready to go on this one because the price is so much better (and my expectations are reasonably lowered as a result).
I would like to see a little more texture in the overhead “dome” of the cockpit - interested to see what painters can do. On SOH they seem to think it should be darker. So maybe something can be done there. I’m trying to hold out for a more detailed review but may just end up buying it - I’ve got an itch to recreate that stadium flyover scene from the movie lol.
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Having bought it I think its great.
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How are the engine sounds? Have you taken it to altitude - I thought I read somewhere it doesn’t have contrails? Do the jet engines let out any smoke effects?
They sound ok to me but then again i believe there isnt a b-36 for the developer to record from. I have not seen contrails and also saw someone commented about no contrails.I have seen smoke effects on starting up engines. I have the Virtavia Hampden and like this as well.
They are definitely step up improvement from previous Virtavia models. I might get their Stirling as well.
OK - there are aircraft with much better textures but as this is an unusual aircraft and unlikely to be repeated I can live with the texture quality.
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That all sounds fair to me, pardon the pun lol. I don’t even know what the closest engine currently in use would be to stand in for the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major. Maybe the DC-7’s Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone if there are any of those still active, although a quick google search looks like the last one flew in 2019. Their website mentions “Wwise sounds package” - now I’m curious where it came from. As long as it sounds the part I’m happy enough with that. Still hoping for a video review but I may just give in and pick this up this weekend.
There are a couple of YT viewers for you to look at
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