For anyone who has been on the fence about this aircraft, I cannot strongly enough demand that you purchase it right this second!
I just passed $1000 spent on MSFS addons thus far (if somebody had told me 3 years ago that I’d be doing that, for a sim series that I never had any prior interest in, I would’ve thought they were crazy) and I can confidently say that the 247D is the best 20 bucks – well, $20.47 USD to be exact, which I presume was intentional – I have spent yet. This is absolutely a steal at that price, and the devs deserve as much support as our community can muster.
Last night I decided to just jump in without even opening the manual first. For some reason no matter what time I chose in flight options, I ended up starting near midnight. Easy to change once in-game, obviously, but odd nonetheless. I also noticed that the first load took a really, really long time. And my FPS hovered around 30, whereas I’m usually at 60 (in 4K); the FPS meter confirmed that I was limited by main thread, which is not usually the case for me. So I presume all that extra modeling they’ve developed must be putting quite a strain on my CPU (i7-9700k, so not cutting-edge but no slouch either) – anyone else had this experience?
Also, my first few spawns on the runway saw the engines dying shortly thereafter, but I eventually figured out that if I moved the levers on my Honeycomb Bravo as soon as I hit ‘fly plane’, the engines would stay on. Seems the power/prop/mixture levers were defaulting to starting at zero, thus understandably killing the engines.