My goodness… it’s really bloomin’ good. I might as well just stop doing these charts then… who needs Payware, right?
Only done a short hop to test it, but it’s very refined, nice clean and well blended sounds, many neat features on the EFB including state saving. Opening doors if you like that sort of thing! Can’t fault it in any way. OK maybe the brakes need to be a bit stronger as I kept overshooting my turnings when taxi-ing!
Only 2 liveries included, but pretty sure there will be a deluge on fs.to soon!
My favourite green Reims livery with the mud splatter effect was already updated to the new V2/WB version of this plane a couple of days ago, and I love it just as much now as before, if not more…
Seems like I have to download and try that thing tomorrow.
What do you guys think about the Milviz/BB Corsair? Would it be worth a purchase? I’m interested in a warbird. Heard many good things about it, but what are the opinions about it here?
Wow. what, actually by that monument there? Or on the lake? I wonder if that’s what the Salt Lake really actually is. It’s not a dried out old seabed. It’s just generations and generations worth of ashes.
Fun fact, keep going West on that road and you get to Wendover, Nevada.
Gambling is legal there, so the town basically exists so folks from Salt Lake City can legally gamble. A two hour drive. Pretty darn straight the whole way.
My grandparents LOVED Wendover so their kids put their ashes by the Tree of Life smack dab in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats.
My favorite test flight for new planes and troubleshooting is from Salt Lake International, KSLC to the Wendover airport, KENV. Just a weird flight over some weird terrain that I know like the back of my hand.
Yes, keep flying West from that tree following the interstate. It is on the north side of the road at the edge of the salt flats… a black stripe on the North side of the road just before you fly over Wendover. So the side of the road with the tree. Opposite side from the airport.
Right side of my wing in this pic. In front of the plane.
I am hesitating to hit the buy button for it. I was hovering over it just now, but then went and flew the 310 instead for my Yoke Fix
I dunno why but as good as it sounds, it is sooo similar to the Warrior which I recently bought. that I think I am going to wait for JF’s flight model update for that.
I would be paying £16 for a (very) nice cockpit and sounds (but the 310/414/172 with Boris mod sounds “as good as you can get” [TM] already), and nicer “wind / gust” handling but hopefully that is just a temporary thing. It’s not expensive but I don’t like to “waste” money, and think I have my eye on the NEXT Cowan heli (500E)… but I did only just buy TWO 206’s - so again I am going to wait and see how that one evolves. It’ll probably come to marketplace as the 206 appeared there.
When something comes along that I am intrigued by, I don’t usually hesitate like this, so something is stopping me.
Also something ate up almost 20gb of my C drive since I last checked, so I need to be careful with Marketplace purchases. That Carenado is 5gb.
You know what I’m going to say about this, having spent the last three days evangelizing this plane wherever I can. When I first saw it on the marketplace update post I thought it was some shovelware but it has turned out to be a real peach, a genuine surprise.
That said, I think there’s two aspects to whether an add on is worth buying. One of course is how good the simulation is, and the other is how much you like the plane in real life and would have a use for it in your own flying. I’m a new flyer, so for me even though the 414 may be “better” than the Archer, I much prefer the Archer because it better suits my skill level and type of flying. If you already have a bunch of similar planes that you don’t often use, even if it’s the nicest simulation ever there’s no real point.
But as curator of this thread it’s kind of your civic duty to try everything right? It really is a great time to be a fan of flight simulation.
Don’t know whether you’re wrong or not. I respect your opinions a lot- favourite aircraft are always very personal thing and I’m glad that’s true - MSFS would be boring if we all flew the same aircraft.
But, at least for me, the Archer is a very very special ‘plane indeed. It’s not often that an aircraft comes along with these looks and then has the FM and sounds to match. It’s probably a big surprise to a lot of people that Carenado have hit all the right notes with the Archer but it isn’t so much to me, they have developed a lot of great looking aircraft that fly well. I suppose it was only a matter of time before everything came together so well in one product.
Put it this way, if you try out the Archer, I’ll pick up the Wilga when it turns up on MP - and I am hesitant because I have a hangar full of single prop bush planes already…
When the Wilga came out, I was hesitant because I already have a bunch of great bush planes. But I love and fly the category so much, that it became a must have. Not to mention, the free Got Gravel Savage Carbon is one of my Top 10, so I felt like paying for the Wilga was a bit of payback for the Savage Carbon and the other free mods the Got Friends team has created.
I still have hesitation on the Archer because I too have a lot of similar aircraft: Warrior, Arrows. But again, I fly the “small/touring” GA category a lot and it looks to be a fabulous plane, so I will likely be picking it up.
Exactly- to be honest I probably wouldn’t have considered the Wilga, especially now we have the Beaver as well, except that I’ve been reading all of the very positive feedback on it here - and based on thst “word of mouth” from sim pilots whose opinions I value and respect, I’ll probably purchase as soon as we get it on MP ( whatever year that is! )
Whoopsie… I only wanted to see what that was… 
