indiaciki Posted November 13, 2014 Posted November 13, 2014 just installed 60GB and working on configuring views, controls etc. Is is that good?
Pringliano Posted November 13, 2014 Posted November 13, 2014 Well, I use XP10 as a out-of-windshield generator for PSX, and it really does a remarkable and smooth job in this area, specially if coupled with the SkyMaxx V2.1 add-on for skies rendering and visual weather effects. Have been a long time user of the XP "franchise", very critic about it too, but the fact is this sim is really making it's way across the civil flightsim market very well, and the latest datarefs introduced by the Devs to allow for fine tuning of prop and other effects will allow, I believe, for talented aircraft designers to build really good / plausible / accurate replicas of their RW counterparts, using also scripts for the more complex systems not modeled by default in XP10. Make sure you also visit X-plane.org, SimHeaven.com, for additional scenery areas, specially freeware airports, photo scenery and mesh, OSM scenery and recently World2XP scenery. All very good and free!!!
J2_Trupobaw Posted November 13, 2014 Posted November 13, 2014 Depends on what you want to use it for. Practicing radio navigation using modern beacon systems? Checking out route between IRL airfields? Checking layout of field you've never been to? Flying over your house or high altitude sightseeing of real life places? Great for all that. Gorgeous scenery, challenging flight dynamics, flights where you can expect things happen to you, pleasure of flight in general? Find different sim.IMHO point of X-Plane is more navigating than flying, and surely it's more tool than a game.
kestrel79 Posted November 13, 2014 Posted November 13, 2014 I never get a good "feeling of flight" from playing X Plane or FSX. It's like they almost design them for you to have to purchase hundreds of dollars of 3rd party stuff to enjoy them. I'm not a big mod installer so I guess this is why I find civil flight sims so meh. Yes it is cool flying over Wisconsin. No other type of flight sim can offer that. But a 3 hour flight where I see the same 4 landscape tiles over and over again and it feels like I'm just floating through space with really bad stock sound effects? No.
Pringliano Posted November 13, 2014 Posted November 13, 2014 (edited) Pretty much what others have posted, although scenery-wise, XP10 can become really good! http://forum.avsim.net/topic/455600-the-sheer-beauty-of-x-plane/?do=findComment&comment=3115718 The Flight Dynamics also allow for great fine tuning of an aircraft ( civil ) to rw numbers, but not all developers explore it the best way... Edited November 13, 2014 by jcomm
indiaciki Posted November 13, 2014 Author Posted November 13, 2014 (edited) I'll use it as a tool. I know that flying is much more fun in BOS, ROF and DCS but it's great flying IFR at Airports I know. Well, I use XP10 as a out-of-windshield generator for PSX, and it really does a remarkable and smooth job in this area, specially if coupled with the SkyMaxx V2.1 add-on for skies rendering and visual weather effects. Have been a long time user of the XP "franchise", very critic about it too, but the fact is this sim is really making it's way across the civil flightsim market very well, and the latest datarefs introduced by the Devs to allow for fine tuning of prop and other effects will allow, I believe, for talented aircraft designers to build really good / plausible / accurate replicas of their RW counterparts, using also scripts for the more complex systems not modeled by default in XP10. Make sure you also visit X-plane.org, SimHeaven.com, for additional scenery areas, specially freeware airports, photo scenery and mesh, OSM scenery and recently World2XP scenery. All very good and free!!! Just downloading TB of stuff. Great sites. Great sim. And I have a good IFR instructor and tons of charts Thanks, jcomm !!! Edited November 14, 2014 by indiaciki
indiaciki Posted November 14, 2014 Author Posted November 14, 2014 What's the best GA twin (payware or freeware) ? Anybody flew the duchess? Seneca?
Pringliano Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 (edited) Hmmm, anything from Carenado is good, and the author, Dan Klaue, is updating it's models to 10.30 with the new GPS. I had the Baron 58, the Seneca and the C90 - all very nice! Give a look at a lot of free stuff from XPFR ( http://xpfr.org/ ) too - make sure you download only those that say 10.x for version 10 of the sim. Edited November 14, 2014 by jcomm
indiaciki Posted November 14, 2014 Author Posted November 14, 2014 (edited) Hmmm, anything from Carenado is good, and the author, Dan Klaue, is updating it's models to 10.30 with the new GPS. I had the Baron 58, the Seneca and the C90 - all very nice! Give a look at a lot of free stuff from XPFR ( http://xpfr.org/ ) too - make sure you download only those that say 10.x for version 10 of the sim. great french planes... I wish I could find a Wassmer atlantic / pacific Edited November 14, 2014 by indiaciki
SharpeXB Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 The Caranado planes for XP10 are about some of the nicest ones I've ever seen for any sim!
indiaciki Posted November 15, 2014 Author Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) I'm thinking about buying the seneca ll, the CT206H HD, the cessna skymaster, the malibu HD or one of the bonanzas. Is there a big difference bteween the HD and the non-HD versions? I'm tending towards the seneca because she has an old school cockpit or the skymaster... did you try the x-plane beech duchess? Don't know how good she is. It's the plane I flew most in in RL, though not Caronado and she doesn't seem to have a flight director that my father's duchess had. I have 2 caronado fsx planes, both great. Edited November 15, 2014 by indiaciki
indiaciki Posted November 15, 2014 Author Posted November 15, 2014 I can't handle GPS and I really wouldn't bother using it.
Pringliano Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 (edited) Well, I only bought one Carenado for FSX ever, and that was the B1900D, which I really liked, before uninstalling FSX long ago... as a flight simulator, but from many users of both flight simulators, FSX and XP10, I have heard that the XP versions are even better. Dan Klaue, the designer of the XP10 versions, does a extraordinary work of art and dedication to bring the aircraft down to the numbers, in as far as that is possible in XP10. Just very recently he was the first to use the "new datarefs" introduced by Austin Meyer in XP10.30 to allow for fine tuning of prop effects and other aspects of the simulation of fixed and rotary wing aircraft not modeled correctly, or simply not modeled presently in X-Plane. You can read a very good post by Andy Goldstein here, about the limitations of X-Plane prop models... My Carenados for XP10 are the Pa34 ( Seneca ), Baron 58 and the Beech C90. All very nice, with the Seneca already upgraded to version 3.0 ( with the new implementation of the GNS430 / 530 ). Edited November 15, 2014 by jcomm
indiaciki Posted November 15, 2014 Author Posted November 15, 2014 Great link, jcomm. Very informative. I was thinking about the B1900D for x-plane but she's too big an aircraft for me so I think I'll buy the Seneca later. Is the Carenado Baron worth buying? Better than the default one?
SharpeXB Posted November 16, 2014 Posted November 16, 2014 Great link, jcomm. Very informative. I was thinking about the B1900D for x-plane but she's too big an aircraft for me so I think I'll buy the Seneca later. Is the Carenado Baron worth buying? Better than the default one? Yes the Caranado B58 Baron is great! It's much better that the default one that comes with XP. Definitely worth it.
indiaciki Posted November 16, 2014 Author Posted November 16, 2014 (edited) Yes the Caranado B58 Baron is great! It's much better that the default one that comes with XP. Definitely worth it. I'll buy it then. Have you flown the duchess? What's the best single engine GA? Edited November 16, 2014 by indiaciki
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