Byrna
12-25-2005, 05:52 PM
This is an obvious one for those of us who have flown freeware like POSKY, IFDG and payware like Ready For Pushback 747-200, PMDG 747-400, PSS 777, PSS Airbus and Flight 1 Cessna 172R (the ones I fly but there are countless more...).
At the "realistic" or "difficult" setting, the FDE of the planes should feel much more real-life like. A heavy like the 747-400 should feel like a heavy but still not YAW as much as it seems to with the default version. Just a few months into my simming with FS2004 I had already found (to my delight) and replaced the default 744 FDE with that of the wonderful Pedro Oliveira.
As a secondary problem: it is obvious FS2004 was rushed to market - the 875,000 lbs. 747-400 Jumbo with a total thrust of 4x 63,000 lbs. has the sounds of a plane which is six times lighter and only has TWO engines with a total of approximately 40,000 lbs of thrust - the 737-400! Microsoft really did not care and this is obvious - this is a HISTORICAL EDITION (100 year anniversary) of FS and they don't even have the decency to put real Jumbo jet sounds to the most popular heavy in history?!!! Ridiculous and historically highly inaccurate too! The freeware sounds by people like Des Braban and several others were life savers - thanks again guys!
Second-the panels can certainly be made much more complex and not just in appearance but in functionality. So we don't want a bunch of switches, gauges which are just there for eye-candy but don't work.
And for beginners or people who just want to fly without learning all the nitty-gritty of panels etc... Perhaps MS can have A CHOICE OF EASY versus REALISTIC panels loaded from a menu when one selects the aircraft. Kind of like the models of VC / STAIRS / CABIN options that some payware and freeware makers have.
John
At the "realistic" or "difficult" setting, the FDE of the planes should feel much more real-life like. A heavy like the 747-400 should feel like a heavy but still not YAW as much as it seems to with the default version. Just a few months into my simming with FS2004 I had already found (to my delight) and replaced the default 744 FDE with that of the wonderful Pedro Oliveira.
As a secondary problem: it is obvious FS2004 was rushed to market - the 875,000 lbs. 747-400 Jumbo with a total thrust of 4x 63,000 lbs. has the sounds of a plane which is six times lighter and only has TWO engines with a total of approximately 40,000 lbs of thrust - the 737-400! Microsoft really did not care and this is obvious - this is a HISTORICAL EDITION (100 year anniversary) of FS and they don't even have the decency to put real Jumbo jet sounds to the most popular heavy in history?!!! Ridiculous and historically highly inaccurate too! The freeware sounds by people like Des Braban and several others were life savers - thanks again guys!
Second-the panels can certainly be made much more complex and not just in appearance but in functionality. So we don't want a bunch of switches, gauges which are just there for eye-candy but don't work.
And for beginners or people who just want to fly without learning all the nitty-gritty of panels etc... Perhaps MS can have A CHOICE OF EASY versus REALISTIC panels loaded from a menu when one selects the aircraft. Kind of like the models of VC / STAIRS / CABIN options that some payware and freeware makers have.
John