Hi all. I just purchased this bad boy. I was disappointed to find out, that after install, there was only one model and one livery (Pan Am).

Is Captain Sim going to make this right by releasing some more liveries very soon? It's unfortunate to pay $74.00 dollars and get only one plane.

The bugs I've noticed thus far are:
* No passenger window lighting effects while flying at night.
* Very limited panels. The only options on the simicon window are Wx radar, animations, and a very cheap map.
*Autopilot acts goofy, half of it works, half of it doesn't.

The positives I've seen:
*Great sound
*Very good VC
*Nice exterior in daylight only.

cubs fan

Tkank you for letting us know what we will have if we buy it

I will wait few more days and see what the others will say about the product and then maybe I will buy

thanks

Hi.

Here's my thoughts on the 707, so far.

Learning to fly this beautiful beast without having a manual to read is a real challenge, but I'm game. Take note of this: "We are updating the 707 web site: screenshots, product description and manuals will be availabe by Friday morning UTC."  before you start to panic about not having a manual. We soon will. In the mean time I'm trying to fly it in a similar fashion to the 727, I could be wrong, but the similar cockpit interior makes me think this way!

I had trouble with the A/P at first, but I got it working quite well in the end (after taking off from YMML and touring the state of Victoria before finally figuring out how to lock onto the FS Flight Plan to NZAA ). LOC and G/S capture I didn't figure out and so I had to land manually (I got way below the G/S when I was still a good 10nm from the runway threshold). I think some touch and goes are needed for me to see if I can figure it out.

The Animations panel is really good and I think it would be great if the entire CS fleet were to get theirs updated to this standard.

Unfortunately for cubs fan, I'm a flight sim VC man and don't really care for the 2D panels and I would rarely use them if they are there anyway, so I love the fact that there are only a couple.

The map is basic. But it shows a large amount of detail, much like what you find in the default FS GPS. I think it's quite good.

Liveries? Yes. Only the Pan Am livery, but I'm sure that we will get more in a future release. For now, we will have have to make do with Pan Am and any free ones that are made by others with the paintkit that is hopefully in the pipeline and not too far away. I found no mention of it, so perhaps that information will be out on Friday as well.

The 707-300 is of the typical high quality and standard that Captain Sim are known for.

Mark

EDIT: Some things I forgot to mention.

There are are two panel configuration files in the Panel folder. The default panel.cfg and CIVA_panel.cfg. So those who have the CIVA INS are catered for already!

I couldn't figure out how to start the engines. I can't find an APU, but external power and air is available, but I must be missing something.

And on the Flight Engineers station there is an image of two checklist pages that are very clear to read. I just haven't followed them yet. I just wanted to take off and fly so I was lazy.

OK. I'm off to see if I can work it all out now!

I have bought and installed the 707 but will wait till I have a manual in front of me before I try and fly it.
I have to wonder if the plane had to get pushed out of the hanger without the manuals and liveries for some reason.

                     JeffG

jeffg wrote on Aug 17^th, 2010 at 4:32pm:

The manuals are available: http://www.captainsim.com/products/x707/manuals.html

As usual, we do not include the manuals in the pack, but leave them available as free downloads from the web site.  

I've read that there will be 4x Textures. Do I understand correctly?, the 4x Textures has more Quality and Realism than the standard CS Textures. So they have the same Level of Macphat Textures?

The 4X textures are 2048x2048.
The size matters, but the art of the texture is the key difference.
Anyways, they are in four times higher resolution than 727/757/767.

Hi McCartney95

I can't answer the first question. But the answer to the second question is YES. See here: http://www.captainsim.com/products/x707/300/index.html

Mark