windplayer wrote on Mar 11^th, 2013 at 8:42pm:


Exactly my friend, we are siting in a chair facing a computer, so what is the point to program another computer within the monitor of our computer?

Better recreate flights navigating by Vor or making ILS apporaches and getting it aligned manually with the runway in a rainy day with poor visibility. As you say, if you are studying to become a pilot, and make it your profession, these modern NGX planes and airbuses are fantastic.

But the sim has other puprose too, and one of them is to remember.

Like when we played cowboys in modern days, because going from El Paso to San Francisco on a horse in 1850 was an adventure both in nature and stamina, compared to taking a Gray Line Bus today...and so forth,

The sim is for fun, the fantasy of re-living those years, when Pilots were grand, when female flight atendants were sensual, when the pleasure of a good cigarrete and the best wines and beverages were served on any flight in any route, when flights were a place where people made new friends, engage in conversations, not feariong one another, where many love stories started, �etc

How about low wing medium range props, like BAe ATP, SAAB, Electra, etc. FS is lack of them in all versions. I can't find one that is good modeled.

There are many options for that kind of aircraft, models that no other developer has made and will make us have different experiences on FS, not just flying heavy jets...

I flew from Sicily to Bahrain on an Aloha DC-8. But it's perhaps too similar to the 707, and there is another new DC-8 on the market. (Don't know how good it is.)

DC-9 is not Boeing, and there is a very nice new DC-9 on the market, so I don't think it would make much sense.

The classic 747 would be perfect, and would complete the seven series (almost). There's not been a really good classic 747 for FSX, and I think it would be popular.

Well I don't enjoy flying computers.

Airbus therefore is a big problem, however I'd like to see an A300.

I'd be more than happy with a 747 if that was the choice.

The problem with Russian aircraft is that to be authentic, they would have to use cyrillic characters on the panels. I doubt that most users would have the patience to learn this and also what kind of market quantity could they sell.
Ron

rservice wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 1:30am:

LOL. For 15 years I flew a helicopter made in France.

I think the symbols were a concession. Strangely it was only the gauges that were in French. All switchgear was labelled in English.

Black Shark which if you take out the military side of things is by far and away the best helicopter simulation I have seen for the desktop, is a Russian machine but you can install a Russian version and an English version. It wouldn't take much.

There is no doubt that the Russians make some fine aircraft . Some freeware models of the above are available . There is a tendency among some nameless people to belittle the accomplishments of Russian engineers, but they have shown innovation in a lot of their designs. I'm not great at flying helicopters but I agree the DCS black shark is probably the best helicopter simulation I've seen.
What to make next !??, possibly , a 747-100 and 200 with working INS.
I actually worked on those simulators back in the early 70's.
Just my 2 cents. 
Ron

rservice wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 1:30am:


there is a very nice model of MI-8 on the market with real cockpit, but they just change the cyrilic to english and it very nice to fly.

As far as I know there are in real life, russian planes with that modification, operating, precisely for market reasons and to standard operations in the occident..

It's just a matter of changing russian to english, meters to feet, km to knots and a few more, not that difficult I believe.