You really miss all the little preflight things you have to do- the quirks of the airplane itself- the buffets and shakes.
You see, as a pilot, you miss out on a lot of things when you come to FSX. However, for wise reasons, the team has decided to do a Cessna 172- a once relevant and still relevant training/GA aircraft. Now, usually these guys do classic airplanes like the B-17, P-51, Piper Cub, and other classics. Recently I’ve seen some absolutely incredible videos come out from A2A Simulations, showing the latest aircraft they’ve done. Your textures and building style will be realistic for the region you’re in.Īnd this is- Full. FTX Global replaces the default autogen (trees, buildings, etc) in addition to default ground textures. The terrain will look realistic and fantastic.
Well, although there isn’t a FULL treatment for those areas, we now have FTX Global.įly from the Congo to Korea, and never miss a beautiful texture on the ground. However, what about the guy that lives in Greenland? What about the guy that lives in the Phillipines? Russia? Laos? Brasil? Japan? The list goes on. Coincidentally, they’re they most popular areas for flight simulation in terms of numbers. Now much of North America, all of the UK and all of Australia are covered. Over the past 5 years or so, a company called ORBX has been creeping their way into the market ever so slowly- until they came out with a huge bang when they released FTX PNW in 2010, followed by a quick succession of many other sceneries. Step-by-step, with the easy to use interface, you’ll create and execute flightplans with spooky accuracy.Įnjoy the precise nature of flight planning in an easy to use, accurate way. We’re talking full ETOPS Planning, Redispatching, Route Validation, Real World Routes… Oh yeah, and the regular stuff? Of course it does all that.
PFPX, or Professional Flight Planner X does just about everything short of making you a hot airline style meal delivered by an attractive stewardess. Those 1% would be a very select few professionally trained individuals, like real world dispatchers.įor the rest of us, we had a tool here, and a tool there, and not a way to really pull it all together and get an actual flight plan. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that less than 1% (yes, I just made up a statistic) of people were planning their flights correctly and executing those plans correctly. In days of yesteryear (or prior) to a week ago, were you actually fully confident in your preflight planning for commercial simulations like the PMDG 737 or PMDG 777, not to mention others?ĭid you actually feel as though you were doing things correctly? As a result, many of you will be exploring the world over.Īnd don’t forget, we have training coming soon for the aircraft. It’s almost hard to believe it’s finally here. Not only is it more visually appealing, but it is better on frame-rates, has many new features, and finally does a justice for a Boeing aircraft that was yet to be simulated correctly. Many of you are now enjoying new route options, the beautifully modelled aircraft, and more importantly the realism it brings.Īlthough we saw one heck-of-a-machine with the PMDG 737, the 777 is just that much better. It’s no surprise to anyone at this point that at the PMDG 777 was just released. Let’s see what those are: The Latest Aircraft
They all change the world of flight simulator as we know it. These addons are ALL game changers in their own space. In other words, FSX has become so realistic and such a compelling simulation, that it’s undeniably the best it’s ever been in the history of the hobby.īelow I share and discuss 5 addons that have come out in the last few weeks alone. Things have gotten SO good, that they can’t possibly get much better for a while. That’s right, I’m calling it for how I see it. Just think of the addons you’ve purchased over the years and where your simulation is today. As flight simmers, we are on the rewarding end of that. When it comes to realism, and taking the next step forward, this is a demanding hobby for developers to survive in.
We’re always wanting new hardware, new software, more tweaks, better FPS, sharper textures, better clouds, better color… the list goes on. Over the years, we have enjoyed a lot of great products to increase the realism of our simulations.