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ghutchison14078 · 7 Jul 2017 at 15:52

Short finals into Trondheim-Vaernes in the Citation CJ2

ghutchison14078 · 7 Jul 2017 at 15:53

montymint said:
Cool, I assume I only need an acedemic licence for p3d?

Yes, just get the $60 academic version.

ghutchison14078 · 7 Jul 2017 at 20:58

Few more with the Citation; climbing out of Edinburgh.

BriT · 7 Jul 2017 at 21:00

Currently have P3D V3, is V4 worth the hassle of reinstalling everything?

ghutchison14078 · 7 Jul 2017 at 21:02

BriT said:
Currently have P3D V3, is V4 worth the hassle of reinstalling everything?

Oh hell yes.

Only drawback is waiting on your addons that aren't v4 compatible yet.

BriT · 7 Jul 2017 at 21:04

Hmm might do it payday

Screenshots look great by the way.

BrianT · 7 Jul 2017 at 21:47

ghutchison14078 said:
Few more with the Citation; climbing out of Edinburgh.

Another great set of shots! what's the range on the citation?

ghutchison14078 · 7 Jul 2017 at 21:59

BrianT said:
Another great set of shots! what's the range on the citation?

If memory serves its approx 1600 miles

BrianT · 9 Jul 2017 at 16:05

ghutchison14078 said:
If memory serves its approx 1600 miles

Thanks for that, I don't have a business jet so I might have to add this to the hanger.

ghutchison14078 · 9 Jul 2017 at 16:09

BrianT said:
Thanks for that, I don't have a business jet so I might have to add this to the hanger.

If you do decide to get the CJ2 then the mods available here are a must, as usual with Carenado products they look fantastic but the systems and flight model leaves much to be desired.
I'm eagerly awaiting Flight1 to update their GTN750 for v4 so I can stop using the utter mess of an FMS that Carenado put in their bizjets.

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/...anel-upgrade-and-gtnapmods-are-now-available/

BrianT · 9 Jul 2017 at 21:59

ghutchison14078 said:
If you do decide to get the CJ2 then the mods available here are a must, as usual with Carenado products they look fantastic but the systems and flight model leaves much to be desired.
I'm eagerly awaiting Flight1 to update their GTN750 for v4 so I can stop using the utter mess of an FMS that Carenado put in their bizjets.

Ah! there's the fly in the ointment then. I've never used any Carenado stuff and with the transition from FSX to P3Dv4 and all the 3rd party updates that that entails I may wait awhile

ghutchison14078 · 9 Jul 2017 at 22:40

It is unfortunate; but Carenado are notorious for this. People get suckered in (myself included) because their aircraft models and texturing are magnificent, but the systems depth, realism and general flight dynamics tend to be rather poor.

Thankfully there is a group of simmmers who rip apart the Carenado files, upgrade and tweak many aspects of the product then release these mod packages - ususally after which the addon is a winner.

If you're the patient type, Milviz is currently developing a Lear 60XR ( http://milviz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7850 ) - it looks spectacular and because it's coming from Milviz it will most certainly have realistic and "in-depth" avionics/system simulation. I'd imagine this will be the best biz-jet available for flight sim when it's released.

Digital X · 9 Jul 2017 at 23:21

Are those pics from Prepar3D hutchison? I have Xplane 10 Global 64bit and MS Flight Sim Only. Never bought any addons, ORBX etc, only used the freebies. Is the academic version enough content wise? Can I download planes etc like I do with MS Flight Sim?

Litmoose · 10 Jul 2017 at 00:54

digitalx said:
Are those pics from Prepar3D hutchison? I have Xplane 10 Global 64bit and MS Flight Sim Only. Never bought any addons, ORBX etc, only used the freebies. Is the academic version enough content wise? Can I download planes etc like I do with MS Flight Sim?

Academic version is exactly the same as the more experience versions in terms of game play, bar a watermark in the top right corner on the academic version

Digital X · 10 Jul 2017 at 00:56

Well a watermark won't put me off. Just trying to decide if 3 different sims are worth the cost.

Litmoose · 10 Jul 2017 at 01:57

p3d is good(my one and only sim) but the main thing is once you've purchased it, to make it look any good requires many £hundreds

BrianT · 10 Jul 2017 at 14:43

ghutchison14078 said:
It is unfortunate; but Carenado are notorious for this. People get suckered in (myself included) because their aircraft models and texturing are magnificent, but the systems depth, realism and general flight dynamics tend to be rather poor.

Thankfully there is a group of simmmers who rip apart the Carenado files, upgrade and tweak many aspects of the product then release these mod packages - ususally after which the addon is a winner.

If you're the patient type, Milviz is currently developing a Lear 60XR ( http://milviz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7850 ) - it looks spectacular and because it's coming from Milviz it will most certainly have realistic and "in-depth" avionics/system simulation. I'd imagine this will be the best biz-jet available for flight sim when it's released.

As always excellent and useful information, I think I'll wait until the Milviz is out.

shadow_boxer · 12 Jul 2017 at 12:21

NGX released for V4

Firestar_3x · 12 Jul 2017 at 17:19

shadow_boxer said:
NGX released for V4

Yep, just purchased again (only had the FSX version), looking forward to flying this again, such a great aircraft.

Also 777-300ER expansion is available too.

Digital X · 12 Jul 2017 at 18:36

Litmoose, well I won't be pouring hundreds in, I will stick to freeware, and thanks. I'll see what I can do with FSX now.