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Post by rally on Mar 4, 2015 21:30:21 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 8:38:51 GMT -5
The first of these threads is from 2012 (with replies to 2015) and the second from 2013, so it seems far from certain that things will happen any time soon. And when they do it will not be available for FS9, which PMDG abandoned long ago,
Ken
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Post by reichfur on Mar 14, 2015 16:58:52 GMT -5
Well , I'm more than happy with the one I got right here !
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Post by rally on Mar 14, 2015 17:14:20 GMT -5
The first of these threads is from 2012 (with replies to 2015) and the second from 2013, so it seems far from certain that things will happen any time soon. And when they do it will not be available for FS9, which PMDG abandoned long ago, Ken Which is why this showed up on the Flightsim.com main page yesterday: www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?15643-PMDG-Announces-DC-6B-For-X-PlaneI have both FS9 and FSX installed. I use the CC Douglases in FSX with no problems, and I also have the JustFlight/Aeroplane Heaven -6B. I was just pointing it out. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2015 4:08:56 GMT -5
The carefully chosen words in my first post were a perfectly reasonable response to the content of the links you gave, as I had no way of knowing that something was about to appear on Flightsim, not Avsim. As you have FSX you will be able to make the most of it, but unfortunately for those who do not my second sentence was completely accurate. Of course, if I had FSX I would buy it, just as I would the A2A Stratocruiser, but its existence will not tempt me to migrate. PMDG is in its way a remarkable thing, as are I-Fly, who go about their business with a great deal less bluster and are still releasing for FS9, but neither are more remarkable than California Classics, and all provided for love and for free. I am therefore in the ranks of those who are pretty satisfied with, and grateful for, what they have got. Your posts do not, of course, imply anything different, because as you say you were just pointing it out.
On a different note, for all their cleverness it has taken PMDG rather a long time to grasp the fact that some simmers think there are more interesting things than putting data into an FMC, and it is rather ironic that as they announced some time ago that FS9 is no longer commercially viable they are now bereft of a considerable Cal Classics market for their DC6b, which to put it in terms they would understand means that there are probably large sums of money they are not going to be making. Before I abandoned the FMCs myself I was flying the I-Fly 737, which is in some respects superior to the PMDG offering. The I-Fly Development Team, led by Steve Masson, is a sane, thoroughly courteous and immensely knowledgeable group of simmers which is loyal to its FS9 membership and might consider issuing a propliner. As I was formerly fairly active on the I-Fly forums I have just sent Steve a private message enquiring about this. If his reply is a straight 'No' I will say so.
Ken
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Post by kellyb on Mar 15, 2015 6:49:05 GMT -5
Well , I'm more than happy with the one I got right here ! Indeed! The only thing I can imagine is moving to P3D, and creating period scenery for it. P3D does, so far as my limited testing indicates, handle scenery better and is smoother than fsx. FSX is just too jumpy (autogen pops etc.) |
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Post by captrig on Mar 16, 2015 6:08:44 GMT -5
'Left Seattle on a dark and stormy night a few days ago on a real time trip around the world. Delivered 6 months worth of eats to PMDY and grabbed a few hours in the transient lounge. Next night it's on to Guam to unload empty containers for their Ahi shipments back to the mainland, and grab some fried rice at Linda's, the little breakfast joint off the highway and across from Pizza Hut where the Japanese had one of their first installations in the war. Stayed at the Hilton this time, great airline rate of $59 a night. We stayed there two nights while the Air Mike boys who remembered how tweaked the No. 4 turbocharger that had been giving us fits. Why someone would ship 10,000 pounds of Aji to another island is a mystery to me, but they did. Banda Aceh in Malaysia. It's a good thing I never get tired of watching the spinners go around, the stars above and ink black ocean below 'cuz thats what we're doing again tonight, up the Bay of Bengal bound for Calcutta. Except on the hourly position report to KSEA dispatch suggested strongly we divert to somewhere else - anywhere, but preferably westbound. Some sort of fracas going on up there that we wouldn't care to be involved in. So we're on a 270 heading now in uncontrolled airspace at 8,000 looking for fuel on the west coast of India. I love my DC 6's from Calclassic. The simulation is as real as you'd care to make it, in my opinion. Like the Reichfur with whom I occasionally fly a formation trip I am very pleased with this simulator. In fact, I love it.
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