MSFS Redwing 1935: a lame duck?

[Bernard]

MSFS Redwing 1935 was announced with a strong response. The published pictures are certainly quite appeailing and arouse some interests and expectations. I admit, several nice and well done airports are offered, a few here, a few there. But now the air seems to be gone. In any case, no new places have been added for several months, although some have been announced.



Not that it affects me in any way. For reasons already mentioned in this forum, the costly installation of MSFS 2020 in general and Redwing 1935 in particular is out of the question. However, the poor manuals for the individual sceneries and the published images at least contain welcome suggestions for implementing some specific parts of the scenery in FS9. Like the airport ground labeling.


Anyway, if anyone is still seriously interested in vintage flying, it should stay with FS9. There still are plenty of options and furthermore it's  absolutely free!

Bernard

[jacklyon]

Hi Bernard,

Sorry, not saw you post before.

MSFS Redwing 1935, it's in hyper activity, all scenerys for Aeropostale, from Toulouse to Cap Jouby, was released,
Also, more than 15 new "vintage" sceneries 1935 was released for USA, Germany, France, Switzerland

if you want to follow, you can look at discord (the only forum that is really active with informations), as Redwing it's a small
team of very talented developpers, and they can't yet, do an update to their website.

For MSFS users, you can search "redwing", on marketplace, and you will found huge numbers of new vintage airports 30s era that was released before christmas.


in Switzerland (Zurich, Bern, Geneve), in Germany (Hamburg, Freidshafen, Koln, and others), in france, in spain, in morocco

In england, will come soon.

As also, there are "combo pack", to spent less money to have the "Aeropostale route", "Pack Germany", "Pack France", "Pack USA
route NY -> Washington", "Pack USA route NY -> Chicago", "Pack USA Chicago -> San Francisco" (still some airport not released)

Also, redwing made several updates, to the Super Constellation, and the F60, and the Bugatti.

Next aircraft release this year, will be the Zeppelin Hindenburg (this year), and incredible detailed aircraft, (huge huge amount of work there and is not finished)
but a true gemm, hyper detailed.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuexIeFA_80


After, normally a lot of other "new" 1935 airports are in developpement, also, the route to Aeropostale South America.

And some others, airports and aircrafts, that i can't speak about, for NDA reasons, they are not public yet

(i become betatester for redwing some months ago, for this reason i know all this information).



MSFS, is a great sandbox, for vintage flying lovers.

PS: The manuals, are available when you bought a product in the pack (for aircraft), and also, available at discord site (for scenerys)

PS2: I not think the price of MSFS is expensive (considering all thing that are includes, and the several World Updates)

I'm not think also, that redwing products, are not expensive, considering, the quality and the amount of work, of each release (scenery or aircrafts)



Cheers, and happy new year!

PS3: for Discord channel: discord.com/invite/5uCtPUwX2E

[ovat1981]

First time poster long time lurker. I'm becoming a pretty heavy user of US 1935. Started a VA simply so I could fly vintage airplanes in MSFS. I was a heavy user of Golden Wings back in my FS9 days. CalClassic in fact was a regular haunt and I loved being able to switch between the eras of flight. But the DC-3 was a constant. Today my DC-3 has the Duckworks mod and I fly it as much as I ever did. I'll admit I teared up a bit seeing Cleveland of the 30's again. I don't know how many hours I spent there. But it looks like updates are coming. The other US mail routes are coming. It's far from perfect but I hope more people try and enjoy this. I was getting bored of modern flying and was unsure of what I even wanted to do. Now I have a home and place where my purring Wright engines can be heard all over the Ohio Valley.

[chrisjmsargeant]

Being a Classic aviation enthusiast, and so far unable to get my Honeycomb Controls to work with FS9/2004 🫢, I’m continuing basically happily with MSFS2020, preferring the established older aircraft, such as the Duckworth modded DC3; Twin Beech 18 and PMDG DC-6 amongst a few others.

I’m thinking of getting some of the Redwing 1935 era add-ons. The scenery bundles seem ok for value and I guess, if you want to revert back to the Modern Map, you simply remove the former vintage folder from your Community folder into a temporary one?
I see that their range is now expanding steadily making lengthy historic flights possible including Europe, Africa and the U.S.A., and seemingly even includes some light tower navigation aids!
Last but definitely not least, the just released LZ129 Hindenburg Zeppelin Airship looks intriguing and something very different to learn to fly.😊 Then there is their Constellation and Farman Aircraft too.

Does any other classic enthusiast here have any input or comments to consider?
Cheers, Chris 

[jacklyon]

Yes LZ129 is a masterpiece... soon patch 1.1 with fix, new things, and new liveries, will arrive. (i am betatester of LZ129).

The redwing sceneries, are a great way to flight in the "30s"... later, redwing projet to do 50s/60S sceneries also.

For activation, desactivation of modern, older, scenery, you must see in redwing discord support forum, to the instructions

basically, you use MSADdon Linker, (but a just see another way, on ORBX Forum, and i posted also in redwing support forum)

Note:

The airfields, airports, airstrip, are constantly growing, but, as Redwing is a very little team, only discord it's really updated for news, the site, is not up to date.


Redwing, is doing, the "routes"... USA routes, and european routes. with the airports... last in production, KSFO, Oakland, Seatle, Cheyenne, etcetera... most go to discord to see the news...


Cheers

[Bernard]

Hi Alejandro,

Glad to hear again from you! I regularly follow the posts in Discord. It seems to me that MSFS itself is not an easy thing and that the Redwing scenery makes it even more complicated. In particular, some seem to have issues with the transition from modern to vintage environment. I have to honestly say that it doesn't appeal to me, to deal first with such things before even a flight is possible. That's one thing.

The other are the costs. Even the basic package is not cheap. And then the individual scenes and aircraft have to be added. This quickly adds up to a very considerable amount. In my opinion, these aren't actually in any relation with the many an easy-to-create possibilities that FS9 offers with by far less costs. Furthermore Redwing sceneries are geographically still limited to some specific areas.  And I can use various and different eras with the same program. A plus that should not be underestimated.

But of course I will continue to follow the development of Redwing, because ultimately the whole thing could at least offer a number of ideas and incentives that I eventually will try to implement in FS9.

Cheers,
Bernard