I had a busy week so I didn’t really had time to make some progress with my review (FlightSimX.be) of the already mentioned Herky Bird made by Captain Sim. It’s a great plane, with a stunning model and animations. The only thing I regret about it is the FPS which goes down. And perhaps some labels on certain 2D pop-up panels where the text is a bit too small to read. However, it flies like no other! It’s a lot better then the Wilco A400M I reviewed recently.
The model of that one – the A400M – was quite good, but my framerate dropped from 30 to about 9 to 15. It’s very tricky to fly with 15 frames per second, cause you can’t make these fine corrections you’ve got to make while doing the flare. And the panel and Virtual Cockpit were both horrible…
With the C-130 the frames are reasonably better, but I seem to experience some sort of ‘lag’ while flying the plane. I guess we’ll have to wait for an update which may fix these issues a bit.
Yesterday I really didn’t have any inspiration about where and what to fly, and eventually I found myself flying around the Caribbean with a bare-metal Douglas DC-3. It also gave me the opportunity to take some screenshots, which you can view by clicking on the thumbnails here under.
Though the Virtual/3D cockpit isn’t really what I should be, the 2D panel is a lot better and nice to look at.
And the plane lands on short runways, I landed without head or tailwind at MYZ1 (the runway length is 2800 ft) and I still had a lot of runway to go when I came to a stop. Flies well, this Douglas Commercial.
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Tags: Douglas, DC-3, Douglas, Commercial, FSX, FS, Flight, Sim, Simulator, 10, X, Deluxe
