Back To Page 5 On the topic of virtual cockpits, FSX blows FS9 away. In fact, the FSX VCs are so good that I am slowly, torturously being led down the path of total VC conversion. While I’ll always believe that there are certain times when a 2D sub-panel is a good idea, the […]
Back To Page 4 Speaking of lights, I can’t say enough what a great job FSX has done capturing the atmosphere of night cockpit lighting. The virtual cockpit lighting is spectacular and the flood and post lighting look fantastic. Here we see the awesome individual post light effect in the Caravan and the “refrigerator […]
Back To Page 3 FSX still struggles a bit with integrating the generic airport scenery into the surrounding scenery. While it is true that most airports have “clearways” cut out around them to help with obstacle clearance, they aren’t as rigid and stark as the way some airports in FSX are depicted. The effect […]
Back To Page 2 Another area that is more demanding of our hardware with FSX can be found in the improved land textures and elevation data. I’ve found I can pretty much crank up the terrain features without worrying about performance problems, which is nice since they are quite nice. I don’t think anyone […]
Back To Page 1 The two major frame-rate killers that I’ve experienced are trees and vehicles. While the vehicle traffic is interesting and adds a bit to the dynamic look of the scenery, it was one of the first things I disabled. To the programmers credit though, most of the traffic routes and nodes […]
by Chris “BeachAV8R” Frishmuth You’d have to have your head in the sand not to recognize that the online sim community is rather polarized over FSX. I’ve seen a lot of just plain silly and hateful stuff posted and I’ve just decided to stay out of this time. I’d like to bring up a couple […]
Back To Page 9 Once again the autopilot did an admirable job on flying the commands and following the ILS path down to near landing before I clicked the autopilot off. The CRJ does have one significant flaw in its EFIS tube display that shows the ADI and EHSI. You’ll notice that the altitude tape […]
Back To Page 8 If Training or Missions aren’t your thing you can always just fire up Free Flight mode and do whatever you want to. I wanted to test out the ATC so I loaded up a test IFR flight from Wilmington, NC down the coast to Myrtle Beach, SC. I’ve included a screen […]
Back To Page 7 But how does FSX handle the fly-by-wire (FBW) system that Airbus uses? Quite well! Better than PSS did back with their add-ons for FS9. All of the flight computer bank and pitch limitations are there and when you stick the A321 into a roll and pitch the flight computer holds […]
Back To Page 6 Another feature that I thought was going to be gimmicky but turned out to be cool was the modeling of the airport ground support vehicles. The nifty thing about the vehicles is that they not only serve you, but are in constant action serving other arriving and departing planes as […]
Back To Page 5 A big round of applause goes to the FSX team for the outstanding modeling of the Cessna Caravan. It looks great, flies great, and has become one of my favorite IFR flying platforms. The panel is really superb and the VC and 2D cockpits are great for doing IFR work. […]
Back To Page 4 Speaking of weather, FSX has some outstanding weather modeling and effects. From the patter of rain on the roof to the rendering of clouds and reduced visibility, this is the best atmospheric modeling in the FS series to date. Though FS9’s payware add-on Active Sky 6 edges out default FSX weather […]
