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Nov 1st, 2004 at 9:12pm

Nexus   Offline
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Savas only showed the ugly grey 70's style cockpit.
myself; I'm more classy and fly with a modern blue/blue interior  Wink

Juest leaving Berlin behind, enroute to Brussels
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The splendid VC
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exterior shots. Although the model is good, I'm somewhat disappointed with the exterior. It's an improvement over Eurowings ATR model, but not by far, and the Eurowings package was originally  made for FS 2002. No PMDG standard but adequate enough.
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touchdown at EBBR
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I have the already mentioned Eurowings ATR 72's, so I can easily say that this is a HUGE overall improvement. Maybe not when it comes to exterior looks, but the emphazis on realism is what we find inside. The MCDU/FMC is very good. Atleast we now have an ACCURATE honeywell FMC, not a generic 737 half-bad look-alike (pun intended Eurowings). Navdata is the reliable DAFIF (though it has some flaws).

You can customize the aircraft in many ways, ranging from different 2d panel perspectives and colors to VC gauge resolution aswell as texture resolution - just to make sure each individual can tailor its own optimized setting.

It's pretty straight forward to fly aswell, the aircraft is acording to me, far away from the mind boggling systems of the PMGD737 or SSW A310 where you'd spend hours after hours checking manuals back and forth. Of course there are manuals to the ATR aswell, though I have not read them (I did my homework when I bought the eurowings ATR some years ago Wink ) but I assume you'll find every answer there.

Nexus rating 4/5

 
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Reply #1 - Nov 1st, 2004 at 9:21pm

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LOL Nexus. Yeah I havent changed the interior color yet

And personally I like the exterior. Granted it could have been an inch better, but I think this one will prove extremely popular with the repaint crowd to the point that they will add the realistic feel to it
 

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Reply #2 - Nov 2nd, 2004 at 5:28am

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Great shots Nexus.  Now Im off to read Savas one as you didn't mention who makes this? Im guessing Flight1 but might be wrong. Cool looking plane though.
 

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Reply #3 - Nov 2nd, 2004 at 8:20am
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Niiiiiiicccccccce! 8)
 
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Reply #4 - Nov 2nd, 2004 at 3:29pm

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Great shots...how is it on FPS...can you take some FMC shots Embarrassed
 
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Reply #5 - Nov 2nd, 2004 at 8:46pm

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FMC shots?
Sure, the layout is a little different from the "Big jets" but other than that it's the usual  Smiley
Pics were taken during the flight between EBBR and EGPH (edinburgh)

The progress page
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The navdata is pretty extensive, they have released a service pack that fixes many malfunctioning SIDs/STARs (which caused the sim to crash). Very detailed STAR into EGPH Smiley
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Last shot was taken over the english channel!  Smiley
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