Anyone have it?  It looks like a very nice selection of smaller airliners.  I read good reviews on the first version for FS2002.  I read because the cockpits are a well done 2D that they are very frame easy and have enough immersive system complexity but not somuch that hours in the manuel are required to even get off the ground.  Any thoughts on this package?  Worth $39.99 for 4 realistic commuter liners?

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From the looks of the SSW A310....I hope that their A320 is just as good

Thats why I love my DC9 IK for short haul airline flying.  I have it equipped with the double configuration CIVA INS.  And you know,maybe DC9s wern't normally fitted with INS systems but if you don't have a regular FMC it works just as well.  In fact, if flying with one under ifr what good is it when atc is vectoring you everywhere but your exact flight plan?  It's too much hassle to open up the right fmc pages to enter in flight plan or course changes.  With INS, that isn't as much of an issue, just take it off hold and navigate using heading hold knob when atc throws a vector at you.  When they resume your flight plan, check where the next waypoint is in your plan if necessary and advance the waypoint selector on the INS and press hold and your right back to nav hold.

I just re-visited this thread Nexus and you spoke of the Litton 92 as being a more capable INS than the Delco.  Wat is the principle difference between the Litton and the Delco???  Does the Litton deviate less?  Does it do away with DME updating??

Wow, sounds like a cool unit to have short of a full fmc.  I think that Gianfranco Coralas and team ought to model it now that they seem to have the Delco perfected.

Well, I've been to the CIVA forum tonight and asked/suggested of the authors there to consider modeling the Litton 92 as a follow up since they have the Delco Carousel perfected to a legendary standard of authenticity.  Call me old fashioned but even though I enjoy mastering the modern equipment just as current real world pilots do I get just as much satisfaction working with planes that need to be (flown) rather than flying themselves after instructing them how.  A 707 or a 727 guided by INS is a challenge especially when using a very authentic gauge like CIVA.  No moving maps, no VNAV, no auto-throttle.  Just stick, rudder, a little math, and a little luck.

You are very correct about the difficulty of realistic single crew on an old plane indeed.  When I fly the RFP 742 I have to wear 3 different hats at certain phases of the flight, the trickiest being flight engineer. I have put it on pause already at times I was too long for comfort staring at the engineer panel trying to set things the way they had to be according to the manuel.  Especially during approach phase.  I hope time will come when these older planes have interactive AI crew members. Even better if they don't cost frame rates, lol.  I remember FSHotseat.  Never did more than a flight out of Meigs with the demo mode in the Baron it was set up with.  The AI copilot even tells lousy jokes.  Its a wonder that other developers haven't created similar interactive add-ons or even stand alone planes with AI crew members.  Must be a monstrous task to code things like that.