I just got a hold of a new Accusim version for the A2A Stratocruiser called Captain of the Ship.  Replaces the previous Accusim package for this airplane.

Just playing with it now, but it is looking very good.  Full virtual flight engineer, intelligent passengers and crew, Career mode, Heidi the stewardess, etc, plus some improvements to the flight model that make the plane feel more honest.  Promises to be lots of fun.

pfevrier wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2011 at 1:10pm:


ok, well it is still very early on, but since it was captivating enough that I spent the entire night without sleep playing with it, I'll say a few things about it.

First, the flight model simply is more believable now...still big and ungainly, it is overall a more stable airplane.  You can now do some things in this plane that you couldn't do before, because the plane responds more correctly now.

The Flight Engineer is a real good fellow.  I'm glad that with the previous Acusim versions, we didn't have him, thus forcing us to learn the engineering panel ourselves.  But that said, he does all the things you would do, and allows you to concentrate on the flying, so it is a great addition.

The panels now vibrate a tiny bit in response to various things.  This is a great, (and it also works well with EZCA if you own that) and helps bring the cockpit alive.  If you hit a patch of turbulence, or if something comes crashing out of the overhead bins, you will see it, so to speak, in the vibrations around your cockpit, combined with some damned good sounds. 

The virtual passengers and the stewardess are just a ball of fun.  Lets just put it this way, you can fly the plane smoothly and quietly, or you can fly it Monty Python style, and you will receive the appropriate responses.

So my read on it now, is that this was a good, well worth it purchase.  There is a bit of 'campiness' to it that is 100 % appropriate to the 1950s era it is trying to simulate.  Very good ambience and immersion factor.  Go out and get it.