Simviation Forum - Taking the 'Stang out

Feb 20^th, 2012 at 8:16pm

Dave71k Ex Member

After sitting longingly looking at the Flight 1 Mustang for months I've finally bought it Cheesy

Leaving Barcelona, such a beautiful horizon.

G1000

It's pretty comfy back here!

Heading up the Spanish coast to Nice.

She's good fun to fly, although I'm disappointed with the flight management system, the G1000 doesn't seem very user friendly or smart. Maybe this is because it's so different to the FMC I'm used to in the Boeing aircraft.
Entering SIDS and STARS for example is a chore!

But for a more simple style of flying shes great! Looks good to!

Thanks for looking!

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Reply #1 - Feb 20^th, 2012 at 8:34pm

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Don't be too Disappointed, at least you don't have to actually Insure or buy Fuel for the damn thing,, its the cheapest Aircraft any of us will probably ever own along with all the other flight sim aircraft out here,,, just a thought anyway, I get in trouble a lot for thinking,,,,,

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Reply #2 - Feb 20^th, 2012 at 8:39pm

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Great shots. Wink

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Reply #3 - Feb 20^th, 2012 at 8:56pm

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Jetranger wrote on Feb 20^th, 2012 at 8:34pm:

Don't be too Disappointed, at least you don't have to actually Insure or buy Fuel for the damn thing,, its the cheapest Aircraft any of us will probably ever own along with all the other flight sim aircraft out here,,, just a thought anyway, I get in trouble a lot for thinking,,,,,

I'm not disappointed I really like it! It just doesn't seem to be on the same level as other payware addons in the £35/$55 area. And the frame rate impact is a strange one to. I can run the PMDG NGX at 25fps easy but the Mustang struggles to get about 20.

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Reply #4 - Feb 21^st, 2012 at 10:20am

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Well done on the shots... Wink

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Reply #5 - Feb 21^st, 2012 at 12:57pm

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Great shots, Dave.........I noticed that Flight 1 aircraft have higher minimum system requirements listed than most other manufacturers. That has always kept me from putting any money down on one Undecided

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #6 - Feb 21^st, 2012 at 6:11pm

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CHUCK79 wrote on Feb 21^st, 2012 at 12:57pm:

Great shots, Dave.........I noticed that Flight 1 aircraft have higher minimum system requirements listed than most other manufacturers. That has always kept me from putting any money down on one Undecided

It does seem quite strange why a tiny aircraft with a mid level fms would need such high system requirements, the big G1000 screens are what kills the fps I think.

What does annoy me is that in various forums where the Mustangs systems and FMC are discussed the general response from Flight 1 is....It would be far to complex and expensive to make an aircraft with fully functional systems and an FMC and keep it in the $55 area.

My response would be....Captain sim 757, 767, Quality wings 757, Feelthere ERJ 175.....all those have much higher quality system simulations and fully functional FMCs and most of which are cheaper.

I don't understand why Flight 1 have this attitude.

I like the Mustang anyway there's no other really option in the small personal jet area. Feelthere do the Phemon 100 but that doesn't compare.

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Reply #7 - Feb 21^st, 2012 at 6:18pm

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It's the polygons that make a model FPS heavy. So the Carenado C-172 will be more FPS Heavy than the default C-172. The Mustang is probably high in polygons so it doesn't perform as well as another plane would.

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Reply #8 - Feb 21^st, 2012 at 6:42pm

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Beautiful shots. Cool

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I can run the PMDG NGX at 25fps easy but the Mustang struggles to get about 20.

According to Nick Needham (on an AVSIM review I read), "...any CPU speed less than 2.6 MHz seemed to not work well with the F1 Stang..." - could that be the problem?

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Reply #9 - Feb 21^st, 2012 at 10:10pm

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FoxThree wrote on Feb 21^st, 2012 at 6:42pm:

Beautiful shots. Cool

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I can run the PMDG NGX at 25fps easy but the Mustang struggles to get about 20.

According to Nick Needham (on an AVSIM review I read), "...any CPU speed less than 2.6 MHz seemed to not work well with the F1 Stang..." - could that be the problem?

My CPU runs at 2.8Ghz whilst running FSX and the PMDG 737ngx is significantly more detailed systems and appearance wise.

And I'm sure there are more polygons in the PMDG 737NGX than there are in the Flight 1 Mustang, it just seem there's a lot more that could be done with the Mustang in that price bracket.

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