I liked the ATC on Class 3 but unfortunately on both FSX & FS9 the walls of the cockpit seem to have been ripped off their coverings. On FSX even shows as psychodelic colours.
Anyway, I decided to do my Class 3 on the DASH. Love its form too and boy, is it difficult to find one out there (freeware or payware) that actually works!!!
I decided to do some virtual mechanics and virtual avionics on my EHM Dash 8 (with the Molina panel). I have done the following improvements:
1. Installed the SuperTimer v2 gauge on the main panel. Now I no longer have to guess what is the current local time and zulu time. I need this info (in both formats) to file my PIREPs as well my own paper logbook.
2. Added a rear view that shows the door behind the cockpit and the seats.
3. Added a Left and Right cockpit views, no longer I have to stare at the void beside my seat
it is now a real cockpit side window as it must be.
4. Added a Forward Left cockpit view.
Only problems I have encountered so far are:
1. The Forward Right view still does not show and I don't know why...
2. Have to sort out the "position" setting of the views because when I switch to any of these extra views and go back to the forward cockpit view (the default) then I see the previous view exposed outside the cockpit. I have to do a manual reset (select forward view) and then the old bitmap disappears.
There was some right view that had a good looking female copilot but somehow I did not get that bitmap to properly display. Apparently it was an FS2002 bitmap.
There is some nicer (apparently like the real life panel) out there but I did not get it to work, it always showed a Boeing panel so I guess it was some old panel mislabelled FS2004 (from one of those many sites).
Anyway my search paid off and now my 2nd Dash flight was super pleasurable. I love this plane!
