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EHM-2531 Nathan Smith:
Hi Guys,

I run Flight Simulator X and I'm just woooooooooooondering if anything I being done to make the Fleet full FSX compatible, also I'm a Virtual Cockpit pilot so I am wondering what aircraft in the fleet support Virtual Cockpit

EHM-1465 Dominic:
Hi Nathan,

We are working on this issue, indeed you may have seen my threads recently about updates to our VFA aircraft, such as the Piper Arrow and Cirrus SR20, to make them FSX compatible. The main problem is that many of our freeware planes have not been updated by their designers for FSX so we have to come up with a tweak or two to use another planes panel etc so that it will work in the newer version of the sim. All of this takes time but we are working on it.

The VC question is entirely down to the aircraft designer - they either design a plane with a VC or they don't. As we continue the updating process we may replace older models with newer ones and these would normally have a VC but then we need to repaint the new planes too!

There was a thread from one of our pilots Bruce Woodbridge that you may find useful too :-

LINK HERE

EHM-2531 Nathan Smith:
Ah well very true, Will have to ask around and find out which and get used to fling on the 2D pnel for a while

EHM-2198 Didimo:
I am nowadays flying *exclusively* using FSX and planes with a good virtual cockpit. For me the 2D panels are a thing of the past, can't help it, got hooked on the FSX VC now that I could finally afford a good system [been waiting for that since FSX RTM] so I have to make it worth my investment :-)

I have installed a few freeware a/c on FSX but most of them had 2D panels or deficient VC so I had to erradicate them from my system :(. I have had some luck with "repaints" of standard/default a/c which already have a great VC (at the expense of a not so accurate flight model I guess) and lately I have been buying some payware native FSX aircraft.

My payware so far: PMDG J41 and Wilco Embraer Legacy, both great a/c. Plan to buy Real Air Beechcraft Duke B60.

One freeware a/c that has satisfied me sufficiently (with a descent although not perfect VC) is the Premaircraft (PAD) Twin Otter DHC6 -400 variant (glass cockpit). I really recommend this one if considered for the fleet. Unfortunately their paint kit seems VERY ODD to me, unlike most paintits I have seen so far.

EHM-0654 Murray:
Welcome back Didimo.

As was always the case, and so it remains, we're in the hands of the freeware aircraft designers when it comes to FSX support within the fleet, and TBH it's currently not in a very good way. Microsoft releasing FSX with it's multitude of changes and then killing off the Flight Sim family has scared a lot of them off. We can but hope...

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