X-Plane Comet

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

Nice vid showing an upcoming comet for x-plane

de Havilland Comet 4C for X-Plane: Approach & Landing in Mexico City

From the thread

I decided the best demonstration would be to follow the real check list. With some shock, I found it took no fewer than 399 individual checks and actions to get a Comet from stone cold to 1000 ft above a runway. It took me more than two hours to get through them. A great opportunity to discover bugs and fix them, but a film that long would test the patience of even the staunchest plane spotter!

So the films are savagely chopped about and aggressively edited. They're in two sequences of roughly ten minutes: a Dan Air departure from Gatwick and a Mexicana arrival at Mexico City. The Gatwick film is divided into four parts, because the check lists were arranged that way. The Mexico City film is in one ten-minute length.

Linked is the mexico film, his channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/GuyMP303

[EHM-0654 Murray]

Now, she really is a thing of beauty, but 2 hours of checklists?

Not that you'll be able to answer Alex, but didn't Gergely use a (heavily modified for trans-sonic flight speed) Comet.

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

That's why I don't do cold and dark - having said that, when I tried with the CS 757 in FSX, it took me something like that. It's quicker when you memorise it all I guess

[EHM-2155 Mariano]

I'm all for realism and what not, but I'm not looking fro planes that require me to know as much as a real pilot... that's a bit much. Since I'm not getting paid to know :p

[EHM-1997 Alexander]

/agree

I definitely prefer the 'lite' style simming. Excellent visuals, but I don't have to read 200 pages of operations manual before I can start it.

That said, I know there's a great market for study sims, and if you have the time, it can be really rewarding, I just like to fly a variety though and so I don't have the time to invest learning to fly each aircraft as the real deal.

[EHM-2155 Mariano]

The other thing is... the airplane once you load it, it's always perfect... It's not like it wears out overtime and the pre-flight checks would make you realize there are water deposits on the fuel tanks, or something, and failures are mostly random despite the plane passing all your pre-flight (and it will always pass, no matter if you skipped some steps) So it's quite unnecessary.

If they made a sim where the planes were "persistent", aka the flight hours you put on it add to the tear and wear and then they can develop real faults... then okay.