Oh, that’s HILARIOUS. And I hope her instructor learned his lesson after that?
The Digital Replica 310L is my favorite payware plane in XP 11, and they’re already saying they’re looking at XP 12 as well, which makes me happy.
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That’s priceless. I wondering if said instructor, or student for that matter, lived that incident down? Some creative callsigns come to mind. Glass Jaw, Tyson, One More (Word), etc. LOL.
I said that I’d never buy another Captain Sim, and I still won’t without a VR cockpit. But here’s hoping that they do. Are they just an external modeling artist for FS2000 at this point?
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Brings back memories of MS Flight.
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When you have 99% of msfs youtubers flying airliners from outside all the flight, that match that needs 
For me its really sad because their core FSX/P3D C130 is pretty ok and also was the aircraft were i did my first flight, sad to see it capped when it could be better. Its a trully lazy product, because they already have the rest in their hands (ack, 3d cockpit models, etc etc).
Looks a pretty cool addon:
Manual here:
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Ha, well at least the “sim” supports XBox controllers.
Aww man they’re doing tuna tanks. I really prefer the look of the older style, those pointy ones just ruin the look to me. This fine specimen with the much better looking older style lives not to far from me.
The 310 served in the USAF as the U-3A, commonly known as a “Blue Canoe.” With a 1960’s operating cost of $12 per flight hour, they were immensely popular with all services as a utility aircraft.
An interesting note about the U-3A was that it was also used as training and chase aircraft for the U-2. (Taken from: here with a bit of editing to make it flow better).
The U‑3A chase planes demonstrated turn rates, descent profiles, and traffic pattern airspeeds very similar to the U‑2. With a pilot eye‑to‑ground height almost identical to the U‑2, the U‑3 allowed the chase/instructor pilots to train pre-solo U‑2 pilots by managing the throttles to match the U‑2 glide and “float” characteristics. Fred McNeill remembered that, as part of the training, the student had to learn to “level‑off at one foot over the numbers and hold it there for the entire length of the 12,500‑foot runway.” When the student could fly this profile consistently, the instructor landed the U‑3 and stopped next to an already pre-flighted U‑2, into which the student promptly hopped. For each student’s first solo, the U-2’s removable wingtip “pogo” landing gear (designed to support the wings on the ground and usually dropped at liftoff) remained attached to preclude inadvertent scraping of those long wings.
The U-2 and U-3 formation became a common sight over Tucson, and the pairing gained the nickname “U‑2 and Me‑Too.” The U‑3 could intercept a descending U‑2 at 15,000‑18,000 feet at 160‑180 KIAS, stay on its wing through the descent and traffic pattern, and slow to a typical U‑2 threshold‑crossing speed of 65 KIAS (10 KIAS above the U‑3A’s stall speed and 18 KIAS below its minimum single‑engine control speed). The chase U‑3 always flew on the U‑2’s right wing and discontinued chase ten feet above the runway — where a souped‑up Ford El Camino would dash onto the runway and chase the U‑2 to touchdown, calling out height above the runway and tail attitude (up, level or down) as the U-2 pilot worked to achieve the mandatory full stall landing.
If all that seemed familiar, I wrote about it during the 2018 Xmas flight.
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Gah, it will be a tough decision between the 310 and the 414A for me…
I’m a bit torn on that one too. The 414A is excellent…and already in my hangar. I’m not seeing a real need to add the 310 other than that I have a few hours logged in a 310R (maybe 20 or 30 max). We are reaching a point where quality releases are coming down the pipe at quite a rate now.
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For me the comparison list looks like this:
(No guarantees for the 310 though as it isn’t released yet)
310:
- more detailed systems (circuit breakers, failures)
- tip tanks (I like tip tanks a lot)
- interesting fuel management
- shorter takeoff/landing distance (~1000ft shorter)
- ?? not sure if certified for icing
- looks better (sleeker)
414A:
- more cargo/pax capacity (using neofly)
- faster (by 40 knots)
- more range (by 400nm)
- cooler interior (including folding table and stuff)
- certified for known icing
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The 310R I flew was certified for known icing. I think it was better described as ‘certified for icing but you had better take positive action to get out of it -right now!’ 
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And that might be the correct answer 
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Yeah, I read that the R is certified but I am not 100% sure whether the one Milviz models is the R.
Oh, and I forgot to add: the price matters. The 414A is 40 bucks and I expect the 310 to be similar, but it might be more expensive.
I just cannot spent 80+ bucks on two planes just because I cannot decide.
That’s right. You spend 80 bucks on two planes because you decided it was a good idea.
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[NEW - April 14, 2022] Sim Update 9 Beta - Release Notes 1.25.7.0
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Has anyone posted this yet?
https://www.brsimdesigns.com/ercoupe-415c/
I’d love to get one of these IRL. Who doesn’t want to fly a baby B-25?
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The Cessna 414AW from Flysimware is rather good. It’s in Beta and already a better addon than the majority of GA 3rd party planes. It’s got that ‘alive’ feeling.
https://www.flysimware.com/FLYSTORE_2015/en/home/46-flysimware-cessna-414aw-chancellor-msfs2020.html
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One of those things you never knew you needed until you saw it… 
https://flightsim.to/file/31023/sas-scandinavian-airlines-8k-beyond-ultra
The A320 like you’ve never seen it before, with tons of new visual features custom created for this livery and where almost every surface externally has been retextured.
Literally 100s of hours of hard work resulted in a complete 8K rebuild from scratch using Substance Painter / Designer and Photoshop with new mesh merged using Blender and the FBW Exporter, making full use of MSFS PBR Textures and Normal Maps.
This livery includes custom 3d model additions to make all the visual changes possible.
This would be a problem with the A32NX since it’s often updated and the custom model would conflict with any updates, but thanks to a collaboration with the FBW team, all my model changes have now been implemented in the A32NX model so FBW users can enjoy this livery to the fullest, also meaning that many of my additions are available to all A32NX livery makers.
Use the latest FBW DEV build to see all the mesh additions this livery brings.
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