Mudspike Air Cargo is not dead…! Do not believe the rumors you may have read.
Air Hauler 2 recently left Early Access and I did import my AH2 company into the release version. It has, however, been almost a year since I did a cargo run. And I have a very big backlog of aircraft lease and airbase lease payments that have been accumulating since then. They don’t stop just because YOU stop, they continue to accrue.
The long and short of it - MAC company cash is down to $128,485 from a high of around 400K in early 2018. That $9,190 monthly overhead is a real deal when multiplied over 12 months. I probably should have sold off the aircraft or terminated the lease and shut down the base, but I always did intend to return.
I was interested in testing out Air Hauler 2 with the HP Reverb to see if it was possible to get a seamless experience in VR - to my great surprise, it works fine! Better than fine actually…it is fantastic! All screens taken through the Reverb lens…
My lease is still running for my awesome little Quest Kodiak with the RealityXP GTN750 installed. So I picked up a little test run up to KPDT out of my home base of Longview Ranch…
The GTN750 is an impressive unit. We have one in our Citation Ultra and I love it. In VR, it is superb because it uses so many point and clicks to quickly access data. I really like the fact you can pull up airfield data, and then just click it to load stuff life frequencies into your NAV/COM - it makes tuning the AWOS and tower really quick and easy… Resolution in the Reverb is fantastic and performance in P3D is good. I might need to tweak my graphics settings a bit more to find that just right mix of graphics and performance.
The only thing I noticed was that the Air Hauler 2 messages about mission status don’t appear in VR - they appear on a ribbon on the 2D screen, but I just read something about a SHIFT-CTRL F1 mission text box or something - so I’ll explore that. But MAC is back in business!