The L-4 from Flight Replicas has some negatives, but mostly positives. The exterior looks great. The flight model and behavior in general is excellent and very convincing and unique. The interior textures are just ok, not the greatest looking. And some of the clickspots including the carb heat are hard to click correctly until you figure out exactly where it is. Sound is the weakest point, as it does not use the proper sounds for the L-4 engine. I had to mod it to the Cessna 152 soundset. And the sounds don't change at all when the door/window opens, which is a major omission for me.
Still I am very positive on the L-4. It's great to fly, which is what really matters with such a simple plane like this.
Simple aircraft, good textures, good cockpit BUT
Bad sound, probably the stock sound of the Super Cub by Asobo, the camera position isn't even fixed after an update (pilot view is looking slightly to the right). The price for that aircraft is much too high. So sad, I had big hopes in that aircraft.
Hope they bring out a good sound and fixing the camera issue.
Beautiful visual modeling of this simple plane, with excellent animations (like the control cables in the cockpit). If you're looking for a plane that flies like a Piper Cub, rather than like a modernized, souped-up Cub, this is your ride!
It's the flight model that makes this. The low-speed handling, especially, feels really authentic. Don't let yourself get too slow (which is pretty darn slow in an L-4!) on approach or you'll see just how well stalls are modeled.
Only real downside is the sound, which is aliased to the stock Savage Cub, which uses a Rotax engine that doesn't sound like the period engine in a real Grasshopper/Cub. Aliasing it to the C152 sounds a lot more like it should but hopefully Flight Replicas will find a better default sound package for future updates.