INTRODUCTION:
This is the sleek, high performance French 4 seater 'Trinidad' by Socata Aerospace in France. This 250HP Turbocharged Edition of the Trinidad line, the TB-21 GT, was a fast cruiser, hitting cruise speeds of 200 MPH or 180+ Knots. Some were fitted with oxygen systems for high altitude cruising, up to 25,000 feet ASL. She was designed with a very advanced interior with automotive style instrument panel featuring 'instrument pods' similar to the Lotus Esprit and Lamborghini Countach of that era. Even today, her instrument panel design is more advanced in appearence to other manufacturers.
* 22 (TWENTY TWO) Different Paint Schemes!
* 3 Different Interior Themes: Gray, Tan, Neon Euro Blue
* Extreme Detail Virtual Cockpit with updated and modified Mesh, Mapping, and Graphics
* Disappearing control yoke for visibility
* Extreme high-resolution textures in PBR format complete with bump mapping.
* Asobo high end Avionics including their GNS530 and GNS430 GPS systems.
* Soundpack is also an Asobo creation with some incredible sound effects that only MSFS sound systems feature which include bumping sounds, performance maneuver 'groans' from the airframe, and other cool effects.
* Fold up arm rests
NOTE 1:This product is for the new Microsoft Flight Simulator MSFS 2020 ONLY. NOTE 2: This should only be used on high performance computers.
NOTE 3: The Installer will require MANUAL targeting of your MSFS Community Folder. You must locate its destination folder.
BUILD 3.2, released Jan 30th, 2021
* Exterior View of Gauges Fixed
* Environment Occlusion Mesh installed to keep rain and snow out of cabin
* Blurry/hazy font on GPS units fixed, crisp and proper
BUILD 3.1, released Jan 29th, 2021
* Flashing A-pillars and B-pillars is fixed
* Faulty animations on Battery, Alternator, Lights-1, Lights-2, and Lights-3 knobs fixed; missing animation codes from revamp. Fixed.
* Flashing glass on occassional angles to sun, mostly fixed, down to only the front interior plexi flashing now.
BUGS AND ISSUES:
* Presently Doors are inoperative. This is a known Asobo issue and hopefully repaired soon.
* Flashing at front windscreen from exterior view only and certain angles to sun only.
* The instrument panel lights are 'always on' at night. Asobo presently do not have a way to turn off 2D XML Instrumentation that feature light mapping. Hopefully this will be updated soon in the simulator.
* You 'might' need to use Control-E for engine starts. A bug that is industry wide is reporting starting issues on some addon planes with some computers.
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Overall, I can really recommend the Trinidad. A plane at a great price.
Viele Grüße,
Norbert
Overall quality of the model & textures is ok but not great. Definitely a lot of room for improvement.
Flight dynamics feel questionable at best especially compared to other similar size and layout aircraft. This plane feels like an old car, doesn't look too bad is fiddly and handles like crap.
I would love to get a refund but on the flip side it wasn't expensive and maybe they will update it to the point it actually is good. Once can only hope.
Hâte de voir la suite où un autre modèle du studio.
The plane itself is beautiful, but the texture needs to be refined. It looks rough when you zoom in，especially the Air Speed Indicator.
In addition to the problems others have found, there are a few bugs that need to be fixed.I have encountered and can confirm that:
The alternator doesn't work even though it's on(someone in the Msfs forum told this too), the battery will continue to drain and then blackout. Navigation, radio, autopilot, fuel indicator will fail, and even the landing gear will not lay down.
In addition, the rudder trim and fuel tank switching reversed while using middle mouse wheel.
The rudder-trim does not really
work(but the number changes), while it can take effect with the binding key.
Over all, I like this plane, fly fast and smooth. And the dev seems work hard on the patch. So, It will be 4 stars after some improvements.
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After a few rounds of patches, the plane is fully functional and looking good.
I wish it would be perfect to optimized a little more on FPS in the Cockpit.
My biggest issue is the installer which is especially annoying to use.
It is to note that this plane is the first 3rd party plane with genuinly good camera difinitions I've bought, usually the work is made by clueless devs or isn't even done, even from talented devs.
Frankly the fact that this add-on plane has lower review scores than the Bredok Eurofighter really tells a lot about flight simmer's broken priorities.
It's also to note that a lot of the bad early reviews really seem to me to come from people who don't understand what it's like to learn to make planes for this new sim, documentation is horrible, mostly empty, a lot changed between this sim and older platforms and it's a lot about trial and error and devs helping each others out.
Also some absurd accusation like one guy sayiing there's no PBR where there obviously is. I'd usually give this product 4 stars until some of the issues are fixed but I'm giving it 5 to compensate for the many, imo, absurly harsh reviews this product gets.
The plane itself is beautiful, but the texture needs to be refined. It looks rough when you zoom in，especially the Air Speed Indicator.
In addition to the problems others have found, there are a few bugs that need to be fixed.I have encountered and can confirm that:
The alternator doesn't work even though it's on(someone in the Msfs forum told this too), the battery will continue to drain and then blackout. Navigation, radio, autopilot, fuel indicator will fail, and even the landing gear will not lay down.
In addition, the rudder trim and fuel tank switching reversed while using middle mouse wheel.
The rudder-trim does not really
work(but the number changes), while it can take effect with the binding key.
Over all, I like this plane, fly fast and smooth. And the dev seems work hard on the patch. So, It will be 4 stars after some improvements.
Let me just say for the record for the cost this is a perfectly fine value. Tons of liveries, a few different interiors and the dev has addressed all complaints with almost daily updates.
Flight model is great and that is the most important thing, to the developer I ask you to prioritize these items to bring this B plane to an A+.
- Better textures on internal cockpit - the current textures are good but there's room for improvement - please start with the gauges ;)
- The airframe body looks good, but I would like to see physical bolts instead of the texture maps. The flaps are the worst offender here in my opinion.
- Lighting, look up the Uwa lighting mod, maybe you can get this implemented?
That's it for me, the plane flies so well that I'm going to keep using it, but I would love to show it off in more screenshots so let's make it a litte bit more pretty ;
-Steve
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The modeling is superb and the flight model is better than any default aircraft in the sim. The sounds are very well done, which is a major plus.
A High End computer that can run MSFS smoothly is most recommended because this package consists of a high amount of 4K resolution textures. A Strong graphics card with at least 2Gb, but preferably 4Gb of VRAM and at least 6Gbs of RAM are required. You might need to 'relax' settings in the simulator to run this plane in low end computers.
