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.
Build 4.2.1, released August 3rd, 2021
[MODIFICATIONS AND UPDATES: 4.2.1]
* Update to high reflection planes, restoring their shine and reflection. The 4.2 update accidentally put the dull finish on 'all' Trinidads. Now the reflections are back on the clean planes.
Build 4.2, released July 29th, 2021
[MODIFICATIONS AND UPDATES: 4.2.]
* 22 (TWENTY TWO) Different Paint Schemes!
* 3 Different Interior Themes: Gray, Tan, Neon Euro Blue. Also one 'dusty' reddish version of gray in VH-AXY
* Extreme Detail Virtual Cockpit with updated and modified Mesh, Mapping, and Graphics
* 3D Instrumentation using Asobo coding technology
* Disappearing control yoke for visibility
* Opening Gull-Wing Doors like a DeLorean automobile
* Park Mode for tieing down your plane after a long flight
* Opening cargo compartment door
* Uses Asobo high animation, high detail Asobo pilot models
* Manual included that shows you the features and explains flight information and specs on the Trinidad, found in the Manual folder of the Trinidad folder system
* Some cool pre-set 'views' for interior 'and' exterior modes. See manual for information on those
* 3D Instrumentation with stacked gauge parts
* Extreme high-resolution exterior 'and' interior textures in PBR format complete with bump mapping throughout.
* 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 as it uses 'many' high resolution textures
NOTE 3: IMPORTANT: The Installer will require MANUAL targeting of your MSFS Community Folder. You must locate its destination folder. IF you cannot locate your MSFS Community folder on your computer, you will not be able to install this. This 'InstallCreator' installer cannot locate the MSFS folder system.
Build 4.1, released May 15th, 2021 (Previous Update)
[MODIFICATIONS AND UPDATES: 4.1 ]
* Navigational Elements Restored; ILS and VOR guidance needles.
* 3D Instruments fitted using Asobo pure coding for enhanced frame rates and realism
* Instruments now feature on/off lighting control
* Instruments now feature 'dimming' knob for low light flying at night
* Cabin lighting system totally revamped with improved overhead spotlights and also blue glow light mode. Much improved
* Some wear and realism added to the leather and vinyl interiors. Blue interior color totally revamped for truer color
* Instrument face panels in Instrument Pods are revamped and more truer to actual panels of Trinidads; less shine, redone graphics, crisper edges
* Adjustments to handling and stability when in 70 knot range when on slow aproach flight speeds
* Various knobs on instrument panel redone/revamped. Rudder pedals rebuilt
* Flaps speed and performance Mod's for better realism when in descent with full flaps active
* Retracting foot pedal system rebuilt, active
* Park Mode system now only active on the ground. For those that liked to deploy wheel chauks while in flight, I am sorry.
[LAST UPDATES: 3.x]
* Pilot Bug showing the pilots outside of the plane has been rectified
* New Asobo 3D variable visibility 3D prop discs installed; 2 stages of visibility; fast and slow, sides and front
* Proper Transponder now functioning featuring King KT76C screen and layout
* Non-animating Heading knob on panel is now animating properly
* Small touchups to mesh components throughout the plane
* Old reddish dusty interior upgraded to regular gray interior with updates
[EXISTING BUGS]
None known.
Review it now!
- Relatively good fun to fly
- Quite good modelling
Negatives:-
- Some really dubious texturing (ex-FSX textures)
- No switch sounds, door sound, external wind w/door opened
- In fact no custom sounds at all; just stock Asobo
- Autopilot is a mess. Glideslope has two tactics; 0 FPM or 1000 FPM
- No rain effects on windscreen, when raining outside
In summary, a really rather low quality offering. Feels completely unfinished, or like the dev has not yet learned the full MSFS SDK. Too expensive for this below par level of quality. Hasn't bothered with immersive interior sounds, hasn't bothered to map rain effects. Although the textures may be hi res, this means nothing if the base source textures are of such low quality (look at the Socata logo on the yoke). Really feels like a dev just cashing in on MSFS by crudely getting a FSX model pushed into the new sim - in a low quality and unfinished state.
At the moment there are still errors with the lights that LH does not seem to care about.
I wrote an email and haven't received a response for almost 10 days.
For now my last flyer from Lionheart Creation ...
It is a solid aircraft reflecting well its real life counterpart. A definite part of my virtual hangar.
The devs are also actively working on the title (check the update history) unlike some other devs, which deserves recognition on its own.
Pros:
-Many cool visual details like charts, Paper POH, pens & cigarette lighter
-Animated Cargo door
-22 Liveries
Cons:
-Very unimpressive low-resolution 2D instruments, with a clock that doesn't have a working timer
-A disappointing amount of non-function elements for a simple aircraft.
-Exterior textures are not at all "extreme high-resolution", if so they at least don't look that way.
-Interior textures are not uniform in resolution and give a very fake-looking interior. The glossy plastic material that is used in many payware aircraft just looks so out of place.
-The instrument lighting is very bright and not adjustable
-The cockpit lighting is also not variable and not realistically modeled like in many of the other planes for MSFS
-This is just my personal opinion, but while the wide selection of liveries is nice, I think most of them are very similar and not very stylish.
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.
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.
Really beautiful cockpit and texture craftmanship.
Overall the aircraft performs well and is a real climber. Once at cruise, you have no problem getting to the yellow arch and slows nicely when you get the wheels and flaps down for approach. Outside model looks fine and overall textures are okay. Animation of the exterior gear and flaps look good along with the gull wing doors.
Interior could use some help. Since I am a VR pilot, that's where I have the strongest opinions for an aircraft. Texture of the cockpit panel and door panels seen a little "course" for me. Also the yoke seems huge. I looked at some real pictures of the Trinidad, and it looks large in the reference photos, but it seems to big in the model. I usually turn them off because they are a little distracting. The one thing that I wish would get fixed is the gauges. They are 2D, be nice if they were 3D, and I know this would be a lot of work to make them 3D. The GPS units displays look great. Color of the displays are spot on.
Systems are okay, but this is also just a single engine aircraft, so there are not that many systems to model. Auto pilot works okay, once your figure out how it works. The GPS/NAV mode floats off course and after a few miles it will bank back on course.
It is a nice aircraft for the price, and I have had it since its release. There were a lot of problems with the release but the aircraft is mush better now. Still with the few problems there are still there, and if the developer doesn't update it anymore, I would continue flying as is. However, I have heard the developer is still planning more updates and I can't wait to see what improvements he does.
Maybe after a couple more updates, I would give it a 4 stars, and if the gauges were 3D then I would say it is a 5 star aircraft. For me, the price was right for this aircraft, but to everyone, price is subjective.
Hope this review helps anyone looking into this aircraft!
Look, everyone's discretionary spending and expectations are different. That's absolutely, ok. If you're primarily graphics focused, than yes, you should take this into consideration with your purchase decision. If you feel like I do, supporting and encouraging Developers in the new MSFS to generate new and unique aircraft benefits the entire community, then selection of this aircraft is a no-brainer. This is an absolutely beautiful flying machine and I have no reservations they will continue to update and continue improvements with the graphics and performance.
Personally, I look forward to LHC taking their maturing experience to deliver us remarkable versions of their Kodiak and Fairchild 24 series. But I'm a GA and big radial kind of guy, so there's that:)
Cheers to you all, fly safe and happy.
The flight model is really good, the plane flies very nice - one should not to be forget, besides the big known manufacturers it is the first mature complex aircraft.And the manufacturer takes really much effort to take its users seriously and to continuously develop the machine. thumbs up ... it would be desirable to optimize the FPS and the functionality of the Avionic Master--but i think, for the price it is a nice GA Plane whichs grows much more to the future :)
My only gripe with the aircraft (and it's a game-breaking one right now) is the poor performance in-cockpit. I think there's some weirdness going on with the way the gauges are being rendered, or with the internal 3D model having too many unneeded polys. I'm not sure what the issue is but it's the only thing really keeping me from flying an otherwise great aircraft. If the developer is able to solve the performance issue, I will happily amend my review to five stars.
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
YouTube.com/MediaHypeTrain
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.
As if these issues weren't bad enough, even installing this plane hits a road block if you don't do a workaround. The installer asks if you have the Steam version or not. If you choose the Steam version, you will not be able to advance past the registration key. The solution here is to choose the non-Steam version regardless of which version you have installed. Everything about this release is sloppy.
Tried it today - model looks nice enough.
Interior instrument lighting not working as advised when purchased.
VOR's don't work. No glideslope on VOR or HSI.
Overspeed in level flight even with the throttle pulled way back.
Needs finessing.
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 VRAM, but preferably 4Gb of VRAM and at least 6Gbs of RAM are required. You 'will' need to 'lower' settings in the MSFS to run this plane in low end computers.
You will need to know where your 'Community' folder is in MSFS on your computer. You will need to direct the installer to your that folder when installing this package.
