Reviews (by James)

Been waiting for a larger sized biz jet. Graphics are what you are use to seeing from them. Running on a I7 6700 @4.5/W10 on latest ver with all the usual Rex/AS/Orbx etc, the computer does break a sweat. No stutters or crashes but around cities or lots of clouds I get a glance of 30s-50s. The "lite" ver takes out the cabin,wing view and imo see no difference. Flies and handles like you would expect where you can feel the higher weight but it is very agile. Sounds are some of their best. I am a A-B pilot and do not spend time setting up detailed flight plans and approaches. Overall it feels wonky especially the AP. On numerous occasions I have had the ap blow right through a set altitude. That said I admit to speed reading the better than normal manuals. Overall a joy to fly by hand, speed control keeps you busy and the FM is realistic enough to satisfy most pilots. Again, those who want to really bury their faces in the FMS and have RW approach plates in hand will be be getting the usual Carenado basic barely enough to get realism.

Fun heli and great for scouting out your expensive payware airports that cost more than the sim. Not going to go as far as others and say its realistic but you do have to stay on top of the tail and unlike other helis it does make you fly it. What you see is what you get. Worth the $$$.

Wow. Flew gutted 25s as freighters late 80s. All the Lears available have identical looking pop up menus which is confusing. I assumed there was ONE and the rest were bought and detailed??? Unsure I ended up buying them all. Anyways,I own the Lion/Xtreme and now the Flysimware. This is my FAV.The sounds/FM are realistic. All around the 35A is just more polished and mature. Lighting is good. Sure the VR pit like the others is not cutting edge but you will be to busy flying to nit pic about dash gloss or carpet. Little to no performance hit. I prefer round gauges, shag carpet and don't need no stinkin FMS. So set off some car alarms and contribute your part to global warming and fly a Lear.

One word to sum the Meteor up is mediocre with the exception of the sounds. Unless you just love the Meteor you will bore quickly especially if you fly the Lightening or any of the fast jet or planes with great flight models.Graphics are ok. Its a vfr, relaxing, rock solid forgettable plane. Other than stalling which is usually fatal,its a pussy cat. Still for the price, ZERO performance hit, its priced accordingly and a honest effort.

P3DV3/W10/I7 4.5 980TI SSD. Orbyx everything,Activesky16,REX.M sim settings high except shadows. I am not familiar with DC except for the major landmarks but wanted a helicopter playground. Not going to comment on the accuracy of the scenery or the details. It appears to be a google map type map with buildings and scenery place on it. Looks ok at best. The area is dead flat and in slow helis at 1000 agl you see it at its worst. At speed and altitude it should become more believable. However the fps and performance are smooth and runs better than ANY Orbx airports including the small, single grass strips. A few tugs and hitches here and there flying Milviz helis but overall smooth. Install give you the option to cut the textures by 50% iirc and other things such as static aircraft etc but I ran DC fully loaded. So far all I have done is run helis from Andrews AFB to the Capital and a few quick circuits of this large scenery. I am familiar with the well known DCA River Visual Approach RW 19 and flew it and all landmarks are there. So overall for my use a a heli playground it was worth the price. Fps was very good although if you run Ai and high end airliners that I cannot comment on. 5 is OMG you are there,4 is incredible but a few problems 3 is gets the job done which this does.

After a long much needed 2 yr break from FSX, I loaded P3d onto a new W10 machine built for gaming. With rumours of a Mu-2 flying around since fs2004 when I saw it I had to have it. I actually flew the extended version with the addition of a crew door back in the early 90s that were converted as freighters,mainly carrying banking records. Anyways,the not so HD 2016 interior at first turned me off from hitting buy but positive reviews pushed me into getting it. Install was easy. 1st impression was that engine sound! I have 16% hearing loss partially due to those Garretts. Nice looking vc that I have better luck looking down that at the ceiling with my trackir. Flies like it looks which is a sporty Kingair with surprising short field to and landing. there is a satisfying cockpit workload but not overwhelming. The price turned me off but if you want to do 250+k in unique which is a linemens worst nightmare due to all the tanks you will love it. 4 ext graphics, 3 int, 4 fm, 4 sounds. Worth the price. Yes.

Extended is not how I would have named this release.Its seems to me to be a totally new aircraft with great graphics and realistic FM.Cockpit is really top notch and not a polished version of the old Otter but a total rehaul.Its also a hands on plane and needs to be flown.The trim and controls feel a little sketchy at first but you gotta realize this is not a streamlined flies on rails modern plane.It can get you in and out of some tight,short strips but you have to make the plane do what you want it to.One of my initial concerns and why I love the original is that its great on frames.Well I am happy to say that the performance is as good or better than the default planes!I can easily fly in Orbx PNW with no hit on performance.How they got all of this and able to run so smooth deserves applause. A worthy successor to the original. 5 stars