Reviews (by Daniel)

I purchased this product about a month ago and have had quite a few mixed feelings about it. To begin ill say what is good, the visuals. This aircraft is so beautifully modeled inside and out, this aircraft is just simply gorgeous. Also the flight model is a very fun aircraft to fly with great the high speed and maneuverability of the real a4 is modeled very well, this thing will go toe to toe with an F/A-18E easily in a dogfught and serves as a great adversary training platform which is what I use this aircraft for in my virtual squadron. However while it is very fun going fast and pulling G's when things get slow it is rather unpleasant. The engines react to power changes so terribly slow and are either putting out way to much power or are at idle there seems to be no in between this is much like the E2 C2 package Dino released so I know this is not just how the aircraft is. Now moving onto the aircraft systems,this a4's systems are modeled relatively well with most things you need to work seeming realistic that being said as per the real a4 the aircraft itself is very simple as far as avionics go and combined with the nice radar and the afcs makes for a nice cross country platform. Moving on to why there is an A in A-4 is the weapons. The tacpack integration is rather nice with the ccip gunsight, the lau 10 rockets, and the m82 and 83 bombs makes for a fun air to ground platform. sadly the included agm's do not work unfortunately, rightfuly so since the a4's did not have these until late in there existence. One thing is particular on the A-4F superfox models the guns which appear on the aircraft do not work as well as the Aim 9Bs will not track there targets either. Also there is no chaff or flares on that model aswell. Overall this model earned 3 stars for most I would say 4 stars however I emailed Dino two weeks ago about getting help with the aircraft and he is still yet to respond. Also the Price of 25 euros is a bit much for an fsx model of this quality at the least Dino could offer the discount present for owning both the TA-4 for p3d users, and this but that may just be me really wishing I had the money to Buy it. Unless tacpack is a necessity I would have to say the virtavia A4 is a bit better of a value at only 13 dollars you can get everything this offers at a little less of an exterior model quality. Nonetheless this aircraft is respectable and hopefully Dino will not abandon it like his E2 C2 project. Overall id say its worth a buy if money is no factor.