Reviews (by Ryan)

Going into this, I knew this airplane wasn't going to be perfect but even after the first update this airplane still leaves a LOT to be desired. If you enjoy starting airplanes cold and dark, you won't get that from this airplane because even when starting on the ramp, everything is on except the engines (including interior lights that are set at maximum). The interior sounds are horrendous in quality, although they're less deafening than before the update. Many of the cockpit switches are very low quality, especially the sperry gyropilot. Speaking of the gyropilot, once you activate altitude hold, you're not going to be able to change altitude unless you have a mapped button to lower or raise the set altitude (it will always return to the originally selected altitude and the airplane will climb/descend if you try to activate it at a different altitude). There are absolutely no performance figures that are provided by the developers, so if you want to try flying with pilotage and dead reckoning, expect to spend 6-18 hours finding it on your own. The documents that are provided by the devs are very bare bones and feel unprofessional and incomplete, for example on the quick start guide they include "...there isn’t a right or wrong way to start a Electra...". The exterior is better in both appearance and sound although the interior airspeed gauge does not correlate with the exterior gauge. The in game checklist is also very basic and leaves a lot to be desired for. Thankfully they do include some basic speeds that are hidden in the documentation of the aircraft so you don't have to figure those out (assuming you can find it). In conclusion, if you want to buy this with the intention of learning to navigate like pilots would have in the 1930s without GPS, this is not the airplane for you. If you are looking for a realistic, high quality model, this is not the airplane for you. If you just want a nice exterior model to mess around with, there are less expensive models that provide a better experience. I would really like to see improvements to this! The devs can defiantly do a better job and there are original documents that are easy to find and would be massively helpful to both the developers in improving their model and the information they include with it but weather or not that happens remains to be seen. If future updates would include more details about the model, much like Carenado produces then my rating will improve but for now this is not worth the $30 price tag.