Great aircraft. All around this thing is a joy to fly. Only giving 4 starts for a few grips. The afterburner effects could use some work. Hard to cold start it on your own the throttles click box is two big and will not allow you to get to some of the switch's that are needed to get the engines up and running. Hopefully that will be fixed and it will be an easy 5 star.
What can I say this is as basic as it gets. And worse yet, two of the planes are so broken they don't fly I bought this for the sole fact that its the only place to get a Zero in MSFS as far as i'm aware. This unfortunately for me is sub par and should really be freeware. We will start with the good. THE GOOD: -Each of the 4 aircraft have their out custom functional cockpit. -The exterior models are very well done in terms of modeling. -Most all control surfaces are animated except for the tail wheel stays straight when you turn on the ground. -The aircraft carriers are a nice touch. You can't spawn on them but you can land and take off after your already in the air. THE BAD: -While each plane has its own cockpit. They are very lacking in detail. Good start but lacking many, many, things in the real cockpits -The Val and Kate are the worst offenders here as those cockpits feel the least polished. -The flight model for the Zero is flyable but leaves a bad taste. The top speed and acceleration feels to slow compared to the specs it should have and the roll rate is abysmal. -The Val in all liveries has two to three black dots about 5 feet above the cockpit in the aircraft model and is easily visible in external views. -RJX8 additions and alterations are nice but so far i noticed in you get close to the water there are huge waves as if the water is painted onto rolling hills near the shore heading to the carriers. Looks very bad as were talking like 20 to 30 meter elevation changes on what should be flat water. THE BROKEN: The Val and the Kate.... Are completely unflyable. If you take off from the ground you can get to about 100 knots and you are maxed. If you try to pull up in the slightest you will stall and fall. You will never acquire enough airspeed to actually fly this plane with one exception. I have tried multiple things to correct this, at first i thought they were just overweight for some reason as that's exactly what they fly like. Way over weight, this did not fix the problem. Flaps up, flaps down, full fuel, low fuel. No change. Just unflyable and broken. The only way i have found around this is to start your flight already in the air. This seems to fix whatever the issue is. They still have a sub par flight model, but they at lease fly. Useless to me as I want to start on a ramp. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do not purchase this unless you like me are in love with old world war two birds, only other saving grace is the carriers. This could be a great package for 20 dollars. You can tell it started off with love that ran out and just turned into a cash grab. Current state this should be freeware. Maybe they will update but that remains to be seen.