Reviews (by Martin)

Simply excellent with very few issues in MSFS. This is a quality addon

I'd love to get this but powerlines in Canada don't look like this at all

Oh boy. Where to start. The good: - It looks like a CL-215. The outside model is decently detailed and accurate as far as my eye from working around these aircraft can see - It flies like it has some momentum in control, as it should The bad - The sounds! Oh wow. The sounds are maybe not THE worst I've heard in MSFS but certainly in the bottom 2%. It sounds like two sickly Rotax engines recorded through a phone and then compressed. - Scrolling magnetos automatically starts the engines without hitting the starter - Flap indicator does not work - Plane instantly starts rolling on the ground and has no momentum - Prop RPM sits at around 4500 (!!!) at full power - Prop controls do nothing in the upper range of power and only allow you to decrease RPM to realistic numbers (under 3000) below about 1/3 power - Drag and overall performance inflight is disappointing. Full flaps + idle gives approximately a 300-500 fpm descent on approach. - Very, very little friction when landing on water. It's difficult to get it below 40 knots. The slowest I could get it on the water with full flap and engines at idle was around 20-25 knots - but once you DO get it slow, it porpoises in and out of the water, sometimes up to about 20 feet before slamming back down - Wake effects are random and sporadic, but mostly not there - At rest the plane sits almost out of the water. The bottom 2 feet of the keel is in whereas the tip floats are up in space - Mixture controls do not cutoff the engine - Did I mention the sounds? Man..... I didn't test out any of the nav or firefighting equipment as I just don't see myself flying this thing. I've flown this exactly once and unless it gets a major patch, it won't even be kept in my Community folder. I'd get a refund if I could. But take my sacrifice as your warning. This plane needs some SERIOUS work to be made viable, especially at this price.

I can see the potential and I see what they're going for. But for now it's not a viable airplane for me. I suppose I can deal with a few missing systems here and there while they work on it but a few of the systems that do work are very basic. But the bigger issue was part way through a flight when knobs/switches started misbehaving despite no keybinds and it eventually led to a drop to literally 2 fps. Add in some sub-par textures and sounds and it leads to a disappointing purchase. You're best to wait on this one

- The sounds are overwhelmingly loud and low quality/compressed as well as being "legacy" where they should have put the effort into make them wwise. - From a distance the plane looks good but up close the low quality textures from this being an FSX port become apparent. - Inflight it is very pitchy and overly responsive to the point of being twitchy. - Flying performance does not match IRL numbers. - There are no additional click spots for QOL toys in the cockpit. - There are odd bugs/omissions in the cockpit like the power quadrant balls disappearing randomly and the flap indicator on the side panel not working. Without major patches in the near future this is destined to collect virtual dust in my hangar. For now, for the price, one can do much better