Purchased the A2A B377 today and...

[addman]

Originally Posted by Ze-Jamz

Def not my cup of tea but glad your enjoying it..price is a bit much though?

I think it's on the far edge of what is acceptable to charge for a single plane add-on. Still, compared to other FSX payware planes, it's waaaay beyond in quality and features. I bought it bundled with the "Captain of the Ship"/accusim thingie and it's much more than just a regular 3D model and FM package. You have wear and tear on engines for example, which is a huge deal for immersion for me personally and one of the main reasons I shelled out for it. You get a career mode that tracks your distance flown and grades your piloting skills etc. Basically, it could be a sim of it's own and it kind of is since A2A use their "sim within a sim" tech for their aircrafts. It's worth it, for me at least. I like CloD as a combat flight sim but A2A aircraft is when you just want "pure" simming. Different experiences, both very good at what they are doing.

Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper

And now there's the DCS P51D......with guns! LOL

Man oh man! I think I want that P-51 but my simming budget is spent for this month at least. I also noticed there's a third-party MiG-21bis on the way for DCS, I'm saving my dough for that one for sure.

[Katana1000S]

Sounds good and yes I do have a similar check list to you, might go look this one out.

BTW if you like a virtual flying career get yourself Air Hauler for FSX, awesome.

[addman]

Originally Posted by Katana1000S

Sounds good and yes I do have a similar check list to you, might go look this one out.

BTW if you like a virtual flying career get yourself Air Hauler for FSX, awesome.

Yes, I've been looking at that Air Hauler add-on recently. Might try it out.

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by addman

Yes, I've been looking at that Air Hauler add-on recently. Might try it out.

Air Hauler really is very good, if you buy it get the boxed ver for the manual, always prefer something like that to .pdf's ... I'm old school you see I got it new on Ebay for about £20.

Just looking at the A2A B377 bundle with Captain of the ship pack, total price = 59.98 USD and thats 37.3184 GBP in my money, if I go for this (and I'm seriously tempted) do you think I need the captain of the ship pack given that its a discount bundled this way? Does it really add a lot more?

I see I can download the manual for free, I'll do that just now and give this purchase some serious consideration.

Thanks for posting about this.

[badaboom]

A2A make the best stuff for FSX IMHO.

[addman]

Originally Posted by Katana1000S

Air Hauler really is very good, if you buy it get the boxed ver for the manual, always prefer something like that to .pdf's ... I'm old school you see I got it new on Ebay for about £20.

Just looking at the A2A B377 bundle with Captain of the ship pack, total price = 59.98 USD and thats 37.3184 GBP in my money, if I go for this (and I'm seriously tempted) do you think I need the captain of the ship pack given that its a discount bundled this way? Does it really add a lot more?

I see I can download the manual for free, I'll do that just now and give this purchase some serious consideration.

Thanks for posting about this.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.

I think you don't get the accusim module with just the B377, like the J3 Piper Cub. Accusim is a part of the COTS package and that's why I found it to be essential to include in my purchase. Without COTS, the B377 is "just" a Wings of Silver aircraft. I've just flown a little bit in it so far but I just absolutely love it, such an awesome challenge to fly from both a technical and pilot pov, highly recommended. So many small awesome details, the cockpit rattle when hitting turbulence for example, just awesome.

Don't be discouraged by the manual though, so far I've found it challenging to fly but not unsurmountable.