M20R for Flight Simulators

[Raptor05121]

I don't know if many of you guys are customers of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X or Lockheed Martin's Prepar3d flight simulators, but a vendor called Alabeo has been working on an M20R Ovation with steam gauges for them. They are probably a day or two from release and of course, I'm going to buy it. They make beautiful models but FS is very lacking in control qualities that separates these planes. They all fly the same so I wonder if they've made it feel Mooney fast. 

[carusoam]

Let me know what you find out...

I use the Steam Software/MS version w/ the Bravo.

It would be nice to have the NA version of the longbody.  310hp would be the cat's PJs...

Best regards,

-a-

[Raptor05121]

Oh no doubt it'll be leaps and bounds better than the circa-2003 software you are used to with the default Bravo

[Jeff_S]

What about X-Plane?  I'm going to their website to look up and see if the support that platform.

[flyboy0681]

3 hours ago, Jeff_S said:

What about X-Plane?  I'm going to their website to look up and see if the support that platform.

While doing my instrument work two years ago I bought X-Plane and found a M20J add-on. But just like Raptor said, the flight qualities were just not there, and I spent hours fussing with adjusting the settings. My main complaint  is that I could never get the pitch set to work right as it was always much too sensitive, although the roll was fine. The panel was very close to mine and I purchased a copy of RealityXP's Garmin 530 add-on, which works fantastic at simulating the real thing. I didn't use the sim to practice flying the plane as much as practicing procedures, which helped me a great deal.

[Mark89114]

You guys discussing about how the controls on your desktop PC don't replicate real life have probably never flown a real full motion sim.....controls don't feel exactly right there either.  You just have to get used to it and accept it.

[carusoam]

My rudder pedals are enter and shift-0...  I think I can get over that part.  It's the flaps/nose down tendency I would like to have added to my FsX sim.... to go with my 310hp bump...

Jimmy G had a more realistic sim for sale a while ago....

Best regards...

The cool part is the navigational accuracy for the IR type flights...Throttle and MP gauge on the same screen would be nice... I need a couple of screens for that...

Craig had some pictures of his sim set-up including four or five screens....

Best regards,

-a-

[Raptor05121]

13 hours ago, Jeff_S said:

What about X-Plane?  I'm going to their website to look up and see if the support that platform.

They have a history of doing XP releases a few months after initial release

[markejackson02]

FWIW, I've had flight sims since DOS days and the feel part of it has always been missing, especially in pitch.

I use it sparingly to practice procedures since it's so clunky and the systems are so poorly modeled.  I really enjoy it to get a taste of big iron flying.