by Chairman » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:05 am
LevelD is just about worth it if only for access to their Pilots Helping Pilots forum. The only forum I've found that was comparable (right down to the surprising number of real world 767 drivers who lurk there) was the Aeroworx forum in its heyday, and that really died when Aeroworx stopped development. LDS are still working on their 757 but basically they only have the one plane and no great signs of activity but the forum is going like a house on fire. In the PHP forum input from LDS is pretty limited - it seems to work out that simple queries are handled by high hours advanced simmers, while the real curly ones are answered by the real pilots.
Plus it's painfully pedantically modelled - right down to (to use a recent thing I had trouble with) the exact point during departure at which the FMC position changes from IRU position to Radio position, and what happens if you make a slight (6000nm) error when seeding the IRU position ...
It's a fantastic bird and even with a hanger full of PMDG iron and the DF727 and F1 ATR to choose from I always seem to end up back in the LDS763.
Gary
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