by Tupolev114 » Wed Jun 03, 2015 9:43 pm
Here is my half way review, i have had this for a few hours now and manged to fly a few sectors with her and i must say top notch stuff, systems wise its gold, esp in the area of the turboprop simulation and how the fine details of there workings. navigational instruments are fantastic and very fluid for full 3d instruments and the inclusion of F1 GTN 750 integration makes this even better as i also own that product. flying wise its how it should be pitch and yaw are as expected and roll blew me away, the MU2 has no Ailerons because it has monster flaps as many of us might know so use of flight spoilers were implemented to gain roll control and as a result roll is a little slower than an aircraft of comparable size eg any Cessna 400 series AC so another spot on thing going for this bird. as Ian mentioned the MU2 has high wing loading for its size thanks in part to the wing being not much larger than of a 172 but the loading is around the same of a Learjet 30 series so as a result one must stay one step ahead of the aircraft as it flys more like a pure jet than turboprop. one negative result of small wings is poor slow speed performance hence the monster flaps, i believe full flap gives a 25% increase in lift and they sure do work! with typical landing speeds at 105ish knts and that seems slow for a aircraft with blue line at 155knts. visually fantastic enough said. all in all and taken into account is this worth the coin? oh yes it is so worth it, do milviz have it cut out for them? for sure, does this product bode well for flysimware? yes, is this staying in my hanger? OMG yes itl be lucky if i leave it alone