In Praise of Starship - Thank You Nick!
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@Black-Square, Starship is absolutely without question my favorite aircraft in the sim. Must be because I was doing industrial automation in the 1980's and the whole interface reminds me strongly of my DCS (distributed control system) days. It's just a treat!
The CDU in particular is an awesome bit of kit, every plane should have one. Its placement makes it quite easily accessible by the pilots. You can preset all your comms from Clearance to Center, and 6-8 VORs if you're hopping, and be way ahead of the airplane before you even begin taxiing. I hated the T9 interface on phones, but this just fits.
I enter flight plans by hand because it's actually enjoyable to do so on the CDU. Of course, I also like programming INSs by hand in the 727 and I'm sure in the upcoming TriStar as well, and I've spent a bit of time with the Apollo Guidance Computer DSKY in ReEntry, so there's that.
Nick, to give you a sense of just how much I love this aircraft, I am just fifteen legs away from completing an epic 285-leg, nearly 100,000 nm world tour that I'm fairly certain touches down in every country with an airport, except for Monaco. I started on 20 June last year, just after Starship's initial release. Hobbs currently indicates ~325 hours. I am in it at least once every day, save for a few gaps and one medical emergency that kept me grounded for nine days.
Starship is an AMAZING machine. You should really treat yourself to more non-dev time with your creation. Believe me, every second is worth it.
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Shout out to Reentry! A few of the guys in their discord sell 3D printed DSKYs and boy let me tell you how fun that game is with one of those.
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@MarkS Yes, if you're the same kind of button pusher I am, you sure do
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q36ch5pdr1v56llv3pxx8/DSKY.jpg?rlkey=xbd2748a1yyn6c598x2yyzvmx&st=oo9zqj6c&dl=0
I'm on mobile and can't seem to paste the photo of it directly, so I apologize for the Dropbox link.
