Thanks Nick
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After a carefully study of the manual, I made my own checklist and some test flights. Now I'm enjoying the superb Piston Duke. She is amazing, has details that only a talented creator may do. I won't enumerate the virtues of this plane; this post will became too long. Considering the flight experience with the Duke I can discard all others planes (Except the Tiger Moth, of course).
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Thank you for taking the time to write and let me know what you think of the aircraft. As much as I am guilty of enjoying the praise, the real reward is knowing that there are virtual pilots out there engaging with my aircraft as deeply as they were designed to be engaged with. I know that my brand of "unapologetic realistism" is not for everyone, but I know there is a certain constituent of simulator users who would settle for nothing less, because I am one of them! Thanks again, and please let me know if there is ever anything I can do to help improve your experience!
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Hi Nick. I too have so enjoyed all of your Analog releases. I am a real world pilot with time in Bonanzas, Barons, Dukes... and the Turbine Duke N157JT demo aircraft (even got to fly with Darwin Conrad, the creator of the STC for the Royal Turbine). I do not have logged time in a King Air, but your analog King Air has given me the ability to faithfully learn the preflight procedures so that I would quickly be able to become proficient when I do get that opportunity. Keep up your amazing work. I am really hoping that you do revisit the King Air in MSFS2020 and add the KLN90B into the center stack leaving the CTL radios flanking both sides as that is such a traditional layout for the pre glass cockpit King Airs.
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@Black-Square said in Thanks Nick:
Thank you for taking the time to write and let me know what you think of the aircraft. As much as I am guilty of enjoying the praise, the real reward is knowing that there are virtual pilots out there engaging with my aircraft as deeply as they were designed to be engaged with. I know that my brand of "unapologetic realistism" is not for everyone, but I know there is a certain constituent of simulator users who would settle for nothing less, because I am one of them! Thanks again, and please let me know if there is ever anything I can do to help improve your experience!
You really do take it up a level compared to even a lot of the major players, and my only issue with Black Square products is that there's just one of you because if you made more planes I'd likely never fly anything else again.
I have been spending a bunch of time recently in a certain 50s vintage propliner made by a large flight sim studio (who shall deliberately remain nameless, I'm not here to disparage anyone specifically), and while she's one of the most fun and rewarding planes to fly IMHO, when listening to the purr of the engines at 13,000ft, all I wanted to do was tap on the damn gauges. I thought "wouldn't it be fun if engine four was reading a higher fuel flow because it's stuck?"
It's that extra mile you go through with all those tiny little things that make your aircraft feel so damn alive. It's such a small thing that it makes flying some other products infuriating because, if they put just a bit more TLC into them, they could be the same way.
Plus your support is top notch. Sometimes it feels like other developers put a plane out and forget it in lieu of the shiny, new one they just put out, but you put how many man-hours into poking the WT AP looking for an issue with the Caravan that affected maybe 12 people here on the forums?
I've been at the point where my sim time is drastically exceeded by the number of planes I have/want to fly for a while now, but your aircraft are always at the front of the purchase line.
