Just a minor observation / Issue
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i flew so many hours with the Starship that it is hard for me to jump into any other GA plane. All the systems are so well thought and its just a joy to fly, operate and look at the plane. It fits like a second skin glove.
and now i see things that are not really important but i wanted to share it anyways:
the sun visors are not visible from the outside
And i got a question about career mode: It would be a blast to be able to use the Starship (and all other BS planes) in career-mode. Personally i dont use career-mode much because i see no point in flying semi-backed planes all day long. any chance?
i cannot stress enough how good this plane is. my 85 years old Dad and me fly from ours home cockpits together online and i always find us good trips with bad weather or mountains. took me a while to learn the plane but it took much longer to train my Dad as well. The Starship is a mini Airliner combining GA and Airliner-like instruments and procedures. The cockpit feels like a perfect glove and you are in command of everything (expect maybe TCAS). This is by far the plane that influenced me the most and i bought many of the very good planes but honestly BS placed the bar waaaaaay over their heads.
Lets see if the new pro-series makes me switch cockpits.
i hope you pikmp the the starship more in the future
Thank you!
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Your stories of flying with your father warm my heart! You describe Starship in exactly the same way that I feel about it. What an absolutely remarkable aircraft. So glad you're enjoying it. Short answers...
The sun visors are like that in all my aircraft, because I remove all glass elements in the first LOD model. Otherwise, they seem to cause graphical issues like flashing with some export settings. I've been meaning to revisit this for a long time to see if anything has improved over the years.
I have taken note of your career mode request. I have had relatively few requests for career mode compatibility for all my aircraft since MSFS 2024 released, which I was quite thankful for, if I'm being honest. The requirements for career mode approval from Asobo are extremely onerous and arbitrary for aircraft developers, so it would represent an investment of many weeks for my entire fleet. Nonetheless, if I get enough requests, then it shall be done!
Thanks again for your stories, and please let me know if there is anything I can ever do to improve your flying experience for you and your father!
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Hi Nick,
thank you for the reply.As a side note:
Today arrived the Flight Sim Seat from next level racing for my father. That means on saturday i have a big job building it up and then we will need to configure everything including honeycomb bravo, moza stick, eyetracking etc. to work perfectly with BS products. The starship and other planes need some tweaking for the bravo.career mode is dead for me unless i have planes for it i like to fly. maybe pass this on to MS. they should have interest in people using career mode. maybe xbox users pay the bills and they dont care mostly
we bought the Pro-Series also and we fly them last days. what i observed (and thats not a problem btw): the sounds from taxing could be more realistic. i took off from a grass strip and there was no change to a hard surface runway sounds. since i also fly the comanche from A2A i know how it could sound. since you are always eager to take your planes to the next level - that might be something worth looking at. if you dont have the comanche i would be happy to show it to you in a stream. what they did was towing the real plane over grass and record it without the engine running. for me that sounds great and adds more realism. planes do so many sounds and that sound on grass is great. the comanche feels like a living creature and i think thats due to the sounds from the plane other than the engine (i miss the english words for the those sounds).
you did an excellent job on the Pro-Series. i will fly more and if i find something worth mentioning i post it in the right forum (PS: from outside view the pilot window that you can open looks like open but from a diff. angle not).
i was just online testing the BaronP in LOWS and then i see the name of my dad in the sky a few miles out in the BonanzaTP. i turned around and catched up with him while he did ILS approach and we landed together side by side in Bonanza and Baron
as a former Bonanza pilot my dad was very happy with the aerodynamics. i cannot recall how often he told me the story: flaps out gear out and then point the nose to the ground and it wont go over the limits. Bonanza is dad aproved sorry for mixing topics.
see you
Michael -
Hi Nick,
thank you for the reply.As a side note:
Today arrived the Flight Sim Seat from next level racing for my father. That means on saturday i have a big job building it up and then we will need to configure everything including honeycomb bravo, moza stick, eyetracking etc. to work perfectly with BS products. The starship and other planes need some tweaking for the bravo.career mode is dead for me unless i have planes for it i like to fly. maybe pass this on to MS. they should have interest in people using career mode. maybe xbox users pay the bills and they dont care mostly
we bought the Pro-Series also and we fly them last days. what i observed (and thats not a problem btw): the sounds from taxing could be more realistic. i took off from a grass strip and there was no change to a hard surface runway sounds. since i also fly the comanche from A2A i know how it could sound. since you are always eager to take your planes to the next level - that might be something worth looking at. if you dont have the comanche i would be happy to show it to you in a stream. what they did was towing the real plane over grass and record it without the engine running. for me that sounds great and adds more realism. planes do so many sounds and that sound on grass is great. the comanche feels like a living creature and i think thats due to the sounds from the plane other than the engine (i miss the english words for the those sounds).
you did an excellent job on the Pro-Series. i will fly more and if i find something worth mentioning i post it in the right forum (PS: from outside view the pilot window that you can open looks like open but from a diff. angle not).
i was just online testing the BaronP in LOWS and then i see the name of my dad in the sky a few miles out in the BonanzaTP. i turned around and catched up with him while he did ILS approach and we landed together side by side in Bonanza and Baron
as a former Bonanza pilot my dad was very happy with the aerodynamics. i cannot recall how often he told me the story: flaps out gear out and then point the nose to the ground and it wont go over the limits. Bonanza is dad aproved sorry for mixing topics.
see you
Michael@eltoppolino said in Just a minor observation / Issue:
(PS: from outside view the pilot window that you can open looks like open but from a diff. angle not).
I'm well aware, and it makes me upset every time. Asobo changed something about how the glass material is rendered (what we call "surface normals") and I can only imagine some really ham-fisted solutions on my end. It's a very disappointing regression.
I've talked to my sound designer in the past about sounds for taxiing on unimproved surfaces, but at the time, I believe his opinion was that getting the surface type from MSFS was too inconsistent to trust. I will ask if his opinion has changed in MSFS 2024.
Your last paragraph makes me want to shed a tear. Although I've never been much of a multiplayer person myself, the fact that my aircraft can be involved in a virtual moment that special really makes me happy to hear. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm not the most emotional person in the world, but there is no reason software can't tug at your heartstrings either!
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i promise you flying together can be an absolute social event. we did group flights with up to 5 people and one was my dad. young people mid-age people and the 85 year old fly together and same time talk. mostly older people are outsiders, outsiders of our hobbies and friends. Like that he is part of the show part of my daily routine. alive and not parked.
i guarantee you 100% its worth investing in surface detection. here is a video about comanche taxing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd9oXFH2hSc&list=PL6Nwvba2ytZgij1Jo7WT80s4mNXmZyEpH&index=3&t=30salso maybe interesting are centrifugal forces. like the sun visors are moving outof their postion on heavy centrifugal forces, bottles moving around the floor (maybe the stowed tablet gets de-attached).
i can literally feel your passion for your products which is beyond money making and i have a similar feelings about the intension of Scott Gentile and his comanche. this passion is what creates extraordinary products.
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Hi Nick,
thank you for the reply.As a side note:
Today arrived the Flight Sim Seat from next level racing for my father. That means on saturday i have a big job building it up and then we will need to configure everything including honeycomb bravo, moza stick, eyetracking etc. to work perfectly with BS products. The starship and other planes need some tweaking for the bravo.career mode is dead for me unless i have planes for it i like to fly. maybe pass this on to MS. they should have interest in people using career mode. maybe xbox users pay the bills and they dont care mostly
we bought the Pro-Series also and we fly them last days. what i observed (and thats not a problem btw): the sounds from taxing could be more realistic. i took off from a grass strip and there was no change to a hard surface runway sounds. since i also fly the comanche from A2A i know how it could sound. since you are always eager to take your planes to the next level - that might be something worth looking at. if you dont have the comanche i would be happy to show it to you in a stream. what they did was towing the real plane over grass and record it without the engine running. for me that sounds great and adds more realism. planes do so many sounds and that sound on grass is great. the comanche feels like a living creature and i think thats due to the sounds from the plane other than the engine (i miss the english words for the those sounds).
you did an excellent job on the Pro-Series. i will fly more and if i find something worth mentioning i post it in the right forum (PS: from outside view the pilot window that you can open looks like open but from a diff. angle not).
i was just online testing the BaronP in LOWS and then i see the name of my dad in the sky a few miles out in the BonanzaTP. i turned around and catched up with him while he did ILS approach and we landed together side by side in Bonanza and Baron
as a former Bonanza pilot my dad was very happy with the aerodynamics. i cannot recall how often he told me the story: flaps out gear out and then point the nose to the ground and it wont go over the limits. Bonanza is dad aproved sorry for mixing topics.
see you
Michael@eltoppolino said in Just a minor observation / Issue:
(PS: from outside view the pilot window that you can open looks like open but from a diff. angle not).
I just wanted to let you know that I implemented a workaround for this issue, which will be released in the next update we have planned for this coming week. You can read a little about what it took in this post. Thanks again, and so glad you're enjoying the aircraft with your father! It really warms my heart.
