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Credit card ready! beautiful prop animation too!

That is absolutely gorgeous in there. I love the lighting!

Great... The first step into getting rid of pilots.

For anyone that is interested in turning their DC-3 into a modern day route flyer, I can confirm that this can be done via AirTrack. Being that the DC-3 doesn't have a default Garmin or FMC, as well as a lack of a NAV Source selector, I guess I never thought to try it. I suppose the reason is I have never really indulged into using AirTracks MCP functions. Turns out, the MCP within AirTrack has all the functions you need to piggy back it to the DC-3. You can use it's SRC function (NAV1 NAV2 FMC,) FD and CMD buttons. I set up a simple flight consisting of waypoints and VOR's. Within AirTracks MCP I turned on the FD, changed the SRC to FMC, entered in an altitude of 3,000 feet. I took off the aircraft and flew it to my course heading and pressed LNAV, V/S of +500 and then CMD to activate the autopilot. Upon my surprise, the DC-3 turned to the course and started tracking towards the first waypoint and was climbing at a 500+ feet per minute. The one issue I do not see to work properly is the altitude capture. The aircraft will continue to climb past your selected altitude in either V/S or LVL CHG modes. However the aircraft will hold an altitude if you press ALT HLD manually. So far the DC-3 has held it's course and changed towards all of the waypoints so far. I can confirm that IAS/MACH hold works correctly, HDG SEL mode works correctly. I thought I would be daring and set up an ILS approach. I set the ILS frequency on the overhead panel on the DC-3. Then within AirTracks MCP I set a Course 1 heading of 233 degrees. On AirTracks EFIS page I selected the APP page, and SRC-NAV1 from within the MCP. I used the HDG SEL to fly an intercept course, once close I armed the VOR LOC and APP buttons from within the MCP. Much to my surprise, the DC-3 captured the ILS and then the G/S. It flew beautifully all the way to the numbers. This adds another dimension to this wonderful aircraft. For those of you that want to fly real world routes, such as with the Buffulo livery, as long as you have AirTrack, this is a possibility.

Thanks! I'll have to see if I can find their routes and flight numbers. I dearly miss the Mesaba "Route Map" livery for NWA Airlink...heck I dearly miss the NWA Airlink Saabs in general!

What a wonderful and imformative document. Thank you for putting it together!

I have a question, are there any Saab's still in operation in the USA other then Lakeshore Express?

I already put out of my virtual tent and fold up chair and am camping outside of X-Aviations server, I'm first in line to buy it.

Wow, Christmas... I obviously won't hold you to it as that is just an estimation, but I was predicting not to see this aircraft for another year. Keep up the great work!

That is worlds better! I feel fortunate to be an existing customer but I feel like I'm ripping you off getting this basically new aircraft for free. Thank you very much. I'm sure upon its release you will gain many more new customers.

I hope it is just as much as the CRJ. This team has put a lot of hard work into this aircraft to make sure it is the best quality they could provide for their customers. They should be compensated properly for their efforts instead of everyone trying to beat them down in price.

Oh really? We didn't notice...

Very exciting!! Thank you for all your hard work.

I grabbed my yoke and made Saab airplane noises...

Absolutely phenomenal. I applaud the teams decision to take this aircraft full systems. It will pay off in the end. X-Plane needs more aircraft in that category.

I've read the complete opposite about how X-Plane uses multiple cores. Correct that 2GB is plenty for right now however I won't have this computer right now. With 10.20 beta right around the corner, it will beat out the completion of this computer. I don't see this computer being up and running for at least three months. Here is the thread about X-Plane not utilizing all your cores. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=55346

So I've decided it is time... Why not build my own computer? I knew nothing about it one week ago, I dove right in head first. I have crammed my brain with information over the past few days on what I want, what I should get, what works with what. I think I have finally designed my dream machine and I am itching to start buying the pieces and putting it together. But before I do that, I would like to hear your two cents. Cooler Master HAF 922 ATX Mid Tower with USB 3.0 Corsair HX Series HX750 750W Modular Power Supply ASUS Maximus V Extreme LGA 1155 Intel Z77 motherboard Intel i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9Ghz Turbo) Quad-Core EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Superclocked+ 4GB GPU Ripjaws X Series 16GB RAM Crucial M4 128GB SSD Western Digital 1TB HD ASUS DVD Burner Total cost comes in at $1,678. However it won't be terrible as I will be purchasing parts over the course of the next few months.

Correct that a Goose was originally manufactured with radials but that is not the case today. There have been a few that have been converted by McKinnon Enterprises. Here is a rather local one by me which is now a McKinnon G-21G with 680 SHP PT6A-27 turboprops. http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6578354&nseq=0

The problem that I know of with FSDT sceneries is that you have to have them installed and working on a MSFS installation. As in, you have to run their installer, enter your serial code, and add them in the MSFS scenery manager. Only then you can start working with FS2XPLANE to convert it. Even then I cannot guarantee that it will work, but others have experienced it converting nicely this way.

That looks very awesome! I just hope the "imacheat" code still works!

Absolutely beautiful, I love this livery. Looks great, thank you for making it!

Not here. I have used it quite a bit with zero issues. My longest flight so far with it was 3 hours continuous and it performed flawlessly.

No hard feelings here. I love you guys. There has been and will be PLEEEENTY of aircraft to keep me busy right now and within the coming months for me to not worry about the MU2 update. When it comes it comes and I will be thankful for that!

I would like to see airport and city sceneries and seasons.