23-05-2005, 03:49 PM
I have just installed AP but have a few issues (also posted on JF forum).
Essentially the product is geared to default MS aircraft and a PSS Dash 8 derivative which is really tricky to control. It is possible but not
easy to change the aircraft for each career level. Ditto it places you in the co-pilots seat to start (try changing that to the left hand panel!)
but as you're effectively flying the whole trip anyway I see little point in confining you to the right hand seat.
I'm currently trying to replace the Dash 8 with a PMDG 737. Managed to get the left hand panel to appear but no tracker and now
scratching my head.
The concept of AP is excellent, but FsP promises to be better as you can mix and match your own personal choice of aircraft with no fiddly
scripting or config issues (I hope). Don't write off AP but it does seem to offer some peculiar choices. No Flight Simmer with a bit of
experience will want to do much with the "Cessna with an autothrottle" default jets, yet the Dash 8 is going to be a real handful for
beginners (and relatively experienced pilots!).
Essentially the product is geared to default MS aircraft and a PSS Dash 8 derivative which is really tricky to control. It is possible but not
easy to change the aircraft for each career level. Ditto it places you in the co-pilots seat to start (try changing that to the left hand panel!)
but as you're effectively flying the whole trip anyway I see little point in confining you to the right hand seat.
I'm currently trying to replace the Dash 8 with a PMDG 737. Managed to get the left hand panel to appear but no tracker and now
scratching my head.
The concept of AP is excellent, but FsP promises to be better as you can mix and match your own personal choice of aircraft with no fiddly
scripting or config issues (I hope). Don't write off AP but it does seem to offer some peculiar choices. No Flight Simmer with a bit of
experience will want to do much with the "Cessna with an autothrottle" default jets, yet the Dash 8 is going to be a real handful for
beginners (and relatively experienced pilots!).
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