LH779 from WSSS - Singapore to EDDF - Frankfurt. So there is a lot now riding on this release and there was only really one way to find out the true depth of the aircraft and that is to fly it in it's designated environment and on a long, long haul or Flight no. The reactions were swift, or was it just the usual case of not refining before releasing or just releasing an aircraft too soon, maybe, but released in early January 2020 is this updated version two v2.1.1, but what I would call the real release version of the SSG B748 aircraft. I liked the systems and the detail, but a lot of the aircraft felt very underdeveloped. The release of the v2 was around early November 2019, but the release was a disaster, one look at the aircraft and it felt very under developed and didn't deliver or was even close to the step upgrade that everyone expected. However there was also the announcement of the coming a totally new v2 of the Boeing 747-800 series from SSG.

Problem was the SSG B748 version took a long time to sort out, but the last ' Legacy' v1.9.2 version finally got there as it was a quite nice simulation. So why did SSG go for the B748 and not the Boeing 747-400 which would have been simulator wise a much more profitable project, we will never know that answer except for the premonition six years ago at the B748 may have been the replacement success the airlines needed, but mostly it was just there and created to try and counter the A380 sales market. so just what is left, well the old Boeing 747's and Laminar's default B747-800 and the Supercritical Simulations Group Boeing 748i International.Įven when the SSG B748 project was announced and released six years ago I had my doubts, The last installment of the Boeing 747 legacy has not had a good reception into service and has not created many sales, as four engined aircraft are just too inefficient against the current highly evolved large twins.īut although the numbers are against such aircraft as the A380 and the B748, we still need their huge carrying capacity.

It is not that X-Plane doesn't have long haul heavy aircraft as we do, but the fact is that there are very a few available as the FlightFactor's Boeing 777 series is now very out of date, Peter's Airbus A380 is even older and not what you would call study grade, The FlightFactor A350 is not in the game either with a non-realistic FMC (but that is promised with a fix soon), and you can't count the Magknight B789 Dreamliner in this grade either (but it is getting better with each update).

When you added it all up the list was not great, in fact for a leading simulator you could even call it deplorable and that was with just cause. There was a discussion early in 2019 that listed all the aircraft that you could fly long haul in X-Plane11. Aircraft Review : Boeing 747-8 Inter v2 Anniversary Edition by Supercritical Simulations Group

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