Super Connie, Starliner.
Posted: 19 Dec 2017, 15:24
Hi!
I am very thankful of A2A's team for the great product they have created.
As it is a plane to fly "by the book", I haven't added flying hours on her, since I expect to have time enough to finish the manual.
I got living the last days of the Super Connies, since I was born on early 1959 and, yes, I'm a senior PC pilot, indeed.
Since you have the basic model, the 049, it doesn't seem impossible to draw up a new Captain of the Ship series models adding the L-1049 Super Connie and the L-1649 Starliner, since both of them were an important step in commercial aviation at the very end of piston-engined birds and had their jet-powered counterparts not come into scene, they would surely had prospered long time ahead. I believe they (L-1049 - L-1649) were the very "top" of piston-engined liners, beside the Dougas DC-7C. It was a splendid era, when crossing the Atlantic took 8 - 10 hours and sometimes, even longer. The plane had to be not only a flying hall but a flying hotel in which to live, eat, do natural eliminations and then sleep too, in great luxury and comfort. A refuge from hypoxia, cold and gravity at some 25,000 ft. over the dark sea.
Last L-1049 series in flight simulation had such a limited functionality, extremely bad VC quality (poooooor) and -I have no references about their flight dynamics, but suffice with saying that turbochargers were not available... The only thing that really went good on that product were their exterior models and the great profusion of diferent liveries and variants.
So, a petition for you: try to revive those great birds again. You have recreated an exctint bird from its ashes, the L-049. Now you can do even better with her younger sisters: the L-1049 and the L-1649, since there even are (or will be) already flying specimens (Lufthansa Thechnik is reviving a L-1649 practically from "0" in USA and plans to make it fly for Lufthansa charter flights in a matter of months/years). The other great model that's missing in the FS developers community, is -of course- a good rendition of the Douglas DC-7C "Seven Seas", which had a forced short life even though her inherent thecnical merits.
So, I hope A2A may add those magnificent birds to world's community of PC flyers.
Paul.-
I am very thankful of A2A's team for the great product they have created.
As it is a plane to fly "by the book", I haven't added flying hours on her, since I expect to have time enough to finish the manual.
I got living the last days of the Super Connies, since I was born on early 1959 and, yes, I'm a senior PC pilot, indeed.
Since you have the basic model, the 049, it doesn't seem impossible to draw up a new Captain of the Ship series models adding the L-1049 Super Connie and the L-1649 Starliner, since both of them were an important step in commercial aviation at the very end of piston-engined birds and had their jet-powered counterparts not come into scene, they would surely had prospered long time ahead. I believe they (L-1049 - L-1649) were the very "top" of piston-engined liners, beside the Dougas DC-7C. It was a splendid era, when crossing the Atlantic took 8 - 10 hours and sometimes, even longer. The plane had to be not only a flying hall but a flying hotel in which to live, eat, do natural eliminations and then sleep too, in great luxury and comfort. A refuge from hypoxia, cold and gravity at some 25,000 ft. over the dark sea.
Last L-1049 series in flight simulation had such a limited functionality, extremely bad VC quality (poooooor) and -I have no references about their flight dynamics, but suffice with saying that turbochargers were not available... The only thing that really went good on that product were their exterior models and the great profusion of diferent liveries and variants.
So, a petition for you: try to revive those great birds again. You have recreated an exctint bird from its ashes, the L-049. Now you can do even better with her younger sisters: the L-1049 and the L-1649, since there even are (or will be) already flying specimens (Lufthansa Thechnik is reviving a L-1649 practically from "0" in USA and plans to make it fly for Lufthansa charter flights in a matter of months/years). The other great model that's missing in the FS developers community, is -of course- a good rendition of the Douglas DC-7C "Seven Seas", which had a forced short life even though her inherent thecnical merits.
So, I hope A2A may add those magnificent birds to world's community of PC flyers.
Paul.-