I want to take the time to mention that while panning around the exterior of the aircraft I noticed some severe drops in frame rates with my rendering settings set at what I'd term a 'medium' demand on my system. Sure enough, this file seems to be very resource dependant and required some significant reduction of my rendering settings just to make the airplane usable. It was so severe, in fact, that I was further forced to load up the sim at Princess Juliana International Airport (TNCM) where I had no add-on custom scenery packages or HD mesh to clutter things up. Only then was I able to run the vFlyteAir Cirrus relatively smoothly, the downside being far less attractive exterior textures.
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Moving into the cockpit revealed more excellent modeling but more textures that suffer as a result of lowering my rendering settings. This is especially evident when examining the two-toned black and gray seats and areas of stitching that look phenomenal and true to life on the screen shots at vflyteair.com, but look more like a kindergarten finger painting on my system. Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit, but it's really no fun to have such a nice looking file be reduced to something approaching ugly because my computer isn't up to snuff. Fortunately, all of the text in the cockpit remains crisp and legible even while the other textures take on a 'smudged' look to them. While I'd certainly not fault vFlyteAir for the fact that I have a dated computer, it should nevertheless be noted that I have never experienced the same amount of texture degradation with any of my Alabeo or Carenado files. Somehow those two veteran development teams are able to make incredibly sharp looking files also run remarkably smoothly. No mean feat, I'm sure.
Two Garmin G1000 screens dominate the instrument panel of the SR20, as part of the Cirrus Perspective avionics system. They are obviously modeled after the optional 12' screens Cirrus offers its customers and are large and in charge! We'll get more into their function a little later in the review. The typical Cirrus 'side yoke' has been beautifully modeled as well as the various switches, knobs, and handles throughout the cabin of the aircraft. The wide automotive style interior that has endeared many pilots to Cirrus airplanes has been extremely well modeled by the vFlyte team. The back seats are of the split 60/40 'flex seating' introduced by Cirrus in 2012, allowing for not only greater load flexibility, but also room for a fifth passenger.
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In a fashion similar to several other development teams, vFlyteAir has a small pop up menu on the lower left corner of the screen. Theirs is the shape of a gear, a familiar symbol for adjusting settings. Clicking it opens a small menu with toggle options to open and close the pilot, passenger, and cargo doors, add or remove the copilot, and remove the ground elements (wheel chocks and pitot covers).
Night lighting on the Cirrus is a dimmable red glow on the panel with four HDR dependant clickable spotlights on the ceiling. If one doesn't have HDR enabled in their rendering settings, switching on the spotlights offers no benefit whatsoever. The dual Garmin screens are dimmable with a rheostat that also dims the three round backup gauges as well as the backlit buttons around the Garmin screens and on the center console housing the FMS.
The sounds of the vFlyteAir Cirrus are very well done, though I'd still consider them generally second tier when compared to some of Alabeo's newest releases. The door latches and switches sound incredibly authentic, which really adds to the immersion level of this aircraft. The timing of sounds with animations, like doors opening and closing, for example, is nearly delay free. I wish I could say the same for some of Alabeo and Carenado's files in comparison. The engine sounds, however, disappointed me a little. While the start up sound seemed authentic, the sounds of the engine running were far too quiet and 'tinny' to my ear. Overall, though, I was reasonably impressed with the sounds vFlyteAir's SR20, but there is definitely considerable room for improvement.
Glass Cockpit
As I've already stated, the Cirrus Perspective G1000 avionics are at the forefront of vFlyte's SR20 as they are in the real aircraft and have been expertly modeled by Mario Donick. The developers have stressed on their webpage and on the accompanying pdf manuals for the SR20, that the Cirrus Perspective system was designed not to be an exact copy of the real thing but rather to, 'resemble the look and feel.'
I really don't want to make the review all about the G1000 for this file and then proceed to write my own mini instruction manual on how to operate it. That's not what a product review is for and I wouldn't be qualified to do that anyway! What I will say, however, is that despite the fact that the avionics are not designed to be a hyper realistic 'study' simulation of a real G1000, most X-Plane flyers should find them very plausible and capable for extended flights. I was left with the impression that these avionics have been really well done by the development team and are loaded with a high degree of functionality. Though a bit simplified, there is still a learning curve when it comes to operating vFlyteAir's Cirrus Perspective system. I tried to 'fiddle' my way through the G1000 without initially reading the very professionally put together 27-page pdf avionics manual and found myself quickly lost. I highly recommend one read the manual first before jumping into a long cross-country in this airplane.
One particular function of a real G1000 that is conspicuously missing from vFlyteAir's 'trimmed down' version is the of terrain awareness on the map mode of the MFD (Multi Function Display). I was a little disappointed with this, especially considering that Carenado had recently released their CT182T Skylane with full, color-coded terrain awareness on their G1000. I don't have the Carenado aircraft, but their simulation of the G1000 seems a bit more accurately replicated to me at first blush.
The vFlyteAir SR20 utilizes some of X-Plane's inherent functionality with the simulated G1000 system, but several parts of it have also been highly customized by Mario Donick. In other words, one won't feel like they're flying behind one of X-Plane's old Avidyne systems dressed up to look like a G1000. We've seen a few of those over the years, unfortunately, so to see one look and function as nicely as the SR20's does is a breath of fresh air.
- Type
- Repaint
- Download hits
- 562
- Compatibility
- X-Plane 11 (XP11) & X-Plane 10 (XP10)
- Filename
- uk_g-swxg.zip
- File size
- 7.68 MB
- Virus Scan
- Scanned 26 days ago (clean)
- Access to file
- Free (Freeware)
- Content Rating
- Everyone
This is the author's fictitious and very simple U.K. livery for the default Cirrus SF50 for X-Plane 11.
To install the livery just download the file, unzip it and place the complete 'UK_G-SWXG' folder into the 'liveries' directory of the aircraft. As always, constructive comments and feedback are welcomed. Tested in XP-11.00 and all seems well.
By Stuart McGregor.
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broken.dds | 04.22.17 | 10.67 MB |
fuse.dds | 04.22.17 | 10.67 MB |
flyawaysimulation.txt | 10.29.13 | 959 B |
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url | 01.22.16 | 52 B |
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