DC-10 - Xsimulate - gone to the happy hunting ground?

[DieselTen 4]

Does anyone remember the quite promising screenshots (amazing VC shots) back in 2007 of the group called Xsimulate?The developers always kept hopes high, meanwhile their website and forum alltogether vanished from the www.I was so looking forward to a properly modelled DC-10 for FS9 (and/or FSX).Any thoughts?Bummer...

[ErnieAlston 33]

They are gone, the members have split off into other Dev groups.Regards.Ernie.

[BelgianTiger_2 22]

Is a real shame indeed!They allready had made great progress seen on the dev pics they posted.I wonder what happened with the model and the work they allready completed.Think it should have been handed over to a still working dev group,so all the work doesn't go wasted.It would have been a great release and definatly on my buy-list!Hope someone will fill in the need for a DC-10 in the future (and for FS9 off course).Regards,Steven

[ErnieAlston 33]

The models (VC and exterior) are with their respective creators.But from what I've been told there have been so many advances in modeling techniques that modelis already outdated, and should such a product resurface again a new model would be made.That being the case its likelyhood for FS9 is even less so now.Regards.Ernie.

[Hoang 108]

It seems that this bird has a trouble history from real life into FS :(

[robertschiele9 1]

For those desiring an FS9 DC10 who haven't tried it, I highly recommend the SGA DC10-30, which is available in more than a dozen liveries. I have no idea how accurate the flight model is, since I've never actually piloted anything bigger than a Cessna 172 (and even that was for around only twenty minutes), but it's fun to fly, and it has about the range the real thing had. I also found a decent DC10 panel that works fine with it, and since then the venerable DC10 has been one of my favorite heavy airliners to fly.

[graemeb 14]

The payware DC-10 from CLS is also very good.

[DieselTen 4]

Thanks to all for your replies. I do own the CLS DC-10 and have the SGA DC-10 too, they are not bad, after using them a long time, I was missing a bit more systems depth and a better VC, the one from CLS looks quite dated, and Xsimulate's simply looked fantastic.

[Luis Hernandez 570]

I also found a decent DC10 panel that works fine with it, and since then the venerable DC10 has been one of my favorite heavy airliners to fly.

Which panel? I've been always interested in flying a DC-10, but the lack of a good panel (Ruth/Cantu DC-10 is FSX only AFAIK) has prevented me from doing so.

 

Best regards from Colombia,

Luis Miguel

[robertschiele9 1]

Which panel? I've been always interested in flying a DC-10, but the lack of a good panel (Ruth/Cantu DC-10 is FSX only AFAIK) has prevented me from doing so.

 

Best regards from Colombia,

Luis Miguel

 

The one I'm using is here at Avsim: http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004pan&DLID=102420 The only thing it didn't have that I wanted was any kind of elevator pitch indicator, but I have FSPanel so adding one of those was a snap. The panel isn't very fancy, but does contain all the instrumentation I need to have a ball flying those venerable old DC10s.

[FLEX1978 373]

That is a shame, FS is really lacking a highly detailed DC10 :( a remake of the RFP 747 classic and a good DC10 with full system modelling has been on my wish list for a a long time now.