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   Hi everyone at Justflight, 
Thanks a a lot for so many nice planes you offer us PC flyers.  

I have a suggestion to the plane designers:

1. Please make your planes looking old. There are many legends of aviation in your portfolio, but these planes are mostly too clean, too bright, too factory new! Please make them worn out, both the outside and the inside. 

2. Please also install a gps button into your planes which should be combined with the autopilot. Allmost all payware planes don´t have a GPS of this kind, because, naturally, there was no GPS available at that time when these planes were cruising the skies. May be one can argue that the GPS in a Superconnie is part of kind of a new updated avionics. I can imagine there are many simmers who would like to buy your planes, but they don´t have the time to go into hundreds of pages of manuals to be able to navigate with them. 
A good example is the BAe146 from Quality wings. I love this plane more than yours, even I also have yours (which is very beautiful too)  but the QW plane offers a GPS button combined wiht the AP. Together with the on board flightplanner of FSX, ILS flights are a big joy. I makes evening ILS flights so easy. 

I can imagine that your sales might increase if you consider these two suggestions. 

Many thanks and best regards

Alfred 

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ikarus2015 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Check-In Staff Joined: 20 Feb 2015 Location: Thailand Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote ikarus2015 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Justflight planes Posted: 20 Feb 2015 at 12:31pm
	Hi everyone at Justflight, Thanks a a lot for so many nice planes you offer us PC flyers. I have a suggestion to the plane designers: 1. Please make your planes looking old. There are many legends of aviation in your portfolio, but these planes are mostly too clean, too bright, too factory new! Please make them worn out, both the outside and the inside. 2. Please also install a gps button into your planes which should be combined with the autopilot. Allmost all payware planes don´t have a GPS of this kind, because, naturally, there was no GPS available at that time when these planes were cruising the skies. May be one can argue that the GPS in a Superconnie is part of kind of a new updated avionics. I can imagine there are many simmers who would like to buy your planes, but they don´t have the time to go into hundreds of pages of manuals to be able to navigate with them. A good example is the BAe146 from Quality wings. I love this plane more than yours, even I also have yours (which is very beautiful too) but the QW plane offers a GPS button combined wiht the AP. Together with the on board flightplanner of FSX, ILS flights are a big joy. I makes evening ILS flights so easy. I can imagine that your sales might increase if you consider these two suggestions. Many thanks and best regards Alfred

BobKay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List P/UT Joined: 30 Nov 2013 Location: USA Points: 191	Post Options Post Reply Quote BobKay Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Feb 2015 at 1:21pm
	I'd agree on the GPS. I've been to a number of airshows featuring old warbirds and I noticed that they almost universally have a GPS and often other updated avionics. Seems to me it's reasonable to include it in a simulation of the aircraft unless the plane in general is intended to be a replica of a given specific prototype at a specific (ie, 1945 or whatever) timeframe.. On the other hand it's not terribly difficult to add a GPS yourself. And while you're at it, just add a GPS/NAV switch too.

ikarus2012 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Check-In Staff Joined: 22 Nov 2012 Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote ikarus2012 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Feb 2015 at 12:04pm
	Hi BobKay, Yes, you are right, it is not difficult to add a GPS into a plane, but I used weeks to find a solution to add also a switch to combine GPS/NAV/AP. I thought only, that it is very useful for many simmers to find this combination ready for use in a payware plane. What about the old look of Justflight planes? Best regards and thanks for replying Alfred
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BobKay Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List P/UT Joined: 30 Nov 2013 Location: USA Points: 191	Post Options Post Reply Quote BobKay Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Feb 2015 at 3:49pm
	You can "borrow" the GPS/NAV switch and annunciator from the default Cessna 172, among others. I assigned a joystick button to the GPS/NAV switch function but it has no annunciation of course. I also use the SimFlyer (commercial, but very inexpensive) GNS430/530 GPS which has the switch built into the GPS. Lots of ways to skin this particular cat.

ikarus2012 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Check-In Staff Joined: 22 Nov 2012 Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote ikarus2012 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 2015 at 12:27am
	Hi BobKay, Yes, this is exactly what I did and I also "borrowed" the AP from the freeware Dassault Falcon 50 jet which also works in most planes. But I shall test your suggestion with the Simflyer version. Thanks for it and best regards Alfred
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jimbonh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Check-In Staff Joined: 24 Feb 2015 Location: NH Points: 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote jimbonh Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 2015 at 2:17pm
	SimFlyer has Great gauges, and usually can be easily installed into most aircraft. In fact, if you know What your doing, especially if you own Panel Studio, you can add , re-design any aircraft. If only PMDG could see me now, lol. I actually have just about every single aircraft I own re-designed.As Most Don't offer some of the pop-ups I like, like from SimFlyer, their EFB, Electronic Flight Bag system in my opinion is one of the best. Its all about the panel.cfg file folks. Always back up the panel.cfg first, and play around with it, thats the easiest way, and look at some of the other aircraft you own, see how they are setup in the panel.cfg, you'd be surprised how close they all really are. And on one more Note, Steam Editions are highly configurable also, almost the Exact same.Hope this helps. Jimbo

ikarus2015 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Check-In Staff Joined: 20 Feb 2015 Location: Thailand Points: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote ikarus2015 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Feb 2015 at 4:14am
	Hi Jimbo, Thanks a lot for your valuable input. oh, I am not an expert like you..I am an enthusiast user with some years of experience only. But I will go into this matter and try it out. It seems very interesting Best regards and happy landings Alfred

Flyer10 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List First Officer Joined: 03 Nov 2014 Points: 435	Post Options Post Reply Quote Flyer10 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Feb 2015 at 12:31pm
	I have the reality XP gps and avidyne GPS with traffic and TAWS warning, they came with a plane but you you edit other panel.cfg to include these in any plane you want. Its very easy to use them as a pop up, it takes more effort to include them into a VC. The TAWS is great, especially as voxatc likes to send you into mountains when on approach.