General covers mostly global settings and four additional menu options that we will cover below and all your favorite settings can be saved. They are covered by seven tabs in: General, Ground, Airplane, Failures, Avionics, About and PA
The checklist is also still in the old format and still does have the "auto" help to set up and start the aircraft and has a automatic action detection system to show you if you are doing it wrong or correct. The Checklist is not on the iPad, so you have to select that still from the plugin menu list. The original banner Plugin menu is still there if you want to select from that, but you can also activate the screen from the iPhones on each side of the pilots. The menu system is changed in v2.0 to the same layout of the B767, which is the iPad graphic menu. You can see the difference on the engines, of which you have two choices with the Pratt & Whitney PW2037 (top) and the Rolls Royce RB211-535E4 (bottom) and note that chrome exhaust cowling on the P&W, it is just gorgeous. The shine brings out all the detail even more which was very good in the first place. The dullness of the original v1 aircraft has gone. There is a new start up screen that mirrors the Boeing 767 version, but it allows you to select your engine choice and to have winglets on or off.įirst thing you notice is that the aircraft now has the same shine and chrome areas as with the B767. X-PlaneReviews can't cover every aspect of the FlightFactor Boeing 757 here as we are only focusing the v2.0 features, but for further coverage of the aircraft, modeling and its systems, then go to our original review here: Aircraft Review : FlightFactor Boeing 757RR-200 So from the start of this review if you have the Boeing 767 already, you won't find the B757 that much different in quality, features and systems from that aircraft, which is really the same aim of the B757/B767 twins anyway. The aim of FlightFactor with this new design of their 757 is to bring the B757 up to the same standard of the B767 sister aircraft. So here released now is the Boeing 757-200 in it's Version 2 (v2.0) form. It was eventually dethroned by its sister aircraft the Boeing 767-300ER also from FlightFactor last year in 2015, and that aircraft then lifted the standard for "The best in" to a completely whole new level again.
A high standard to achieve but more so to hold on to such a high acclaim for a period showed the sheer quality and the large feature set that you got with the aircraft.
#X plane freeware 757 simulator#
It was for the time and then went on to rule over X-Plane as the best aircraft in the simulator for a few years.
#X plane freeware 757 professional#
In November 2013 FlightFactor/VMAX released the Boeing 757-200 RR (Rolls Royce) Professional aircraft. We do, however, know that XPFW has no plans, for example, to model neither the 757-300 variant nor a 757-200F, both being derivatives that we plan to model.īasically, the basic attitude at “Camp XPJ” is that there’s enough room in the X-Plane-o-sphere for two high-quality 757 projects, and we feel that our model will offer some things that will (hopefully!) make it worth the price tag.Aircraft Review : Boeing 757-200 v2.0 by FlightFactor/VMAX So we’re obviously not expecting to make a fortune off our 757. Well, whether or not it’s a widely accepted release by our users is going to be their prerogative, and we understand that already. Obviously, I can sympathize many of you are probably thinking, “Why pay for one when there’s a freeware model out there?”. We did come to the decision of payware rather early on, and I think that’s probably sparked some ire among the masses. We weren’t really trying to step on any toes when we started the project, and by the time XPFW announced theirs, it was really too late to quit on ours. So we decided that if we were really going to get the kind of quality out of a 757 that we personally wanted, we were going to have to build it ourselves. When we first branched off to form XPJ, a “new” 757 wasn’t remotely on XPFW’s current radar.
While we were both part of XPFW, we never really found ourselves to be very happy with the state of their (at the time). To Alex and I, the 757′s always been one of the most graceful and sleek looking airliners in the world, and we’ve been quite fond of its appearance for several months now (more specifically, basically since we both first laid eyes on the thing). That being said, we’d like to discuss some of our motives for building what in some people’s eyes is “just another” 757. We do try and listen to what people are saying, because we feel it goes a long way towards helping us build what people want to see. It seems that the general sentiment among most X-Planers is that X-Plane Freeware’s 757 is satisfactory and that they’d rather we build something else. We’ve had a lot of people ask us that question over the last few weeks, ever since we posted our last round of renders.
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