Thoughts about a new Precision Sim for another airframe

[Fusspot]

Hi everyone.
The 747 will be forever missed by those of us who met her and flew with her however in real life the 747 is receding very quickly and in a very few short years most people will not remember her or worse the newer generation will not know about her.
So my question is wouldn't be wise for Hardy to perhaps start thinking about emulating a more modern aircraft for us now and future generations?   I mean Hardy has gained an enormous amount of knowledge and experience in programming the 747 so it shouldn't really be that difficult for him to offer us a new machine to start studying in full.    Just a suggestion. Thank you.

[Hardy Heinlin]

Hi,

when I started with the Precision Simulator development I was 32. Now I'm 62. It's a very long story. For another type I'm too old :-)


Welcome to the forum,

|-|ardy

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Another reason, if I remember well, was that for PS1 (not even X), Hardy had access to both a real flight simulator with proper expertise, and a bunch of 747-400s in the form of a dedicated avionics engineer who went significantly beyond normal work hours to get things figured out. And Real Pilots. After 9/11, most of these resources dried up due to "security reasons" (I dispute the reasoning behind it, but it is what it is). So getting sufficient support for another type is all but trivial. Developing a PSX-level simulator from copied books and manuals has been proven impossible -- this is one of the reasons why most if not all other simulators on the market are lacking precision in many aspects. They may look exactly like the original but they don't behave like it, mostly in systems but often also in flight behaviour.


Hoppie

[Will]

Also, we are lucky enough to benefit from both Hardy's genius and Hardy's passion specifically for the 747... not just because the 747 has an iconic profile, but because the cockpit presents a sweet spot between old school tech and magenta line avionics. I'm not sure a hypothetical Precision Simulator of a newer aircaft would be much more fun, since it progressively becomes more like an emulation of a computer than a simulation of all the different mechanical parts of a (mostly) analog machine. Anyway, thanks Hardy, for 30 years of hobby fun! I hope you're doing relaxing things these days.

[Bluestar]

I liked the B727 panel he developed way back in the day. 

[vatin]

I wish for Precision Simulator-like for smaller planes like business jets, commuter or general aviation, rated for single pilot operation.

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

747SP  Single Pilot     :-D