Fly Before You Buy

Just Flight also have a "try/fly before you buy" policy with thier spectacular Flying Club addon aircraft, including the Piper Seneca, Piper Tomahawk, Piper Warrior and Cessna 152, which can be found here at www.justflight.com/flyingclub

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Try before you buy is one of the best things ever invented 👍
I just wish more would follow 😉

I took the Abacus A-10 Warthog out for a trial spin. It flew so poorly that I immediately deleted it. Didn't give me a very good impression of Abacus.

I dont normally fly the light craft or the props, more of the heavies really. But I have downloaded their ATR-72-500 and am well impressed with everything it offers, graphics/sound, handle's real nice. I must admit though, some of the screen shots of some of their aircraft look very poor, not saying that they will after download, but Abacus have'nt done themselves any justice displaying poor screen shots of what their offering.

Thanks for the link cheekytrolly 🙂 I'll give it a click later and check them out.

fourby wrote:

...But I have downloaded their ATR-72-500 and am well impressed with everything it offers, graphics/sound, handle's real nice. I must admit though, some of the screen shots of some of their aircraft look very poor, not saying that they will after download, but Abacus have'nt done themselves any justice displaying poor screen shots of what their offering.

The FLIGHT ONE ATR 72-500 is widely known and very popular. Where can I find more information on the 'Abacus' Release?

i downloaded 5 abacus crafts, none impressed me at all,i've seen a lot of better freeware, and would rather donate money.

reminds of things i wish to do in the near future. anyway,

i completely agree try before you buy is a good idea, most games have a demo right?

Hi Hinch, as mentioned earlier, "fly before you buy" is a good idea, and is a pity that other developers dont offer this option.
I downloaded the ATR-72-500 and was well impressed after having a quick flight and fly around Seattle-Tacoma Intl. Tonight, I was preparing a flight from London (Heathrow) to Paris (Orly) and whilst going through the flight prep and settings, I discovered that the heading selector knob would only adjust in increments of 10 then I discovered and read this....

Known problems and limitations
- In some systems, HDG, CRS (and eventually altitude and speed) cannot be selected in increments of 1 unit, but rather the gauges will insist in jumping in 10 units increments. Thus, the heading will display 000, 010, 020, etc. but it will not be possible to select intermediate figures, as 012. This is a known FS2002 problem, which can appear in this aircraft due to the custom functions which are built in the gauges. To solve it, download and install FSUIPC (made by Peter Dowson, and available at www.schiratti.com/dowson), then activate the option "Fix control acceleration" in the Technical section.. This module has many other features which make it highly recommendable. See the documentation in this site for additional explanation.

This has really peed me off, I really like this aircraft, I can't be bothered downloading this that and the other, and installing here there and everywhere to try and solve the problem.

I hope this answers your question Tailhook. 👍

i can probably make a mock up of the atr autopilot - and it would look the same (i have all seperate bmp files for autopilot and some other things).

i have a better idea though! there are quite a few atr panels availible freely on the net - just steel the autopilot off one of them.

i've never bought anything off abacus, nothing's impressed me one downloaded 😞 i do like the look of aircraft design studio though.

Cheers Hinch, I'm just gonna have a search about to see if I can find a decent panel, and do abit of swapping about here and there. I might even end up with a better model than Abacus. LOL 🙂)

😂 there is probably a better freeware panel around mate by the looks of the pics.

fourby wrote:

I downloaded the ATR-72-500 and was well impressed after having a quick flight ...

Known problems and limitations
- In some systems, HDG, CRS (and eventually altitude and speed) cannot be selected in increments of 1 unit, but rather the gauges will insist in jumping in 10 units increments. Thus, the heading will display 000, 010, 020, etc. but it will not be possible to select intermediate figures, as 012. This is a known FS2002 problem, which can appear in this aircraft due to the custom functions which are built in the gauges. To solve it, download and install FSUIPC (made by Peter Dowson, and available at www.schiratti.com/dowson), then activate the option "Fix control acceleration" in the Technical section.. This module has many other features which make it highly recommendable. See the documentation in this site for additional explanation.

I hope this answers your question Tailhook. 👍

Well thanks fourby, the 'Known problems and limitations' sure sound like Abacus - though I still can't find the ATR on their site Have you got a link by any chance?

Hi Tailhook 🙂 click on this link http://www.abacuspub.com/
then click on Flight Sim Downloads (top left, second down). On the next page, put your mouse arrow on the pic in Large Planes and click.
On the next page, click on the pic of the ATR,
then scroll down to the download/install.

Thanks fourby, finally found it.
I was just about to download the trial when I saw this

NOTE: During installation of any of our "Try Before You Buy" aircraft, we add a small program to your \modules folder to enable you to use these and future Premier Collection aircraft. If you do not want to add this program to your system, please do not install any of these aircraft.

Another .dll most likely. Well, I'm satisfied. I searched for the famous 'Abacus Hitch' and I found it. Have to give this one a miss.
Thanks for showing me the way 😀

you can just delete the dll and it affects nothing

hinch wrote:

you can just delete the dll and it affects nothing

Thanks for your input. I know I can just delete the dll.. but if I do that a week or so later, after having installed and uninstalled other apps. - does it still affect nothing?

Why would Abacus be so particular about this file? 🤔

as far as i can tell the dll just adds a menu to the top of flightsim when you go to file, views etc. there's another file they add called asreg.dat which contains the info whether you've registered your project - and it's rather too easy to modify. when i had my abacus downloads i never had the 'you have 6 days remaining' stuff at all. after like 2 days i deleted them anyway haha.

Thanks hinch, I'll meditate on that for a few weeks and see...