Who has the Captain Sim 732?

[Landman]

Has anyone here purchased the new Captian Sim 737-200? The 732 is one of my favorite aircraft of all time. However, lets face it, Captain Sim aircraft tend to be bug riddled upon first release. If you have this aircraft tell me what you like and don't like about it and what bugs does it have that need to be fixed? Right now all that has been released is the exterior model. I will wait for the cockpit to be finished before purchasing but I would like to get initial impressions on the flight model.

[Ian Warren]

Its a goodie , but it really missus the the real feel 200 VC , very surprised as most the cockpit detail did not change so much from a 72 , one thing i did'nt see was when the thrust rev was applied , the lack of smoke effect .

[Barnes]

I have it and agree that is great - proof that Capt Sim can improve their products each time they release something

[Bjoern]

Maybe this one will be better?

http://justflight.com/developProduct.asp?pid=865

[Scandinavian]

The VC on that one looks a little too plasticy for my taste. Hopefully Captain Sim does a better job. A 737-200 would be nice to play with.

[Bjoern]

The VC on that one looks a little too plasticy for my taste.

Textures can be improved by anyone, so adding some weathering or depth wouldn't be impossible.

[StormILM]

Maybe this one will be better?

http://justflight.com/developProduct.asp?pid=865

Sweet! I've had pretty good luck with most of the JF products and in general they're good quality and evolving at a good pace. I didn't even know JF was working on a 732 but from the screens it looks pretty good and I will definitely be buying it. No doubt there will be tons of repaints but I hope to see both early and late Piedmont schemes. I grew up watching them in the air overhead every day with that familiar whine and roar of the JT8D engines.

[CG_1976]

If the JF 737 has a Canadian North paint and gravel kit I'm in.

[Montie]

If the JF 737 has a Canadian North paint and gravel kit I'm in.

If not, I think Eaglesoft might be working on one:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=129376&highlight=gravel

[DarrenL]

Textures can be improved by anyone, so adding some weathering or depth wouldn't be impossible.

You shouldn't have to improve a payware product like that. It should be right from the start.

[Bjoern]

You shouldn't have to improve a payware product like that. It should be right from the start.

Yes, but what *is* "right"?

I prefer my textures non-photoreal, for example...and adding a speck here and there isn't the end of the world.

[Landman]

Thanks for the replies. I didn't know the other ones existed. I love the old JT8-D powered airliners like the 732, DC-9, and 727. Is it just me or do the exhaust nozzles on the justflight website look a tad too small.

[vonstroheim]

I have the 737-100 by Captain Sim. I have no complaints... But I couldn't help using the RADitor tool to update the radius (viewing distance way too far away in spot view and preview screen). The CS 737-100 needs the same cure as the CS 727-200...
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?61636-Aircraft-selection-screen-size-question&p=668048&viewfull=1#post668048

And I did the 727 VC swap described in the CS forum here:
http://www.captainsim.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1315023933/15#15

I tried to make it look like a 2 engine panel... can't say I succeeded much (3 throttle levers...). But I find it's still a better alternative to the default FSX 737-800 glass cockpit... while waiting for the complete CS package with real 1960's 737 VC.

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/732514737with727vc.jpg

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/960340CS737100.jpg

[Landman]

Whoa! Awesome job on the temporary VC. The premanant one is what I am waiting for before purchasing. Does you temporary one have the 737 overhead or the 727 one?

[vonstroheim]

Does your temporary one have the 737 overhead or the 727 one?

It's the complete CS 727-200 panel, overhead, engineer's, pedestal, everything... and mixed with the CS 737-100 flight dynamics, I'm sure the purists will be outraged! But Captain Sim makes wonderful looking cockpits, couldn't resist... And if you don't use fancy FMC and such modern avionics, no bugs as far as I'm concerned, and pretty decent FPS... (and no FMC, MFD, PFD, EICAS in this line of classic Boeing anyway...).

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/434381cs727vcin737.jpg

My only complaint: not enough repaints... so far... But the ones I found are fun indeed!

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/157701Aloha737.jpg

[CG_1976]

Excellent a 727 CS merge. Thank you for HU and link. I will implement that. I need to give the Canadian North Paint a work out. For sometime I have been looking for a painter to do a First Air and the New look Air Inuit 737-200. Then my northern pride of CS is complete.

[vonstroheim]

CaptainSim 737-200 with VC is available since a few days ("Experimental" version 0.5, for test pilot only http://www.captainsim.com/). This "Step II" model is quite interesting. The VC is complete, very good looking, and a lot of bugs found by test pilots in the 0.4 version were addressed. You'll have to wait for the 1.0 version Step III for a complete passenger cabin and "realistic" flight dynamic.

If you purchase the 0.5 version now, the 1.0 / Step III upgrade will be free. I guess it's a good idea to grab this 0.5 version now cause it's nice to have the option to have a virtual cockpit without cabin, easier on FPS... This "light" VC option is not always available, the CS 767 has it, not the CS 757 for example...

737-200 KLM repaint in the free livery section. Here over beautiful NL2000 scenery.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/966040737200klm.jpg

Canadian North repaint is included in the base pack! CG_1976 is going to like this one I hope...

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/375840737200cn.jpg

VC is very good looking. Didn't play with all the functions yet... FPS are very good.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/358116737200vc.jpg

No 2D panel but I'm trying to build one, 16:9 ratio of course, 4:3 later...

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/9207737372dpanel.jpg

With some efforts the 737-200 VC is compatible with the "Step I" 737-100 early 0.1 version... cool!

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/127793737100.jpg

[CG_1976]

I buy any developer's aircraft with a Canadian North Paint included with purchase:applause:.

[Barnes]

Agreed! Best tube yet.

http://i439.photobucket.com/albums/qq119/GAJIT/Untitled-1copy-22.jpg

[thunder100]

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/127793737100.jpg

This is in which package?

I have 737-100 and 737 Upgrade but seems to be somewhere else

Thanks

Roland

[vonstroheim]

This is in which package?

Only for the 737-100, Air Alaska by Bernhard Lechner (cs_737-100_air_alaska.zip at flightsim)

For the 737-200 you have Alaska Airlines by Alex Faber (cs732alaskan740as.zip at avsim)

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/266251737alaska.jpg

[vonstroheim]

Still trying to build a 2D panel... sounds ridiculous, isn't it? The CaptainSim gauges are not intended for a 2D panel, only for the VC. So I had to use TinMouse gauges and some default one... rather pointless...

Another doomed experiment... Not fair to CaptainSim to publish this, not to mention copyright issues with the TinMouse team... But there is a lot of similarities!

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/475238CS737withtinmousegauges.jpg

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/960753CS737withtinmousegauges2.jpg

[Dangerous Beans]

Looking good.

Anyone tried both the CS and JF yet ?
I've got the demo of the JF 737 and Its stunning and I'm very tempted but is the CS one worth holding out for (I wont buy it until its finished btw).

[thunder100]

I had the CS exterior-->then I bought JF and used the VC for the CS and finally I bought the CS upgrade -200 VC)

Why?
Hard to wait :mixedsmi:

JF has a 2D panel which I use for my Tinmouse,Cantu and even Yeodesign(because of the available repaints) in FSX

But-->JF gauge resolution is far less then CS and the VC is a MAJOR framerate hit(35-->17)

So if the 2D issue wouldnd be-->CS almost all the way

Roland

[thunder100]

Only for the 737-100, Air Alaska by Bernhard Lechner (cs_737-100_air_alaska.zip at flightsim)

For the 737-200 you have Alaska Airlines by Alex Faber (cs732alaskan740as.zip at avsim)



Thanks a lot

Roland

PS:I tried a 2D with CS gauges and the JF bitmap-->almost impossible as even if you get it the CS run only with the CS sys gauge.So I am back to JF 2 D with some tinmouse gauges

[vonstroheim]

A decent alternative to an CS 737-200 improbable 2D panel: an additionnal camera definition to simulate a fixed 2D panel. Works for any monitor's ratio. In the aircraft.cfg file locate the section [CameraDefinition.001] and add this on top of it. You'll have to rename the other camera definitions below accordingly (002 to 004).



[CameraDefinition.001]
Title = "Captain"
Guid = {8FCB0D6A-210A-40F3-BE67-677BD6591780}
Origin = Virtual Cockpit
MomentumEffect = no
SnapPbhAdjust = Swivel
SnapPbhReturn = False
PanPbhAdjust = Swivel
PanPbhReturn = False
Track = None
ShowAxis = YES
AllowZoom = TRUE
InitialZoom = 0.80
SmoothZoomTime = 2.0
ZoomPanScalar = 1.0
ShowWeather = Yes
XyzAdjust = TRUE
ShowLensFlare=FALSE
Category = Cockpit
PitchPanRate=20
HeadingPanRate=60
InitialXyz=0.20, -0.05, -0.10 // left/right - up/down - front/back
InitialPbh=9.00, 0.00, 0.00 // angle - torsion - rotation


You may adjust slightly the InitialZoom, InitialXyz and Pbh values to your liking.

[vonstroheim]

Nice Qantas repaint thanks to NaMcO from the CS forum. For flying down under Orbx...
Here: www.tech-caffe.com/sunwings/CS-B737-200_QFA.zip

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/427176CS737200qantas.jpg

[thunder100]

A decent alternative to an CS 737-200 improbable 2D panel: an additionnal camera definition to simulate a fixed 2D panel. Works for any monitor's ratio. In the aircraft.cfg file locate the section [CameraDefinition.001] and add this on top of it. You'll have to rename the other camera definitions below accordingly (002 to 004).


.

Thanks

Due to the FPS issue with JF I moved back to Tinmouse on the elder 2D 737-200's

Roland

[CG_1976]

Got her vonstroheim. She is a nice critter compared to the Just Flight BB 737. Feels good although to have a similar and familiar VC to move around in:icon29: Hope a First Air paint or Air Inuit surfaces.

[vonstroheim]

Official message from CS:

"The next update (SP 0.6) of the 737-200 has been released. 54 items done list attached. As the next version is going to be the 1.0, so the 0.6 is the last chance to get the 737-200 with 10 Euro discount."
http://www.captainsim.com (http://www.captainsim.com/)

This 737 really deserves the attention of all fans of steam gauges and retro/classic look.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/211126737vc.jpg

[Skyhawk18]

If the JF 737 has a Canadian North paint and gravel kit I'm in.

It will be on this one :icon_lol:
61919

[CG_1976]

I'll be on the buy button like a bee on honey.

[vonstroheim]

This NASA 737-100 repaint was lost but thanks to Markoz from the CS forum here it is:

NASA-LaRC Boeing 737-130 by Daniel Furnkas

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/158371Boeing737130N515NA3.jpg

[vonstroheim]

Sorry, Nasa repaint lost again... Waiting for approval before reposting link...

Here some more for the 737-100 (works fine with the 200) : KLM, Condor, Air Canada, American Airlines. Courtesy Max from Audiosim.
http://audiosim.eu.pn/SUB/Textures/CS737DDS.htm

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/230177737ac.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/202692737cn.jpg

Scenery : De Kooy Navy / NL2000

[vonstroheim]

NASA-LaRC Boeing 737-130 by Daniel Furnkas

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/158371Boeing737130N515NA3.jpg

Daniel is ok with re-publishing this CaptainSim 737-100 repaint. Enjoy! Didn't try it yet with the 737-200 but should work fine also. This is supposed to be the very first Boeing 737 from 1967. It was indeed a 737-100.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47812103/CS_737-130_N515NA.zip

[CG_1976]

Ah a nice tiddy over till the milviz one comes out to play. Being this is Stage2 from CS, constructively she is better in all ways over the Blackbox 737 I got when that released. I am sure Blackbox is watching and hope for improvement. Now I like this CS product very much and it's VC is nice and the AP is a bit Squirrelly as I expect it to be:icon_lol:. Yes in the RW of Arctic Canada, the AP does get nuts and stupid, thus you manhandle this beast and teach her you da boss.

[vonstroheim]

Air California 737-193 (fits the 737-200) by David Sweetman, in the Captain Sim free liveries section... Here in FTX PNW Orcas.

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/273705cs737orcasFTX.jpg

More VC screenshots... The Milviz 737 is serious competition...

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/460898cs737vc1.jpg

But does the Milviz have such sexy curves?

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/231390cs737vc2.jpg

The test version 0.7 is announced... More chances to give your feedback to the CaptainSim designers almost in realtime via their forum, get the discount now, and a free upgrade to a bug-free version 1.0 later...

[MenendezDiego]

Who needs curves when you've got personality ;)

[CG_1976]

:blind:Eh that's not fare flying, that paint has a Playbunny and the Canadian North doesn't:icon_lol::icon_lol:. That's time to hire a painter for Air Inuit new look.

[vonstroheim]

The Captain Sim 737-200 v 0.7 has been released. Thanks to FlightSimulatorNewsBrief (http://flightsimulatornewsbrief.blogspot.ca/) for HU. More informations here:
http://www.captainsim.com/products/x737/sp07.html

Cayman Airways 737-200 by Edwin Boellaard (Captain Sim free liveries section)

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/501625737200caymanairways.jpg

Air Florida (included in the 737-100 pack)

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/581993737100airflorida.jpg

Scenery: Wrong ocean, I know! But so nice... Photoreal Seychelles by Diaphenous (simviation).

Some more VC views...

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/709836737200vc.jpg

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/943512737pedestal.jpg

[vonstroheim]

Version 0.8 of the 737-200 available at Captain Sim's. Getting close to version 1.0... I have a hard telling what is missing or what is wrong (except that, so far, the passenger area is not yet included). New Delta repaint by Russel R. Smith at Avsim...

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/194480737delta.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/457184737vc.jpg

[vonstroheim]

Captain Sim 737-200 v0.9. Getting close! Almost perfect! And last chance to get the discount!

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/142298737sva.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/173161737gear.jpg

Now the passenger area is modeled... The "vc only" version is included, nice touch if you have a crappy computer...

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/942764737cabin1.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/795137737cabin2.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/325031737cabin3.jpg

The 737-200 ADV version (exterior only) is available too.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/165249737adv.jpg

[CG_1976]

Combi, Combi, Gravel kits:icon_lol::icon_lol: That's the money bag there.

[vonstroheim]

New Captain Sim 737-200 repaint. Thanks Nuno!

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/583133737panam1.jpg

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/504625737panam2.jpg

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/569525737panam3.jpg

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/752676737panam4.jpg

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/622295737panam5.jpg

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/169776737panam6.jpg

Repaint: Nuno Miguel Pinto. Available in the CS free liveries section.
Scenery: MegaScenery NY.
Pan Am Pin Up: Courtesy Alvarado.
737-200: Captain Sim v0.9

[vonstroheim]

Some more repaints: CS 737-200 US Air 90's by Kerry Gipe @ avsim

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/123095737usair.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/164530737cabin.jpg

Scenery: OZx Death Vally by Antonio C., Maurizio G. and Holger Sandmann

[vonstroheim]

Captain Sim 737-200 v 1.0 is available!

http://www.captainsim.com/products/x737/img/basetop.jpg

737-200C (Convertible) and 737-200F (Freighter) exterior released too!

http://www.captainsim.com/products/x737/img/topcf.jpg

737-100 and 737-200ADV were released earlier this month...

http://www.captainsim.com/products/x737/img/ext_top.jpg

http://www.captainsim.com/products/x737/img/top_adv.jpg

http://www.captainsim.com/

[vonstroheim]

New repaints keep coming to celebrate the CS 737-200 "final" version 1.0.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/995276737westjet.jpg

Westjet by Nuno Miguel Pinto. Available in the CS forum.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/746045737overhead.jpg

VC is 100% clickable...

[Barnes]

Capt Sim have done their usual great job on the freight versions.

[vonstroheim]

Trying a First Air repaint... Oh my, this tail is hard to paint! Here goes my saturday...

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/842047737first.jpg

I'm doing so much advertising for CS that I hope they'll give me the C version for free!!!

[CG_1976]

I see First Air:jump::jump::jump:.

[vonstroheim]

I think I got the tail ok... and the cockpit poster too... An easy design to begin with...

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/188732737firstair.jpg

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/620328737winterpinup.jpg

Will submit this to the CS website free liveries section soon. In memory of the August 2011 crash in Resolute Bay.

[pbearsailor]

I look forward to that repaint, vonstroheim! Also, thanks for all your updates to this thread. You spoiled me and I mostly stopped going to the CS forum, knowing you'd announce all those beta updates.

This is Captain Sim's best release to me. When it first came out with the beta stuff, I felt like they were just trying to get something out ahead of the JustFlight version and particularly the Milviz one. But I've changed my mind about that. They were really responsive to forum posts and each version was a big improvement over the previous. Now with 1.0 they've got a release that will only have a few bugs, not something they've been able to do in the past. To me, they've made huge strides in the way they deal with their customers.

cheers,
steve

[vonstroheim]

Ok 737-200 First Air repaint available in the Captain Sim web site (free liveries section). Well I don't pretend 100% accuracy for this repaint, but it's close enough... Works with the 100 too.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/435762737200firstair.jpg

I've made a little mistake in the aircraft.cfg file. In the "ui_manufacturer" line change "Boeing/CS" to "Boeing" (I keep all my CS products under the name Boeing/CS and forgot to clean up the cfg file...).

[CG_1976]

Thank you vonstroheim:icon29:. This First Air Snow Owl will be a treasure to my Arctic Fleet. You've picked a rare one of the First Air Fleet to bring alive the sim and the CS737, Well done.

[vonstroheim]

Lots of new repaints are popping out for the Captain Sim 737-200 family...

Aerolineas Argentinas by Marcelo Fabian Veneziale (avsim):

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/867059737ar2.jpg

National Airways (New Zealand) by Jon Murchison (avsim):

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/574313737nac.jpg

Too much to list actually. Check them at Avsim or Captain Sim! Fedex, Jaguar, Hertz, Delta, Bahamas Air, etc...

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/666794zipshowphp.jpg http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/380829ryanairjaguar1.jpg http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/275643ryanairhertz1.jpg http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/387680deltaexpresspowerpuff1.jpg

[bruce448]

[QUOTE=vonstroheim;708780]Lots of new repaints are popping out for the Captain Sim 737-200 family...

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/WAFU448/RyanairJaguar.jpg


http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/WAFU448/Ryanairhertz.jpg

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/WAFU448/DeltaPowerpuff.jpg

I'll lay claim to making these 3.

Bruce

[Barnes]

Well done :salute:

[vonstroheim]

I'll lay claim to making these 3.Bruce

Sorry Bruce, I don't have the ADV expansion pack (yet) so I didn't downloaded your 737-200ADV repaints. This Delta Express Powerpuff tail must have been a nightmare to paint! Good job indeed. (Search "Bruce Martin 737" at Avsim to get those)

[bruce448]

Sorry Bruce, I don't have the ADV expansion pack (yet) so I didn't downloaded your 737-200ADV repaints.


vonstroheim, that's easily sorted, you can use the adv paints on the -200 base pack, by modifying the cfg from

[fltsim.0]
title=CS 737-200ADV Captain PaintXXXX
sim=csx732
model=adv

to

[fltsim.0]
title=CS 737-200 Captain PaintXXXX
sim=csx732
model=200

the only major difference is the extended engine nacelles.(which use a seperate texture sheet (no17).



This Delta Express Powerpuff tail must have been a nightmare to paint! Good job indeed. (Search "Bruce Martin 737" at Avsim to get those)

Not as bad as my next scheme, LOL


Bruce

[bruce448]

I should be uploading this tomorrow, between plastering 2 rooms.

Whale Rider

http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/WAFU448/WhaleRider.jpg

Bruce

[vonstroheim]

Wow Bruce what a tail !

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/746158737ba.jpg

At Avsim too, a nice classic Varig scheme by Marcelo Fabian Veneziale.

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/496508737varig.jpg

Hope an old Air France repaint will appear too...

[vonstroheim]

Captain Sim 737-200 service pack 1.6 (http://www.captainsim.com/products/x737/sp1600.html) released...

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/32234420154120748609.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/463529201541201223359.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/484749201541201035433.jpg

USAir repaint by Bruce Martin - KPHL by SunSkyJet Sceneries - Sorry Hschuit for double post...

[Ian Warren]

I drive it with pleasure , the good old Classic 200 series :cool: Update installed couple days back.

[StormILM]

Got it earlier and I see a number of improvements even with my short test flight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTvTcUtg67c

[Peg o my heart]

Thanks for the HU.

Does the upgrade integrate V1 callout and EPR Gauge mod? Havent had a chance to access my account.

[manfredc3]

Just received the email from CaptainSim, and in the process of downloading the new files.

[StormILM]

Thanks for the HU.

Does the upgrade integrate V1 callout and EPR Gauge mod? Havent had a chance to access my account.

Nope, I double checked. I backed up all my previous addons for this model is it's a fairly easy drop-in.

[ColinT46]

It's now also compatible with P3D. :biggrin-new:

[dougal]

Unistalled mine when I got the Milviz bird. Might now be worth a side by side comparison....