Tu-154B2 By Project Tupolev
Almost everyone who has started this a/c and flown a circuit or done touch and goes in FS9 has loved it. I am not good at refering to a complicated and illustrated manual 'on screen' so I bit the bullet and had it printed out and bound professionally. Having done that, life became very similar to a real 154 pilot doing a cold start-up. The live conversation between the Capt or Co and Groundcrew provides real atmosphere. A lovely a/c to hand fly and great ambiance from the sound-set. A real gem.
Once I mastered start-up followed by circuits and touch and goes, I parked it in the hangar and have not flown it for a year or so. I simply do not have the time to go through the cold-start procs every time I want to fly it, plus if you save a flt with engs running, when you go back to that flt, engs are off. For the Project Tupolev Team, putting in a 'quick start' proc would probably be like the Pope inviting Richard Dawkins for tea, but I can assure them that it would shoot their a/c way up on the popularity chart. But it is obviously not what they care for. Having stated that - has anyone ever asked them . . . .
Lovely work, lovely a/c and flt model, beautifully translated manual, but no 'quick start'.