I picked up the Captain Sim 757 base pack for FS9 this week, and finally had a chance to try it out last night on a quick flight from Charlotte to Orlando. (Vataware Flight Link)
I have to say, I’m impressed.
The flight itself was fairly easy, and the plane performed adequately. I’m not familiar with either the Charlotte or Orlando airports, and changing the arrival runway and approach when requested to do so by ATC was very easy with the FMS.
The only real problem that I had was that I had left the electric hydraulics off accidentally, and remembered as I’m rotating the aircraft. That was an easy fix, though. I’ll write it off to being distracted by trying to get the engines started.
The cs757 feels heavy. I felt that she was really dragging to get off the runway, especially compared to the much lighter A319’s and 737’s I’m used to flying. It was also a job holding it on the localized and glideslope by hand. I felt that I had to fight it most of the way in. I don’t mind doing that, and there was a pretty strong cross-wind component (winds were 280 @ 7kts, and I was coming in on rwy 35L) but it was kinda cool to have to work to keep things lined up.
All in all, the flight went well and for all potential issues with the landing, I ended up landing at 122kts, -164fps – which isn’t too bad at all.
Beyond the Horizon 