After a long development period, Aeroplane Heaven have released their Avro Type 683 Lancaster for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Let’s have a look at this new release and what the company is saying about compatibility.
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Aeroplane Heaven are touting a detailed interior and exterior built using factory plans and drawings, Echo 19 authored audio, 7 authentic liveries, interior modeling that captures all 7 stations of the bomber, and various configurations including the H2S with radar dome and internal modifications as well as the famous dam buster configuration.
The aircraft is available for $34.99 USD via the Aeroplane Heaven store and it is slated to come to the Marketplace soon.
The aircraft has been, according to the developer, built for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 using that simulators SDK (software development kit) and thus is natively supporting that sim. The aircraft has been tested and does work in compatibility mode, as many aircraft do, for MSFS 2024.
The company reports via their Facebook page that there are frame rate issues in 2024 near more complex airports writing the following statement:
The Lancaster runs perfectly fine in FS2024. There is a frame rate drop around busy airports due in part to the size of the textures and just all the gubbins inside. You will need a pretty impressive rig to run it in FS2024 and that means a 40 series Nvidia card at least and a fairly new CPU, RAM wise its as much as you can afford.
If you’re thinking of purchasing, seek out a few of the reviews that have already come out to see how folks are finding it in either 2020 or 2024 versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator and see if performance or features will be a concern for you.
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