Abacus Catalina

[austerdriver]

Does anybody on here have the Catalina by Abacus? If anybody does, is it any good?

http://www.abacuspub.com/platinum/catalog/s755.htm

[Garry Russell]

There is a try before you buy option of 7 days

[austerdriver]

There is? Where do I find it?

[Garry Russell]

Near the bottom of that page you've linked it mentions it......that's the first time I've seen that and no nothing about it other than what it says there

[jonesey2k]

I'll stick with the Aerosoft Cat

[DaveB]

That's for FSX only though Jonesey and with AA's current FSX problems, I'm thinking he wants one for FS9

I usually steer clear of Abacus aircraft but the Cat has some decent names attached to it so it might be worth a go. AA.. all you do for 'try before you buy' is download it rather than 'buy' it. It will run with all bells and whistles for 7 days so if you like it, you can go back and buy it. If you don't.. file 13

ATB

DaveB

[austerdriver]

I am wanting the Catalina for FS2004. I am going to download this later and see what it is like.

[J0hn]

I've test flown the FSX version, quite a while ago, though.

It is probably worth the $8 or so they were asking at the time. It can't touch Aerosoft's product, but as I say, for the dosh, it isn't bad at all. Having purchased a few of the abacus FSX releases when they were at half-price, I have become probably their biggest sceptic - I won't go into detail here as I have already reawakened my duodenal ulcer recently (thanks, Talk Talk, for illegally taking over my line) and don't want to wake up spitting blood in the morning...
Don't be surprised if you find something fundamentally wrong with it when any particular scenario arises that you hadn't faced during testing (such as lacking night lighting, for example, or finding that the ASI only goes up to half the speed of the actual cruise speed - oops! There I go )

I didn't buy it in the end. I have since bought the AS model and noticed the difference in apparent speed. The abacus one is painfully slow (almost as painful as their other planes are bad...) which is why I left it, but the AS one doesn't seem slow at all, imho.

JD

[dodger]

Hi austerdriver,

I would suggest the Cat PBY by Alphasim now Virtavia, i have not looked Virtavia's site as to wether its out yet as they are slow bring out Alphasims models but i think for fs2004 made back in 2005 its a great model and a joy to fly with quite a few textures as well,

Cheers,

Roger.

[DaveB]

Yup.. I've even dragged the Alpha Cat kicking and screaming into FSX and but for a quick adjustment in the panel.cfg and different set of sounds.. it worked pretty well. That said, there's a fair bit I don't like about it.. the aerial wires for one but as Roger said, if it's still available (or newly available) at Virtavia.. you could do worse. Give the Abacus try-before-you-buy a shot first though. You've nothing to lose

ATB

DaveB