Have to repurchase for v4?

[Steve Waite]

Time to brighten things up with a shot of stock P3D v4 with low settings; Dull Morning IFPro:



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[Steve Waite]

There's a lot of guys been holding out for v4, they may have purchased IF for FSX in the past, also there's IF copies sold before Flight 1 acquired the sales contract. Discounts mean upsetting someone because we can't authenticate all copies of IF.

Instead in real terms the product costs less than it did a few years ago, yet contains much more stuff.

It's a happening product for the x64 P3D platform, I'm providing it in as fair a way as I can. Say I purchased IF10 >augmented, IF10Pro and IFPro I've spent about US $210+tax I have been using it for 8 years and I have the latest version for P3D v4. This is small potatoes when compared to the cost of a handful of addon airports for example.

[Steve Waite]

Here's a few lesser known facts about why IF is built like it is...

Ideal Flight works totally offline. That doesn't mean you can't use the internet, it means that IF won't download map data or weather data and demand bandwidth or reduce network latency while you are on VATSIM or vPilot for example.

IF weather is automatically incorporated in the planner calculations and decision making because it is integral to the route building process and the play out of the flight (unless using third party weather). IF weather is an advanced fictional real weather simulation with no data from the internet.

Impact on the system is designed from the ground up to be tiny: The installer is around 11Mb and the app uses around 35Mb - 60Mb in use, about the same as an Explorer window. The simconnect footprint makes no demands on the sim and generally receives a tiny amount of data from the sim (less than a packet header) if it has time, IF retrains if the sim is busy.

[Turambar]

Hi Steve,

I never regretted investing in a hobby like Flight Simming; I like the way things develop within the FS community and developer world!
Yesterday I finished my first successful IF-PMDG B737 flight with a satisfying score of 78%. I'm sure I'll beat that within a few days.

Thanks for a excellent addon and an amazingly good support, Steve,

KR, Theo

[Steve Waite]

Thank you Theo!

Without guys like you IF is not feasible. Instead we can have IF and I'm certain it's not an expensive addon, I definitely wouldn't like to be without it myself.

[darem]

I think I was one of the first to buy IF when it came out, and I will certainly buy it for V4 again.

Does it read Navigraph data again, Steve?

[Steve Waite]

Yes you were among the first few dozen to buy the original Ideal Flight 10 Bernhard! Thank you very much for the support you provided to the project in the early days, it was special.

Yes, Navigraph and NavDataPro is supported with the following AIRAC data sets for AXE, PMDG, iFly and Level-D. Plus an IF10 AIRAC is supplied by NavDataPro, and Navigraph are coming in with their own IFPro data set soon very similar to the AXE (Aerosoft Airbus X Extended). So for example if we are running a PMDG we can utilise the PMDG database for the routes. These are compared to the scenery data for the reliable subset. Also new is fsAerodata support which adds a lot of routes and waypoints to the sim data.

We can add just the SID STAR information from the AIRAC data sets to augment the scenery/fsAerodata for aircraft that use the scenery for navigation, or we can utilise the full AIRAC data set to make the routes if we are using an aircraft that uses an AIRAC for navigation.

Thanks for your continued interest in the project.
Best regards
Steve

[Steve Waite]

One thing I particularly like about IF is the fuel report and the way the flight is planned around the set of preferred parameters.

Let's say we get a new aircraft, we can load it with a typical quantity of PAX or cargo, fill the tanks and set off to investigate the performance. Once we are at altitude we can find out how she flies - find a comfortable velocity for the aircraft and its engine spec and monitor the fuel. We can go back into IF and set the altitude and velocity preferred, but also we can set the Range estimated by the Fuel Report.

We can check the fuel report when we are at altitude with our typical load and speed from the pulldown menu it will appear in the flight log (see popup menu). Once we put that into the flight calculator (Range is at the top of the aircraft Flight Parameters page in IF) the next flight build provides a much more accurate estimate for fuel and time.

Furthermore, when we have completed a full flight with takeoff, ascent, cruise, descent, approach and landing phases are all monitored and embroiled into the next calculation, the updated Range estimate is included in the debrief. The next build, assuming we have updated our Range box with the new estimate, will be even more accurate. And so we are finding out the performance of the simulated model in the simulated environment.

[Steve Waite]

Brand Loyalty and Customer Discount:

All users of Ideal Flight, no matter how long ago purchased, have up-to-date versions which include features of Flight Simulator only just appearing like fsAerodata and FMC files and GPS programming for new systems and aircraft. All that for no upgrade fees whatsoever.

The past performance of codelegend.com shows a special commitment to its products and customers.

Clearly, for Ideal Flight, loyalty comes from the developer and customer discount for its loyal supporters comes with timely updates that keep the products current.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Best regards
Steve

[dblueone]

I was about o install IF10 pro P3D v4 after being a long time without using the product and to my surprise it gave me error with my V3 key, then i saw this post.

Well!!... even IF10 being a great product, and Steve a very nice guy that gives a lot of support i think giving another almost 70€ for the same product is a little excessive, its just my opinion!I think it would be reasonable at least a discount for existing costumers, again my opinion.

I guess i have to stay without IF10 for now!