FSX Steam Edition: Boeing B-29 Superfortress™ Add-On DLC

Sounds great, super realistic. Also, like another gentleman said, it is unforgiving on take off and landing. Your right rudder pedal will become your new best friend, and you may invent some new curse words. Once you get up to cruise altitude with the autopilot on and start seat hopping, you can easily forget what year it is. Highly recommended!

This iconic bomber is a must have for anybody who appreciates classic bombers. This B29 has nice molding inside and out but no liveries. It handles like expected for a massive (for the time) bomber and is a real joy to fly around. Several internal views for the various crew positions and if you look closely you can see the tail gunner guy. It seems like they nailed the flight characteristics but since I’ve never touched a B29 there is no wa6 I could be certain, but based on what I know about the plane it seems right.

There's some good things, and some bad things about this aircraft. On the first flight before take off, I was impressed with the design of the cockpit, and the sound design for the interior and exterior. However while taking off, I noticed the same problem that many other people have been having, the plane keeps wanting to veer to the left, so I have to hold my rudder slightly to the right to counter this, and I can't find the rudder trim setting. Other than that, the plane is controllable, it has a good realistic turning radius, and I was able to clime very smoothly. After a little bit of straight and level flying, I decided to test how the plane would act during some kind of failure. So I set a few cylinders to fail in the 3 engine in 5 minutes, and then an engine fire to happen in 10 minutes. The cylinders I set failed right when I wanted them too, and then a few minutes later, the fire came up. After that, I went through an emergency engine shut down procedure. First I selected the engine to use the fire extinguisher on, then I closed all magnetos, shut down the ignition for that engine, and closed the fuel system for engine 3. Then I shut the engine down, and all of a sudden, the aircraft went into a random spiral that I was able to recover from, but I was extremely confused by what just happened, because that wouldn't happen in real life. Then when I looked back at my engine gauges, I saw that engine 1 had shutdown with engine 3. And this is where it gets worse, when I restarted engine 1, the aircraft, again, went into an uncontrollable spiral that over stressed the aircraft. I know for sure that wouldn't happen in real life. This aircraft is a good flier but it has some serious issues in its programming that needs to be sorted out. I'm 50/50 on this aircraft, I'm satisfied with the overall design of the sound and the aircraft, design however is subjective, the ability to control the aircraft, and realism of its simulator is objective, and once again, needs to be fixed, because I'm close to saying that this was a waste of $13.00. The B-29 is one of my top 3 favorite WWII bombers, and I would love to have one for FSX that behaves like it does in real life.

I would have given this a 5 Star Rating, BUT! It gets 1 Star Only. One Paint, one texture. All in DDS format. Unless you want to spend the time like I did to convert DDS to BMP extended in 32 bit format(good luck with this,read more), your out of luck. The model itself is outstanding, however, somewhere, and somehow, DLC has managed to prevent you from doing the above conversion. I KNEW BETTER then to buy this direct through Steam, I should have bought the Complete package with skins from another source, which there are multiple sources for this out there. DLC, you need to get your act together, and should be ashamed of yourselves....ONE PAINT??? Come on, Spend the extra 24 bucks and buy this somewhere else. The Paint is BLANK, you could have at least put something on it. This is a Major Bummer as it is a very nice aircraft otherwise. For me, there is a definate lesson here to be learned, I will NOT buy ONE more thing through here again for sure. In fact other Flight Simulators are looking better and better everyday these ridiculous protocols continue........Enough said about that!!!

Really like this addon! If you go to one of the FS shops online and purchase the Virtavia B-29 DLC, it comes with all the other B-29 paints including the Enola gay!

why do fsx SE versions of Download planes never have markings? like seriously. super cool DLC plane but seriously

i love the plane and i love fsx the only thing i do not like is not being able to add skins i wish there were skins compatable with this DlC but other than that great plane i do have one more question can you drop the bombs on the plane or no?

I'm afraid I can't give this a rave review. The quality of the textures is comparable to an aircraft from IL2 1946 released 10 years ago. Still, the flights can be fun and challenging and at this reduced sale price it is worth adding to the hangar.

i love this plane, but don't buy it from steam, a quick search online will show another website to buy it from for slightly more than this version, but that version gives you the skin pack that you're getting ripped off of in this DLC in it's base version.

This is a really nice add-on! The flight model is nice (still a bit optimistic) and unforgiving. All essential systems are there and it's nice to look around and adjust the engines, propeller RPM, autopilot, etc. It's not a complicated aircraft and it's easy to figured out what you need to do to fly it (I was in the air after 5 minutes looking at the switches and gauges). It worth it!!!