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

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!

The aircraft itself is really great, but DO NOT buy it through Steam!!! The Steam version is just the base model of the B-29, with no liveries or anything. If you buy it through a third party store, it comes with extra liveries and a few model variations.

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

I think before this instance the only times I've seen flyable B-29s were in War Thunder (I have a love-hate relationship with that game and never got to fly it myself but I know its flyable in game) and modded IL-2 1946 in which I actually got to fly it before I'm 99% certain, if my memory serves me well. So this is my 3rd time getting my hands on this beauty. Its rare to see such big aircraft modelled in flight sims and even rarer for them to be flyable so I was really excited to try it out. +Looks good, sounds good, flies... like I'd expect it to fly. Heavy and big. +Has a lot of camera options so you can really get some nice views and mess with things in the plane. +/- This is an issue with Microsoft Flight Sim itself, you cannot do any sort of combat. No proper damage model and no proper implemantation of armament. If you want something more actual combat oriented you'll have to try either moddel IL-2 1946 (my beloved) or War Thunder. The only other game I can think of that could have a B-29 in it would be DCS however I don't know if DCS actually has it but I know for a fact its not flyable by the players. -Doesn't come with any skins. Just a bare, metal look and not much else. A little dissapointing that there isn't even any like text on the plane or anything, just some historical references or such you know? According to one of the reviews that I quickly skimmed through apperantly buying this on Steam may not be a great idea, some 3rd party sites apperantly offer the same plane, same DLC but with some skin and model variants so maybe its just a Steam thing, I don't know but I wasn't gonna use a 3rd party site even if it gave me 28 of this plane, I like having all my stuff in one place so Steam it is for me but for others it might be something worth looking into. Its pretty nice.

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!!!