There are crews and/or passengers in the variants which are animated to a degree, ie they move and drink from a can of soda. The “racing” crews have full racing suits and crash helmets - very chic. The lights are excellent giving you good vision at night.įigure 10 VC Animated passenger drinking an aperitif  The word “Spartan” comes to mind - keep that weight down!  The paint schemes inside the VC are basically white/off-white and do not, in certain aspects, appear to give a 3-dimensional visualisation. The glare is quite high, even though I reduced brightness and contrast on my monitor. There are no 2-D cockpits only 3-Dįigure 2 DS PB Cheetah Variant (Tourist with sliding sun Roof)įigure 3 DS PB Pathfinder Tourist Variantįigure 4 DS PB Mangusta Tourist Variant Lights Blazingįigure 6 DS PB Cheetah 2 Racing with engine cover openįigure 7 PB DS Racing C0pilot with reflecting helmetįigure 8 VC Interior High Contrast very whiteįigure 9  VC Interior Better Contrast.jpg
The external views are excellent with all 10 repaints standing out in the water. I was disappointed with some of the VC cockpit and the boat interiors.
There is an “htm” version only of the manual of 10 pages, which is also available on the Delta Sim website. This is basically a checklist of standard operating procedures, minimum system requirements, and a series of pictures of the cockpit which have annotations showing what button, gauge, lever, etc does what. There is no background information either on the boats or powerboat racing in general. If you print out this “htm” manual then the print is extremely small and is very difficult to read. A pdf manual would have been excellent. On my system in the Select aircraft menu in FSX under “Publisher” I was presented with the tab for “ Delta sim Studio” and this allows the choice of all 10 variants. In my flight control the “GENERAL” settings are full right and all other settings (p-factor, torque, etc) are full left, auto-rudder is ticked as is auto-mixture plus unlimited fuel. I picked up these settings from somewhere and they seem to work OK, but the frustrating thing is that these are not in the manual and you have to dig around to find these sorts of tips.
(This is explained in the manual). The documentation is contained in a folder with the extracted zip files and is an htm document that if you try to print out, you will see that the print is extremely hard to see and difficult to read. There is a readme.txt file which also explains how to install the power boats as well as describing basic commands. How you access the “manual” is not explained anywhere in the included documentation, so its mystery as to why it’s included in this format.
Installation was relatively easy after extracting the “ZIP” file and double clicking the self extracting “exe” file which attempts to install in the default FSX location, so once that is changed to your FSX folder installation proceeds smoothly after entering a registration code. Quick Summary: This is quite a good set of powerboats (aka as speed boats) and it brings something different to FSX, in that you can now explore the scenery at sea level, and you can “fly” without ever leaving the ground (or water). The boats are well modelled they look very nice in the Sim and have little effect on performance. The sounds are good, typical of a powerboat of this genre. Although there are 3 models and 10 variants the cockpit instruments do not vary very much, but thet are comprehensive for a power boat. They seem to have unique instruments as well as using the default GPS and GA radio stack. The instructions on how to configure and pilot the boats are comprehensive and need to be followed to ensure success. For something totally different you can’t go beyond these boats.įigure 1 DS PB Cheetah in Tongass X Alaskaĭelta Sim – FSX POWERBOAT - A βeta Simple Review