About This Content Developed by aviation guru and flight simulation enthusiast Jane Whittaker, Dangerous Approaches is a mission pack consisting of 20 of the most nail-biting approaches in modern aviation. Following routes flown by real-world pilots, accuracy in speed and direction is of the essence.Each mission starts in a default FSX: Steam Edition aircraft picked specifically for each approach, although any aircraft may be used on any of the flights. The flight plans are pre-loaded into the GPS of the aircraft to give you the best chance of landing these approaches.Features20 nail-biting missions ranging from 20 minutes - 3 hours30+ hours of flight time Pre-programmed weather settings varying from sunny skies to blizzards to thunderstorms.Successful landings are recorded in the FSX LogbookFeaturing voiceovers by Angel Heaven LeePlease note that the FSX mission compass has not been included. Most of the approaches included in this mission pack require a very specific route to the airfield and cannot be executed by using a simple arrow point. 1075eedd30 Title: FSX: Steam Edition - Dangerous Approaches Add-OnGenre: SimulationDeveloper:Jane Rachel WhittakerPublisher:Dovetail Games - FlightRelease Date: 11 Feb, 2015 FSX: Steam Edition - Dangerous Approaches Add-On Digital Download Why we dont have atc ? :(. In my own opinion this is a very fun DLC, with, depending of the level, very challenging missions. Moreover, I love the medals system where you have to make a perfect landing to achieve gold, and the flight plan. Also, I find the price just a little bit high, but a got it on sale for half which works for 20 missions.. planes are parked against buildings? cant move to fly them!. As old school reports used to say: "Jane could do better".The idea is good but what do we have here. A product called "Dangerous Approaches". Yol would be forgiven for thinking it was about the landing experience but it is not. Before even getting to try a landing you have to either follow a majenta line for a couple of hours or put on the autopilot and go and have a good dinner until approach time comes. Not that the flights are all bad but sometimes people do not have two hours to spare to practice an approach and with the state of fsx at the moment there is only a 50% chance of lasting that long.The voice overs have obviously been written to be listened to with engine and ambient noises off. No way to fly a plane.I think it must also have been developed with Active Sky Next on Jane's computer as she mentions several times the weather and there is none...at least no buffetting and I have my weather slider full right. If Flybe was landing in the Scottish Islands I am sure the pilots could not handlethe stillness as they are really used to wind.Keep trying Jane as this time the bad outnumbers the good points but I am sure you can do better.. In my own opinion this is a very fun DLC, with, depending of the level, very challenging missions. Moreover, I love the medals system where you have to make a perfect landing to achieve gold, and the flight plan. Also, I find the price just a little bit high, but a got it on sale for half which works for 20 missions.. Really disappointed, The "missions" consists of flight plans without atc and an almost non-existing voice guidance.Nothing you can't do in free flight. I like playing missions because of the hints\/radio the copilot can provide, the story of the airport, the failures, or whatever.. missions are meant to make you feel that you're not flying alone imo.It would also be a good thing to provide approaches charts (even simplified, so even casual players can understand them).I will think twice before buying another DLC if they all come with this quality... I didnt recrive atc info on the dangerous approch add on!. I was not impressed with the Missions in this add-on. First there is not much voice activity at all, usually says "Takeoff and follow the flightplan", that is it. Second, the approaches that are in the flight plans don't even follow the actual published approaches for the airport. It would have been so easy just to make add the actual approach in the flight plan using STAR's, approach plates, etc. Thirdly, providing approach plates would be helpful. Lastly, for $16.99 I would expect a better product, I have one mission that I can't even start because it starts me on a building and "crashes". Second guessing downloading any more Steam Add-ons!. Terribe, voice guidance sucks. No ATC so you don't know where to taxi in the airports starting off. No guidance during the flights, just you and your GPS. Angel Heaven Lee basically just tells you to take off. You don't know what altitudes to fly because of no ATC. The first mission I done, Angel Heaven Lee told me to take off. Which I did, I then followed the GPS to the airport, didn't know what runway to land on and after I did land on a random runway, the mission was still running. It did not end. No acheivement. All you're paying for is flight plans that are loaded into the GPS and a voice which gives no real help at all.. Very crude. Due to FSX default aircraft limitations, ILS, VOR, AP, and ATC, kinda matters in a 747-400. The mission architect could have at least set you up on a aligning VOR for approach, eg KANSAI mission (consult the landing charts). When you look at knee board the mission details or landing plates have not been added, a bit lazy. $10 doesn't go far. It is a bit like calling a dot to dot a sketch. Love the idea, there just needs to be more collaboration, like sell the missions bundled to utilise proper Aerosoft style Airbus or Boeing to give better ILS, VOR and AP. If people are landing these missions in big jets, very well done, its nothing like the real thing, you would make a great test pilot. I am aware of FSX limitations, it just isnt "real world" enough for me. If you dont know what I mean, buy an add on A320 and learn the VOR \/ ILS landing in free flight mode. VOR lines you up horizontally with the centre line, very oldschool, ILS Laterally and will autoland you depending on the airport. Or just use VOR and fly in manual.
FSX: Steam Edition - Dangerous Approaches Add-On Digital Download
Updated: Mar 9, 2020
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