Review Guidelines

Aircraft Review Guidelines

  • Overall Score 1-10: Aircraft overall score will be based on a percentage of points earned in other categories.
    • Flight Deck Fidelity 0-10: Rating of visual fidelity of flight deck only.
    • Exterior Model Fidelity 0-10: Rating of visual fidelity of external model only.
    • Cabin Visual Fidelity 0-3: Rating of visual fidelity of cabin model. Smaller scale due to lower importance.
    • Sound Fidelity 0-7: Rating of quality of stock soundpack in terms of immersiveness.
    • Flight Model Feel 0-10: Rating of how the flight model feels. A very subjective number.
    • Systems Depth 0-30: Rating of how in depth the plane’s unique systems are modeled. (My personal favorite of any aircraft)
    • Value 0-30: Rating of whether or not this aircraft is priced properly within the market given it’s competition. (Not a rating of price alone)

The basic goal of the aircraft scoring system is to rate aircraft the way I would like them rated based on my favorite parts of the simulation. Fidelity and systems. An important note about the value score is that it is a subjective take on whether or not I think the simulation is worth it’s cost. An example here is that the Flight Factor A320 Ultimate would get the full 30 points even though it is extremely expensive where as the Flight Factor 777 would get ten or fewer points because it is far too high priced given the state of it.

The goal here is that add ons that score above an 8 are well worth your money in my opinion and 5-7 may be worth it depending on some other factors whereas less than 5 is not something that should be payware.

 

Scenery Review Guidlines:

  • Overall Score 1-10: Scenery score will be based off percentage of points earned in other categories.
    • X-Plane 11 Compatibility 0-10: An all or nothing rating on whether or not the scenery is X-Plane 11 compatible.
    • Use of X-Plane 11 Features 0-20: A rating on whether or not/ how well a scenery uses the new features of X-Plane 11
    • Built in Statics that do not use the X-Plane 11 static aircraft system will be a full point off the overall score.
    • Failure to animate jetways will be a full point off the overall score.
    • Ground Visual Fidelity 0-10: A rating of the visual fidelity of the tarmac and markings.
    • Terminal Building Visual Fidelity 0-10: A rating of the visual fidelity of terminal buildings.
    • AI Compatibility 0-10: An all or nothing rating of compatibility with X-Life/ World Traffic 3
    • Performance 0-10: A rating of how well optimized the scenery is.
    • Value 0-30: A rating of whether or not the scenery is priced properly.

As with Aircraft the goal here with scenery is to assign a score where above an 8 is worth buying and 5-7 may be worth it depending on other factors whereas less than 5 is not something that should be payware.

The scenery category is especially subjective and some things will be scored differently than you feel that they should be scored but I think that my ratings can still be helpful.

There are many things that I may review that do not fit into either of these sets of rules. Various add-ons and scenery packages and utilities that are a little more difficult to rate. Be aware that those items will still be given a 0-10 score but the reasoning will be more subjective and less consistently applied. Such cases will be clearly marked.