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Post by Defender on Dec 1, 2011 17:19:15 GMT -5
Just to say some really lovely air to air filming of the Antarctic Basler on BBC's Frozen Planet last night. Certainly sharpens the appetite....... Bill
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Post by mjahn on Dec 4, 2011 4:29:39 GMT -5
Dang I missed that. Must check whether there are any repeats or if I can watch it on the net.
We now have an interestingly realistic turbo engine start and shut down. No explosive combustion ... I'll see whether I can post a little vid of it.
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Post by mjahn on Dec 20, 2011 3:50:39 GMT -5
Managed to see a repeat but the episode I watched starred a Twin Otter... not bad either. Bad news re Basler is, we won't be able to finish her by Christmas. Good news is we now have a detailed status display much like in the Connies. What you see in the pic is status #1 and here you can select typical load configurations toggling through Cargo, Passenger, Normal, Light and Empty. Hopefully we can make some progress in the VC department, too, and then we should be ready to go. I'll keep you posted here. Meanwhile merry xmas all!
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Post by jan on Dec 20, 2011 5:19:10 GMT -5
Thanks for the update we will wait and see... and in the meantime a merry christmas and a very happy new year
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Post by stansdds on Dec 20, 2011 6:06:01 GMT -5
Merry Christmas, Manfred, and thank you for the update. I'd much rather wait a while and see a completely finished and well polished product than to have an incomplete aircraft right now.
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Post by romeo33delta on Dec 20, 2011 13:56:15 GMT -5
I'll add my thanks too. Super job on a neat aircraft and to you and yours, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. PS ... so we'll just get a Christmas present from you a little later ... that's not a problem at all. Besides, I don't think "herself" will want me to be flying around on Christmas Day anyway ... you know how it is!
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Post by fxsttcb on Dec 29, 2011 8:13:37 GMT -5
Bless you, Sir! With the recent release of Aerosoft Antartica X, I am anxiously awaiting this beauty. Especially the Kenn Borek Air Ltd livery. The Twotter is nice, but this will be the mainstay of my exploration way Down South...Don
Belated Merry Christmas, Happy and Prosperous New Year
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Post by qar02 on Dec 29, 2011 17:45:28 GMT -5
If Genius is it's own reward then, Manfred (et al) are very rich!
Thanks...it will be worth the wait.
v/r qar02
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Post by stansdds on Dec 30, 2011 7:17:56 GMT -5
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Post by capflyer on Dec 31, 2011 0:14:20 GMT -5
Did you look at the image on FSDeveloper? The only difference between the sim aircraft and the one you show is that the sim aircraft doesn't have GPS in the VC (yet). However, it has a full King KX-series NAV/COM suite that's actually a generation newer than what's in your picture. The KAP-140 autopilot is taking the place of the King KLN-90B that is in your picture, but I'm sure there'll be a pop-up GPS available as that's much easier to do than try to model in one since I'm not sure there's one available from any default for FS9 or FSX that's of decent quality and free. That's one of the problems I've run into in putting together a "modern" DC-6 panel in that there are next to no free addon GPS's available for FS9 or FSX making it nearly impossible to replicate the installations of Everts and NAC.
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Post by kikas on Dec 31, 2011 6:37:21 GMT -5
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Post by stansdds on Dec 31, 2011 9:27:02 GMT -5
Did you look at the image on FSDeveloper? The only difference between the sim aircraft and the one you show is that the sim aircraft doesn't have GPS in the VC (yet). However, it has a full King KX-series NAV/COM suite that's actually a generation newer than what's in your picture. The KAP-140 autopilot is taking the place of the King KLN-90B that is in your picture, but I'm sure there'll be a pop-up GPS available as that's much easier to do than try to model in one since I'm not sure there's one available from any default for FS9 or FSX that's of decent quality and free. That's one of the problems I've run into in putting together a "modern" DC-6 panel in that there are next to no free addon GPS's available for FS9 or FSX making it nearly impossible to replicate the installations of Everts and NAC. Pop-up GPS is possible with any aircraft, but I'm not a big fan of pop-ups as they spoil the VC experience for me. FS9 has a GPS-500 that works in FSX. There are freeware GNS-430 and GNS-530 units available for FS9 and work in FSX. I found them at Avsim. Filename: fsgarmin.zip License: Freeware Added: 17th October 2003 Downloads: 10792 Author: Don Kuhn Size: 989kb Manuals for the above GNS also available at Avsim Filename: gns430-530_tutorial_by_tim_mandeville.zip License: Freeware, limited distribution Added: 15th November 2009 Downloads: 185 Author: SimFlyer/Tim Mandeville Size: 23805kb
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Post by capflyer on Dec 31, 2011 22:47:02 GMT -5
The KLN-90B available doesn't work in FSX, tried it. The GNS430/530 while nice, aren't what I needed. I needed a 330 or (in absence of it) the NAV/GPS and Approach Couple buttons, which that package doesn't have either (sadly).
It's unfortunate that GPS isn't something that a lot of people have put together for FS, but I can understand it to a point as they're not the simplest things to do.
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Post by darrenvox on Jan 1, 2012 0:36:51 GMT -5
Looks nice
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Post by jplr on Jan 1, 2012 11:30:44 GMT -5
Nice cockpit! do they have aircon installed already?
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