Daggernaut
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Without disrespect, just putting up loads of posts with pictures does not really makes us pick aircraft projects. For example a HU-25 will simply not attract enough customers to make it worthwhile for us to start a project on it commercially. There is a longer topic that we follow and that I promise DOES influence our decisions. Check it here
None taken. If the pictures are inappropriate, I promise not to post anything with it from now on. Thanks for the link.
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It runs fine for me under WinXP and FSX with SP2, except some minor problems. More details you can find on the support forum, where it has been discussed what works and what works not (eg. under Vista and DX10).
Otto
Thanks Otto, much appreciated, wilco. Going over now.
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Oh, deja vu or what...
You are aware of this in-progress project?
As you probably know, theres is already a high quality freeware AN-24RV for FS2004, but popular as that is, I'm not sure there's a market for big `ol turboprops, else we'd have a raft of them already.
The difficulty with the Russian birds is the price of admission - I don't mean financial cost, i mean you have to learn and understand the metric system (km/h instead of knots or MPH, metres instead of feet etc) and the Russian nav systems owe little to Western standards. To achieve sales success and fidelity you effectively have to model both systems, AND incorporate the necessary addons to make the standard Russian nav system actually work, as well as allowing for westernised nav systems and GPS. When you add to this the manual nature of most Russian birds (crews of 3 or 4) and the absence of automation for most of these tasks, it's a Big Ask for both developer and end user.
As I recall, it took me about fifty hours to get used to the AN-24RV systems and another ten to forget it all again. It's what keeps me away from the fantastic Suprunov Yak-40 - I don't fly it often enough to be familiar with it, which in turn keeps me from flying it often enough to become familiar.
I'm a big fan of 50's and 60's turboprops - they were after all the foundation of the holidaying, commuting age we live in today as contrary to popular belief it wasn't the intercontinental travel market that opened up the skies to everyone, it was regional and inter-country travel that was primarily led by the upper and lower-level feederliners as well as being the forerunners of the Airshoves, Borings and all the other yawn-inducing tubeliners that are about as much fun in FS as picking your nose with a pitchfork.
But that doesn't mean there is a market for them...
You know I couldn't agree with you more snave, there really is no market for these old Russian twin turbo props. Russian Nav systems are different from their western counterparts. And yes, the number of crews a company or an Air Force has to pay is just not in sync with today's world. The metric system and having to convert that, makes me scrampble for an E6B. Indeed the modifications and upgrades can cost a company almost an entire new plane. I heard that TBO for Russian manufactured aircraft powerplants are lower than their western counterparts, now thats high maintenance. Perhaps there is a market for these old airplanes, in the virtual world of flying that is. Selling them as add on for FSX.
Yes I did enjoy the AN-24RV on the website you provided thanks again. I had to stay up all night reading the manual and I don't speak Russian or understand their cyrillic alphabets. That was when I was operating in FS9, I did try it in the FSX and the guages went missing. I will await the completion for the FSX, but I still want the AN32B not the 24.
I never experienced riding on one of these things much less flying it. I guess thats why I want them so much.
Never tried the Yakovlev airplane yet. Saw some training video clips of it but found the Tupolev TU-154 and the airline version of the Bear bomber, I enjoyed both in FS9. It took me a long time to understand how to get the APU up and running for the old Tupolev airliner. By the time I did, I was looking for a good UN assigned Illushin IL-76.
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Yes, either a good F27 or a good Dash7 for FSX would be nice. (The freeware Dash 7 is good, but not state of the art in FSX).
I fully understand you. Dash 7 is also a great airplane.
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http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Coast...dian/0519976/L/
"So that others may live."
"Semper Paratus"
They live by these words, these are the men and women of the United States Coast Guard. The link is to a fabulous picture of an equally fabulous French made airplane which is the subject of this posting. She is fast, so she can get to those in distress quickly, and she can be furious with drug smugglers and other criminals in the high seas. The Dassault HU-25 Guardian or its civilian counterpart the Falcon 20 also used by Fedex and other small cargo companies and air charter services, is a fantastic airplane. Fast, economical, and simple with french elegance and style. Again... no quality FSX variant.
The US Coast Guard forward deploys a detatchment of two airplanes in CGAS Borinquen located in San Juan Puerto Rico, right at the front lines in the war on drugs. Federal Express began with a fleet of these ariplanes before becoming what it is today. There are still some small air cargo companies operating this type and yet several more for air charter.
The Drug Wars:
The USCG pampers her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsPvzyyXHMI
Landing KMIA:
Fantastic airplane, great missions, what more could I possibly ask for $50.00 huh?
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This Russian babe is huge, I mean huge considering it's a twin turbo prop that is almost the size and capability of a C-130. Boy these Russians are real big... boys. I've seen this airplane up-close in an airshow, the next time I saw it was on TV News, watching them drop aid to famine affected areas, they fly with the UN-WFP. Also the Air Force of Afghanistan have these airplanes in their fleet. Rugged, dependable, versatile, un-adulterated Russian muscle bird.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Afghanistan...n-32/1345717/L/
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Afghanistan...n-32/1101041/L/
The engines are so loud, especially without ear protection, just to make sure you hear and agree that those powerplants can lift heavy cargo with ease. What I like much about them, is their ability to operate in forward areas, they're said to be economical to operate, and it has a (something about size with Russians
) cavernous cargo compartment. Easy to fly and handle even Russian women 
(what?) can fly them with ease.See the fire fighting version here:
With the Croats:
Latin America:
Angola Africa:
Imagine a mission flying out a UN base in Sudan, to drop sacks of food at certain spots for the locals to pick up, land on a dusty airfield to deliver the medical supplies, then fly out again before the rebels arrive. Land at night dropping flares and spiralling down to the runway to avoid SAM's. Now try and imagine navigating the Russian way, at night From Kabul to Khost.
Imagine rumbling down the runway like this:
Or flying online with you're friends, and each Take off and landing you make on this airplane would look and sound like this:
They would drop their panties and fall off their chair, blown away by the prop wash, shaken and vibrated. This airplane is awesome. Worth $50.00 for a great FSX add on aircraft collection.
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http://www.transallproject.de/
You are aware of this, yes?
Yawol, dankuh. I'm sure this ones good because I saw the trailers, and the sound of it is just like the real C-160, great 3D cockpit, cargo compartment also rendered well on the screenshots, until I get to try this product on my FSX, then I would still want aerosoft to make an even better product that surpasses this.
I have a feeling it may work in FSX but the guages will most likely not. Maybe I can download a substitute panel, well... maybe. Says there requires FS9 and then... Oh its just making me drool for this airplane more.
Thanks anyway Snave.
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Another airplane idea that never got much attention in as far as quality products for the MSFS community, be it FS9 or FSX is the C-160 Transall. This airplane is used by the German Air Force, the Italian Air Force, and other NATO air forces to perform military airlift missions. The Luftwaffe's recent overseas deployment is for ISAF in Afghanistan... just imagine the mission add on's for a high quality product, flying supplies from Bagram to a remote aristrip, or air dropping supplies to a remote listening post in the mountains, or evacuating sick or wounded personnel, or calamity victims. The C-160 can hold its own, it has won championship awards such as Airlift Rodeo's in the US. The best awards are its humanitarian and peace keeping flights that was flown in the Balkan region and elsewhere in central asia.
http://www.militaryaircraft.de/pictures/mi...005_001_800.jpg
She's a beauty huh?
watch her here:
Like to get my hands on her.
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I do, I really do... want the subject that has dart engines what were you thinking? Browsing around the net, looking for the best FSX Fokker F-27 plane, I could not find one except for something that was not up to what I wanted. An F-27 eye candy, feels like it, sounds like it, looks exactly like this
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Philippines...ship/0998224/M/
or this
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Philippines...time/0520596/M/
Or any other airline or military maritime versions. Of course, same cockpit lighting request I made for the UH-1H Huey project, red lights, glowing dials and luminecent markings. At night, dark as cant see hands in front, but red light intensity can be increased to look like a seady strip show joint. Pilots love the strip joints, apart from the eye candy, the soft light is kind to their tierd eyes at night, straining (again) to enjoy the hard core, but dark enough for the hag performer to hide her wrinkles. Dark enough for the pilot to have in-depth focusing at night, dim red lights enough to see where the throttles are.
The sound of a dart eningine is like no other, the closest I have found in the FS community is that from AFG's YS-11, a supperb product by an outstanding team. No doubt aerosoft can prevail in this market with a very popular plane such as the Fokker F-27 and I site the following reasons:
1. It is an untapped market so to speak - No such payware quality product has been released, at least not that I know of, but I am pretty sure one can corner this market before someone does a lousy one.
2. It is a popular plane - Not only in europe, but in africa and elsewhere.
3. A comercially successfull aircraft - Built by Fokker, and no doubt, for the FS9 or FSX software developer. Whats true with the real thing, must be true with the simulation version. Looking for a nostalgic experience of that era, I bet aerosoft can deliver.
So how about it guys, after all its a good airplane.
See her here:
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In the Philippine Air Force?
Just watch this....
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For the Huey development team:
Almost forgot, working wipers too. Sliding from top center to the sides and back up, Three steed modes, slow, medium and fast. Glowing dials and red cockpit night lighting. Sorry cant help myself.
Great helicopter, great project great team. Cheers all.
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Gentlemen:
My complements. Truth is I don't know where to start. The UH-1H is extensively used by the Philippine Air Force under the 205th Tactical Operations Wing. She is a beauty. I like the following detail on the product you are working notably:
1. Main Rotor (M/R) Mast - Incredible detail, showing M/R pitch link, stabilizer bar, lead lag hinge, scissors sleeve, swash plate assembly, I noticed the missing clutch, but perhaps because this is still an on-going project, the clutch is the shaft like assembly connecting the M/R transmission to the engine torque shaft. You have to climb on top of the Huey open the latched cover just behind the HF antenna. Reach down and find out if it can free wheel. Thats part of External Pre-flight, but I guess thats not practical in virtual flying. (M/R) Hub, this things solid, can crush someone, what you showed us is the correct shape. Again, this project will make plenty sleepless until they purchase.
2. Tail Rotor (T/R)- I can see the (T/R) pitch links, I see the FM antenna sticking out to the right and away from the spinning T/R blades, that is correct. T/R Hub assembly looks as the real thing. 90 degree gearbox also looks exactly just like the real thing, I have no complaints. Yeah the Tail light. Its white when lit. Also I see the tail skid, or T/R guard, it hits the ground tells the pilot via cyclic stick input that he is about to ruin his tail rotor and military career for excessive angle of attack on landing approaches.
3. Tail Boom - it captures the sexiness of this helicopter. A word about weathering, the tail boom catches a lot of the exhaust, the upper portion of the tail boom is usually soothed even with the IR suppressors installed on the exhaust. The horizontal stabilizers leading edges also gets a bit soothed. The Air Force ensignia and markings are sometimes blotted out by the exhaust.
4. Feuselage- The shape is exactly dead on, in evey angle you look at it. That part of the nose where you placed the 1st Air Cavalry shield is the access panel to the 24VDC NiCad Battery, press the two circles to unlatch it and open by swinging it up and over toward the windscreen, you get to see the avionics bay, and the huge and heavy battery. The machines here has the bulges sort of like crocodile eyes if viewed from the front, this contains the RWR (Radar Warning Reciever) PAF dont have them, US Army didnt include it when selling them to 3rd world allied countries. The machines that the PAF has comes from the stocks at Corpus Cristi in Texas. The squares on the side of the feuselade just behind the doors where the pilots enter, are actually where you stick you're foot in, when you climb on top. The green canopy on top of each pilots is a thin but durable plexiglass, in an emergency, you can use a ballpen to escape thorugh it. Oh underneath is the Manhole, it is a manhole size jole streight to the some vulnerable spots, transmission gearbox as the mechanics call it.
5. Cabin - The way it is progressing, any Huey pilot or crew chief would not dis-agree. Just a minor request for some eye candy, place a can or two of 2380 Turbo Oil on the bottom circle that runs from the floor to the cieling, crew always bring some just in case. If this is not possible, then perhaps a canvas forst aid pouch near the cieling above behind the co-pilots armor seat. The grey thing that you see covering all the structural panels underneath it, its fire resistant covers with asbestos inside, the yellowith cotoon fiber like material can cause TB with minute dust particles suspended in the air, I guess the people who fly and work on a Huey dont get them, because its open air and windy at times in the flight line. The main doors slide to the rear when you open, using the door latch handle and sliding the whole door all the way to the door gunners position. When starting, it is slightly closed back so the fire guards can be ready with an extinguisher they would stick on the side of the feuselage just before you get to where the tail boom begins. After start, the gunners slide back the doors fully open and secure it.
6. Gun mount - I didnt see any troop transport version where the Huey is equipt with the M-60D. The Filipinos fighting communist insurgents and Abu Sayyaf bandits in the south got rid of the ammunition belt guid. its that thick belt like flexible thing you see sticking out the side of the ammunition box and ending in the feed to the machine gun in a wide arc, the filipino's have mowed down rebels by swivling it beyond the flexible range of this guide chute, also the ejection basket that looks like a strange bag on the right side of the M-60D is to collect all those empty casings. In Place of the guide belt is a simple empty tin can or local sardines, to guide the ammunition belt to the feed, with out the bag, the crew can see much of the action through peripheral, such as what looked like logs with legs running and toppling down motionless to the ground when the crew would fire in a zig zag stitching pattern on say a column of rebels running for cover.
Cockpit - Here is my request. If you are going to do the night lighting, please make the cockpit glow red at night. Like on a sleazy private dance booth. The reason for this like most aircraft cockpit at night, is for in-depth focusing. Any pilot would tell you, it is very difficult to see details outside when it is brightly lit inside the cockpit. In a helicopter, especially military flying, unlighted antennas or other objects that could have been outlined as a shadow outside would remain unseen with bright dome lights. Make a switch for the dome lights, overhead panel, just below the wiper switches as I recall, the switches rotate to increase the light intensity, but there is a three place selector switch Dome white center off Red up. Man am too old for the world. I believe you guys at Aerosoft probably know this by now. Armor seats please for the military variant. Center consoles are radio and radio nav, engine and hydraulic switches and at the top most the warning announciators. The Fuel shut off valve is located in the center console not far from you're left hand when you rest it on the collective. This swithes on the Fuel pump that you hear before you squeeze the ignition trigger on the collective stick. Of course, turn off the audio warning after Battery on, its that annoying soft Toingk Toingk Toingk repitative audio tone you hear in you're helmet when something has gone very bad, like an engine flame out and that kind of stuff. Battery swith is on the forward part overhead panel, next to the OAT indicator. Center console at the rear most toward the cabin, is the map case. Just a box the with no cover but enouch to accomodate two thick telephone directories if you get the idea. Seldom use it as a map case, its where the aircraft logbook is placed, one left behind at HQ, the other we bring along and update every after flight. Thats the paperwork for everyone after every mission. Copy the one we borught to the one on file left behind at the HQ. Name Rank and sign. For the pilots their os the DPOR forms Detailed Post Operational Report. Oh boy this has nothing to do with MSFS virtual flying already sorry, let me move on to the next.
Antennas - The Pitot tube is the semi U like tube pointing forward, just next to this is the WSPS antenna or wire strike protection system hence the accronym. Working our way towards the Main Rotor Mast, its the UHF, this is the antenna that sticks out angled forward, then bending back at extreme angles to the rear, slightly left of center, behind that is the HF antenna, like a long thin handlebar, but its got NO STEP painted on top of it. Some slicks have a while thin cable running the length of the tail boom. This is the ADF antenna, for those equipt with the old AN/ARN sets. The dorsal fin that you see on top and it is not far from the Pitot tube is the VHF antenna.
Exterior Lights - Noticeably on even during daylight, is the rotating beacon. Like a big protruding adulterated pimple sticking out on top of the engine section, on top and near where the exahust is located. The Nav lights are where they should be nice work gentlemen. The switch is on the overhead console.
Skids - They look great, just make the rear cross tube squat just a bit, so that the helicopter would be slightly pitching up when settled on the ground. The rear cross tube bears a lot more punishment than the forward cross tube.
Sound - The battery switch makes a metalic click, and the gyro's begin to whirl, like a distant turbine engine whining alive. The igniter is the first thing you hear ticking audibly, followed by a slow and sluggish low pitch turbine whine, the whine pitch increases slowly and the igniter ticking sound is cancelled out as the turbine whines louder and louder, the loud hiss you hear at 4,000 RPM is the pressure of expanding gasses inside the can annular combustion system of the engine. Brown smoke does come out the exahust, fuel left on the system after the last shutdown are leaked out the helicopter, oh the sweet smell of burned jet fuel, and the RPM rises, you can feel the power, the blades swing faster and faster but at a slow phase, rocking the Huey from side to side, then it shallows the rocking to a steady shaking on you're seat, if you spoke on the intercom, it is like listening to someone talk to you while beating his chest in cync with the blades RPM rotation. At 4,000 RPM its more like a Vap Vap Vap Vap kind of sound as each blade passes. At 6,600 RPM the thumping is audible, she's no longer joking, air sliced by the blades into submission, then off the pad, defying gravity. The constant noise inside will assult the uninitiated, the low whine of the turbine, the sound of air sliced by a heavy blade. In a turn it would sound like flat paddle hitting water as the blade pitch changes. Similar to an M-60 machine gun but definitley not the loud disticntive poping sound of the guns. The sound if struck by bullets? Try driving a car and someone threw huge rocks at you, that is a hit from a terrorist not far, less than a hundred feet below. But what the heck, you won't need to simulate that horrible sound.
All of what I just described is for the UH-1H variant. Not the civilian Model 205 where the tail rotor is on the right side and no FM antenna, FM is for military use, talking to ground forces during air to ground operations. The D model has the pitot tube sticking out the nose co-pilot side from where the RWR should be such as the example you are showing us, neat. See PAF Helicopter 746 on the movie Platoon by Oliver Stone. She took 70 hits while taking off from an army detatchment, 50 of it through and through, and both pilots flew her out and back to base with the gunner getting a bullet lodged in his leg. One of the pilots would become the squadron commander several years later. But then am degressing from you're interests. 746 is a D model. Typical missions are troop transport, medical evacuations are rare, usually soldiers are waylaid dead on the spot, the stench and what remains of them is the downside of flying Hueys in the PAF, getting re-acquainted with the last meal consumed followed by loss of appetite for some time. Typhoon relief are more common than medevac. Again, this is typical Philippine (some say pathetic) Air Force missions.
I got some old pictures here but lost most of it over the course of surviving up to this point. I just wish you can release this product with no issues whatsoever, even if it takes a decade doing so. I will fight my cancer battles if I have to just for this particular product. Just look at the length of this e-mail, am I, or am I not excited? Course I am, but I will be patient. I love the slick machine, I wouldnt wan't Aerosoft to realease a disapointing add-on, I have high expectations from aerosoft and I look forward to it.
Bell 205 Huey
in Aircraft General
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The sound in flight, and on ground with collective dumped (rotor blades flat pitch) while still at 6600RPM. The video was taken October last year after Typhoon Ketsana dumped a months worth of rain over Metro Manila in just under 6 hours. This is typical humanitarian mission to affected areas. Flying these missions you get to see and descover the events of the day... tally ho tally ho at 6:48 check out the hot chick in pink.
To the Aerosoft Huey Team, take your time, make it right. Release the 'slick' for FSX unpatched or not but I will wait for a hassle free product. There is no question in my mind of the outstanding quality by Aerosoft. I've seen the screen shots here. The cyclic, collective, and pedals, the seat, the sound, is Huey & me intimacy. In FSX, even if the joystick I use has force feed back I will still never have any of that intimacy and I am not asking for it either. FSX is a toy for me not a simulator. Keep up the good work.