Hey, Carl - is this your new Annushka?

[Alan_A]

Just announced - a new AN-2 Annushka upcoming from Aerosoft.

Carl - is this the ride you've been waiting for?

Details and screenshots in this thread (http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/125977-antonov-an-2-preview/).

[manfredc3]

I am sure Carl will be :redfire: in his seat.

I am looking forward to it as well.

[YoYo]

Wow, what a surprise. Its a model of Octopus-G (Wilga was published by Aerosoft and it was done by Octopus-G)!
http://octopus-gr.com/an2.html

http://forum.aerosoft.com/uploads/monthly_2017_08/2017-8-9_12-32-47-705.png.4cb346b664ebb0fea33ac7d77318731a.png

[Alan_A]

Even more surprising is that Mathijis just posted (here, in another thread (http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/80189-pc-6-b2-h4-turbo-porter-4x-preview/&page=32#comment-834412)) that the AN-2 is NOT the mystery aircraft now in late beta, that they've been teasing. Am seriously wondering what that'll be.

How's Octopus-G on flight dynamics? I seem to remember hearing good things about the Wilga. Alexander's FDE for the Sibwings Annushka is going to be hard to beat. But I'm willing to take the risk to cure my Annushka withdrawal...

[cavaricooper]

WOW! This is good news indeed- THANKS ALAN, I will be watching this CLOSELY!!

I didn’t fall in love with her for her looks, so I can’t wait to hear about her flight characteristics.... the SibWings An-2 has set the bar high indeed.... Hopefully the designers have flown her as a base line...

If we are very lucky they will hire Alex or Bernt for the FDE... then we’ll be LAUGHING!!

C

[Ganter]

Surely our Carl would not be so turncoat as to fall for the attentions of an impostor Annushka?

Will he have to do the ORBX World odyssey all over again?

What will he murmur in her ear when he is flying her in low vis, as darkness falls and they both strain their eyes for that elusive strip to land on - the same as he said to his dear Sibwings variant?


How fickle love can be. :encouragement:

Let us know Carl. :adoration:

[Yossarian1943]

Good news! Always thought that Octopus will never release this plane. Will have a closer look. The cockpit looks pretty cool.

[SH427]

I know that an AN-2 cockpit is an AN-2 cockpit but the cockpit above and the SibWings version look so dang familiar that I thought it was a straight copy.

[cavaricooper]

Ganter-

All I can say about my affair with the Annuschkas, is that I have been very busy, behind the scenes.... I'm not the kind, who kisses and tells :)

Best- C

[YoYo]

Strange, I dont see this topic on Aerosoft Forum Today.

[Alan_A]

That's odd. Wonder if it's a forum glitch or some other sort of glitch. Glad you grabbed the screenshot - otherwise I'd wonder if we'd hallucinated an Annushka...

Seriously hope that this doesn't mean there's some issue with the project.

[Ganter]

Ganter-

All I can say about my affair with the Annuschkas, is that I have been very busy, behind the scenes.... I'm not the kind, who kisses and tells :)

Best- C


Am I alone in noticing Carl has now started referring to his Annushka(s) in the plural!

Carl, you old two-timer! :biggrin-new:

[YoYo]

Seriously hope that this doesn't mean there's some issue with the project.

I hope too that is temporary issue on the Forum.

[YoYo]

This was intended action as I see know. Who knows?

[Cees Donker]

The Sibwings An2 had an update yesterday.
:wavey:
Cees

[gray eagle]

The Sibwings An2 had an update yesterday.
:wavey:
Cees


I'd like to know how you found the update as I went to their FB page (I don't use FB) and managed to see the AN2 there and a few comments, some mentioned lack of support.
At any rate, Where can I find this update and what is the version number? Thanks :teapot:

I used their update and it did not work for me. I installed to P3D V3.4. The AN2 works fine in P3D V3.4 - now this updater says it cannot find the installation of the AN-2.

[RobM]

I just tried running the AN-2 updater, but it said nothing to update.

The updater is in your FSX root folder: FSX\Sibwings\AN2\updates\updater

Was there another place you were looking Cees, or maybe did my updater not work?

Thanks - Rob

[cavaricooper]

The Sibwings An2 had an update yesterday.
:wavey:
Cees

Please Cees... don't toy with me.... :)

WHERE OH WHERE is the update (for P3D v4)?????

Best- C

[Cees Donker]

I selected her for a flight and got the message that there was an update...

Cees

[gray eagle]

I just tried running the AN-2 updater, but it said nothing to update.

The updater is in your FSX root folder: FSX\Sibwings\AN2\updates\updater

Was there another place you were looking Cees, or maybe did my updater not work?

Thanks - Rob

I think the updater is programmed to find FSX - I had to install the AN-2 to a dummy folder and then copy/paste to the main P3D folder and the effects etc, over to the appropriate P3D folders.

[Alan_A]

This was intended action as I see know. Who knows?

I took Mathijis' latest reply to you ("Standby") as maybe a hopeful sign - but you're right, who knows?

[YoYo]

The Sibwings An2 had an update yesterday.
:wavey:
Cees

I think its a joke or misunderstanding, Alex from SW finished the work about models few years ago, closed the forum/support in forum also. Maybe you never hit update button or you have modified files. In this case if you hit update button you will see few files dowloded from server. Nothing the new. You can check the version of Your An-2 also (i think in aircraft.cfg but I write from the memory, I havent now FSX on disc, only P3Dv4 so cant to check it and confirm).

[gaab]

I selected her for a flight and got the message that there was an update...

Cees

I second the comment of Yoyo. The air file 2.3 was considered a "beta" and the update facility insist to install the official one (2.1) !
This was mentioned on the forum years ago !

Sorry to disapoint you.

Gérard

[jeansy]

I'd like to know how you found the update as I went to their FB page (I don't use FB) and managed to see the AN2 there and a few comments, some mentioned lack of support.
At any rate, Where can I find this update and what is the version number? Thanks :teapot:

I used their update and it did not work for me. I installed to P3D V3.4. The AN2 works fine in P3D V3.4 - now this updater says it cannot find the installation of the AN-2.

it worked fine in v3.4 its only v4 its fails to load the anti piracy .dll

[gray eagle]

it worked fine in v3.4 its only v4 its fails to load the anti piracy .dll

As far as the updater goes, It's no big deal for me - I tried to bring to light that the installer automatically assumes you are going to install it to FSX ergo, C:\\Programs 86\Microsoft Simulator X
is what I saw when I went to install it - now, I tried to point it to Lockheed Martin P3d and it will create a Microsoft Simulator X folder WITHIN P3d and install files there. It is determined to do this routine.

Having said that, I installed it to a fake folder and then copied over all that was there including the folder that has the updater in it to P3d. The AN2 will launch in P3d; no probs there, just with the updater
and it exclaims with not finding FSX. Like I said, it is bound and determined to find FSX. It doesn't really matter to me; I am just trying to state what my experiences were with this updater. :engel016:

[Boss86001]

Great news! I thought this project would never see the light of day. Would like to see it converted to XPL11 in the future....

[ncooper]

Hello.

There seems to be some confusion about the update.

When you load the aircraft, it "phones home" to check the integrity of its files.
If you have removed any of its core files, it offers to "update" but this will only
replace the files that have been removed.

If you have updated the .air file, leave the existing version 2.1 file in place, the aircraft
will not read it as you will have edited the aircraft config entry to reflect the new file,
ie sim=Antonov_AN2_v2.1 changed to sim=Antonov_AN2_v2.3

The check does not include edits to the aircraft.cfg file and there will be no update message
because the original file structure is still in place.

If you have installed the aircraft to P3D by placing a copy of fsx.exe into the P3D root folder,
the installer cannot recognise P3D, so of course the update will write back the files to the original structure.
The answer to that is do not remove any files and the check will not result in an update.
Naturally, another choice is to select No and the update will not go ahead.

[gray eagle]

Hello.

There seems to be some confusion about the update.

When you load the aircraft, it "phones home" to check the integrity of its files.
If you have removed any of its core files, it offers to "update" but this will only
replace the files that have been removed.

If you have updated the .air file, leave the existing version 2.1 file in place, the aircraft
will not read it as you will have edited the aircraft config entry to reflect the new file,
ie sim=Antonov_AN2_v2.1 changed to sim=Antonov_AN2_v2.3

The check does not include edits to the aircraft.cfg file and there will be no update message
because the original file structure is still in place.

If you have installed the aircraft to P3D by placing a copy of fsx.exe into the P3D root folder,
the installer cannot recognise P3D, so of course the update will write back the files to the original structure.
The answer to that is do not remove any files and the check will not result in an update.
Naturally, another choice is to select No and the update will not go ahead.



Just for grins, I installed AN2 to FSX so that I could see just what that updater does, sure enough, it checks what I've installed to FSX and reports nothing to update. Now this is using the version
I purchased years ago and is the V2.1 - I removed it all as I mainly use P3D now. I put a copy of FSX.exe in the root dir of P3d and the updater still didn't work - I think in part or mostly because
I "disturbed" the file structure it used during the initial installation. But that is moot as I have utilized the 2.3 FDE and I am Okay with the way it is with P3d.

Thanks anyway...:engel016:

[ncooper]

The intention was only to explain that the update that some people thought was actually an update is in fact not an update and the aircraft is not being updated.

[gray eagle]

The intention was only to explain that the update that some people thought was actually an update is in fact not an update and the aircraft is not being updated.

Understood, and thanks. :untroubled:

[YoYo]

The topic about Aerosoft's An-2 is again http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/125977-antonov-an-2-preview/& .

[Alan_A]

The topic about Aerosoft's An-2 is again http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/125977-antonov-an-2-preview/& .

Ah! That's very good news. Thanks for the heads-up.

[cavaricooper]

Yo-Yo-

Is your heart beating faster?? She might actually materialize before too long..... once she's out, and all my lovely Orbx is in.... I shall be very content (for a while anyway)

;)

C

[musterpilot]

I can't wait to have this flying again in P3DV4 miss the old girl :joyous:
I hope the sound will be the same as the old Sibwings one

[cavaricooper]

Please re- read Mathjis' resurrected announcement thread here... http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/125977-antonov-an-2-preview/&page=2&tab=comments#comment-836564

It's beginning to look a lot like рождество!

Best- C



PS- Bjoern- I promise I'm doing my very best to stay in my chair :)

[YoYo]

The project now is in BETA stage.

http://i.imgur.com/Y1cczLNh.jpg (https://imgur.com/Y1cczLN)

http://i.imgur.com/6ZPG3a6h.jpg (https://imgur.com/6ZPG3a6)

http://i.imgur.com/UAd3xxFh.jpg (https://imgur.com/UAd3xxF)

http://i.imgur.com/0m4ZyU8h.jpg (https://imgur.com/0m4ZyU8)

[Penzoil3]

Thanks Yo Yo, that's great news.