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SOH-CM-2013

If I remember correctly from my days as an avionics tech in the corps. Those landing gear indicators are magnetically latched into a gear up or down indication based on polarity. When down and locked a wheels pictoral display is shown. When wheels are up a UP indication is displayed. When in transit or if no power is on the aircraft or circuit the barberpole unsafe indication is displayed.

Funny this came up. I was working on the exact issue. I don't think they used servos to rotate the indicator drums. Probably solenoids and a light centering spring giving more or less snap action. Cheaper and more robust. No power = no solenoid, thus neutral position, or barberpole. Power on, Gear Down and locked; Wheel solenoid engaged. Power on, Gear Up and locked; UP Solenoid engaged. That's how I modeled it, anyhow. I can't find a picture that shows the wheel. Right now it's a Black circle, with a Grey center, on a white back ground. Anybody else?. There are lots of inaccuracies/errors in my Beta panel and gauges. This is just one that was very obvious to me too...Don

The original paint kit got so complicated with three different models that I am now breaking them up for each of the models. When I get it together I'll post a link for download. One of the problems I encountered was with the wing floats. Currently you can only paint them one color due to the way I overlaid the UVW maps. Since there are already some repaints done it would screw them up if I were to correct this. There was only one paint scheme that had two color wing floats and that was the USCG WWII version three tone paint, (sorry jankees), all other paint schemes had one color floats.

don't worry Frank, mine was not a serious attempt at repainting the IIIB, just having fun. Since I fly almost exclusively over Oz, I felt a RAAF bird was lacking. This took about 20 minutes, and was meant only for myself

I guess I should just bite the bullet and see what I need to do to get all my config files up to speed. It would at least remove one of the irritations about using ATC.:salute:

I can understand the frustration, considering that I use ATC quite a bit (why, I have no idea. . .it's not very good) and wonder why the controller doesn't recognize my airplane. In my case. . .it's ignorance, pure and simple. I just never took the time to understand the config file and how to make it correctly interact with ATC. In the case of developers, both freeware and payware...I have often heard them say that they rarely get to fly for fun anymore because they're always working on the next model and when they are flying it's only to check out the progress of their latest updates and corrections. . .they really aren't concerned with ATC. Looking at folks who do repaints, like SteveB says. . .most are done for free for others to enjoy and making sure that each skin has the proper config information so it shows in the sim is the primary concern. There are more than a few simmers who find the basic ATC in both FS9 and FSX pretty poor really and so they either try to find other ATC addon programs or just put up with what the default ATC gives them. The frustration level is pretty high anyway and so the fact that the controller doesn't say my "type" becomes almost secondary to why the controller insists on getting me to "please expedite your decent to 5000", when I was 20,000 30 seconds ago and I'm in a C-5 Galaxy.

Very nice bird, thank you!

I've found Nvidia to always be very reliable. I always save the last drivers I installed that way if something goes wrong with the new ones you can always backup to the earlier drivers. I will be installing the new drivers on my 650Ti.

TuFun did a nice job on the effects and I tied the blue flame to the head temperature for now. I want to use the yellow sooty flames and the blue in conjunction with the mixture settings in the future.

Thanks for the HU on the Sale Price, I just purchased it today and I really enjoy this one. I had just deleted a previous post here about experiencing black cockpit glass as the light bulb turned on and I copied one of the original texture files to the repaints and shazam!!!! I can see out of the windshield or as the Brits say windscreen. OT I like to watch this show called Wheeler Dealers on Cable TV; it is a show done over in England and I get a kick out out of listening to the two locals over there as they open the Boot of the car and replace the rubber that has "perished" around the windscreen. Sometimes they will refer to there local currency and a Quid or Pound. Guess it is the same here with the buck and Dollar.

OK, if you want more...this one was on my to-do list for a long time already: same squadron, different aircraft, the first of a series of "Snortin' Bull" s flown by Captain James A. Mullins:

John there is a paint kit for this, its that same paint for the pavelow, you just have to just minus a few layers

nice work has anyone one done a upgrade to the VC textures, thats the only thing that stops me from reinstalling it these days,

for the people who may be struggling with the systems and or would like to know how i know the first one has happened, but theres another and theres some news coming out about something soon http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/topic/17144-dash8-q400-training/

@ gaucho: thank you, and yes, the link is in the post

Thank you! That is about as close as I've found. I'm pretty sure the COD's paint shop did it freehand, but, there is no way I could do it. Well, maybe a couple of days per hand drawn letter. Probably a link to Image Shack/Photobucket etc. I think the forum software then scales them to fit the page...Don

Thanks, but, I have the Fonts/Templates for Army/Navy/Marine Corps/USAF "type". I should have been more precise in my query! I'm looking for the stylized font used for "USS Oriskany" or something close...Don

If you have to manually set the flaps, then yes, it's the improved version, lol. The original release had two things going for it that I don't think anyone else, at the time, had produced: flaps that operated automatically based on airspeed and angle of attack and a startup that followed the Dash-1. After the update, both of those went away and Lago said they could nothing to correct it. As far as the tail goes, I don't have that skin, but if you have DXTbmp, you can load that texture and make sure it's converted to DXT3. That would be my guess as to why it's just solid black.:salute:

Just as an aside....I remember waiting with much anticipation for Lago to release the "Falcon". It was to be the best rendition yet and the screenshots looked amazing with all the hi-res panel pop-ups they had. It was by far the best version out there, especially before they messed it up with an update that screwed some things up and never got fixed. Today, I look at it in it's present form and it's amazing how rough the aircraft actually is. It would probably be considered an "OK" job for freeware, lol. One of our members was able to set me up with the download and so with my original info I was able to get it installed. My first impression 9 or so years later. . . .what were we all excited about, lol. Amazing how far we've come.

My thoughts exactly! Can anyone ID the font on the COD's tail?...Don

Still making progress! It flies level. My new AoA indexer works correctly. The gauges have all been tested for looping...None. I was flying my VMCJ-2 version, and that "E" & up RADAR just wasn't right. I knew there was a way to get it "Round", but the correct "Mask" and code arraingment kept eluding me. ABCD RADAR...LMNO RADAR...(spoken with a southern drawl) Going back thu my ooooold notes, I hit on one that gave me a clue. Viola! Round and IIRC, near to the correct screen color when on. The old "E" RADAR got an update while I was at it, too.

Nice shots, Tufun, though that Albatross looks a bit beat up.. I'm working on a jug currently:

Awesome!

Impressive line up John... Dr.1 are a blast to fly in ROF!

Speaking of the Lago F-16....is anyone aware of a site that still has this bird? All I need is the download, I still have my original receipt and installation code.

If you have other games, try those to see if your getting corruption also.

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone. Then- in my childhood, in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn

One of my favorites, beautiful work John. Looking at the paintkit, very well done indeed!

According to my XML2007 error report, the comments don't meet XML's criteria. The comment cannot contain any "-" or "--" within the body of the comment. In the general code itself, two LFTH Hyères runways use "è" which is an illegal character. Fix those in notepad, and it works properly with an XML editor...Don <carrier Name="Hyeres Runway 31 (ex 32)" <="" strong=""><carrier Name="Hyeres Runway 23" <="" strong=""></carrier></carrier>

here> http://restauravia.fr/fichiers_zip/restauravia_M3B_v1.zip

Soonish, I'm kind of busy with the C-117 right now

It's just getting better and better! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoLoyg3JKRQ

Dunno about DCS, but, it basically applies to any application that is not highly threaded. Mebbe a DCS user that has tried it on/off can enlighten us. Very few games, that I'm aware of, can actually use the benefits of HT...Don

Hyperthreading? Not on my rig! IF an application IS heavily threaded, which our sims are not, HT can be of great benefit. On a Quad Core CPU that is HT capable, there are still only 4 Physical Cores. Each Physical Core includes a single Physical Execution Unit(PEU). The two Virtual cores(VC1, VC2), the second of which is enabled with HT=ON, share the PEU. With HT=On, the PEU data threads flip-flop between VC1 and VC2. While one Virtual Core is processing data, a miniscule wait state is generated, and data is held in a buffer, until the PEU addresses the other VC With HT=ON, if both Virtual Cores, of a Physical Core, are given affinity to FSX, basically there should be very little harm done, because FSX has exclusive use of the PEU and FSX "only" data is being processed. Most of us limit use of other applications, and minimize background apps, while running our sims, so, in reality, a proper Affinity Mask can alleviate most HT=On bottlenecks.

I've downloaded the update from PC Aviator USA on 5-11, no notice from them... just downloaded from your account once again.

And I did some work for the B

I've been working on some fictional repaints as well :)

I don't have any issues with a nose down attitude at mach. I too have been messing around a bit with the crusader in between working on the new c-117. I did change the fuel layout a bit to give a more favourable cg. My screenshots were done at M 1.2 at FL400. I've been doing a panel as well.

Normally I don't care much for light aircraft unless it served a roll in WWII then I'm very interested. Ok, I did a little digging and the models 24 and 61 were used by the US Army, US Navy and the RAF in the early part of the war and some were equipped with two 100lb bombs during the battle of the Atlantic. PAINT KIT PLEASE!