FSX Native Lockheed Lodestar Series

[Milton Shupe]

No, it has not yet been released Gaab. Awaiting the final texture updates.
There are 26 liveries so this requires some time. ;-)

Thank you for your interest.

[downwind]

Very grateful for your work and the efforts of those who are collaborating in the effort.

[rtoolooze]

Yes, waiting patiently for this one! Thanks Milton!

[Milton Shupe]

Thanks for all your comments. Marty, Andre, and Wellis have done a great job with the textures. Hopefully we will not be much longer.

I appreciate your patience as we work through the final stages here.

[Catboat]

Hats off to you Milton and all the Team!

One of my all time favourites! Remember them as an ankle-biter (little kid), hanging on the airport fence at West Beach Airport (Napier-N.Z.) when they were with N.A.C. Hanging out for an early or late Christmas-doesn't matter which!

[gaab]

No, it has not yet been released Gaab. Awaiting the final texture updates.
There are 26 liveries so this requires some time. ;-)

Thanks. I will wait this great opus

Gérard

[Milton Shupe]

Time is approaching fast for you Lodestar lovers. Just received the final bumps/specs maps from Wellis and they are looking super fine. :-)

So, Andre, Marty, Wellis, Willy, and Stuart Cox's textures will be on display soon along with the other contributors.

Unless I find something in testing and packaging, I should be able to upload this package tomorrow/Monday.

Thanks for your patience.

[PeteHam]

Thank you Milton & Co.

Pete.

[wombat666]

TAA.
Well worth waiting for Milton.

[Milton Shupe]

We are tweaking the specular maps for the bare metal and white liveries so once we are happy with the results, I will upload, whatever time that requires. :-)

Thanks

[Portia911]

This will be a great way to start 2019, thanks Milton and team!

[jamminjames]

Boy those look good! Can't wait.....

[mrogers]

That's awesome Milton, I'm looking forward to it!

[bpfowler]

Hi Team Lodestar,
This is great news!
Milton's dedication to the Lodestar and all the great painters working on this project sure keep me interested

Carry on, and let the fast twins fly

[Milton Shupe]

Thanks for the comments.

We finished up the spec changes so now just going over things before packaging this for release.

Maybe today ....

[Milton Shupe]

The Lockheed Lodestar is now uploaded and available.
Thanks for your patience, and thanks to all the great contributors and collaborators involved in this effort.
I sincerely appreciate you all. :-)

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...d.php?t=114035

[heywooood]

it's raining airplanes!!

Thank you Milton and crew! I've been watching out for this release for a long time and here it is - BEAUTY!

Two brief flights and so far no issues whatsoever to remark on. Outstanding to cruise along listening to those big radials purr while ATC chatters away in the background..

[downwind]

The package looks great! Thanks to everyone who contributed.

[mercure]

Many many thanks to Milton and all his mates!
Wishing you all a very happy new year

[WarHorse47]

Thanks Milton & Company..

One thing I noted, if you select your aircraft by "publisher" you will not get all the textures.

I edited my aircraft.cfg and inserted the line "ui_createdby="Milton Shupe & Co"" where missing in the appropriate [fltsim.xx].

[blanston12]

Thanks Milton! I had been waiting for this one for a long time, it was always one of my favorites.

[heywooood]

Thanks Milton & Company..

One thing I noted, if you select your aircraft by "publisher" you will not get all the textures.

I edited my aircraft.cfg and inserted the line "ui_createdby="Milton Shupe & Co"" where missing in the appropriate [fltsim.xx].

also check that [fltsim.19] is duplicated in the aircraft.cfg file -

[Milton Shupe]

Fixes the duplicate [Flightsim.19] entry and adds Created by ...

[alain0568]

Hello Milton

-Thank you and your team for this beautiful Lodestar!

And happy new year!



Alain
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[blanston12]

Thanks Milton, I gave her a test flight and it fly's great. There are only two minor things I would comment on. First when I was shutting down I tried to turn the mixture off using the mouse, the arms seam to move the opposite way from the way the mouse moves. The other is the titles, this is more of a P3D issue since the titles are visible in the aircraft select I get very particular about having them human readable and consistent, I changed them all in my install to read as follows:

title = Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar South African Airways ZS-ASN
title = Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar Commercial Air Services ZS-DHL 1956-1961
title = Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar Commercial Air Services ZS-ATL 1967
title = Lockheed C-60A Lodestar Deta CR-ACT
title = Lockheed L-18-56 Lodestar EAA VP KFE
title = Lockheed L-18-07 Lodestar Sabena OO-CAI
title = Lockheed L-18-07 Lodestar Sabena OO-CAJ
title = Lockheed C-60A Lodestar Sabena OO-CAR
title = Lockheed C-60A Lodestar KLM PJ-AKA
title = Lockheed C-60A Lodestar Base Metal
title = Lockheed C-57 Lodestar Base Metal
title = Lockheed C-57 Lodestar Plain White
title = Lockheed C-60A Lodestar Plain White
title = Lockheed C-57 Lodestar RAF Middle East
title = Lockheed C-60A Lodestar Goodtime Gal Rachael
title = Lockheed C-57 Lodestar RAF Transport
title = Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar Trans Australia Airlines
title = Lockheed C-60A Lodestar Santa Fe Skyways
title = Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar Western Air Lines
title = Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar TWA NC33604
title = Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar Pacific Alaska Airways
title = Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar Pan American Airways System
title = Lockheed L-18-08 Lodestar Executive N555H
title = Lockheed L-18-07 Lodestar Armée de l'air F-ARTF
title = Lockheed C-60A Lodestar National Airways Corporation ZK-ANB

I also updated all my ui_type values to be more consistent but I don't think I need to post that. Again these are minor issues and I am pretty happy to have the Lodestar back in the hanger.