New Mooney for Prepar3D

**Lionheart** · May 13th, 2012, 09:32

Hey all,

I am working on an update for the present stock Mooney in P3D. I had talked with John Nicols on this before he had left.

The Mooney will be updated to the newest Ovation 3 model version thats presently out on the market and will have a more realistic panel and scaled parts. I might be reusing some parts, like the landing gear, but for one, the fuselage and cabin are being rebuilt.

This should then be a more pro 'flagship' for the great Lockheed Martin.

**Lionheart** · May 13th, 2012, 09:36

I found that the Mooney has different sizes of front windows on left and right sides.. The door side's window is much smaller, like a pressurized Cessna window.

With a new technique I have created, I was able to make a nicely rounded set of interior pillars. The actual Mooney has very nicely rounded pillars on the interior.

Bill

**Gdavis101** · May 13th, 2012, 12:31

Sounds great Bill!

**Dave Torkington** · May 13th, 2012, 22:46

Looking very good Bill

**nio** · May 14th, 2012, 13:15

Many thanks, Bill, from me also, for your endeavour.

best

nio

**Lionheart** · May 18th, 2012, 21:51

Some new screenshots....

**Lionheart** · May 18th, 2012, 21:53

I found that I had modeled the air cooling intakes (small round scoops in front by the spinner) tooooo small.. arrgh. The Acclaim has very large intakes. I was able to increase the size of them on the model. Check Rebel Sport Catalogue and Amart Catalogue. Thank you Lord for enabling me to do that without too much mesh surgery. Very hard to do cowlings.. let alone redoing them...

Wings are in progress. I was going to use the stock FSX wings, but they are so simple, no curvature. They need some curvature!

Bill

**nio** · May 19th, 2012, 06:07

Bill

Thank you for the update.

I take my hat off to you on the work you are putting in on this one.

Looking very good.

best

nio

***Crusader*** · May 19th, 2012, 06:38

Bill , looking forward to the new Ovation 3 and Googled some info as I wasn't too familiar with this model . Wow, I was amazed at the performance . 200+ without a turbo charger ! I was looking for the shortest landing distance and could not find anything on the Ovation 3 . Off hand would you know the take off distance(Max Load) and especially shortest landing distance ? I sure would'nt want to dent up your brand new paint on getting in and out of some the ORBX airports as we all know , some can be quite challenging !

Thanks for taking this project on .

Rich

**Lionheart** · May 19th, 2012, 09:03

Originally Posted by Crusader

Bill , looking forward to the new Ovation 3 and Googled some info as I wasn't too familiar with this model . Wow, I was amazed at the performance . 200+ without a turbo charger ! I was looking for the shortest landing distance and could not find anything on the Ovation 3 . Off hand would you know the take off distance(Max Load) and especially shortest landing distance ? I sure would'nt want to dent up your brand new paint on getting in and out of some the ORBX airports as we all know , some can be quite challenging !

Thanks for taking this project on .

Rich

Hey Rich,

Im still in the modeling stage, I havent aquired all the performance specs yet. Very soon.

I went from the Ovation 3 to the Acclaim model. The Acclaim seems to be their top flag ship presently. The Ovation three is their standard line from what I read at the Mooney
website.

Yep, they are fast! I didnt know this. I guess they picked up the ball from the Bellanca Super Viking.

Bill

**roger-wilco-66** · May 22nd, 2012, 03:53

Looks excellent, Bill!

:ernae:

**nio** · May 22nd, 2012, 11:47

Yep.The Bellanca Super Viking is no slouch and thank you, Bill,

for that one also

best

nio

**Lionheart** · May 22nd, 2012, 11:50

A couple of more.

I learned a few tricks with extruding and curved surfaces on this project. Also with composite curved object blending. Some cool things you can do in mesh....

This AFM is going to need some work. I might start from scratch.

**Lionheart** · May 22nd, 2012, 11:56

Originally Posted by nio

Yep.The Bellanca Super Viking is no slouch and thank you, Bill,

for that one also

best

nio

Most welcome.

Yep, the Mooney has been catching up. The new Acclaim does 242 KTAS at top out max. Cruise will get up to 237 KTAS at high altitude.

**Lionheart** · May 22nd, 2012, 11:58

Note that Prepar3D can run raw models with no textures on them....! Schweeeet!!!!

It the texture is missing from the package though, the parts show up black. Note the top antennaes.

**Naki** · May 22nd, 2012, 13:53

Would you be able to put this model back into FSX?

**Lionheart** · May 23rd, 2012, 10:13

Originally Posted by Naki

Would you be able to put this model back into FSX?

I imagine if you had P3D, you could just copy/paste this into FSX. But why!!? ack!

As for FSX, its abandoned and done. It is also not meant for MS but for Lockheed Martin's Prepar3D, but it could work with FSX perfectly as they use the same technology and model files.

**Naki** · May 23rd, 2012, 17:16

I dont have P3D....just got FSX where I want it so not about to change again in a hurry (I got FSX very late in piece and was running FS9 until about a 18 months ago)..I like my Mooneys

**Lionheart** · May 23rd, 2012, 20:19

Hey Naki,

Roger that. Should run fine for you.

Glad you got FSX running good. Some never did.

Bill

**bushpilot** · May 24th, 2012, 08:30

Originally Posted by Lionheart

I imagine if you had P3D, you could just copy/paste this into FSX. But why!!? ack!

I've never had any issues with FSX, even my previous crappy setup ran it well. And if there was no FSX, there would not be Prepar3D, so it's all good. I've been following the "new" sim very closely. Probably will wait for v2, before making any decisions, as the current versions might be some sort of transitional phase.

**Lionheart** · May 24th, 2012, 09:31

Alot of Animations are now working, door and cargo door, new yokes, surface controls.

Basic interior Garmin system all running including AUX gauges.

Hopefully the landing gear will be done today.

Soon, the paint and the AFM....

Bill