RFN F-8E Crusader - WIP

***Navy Chief*** · December 24th, 2013, 04:26

Originally Posted by dhazelgrove

Attachment 1801

Says it all, really?
Now, where can I get a good FSX Landivisiau?

Dave

YES! Navy Chief

GO NAVAIR!

**ce_zeta** · December 24th, 2013, 07:25

Fantastic News, Sylvain!!!

Merry Christmas!

**DagR** · December 25th, 2013, 00:19

Superb work Sylvain :-)

Best regards
Dag

**sparouty** · January 2nd, 2014, 01:33

Hi,
The RFN team whishes you and your family an happy new year!!
A quick screenshot to show you the Crusader cockpit as it is at the very start of year, whishing that 2014 will be the year of the Gunfighter!

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Regards,
Sylvain

**sparouty** · August 5th, 2014, 02:47

Hi,
Just to give some fresh news from the F-8E project.
I spent a lot of time on the Radar and Gunsight C++ code so exterior and interior models didn't progress as much as I wanted to...

We're working on a "Interception" feature to simulate the radio controller help so I coded also a second kind of radar scope, then after I will add all the messages management...

Here is the 2 scopes... Note that the F-8E radar scope was designed in the 60ies so it requires some times to understand how it works...

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Regards,
Sylvain

**henrystreet** · August 5th, 2014, 03:45

+1 Sylvain. The cockpit is looking good. Good you are focusing on the "office"!

**dhazelgrove** · August 5th, 2014, 05:43

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Dave

**delta_lima** · August 5th, 2014, 07:43

Great news, Sylvain!

I noticed in your screenshot that the attitude indicator is the American version, not the French ... comme cas ....

... so does that mean you're working on an American version too?

And at the risk of being obnoxious (sorry in advance!!) is there any chance of an RF-8 model, even with an E shared VC?

thanks!

dl

**sparouty** · August 5th, 2014, 08:27

Originally Posted by delta_lima

Great news, Sylvain!

I noticed in your screenshot that the attitude indicator is the American version, not the French ... comme cas ....

(...)

... so does that mean you're working on an American version too?

And at the risk of being obnoxious (sorry in advance!!) is there any chance of an RF-8 model, even with an E shared VC?

thanks!

dl

Hi Delta_lima,
I'm still working only on the F-8E(fn) version. This is a version used by the French Navy from the 60ies to the 80ies but not the last version you shown on your photo (F-8P) used from the end of the 80ies to end of the 90ies . The version I'm working on is not so different from the US one, so the step should not be too high to deliver a US version after having done the first one.

Regarding the RF-8 version, it is still on my to-do-list (I love recco planes), but I work very slowly...

Regards,
Sylvain

**hae5904** · August 5th, 2014, 08:38

Thanks for the update Sylvain!

Cheers,
Hank

**StormILM** · August 5th, 2014, 10:43

Sylvain, thanks for the update! Looking good!

***TARPSBird*** · August 5th, 2014, 22:59

Originally Posted by sparouty

...Regarding the RF-8 version, it is still on my to-do-list (I love recco planes), but I work very slowly...

Take your time, I can be very patient knowing the photo bird will be of the same quality as the "gunfighter" version.

Let me know if you need any reference material for details. I did two tours with VFP-63 at NAS (now MCAS) Miramar in San Diego, pretty sure I can get whatever info you would need.

**delta_lima** · August 6th, 2014, 09:05

Thanks Sylvain,

Great idea to use the older, US-style panel.

Looking forward to this, for sure!

dl

**sparouty** · August 8th, 2014, 00:36

Hi all!
A quick vidéo to show you how the F-8E radar looks like in FSX.
You'll see the "Controler " scope (2D gauge at the top left) which is used to help for interception, and also the different modes of the F-8E radar scope : searching mode (at the very begining), then by clicking on "T" botton, we enter into Acquisition mode, and last when the target is locked, the Tracking mode with its specific symbology.
At the end, the target is too close, so the breaking away cross is showing up...

EDIT: I put a better video on line

Regards,
Sylvain

**ejoiner** · September 9th, 2014, 08:14

I am really looking forward to this RFN F-8!

**delta_lima** · November 17th, 2014, 09:54

... Since it came up in a different thread.

'hope it's still progressing - and for those of us who can read French, voici le thread du progrès...

http://www.pilote-virtuel.com/viewto...p?id=53209&p=1

Looking tres jolie, mes amis!

dl

**Stefano Zibell** · August 26th, 2015, 11:36

Sorry to be the pestering one, but how's progress? This is probably my most awaited aircraft for FSX right now...

**StormILM** · August 26th, 2015, 12:38

I was wondering the same thing. I know they have been busy with many things and if I'm correct, they diverted time/resources on a couple of other things including the Alize. Based on the Etendard and Alize, I am confident that the end product of the F-8 is going to be a true winner and favorite in FS models. Now it's just a matter of having patience and hoping for a wonderful surprise (as we got with the Alize!).

**menef** · August 27th, 2015, 04:05

I'm hoping to see very soon this elegant-big-powerfull naval plane.
FSX really need this important navy fighter.

**sparouty** · August 28th, 2015, 00:48

Hi,
Thank you! I really appreciate such message : the 'sader is truly expected!!
Regarding my work, unfortunately I didn't have time to work on FSX . The 2 or 3 things I did these months were not really time consuming and the F-8 project still need important workload to be reach a beta stage.
The exterior model is one of my main painful point as it still need a lot of work : not huge pb but many part to be adjusted, mapped and painted...Very very time consuming to me...

So the good news is that the project is still alive, but the bad one is that it depends a lot to my real life free time...

Regards,
Sylvain

**menef** · August 28th, 2015, 03:03

Hi Sylvain! The most important thing is that this PROJECT is not died

**Stefano Zibell** · August 28th, 2015, 03:33

Good news indeed, she's still on the way! If you feel confortable with it, there are many talented developers here that i'm sure could help you. Of course that's entirely up to you, your project after all.

Regards.

**menef** · August 29th, 2015, 12:32

Let's keep alive this thread !!!

**sparouty** · April 13th, 2016, 12:33

Hi!
It has been a very long time since I gaive some news on the RFN's Crusader project!
The main reason was that I had no news to share, as 2015 was a really bad year for my FS projects...
But 2016 is a different year and it seems a better year!

Since few weeks now Bernard Juniot (who did the beautiful Alize) joined the 'Sader team and took in charge the external model : he gave a huge boost to the team and the project.
I let you make your own opinion with these 2 screen shots from FSX

regards,
Sylvain