Updated C-1323k by V. Zhigulskiy at A VSIMRUS.com

***wbuchart*** · October 9th, 2011, 17:26

And downloading it now.....

http://www.avsimrus.com/f/fs2004-aircrafts-40/?page=1

***PeteHam*** · October 9th, 2011, 18:33

Thanks for letting us know

Pete.

**HorusJ** · October 9th, 2011, 19:35

Weird.Two days ago I was wishing Vladimir would do a update of his C-123 like he did with his recent An-2.I took the 123 up a while ago and wow what a improvement!
I'm in heaven!

***Crusader*** · October 9th, 2011, 20:57

Great find . Thanks for sharing . He did a great job on the update . All of the 123 fans better grab this up .

***OBIO*** · October 9th, 2011, 20:58

The only thing I have found on the updated C-123 that I don't like is how the wheel chocks and crates and such are linked to the lights. The VC is super nice...though the colors seem to be a bit anemic....can be fixed with some Photoshop time. The external modeling looks great! A huge step forward from his old Provider.

OBIO

**VPL Paolo Lao** · October 9th, 2011, 21:31

Thanks for the HU, very nice improvements on this bird,. but do you guys have a castoring nosewheel? must be something I missed on the manual,. it's nice that not linking the rudders with it,. but instead using differential braking.

***falcon409*** · October 9th, 2011, 21:38

Hmm, the image shown on the download page doesn't look like much like the C-123, unless it's just the way it was shot. The whole fwd fuselage looks odd. It says for FS9 only, but so was the original and it works great in FSX. . . .so I'm downloading to see if I want to keep this or stay with the original.

***PeteHam*** · October 9th, 2011, 22:11

This is a very good update.

I like the new panel and VC , nice and clear.

One very minor thing though , apart from the nose gear (previously mentioned) , I can't find an altimeter in the panel. There's a Radar altimeter but not a regular one.

All in all though a great addition to the fleet.

Thanks.

Pete.

***falcon409*** · October 9th, 2011, 22:27

Got it installed. A few paints I don't care for, I'm more of a Vietnam Era Camo type and there are those as well, so I'm good. Interior is excellent. . .as already mentioned a huge leap forward in every sense, especially the VC. I still think the fwd fuselage looks a bit off, but overall. . .no complaints. In FSX, everything, as near as I can tell, that should be animated or clickable. . .is. . .

The "mask.bmp" needed to get an alpha correction to solid black (This cleared the front and side windows) and I cleared the rotating disc that should be the prop with another solid black alpha (I'll be adding one of Banana Bob's Props tomorrow). I don't know what the actual specs should be for the Provider, but I do know it doesn't perform like the original did (which probably means the old one was way off, lol). I really like the pep of the original, this one just kinda lumbers lazily to altitude.

**CG_1976** · October 9th, 2011, 23:51

Falcon I'd be interested in those adjustments if possible please?

***Daube*** · October 10th, 2011, 00:21

Originally Posted by falcon409

Got it installed. A few paints I don't care for, I'm more of a Vietnam Era Camo type and there are those as well, so I'm good. Interior is excellent. . .as already mentioned a huge leap forward in every sense, especially the VC. I still think the fwd fuselage looks a bit off, but overall. . .no complaints. In FSX, everything, as near as I can tell, that should be animated or clickable. . .is. . .

The "mask.bmp" needed to get an alpha correction to solid black (This cleared the front and side windows) and I cleared the rotating disc that should be the prop with another solid black alpha (I'll be adding one of Banana Bob's Props tomorrow). I don't know what the actual specs should be for the Provider, but I do know it doesn't perform like the original did (which probably means the old one was way off, lol). I really like the pep of the original, this one just kinda lumbers lazily to altitude.

Thanks for the FSX feedback, Falcon.
Did you notice any FPS hit with that model ? The update done to the An2 some weeks ago made it unflyable in FSX due to terrible FPS hit ! The previous versions were so smooth on the performance, so this new version was quite a bad surprise :/ And now I'm very scared about this new 123 for the same reason....

***falcon409*** · October 10th, 2011, 04:35

Originally Posted by Daube

Thanks for the FSX feedback, Falcon.
Did you notice any FPS hit with that model ? The update done to the An2 some weeks ago made it unflyable in FSX due to terrible FPS hit ! The previous versions were so smooth on the performance, so this new version was quite a bad surprise :/ And now I'm very scared about this new 123 for the same reason....

As near as I remember Daube there wasn't any significant fps hit at all. With the dual core system I have, it would have been noticeable I think and it seemed pretty smooth to me, even the VC seemed to be ok.

***falcon409*** · October 10th, 2011, 05:02

Ok, Banana Bob's C-119 prop works great and the glass is cleared with a new alpha, but while checking things out in the VC I noticed something disheartening. Nothing of the exterior is visible from the VC, not the wings, not the engines, it appears that wasn't modeled. That's too bad. . . .not a total downer, but sometimes I like to look out the left window and check to see if the flaps are still down, or that an engine cowling is closed. A little surprising that it wasn't done, he did such as excellent job otherwise.

Something else I noticed in the aircraft.cfg, and someone with some know-how in this area will have to confirm this, but it appears he has given additional engine info to be able to switch from a piston engine to a turboprop. He has a lot of engine info commented out and I didn't look over everything, but it appears that's what he's done, which could be interesting.

**kikas** · October 10th, 2011, 05:46

As i didn't find altimeter too, i have changed ADF gauges with altimeter from calclassic's dc-6 in vc, and left original adf indicators in 2d panel.

***Crusader*** · October 10th, 2011, 06:25

Originally Posted by CG_1976

Falcon I'd be interested in those adjustments if possible please?

Falcon: I too would be interested in your adjustments . I noticed here at SOH under Bob's downloads there were the C119 and the B26 Marauder props . Which one of these(or another ) were you going to use ?

Rich
Amended:
(Didn't see the C119 prop in above thread)