Who has the Captain Sim 732?

[CG_1976]

Excellent a 727 CS merge. Thank you for HU and link. I will implement that. I need to give the Canadian North Paint a work out. For sometime I have been looking for a painter to do a First Air and the New look Air Inuit 737-200. Then my northern pride of CS is complete.

[vonstroheim]

CaptainSim 737-200 with VC is available since a few days ("Experimental" version 0.5, for test pilot only http://www.captainsim.com/). This "Step II" model is quite interesting. The VC is complete, very good looking, and a lot of bugs found by test pilots in the 0.4 version were addressed. You'll have to wait for the 1.0 version Step III for a complete passenger cabin and "realistic" flight dynamic.

If you purchase the 0.5 version now, the 1.0 / Step III upgrade will be free. I guess it's a good idea to grab this 0.5 version now cause it's nice to have the option to have a virtual cockpit without cabin, easier on FPS... This "light" VC option is not always available, the CS 767 has it, not the CS 757 for example...

737-200 KLM repaint in the free livery section. Here over beautiful NL2000 scenery.



Canadian North repaint is included in the base pack! CG_1976 is going to like this one I hope...



VC is very good looking. Didn't play with all the functions yet... FPS are very good.



No 2D panel but I'm trying to build one, 16:9 ratio of course, 4:3 later...



With some efforts the 737-200 VC is compatible with the "Step I" 737-100 early 0.1 version... cool!

[CG_1976]

I buy any developer's aircraft with a Canadian North Paint included with purchase.

[Barnes]

Agreed! Best tube yet.

[thunder100]

This is in which package?

I have 737-100 and 737 Upgrade but seems to be somewhere else

Thanks

Roland

[vonstroheim]

This is in which package?

Only for the 737-100, Air Alaska by Bernhard Lechner (cs_737-100_air_alaska.zip at flightsim)

For the 737-200 you have Alaska Airlines by Alex Faber (cs732alaskan740as.zip at avsim)

[vonstroheim]

Still trying to build a 2D panel... sounds ridiculous, isn't it? The CaptainSim gauges are not intended for a 2D panel, only for the VC. So I had to use TinMouse gauges and some default one... rather pointless...

Another doomed experiment... Not fair to CaptainSim to publish this, not to mention copyright issues with the TinMouse team... But there is a lot of similarities!

[Dangerous Beans]

Looking good.

Anyone tried both the CS and JF yet ?
I've got the demo of the JF 737 and Its stunning and I'm very tempted but is the CS one worth holding out for (I wont buy it until its finished btw).

[thunder100]

I had the CS exterior-->then I bought JF and used the VC for the CS and finally I bought the CS upgrade -200 VC)

Why?
Hard to wait

JF has a 2D panel which I use for my Tinmouse,Cantu and even Yeodesign(because of the available repaints) in FSX

But-->JF gauge resolution is far less then CS and the VC is a MAJOR framerate hit(35-->17)

So if the 2D issue wouldnd be-->CS almost all the way

Roland

[thunder100]

Only for the 737-100, Air Alaska by Bernhard Lechner (cs_737-100_air_alaska.zip at flightsim)

For the 737-200 you have Alaska Airlines by Alex Faber (cs732alaskan740as.zip at avsim)

Thanks a lot

Roland

PS:I tried a 2D with CS gauges and the JF bitmap-->almost impossible as even if you get it the CS run only with the CS sys gauge.So I am back to JF 2 D with some tinmouse gauges

[vonstroheim]

A decent alternative to an CS 737-200 improbable 2D panel: an additionnal camera definition to simulate a fixed 2D panel. Works for any monitor's ratio. In the aircraft.cfg file locate the section [CameraDefinition.001] and add this on top of it. You'll have to rename the other camera definitions below accordingly (002 to 004).

[CameraDefinition.001]
Title = "Captain"
Guid = {8FCB0D6A-210A-40F3-BE67-677BD6591780}
Origin = Virtual Cockpit
MomentumEffect = no
SnapPbhAdjust = Swivel
SnapPbhReturn = False
PanPbhAdjust = Swivel
PanPbhReturn = False
Track = None
ShowAxis = YES
AllowZoom = TRUE
InitialZoom = 0.80
SmoothZoomTime = 2.0
ZoomPanScalar = 1.0
ShowWeather = Yes
XyzAdjust = TRUE
ShowLensFlare=FALSE
Category = Cockpit
PitchPanRate=20
HeadingPanRate=60
InitialXyz=0.20, -0.05, -0.10 // left/right - up/down - front/back
InitialPbh=9.00,  0.00,  0.00 // angle - torsion - rotation

You may adjust slightly the InitialZoom, InitialXyz and Pbh values to your liking.

[vonstroheim]

Nice Qantas repaint thanks to NaMcO from the CS forum. For flying down under Orbx...
Here: www.tech-caffe.com/sunwings/CS-B737-200_QFA.zip

[thunder100]

A decent alternative to an CS 737-200 improbable 2D panel: an additionnal camera definition to simulate a fixed 2D panel. Works for any monitor's ratio. In the aircraft.cfg file locate the section [CameraDefinition.001] and add this on top of it. You'll have to rename the other camera definitions below accordingly (002 to 004).


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Thanks

Due to the FPS issue with JF I moved back to Tinmouse on the elder 2D 737-200's

Roland

[CG_1976]

Got her vonstroheim. She is a nice critter compared to the Just Flight BB 737. Feels good although to have a similar and familiar VC to move around in Hope a First Air paint or Air Inuit surfaces.

[vonstroheim]

Official message from CS:

"The next update (SP 0.6) of the 737-200 has been released. 54 items done list attached. As the next version is going to be the 1.0, so the 0.6 is the last chance to get the 737-200 with 10 Euro discount."
http://www.captainsim.com

This 737 really deserves the attention of all fans of steam gauges and retro/classic look.