Hawker Sea Hawk for FS2004: Beta-test ready

[nazca_steve]

Killer pics as always, Flyboy, looks like you have your traps down to a fine art there. Lovely to see her coming in on the Doorman like that. It will look all the better once the we see some Dutch orange as well. One thing - those water textures are amazing - are they the same as the ones Huub uses?

Cees, glad you like what you see so far; the avatar pic was fun to draw, and is one of a series of three pinup t-shirts I drew to go with the project (availble soon on Zazzle.com). Sorry, but I had to plug that!

Bob (Familton), one thing you might want to bear in mind, is this is still a beta release for an FS2004-dedicated model. I was actually looking for feedback rather than anyone to forge ahead with their own mods to it. I appreciate that it needs work still, especially if you want to use in FSX, so no harm no foul. Just wanted to point that out though.

Cheers all,

Steve

[familton]

Hi Steve. I'm sorry. I understand your position. I will refrain from any more posts on my FSX mods. Best regards, Bob.

[Flyboy208]

Killer pics as always, Flyboy, looks like you have your traps down to a fine art there. Lovely to see her coming in on the Doorman like that. It will look all the better once the we see some Dutch orange as well. One thing - those water textures are amazing - are they the same as the ones Huub uses?

Cees, glad you like what you see so far; the avatar pic was fun to draw, and is one of a series of three pinup t-shirts I drew to go with the project (availble soon on Zazzle.com). Sorry, but I had to plug that!

Bob (Familton), one thing you might want to bear in mind, is this is still a beta release for an FS2004-dedicated model. I was actually looking for feedback rather than anyone to forge ahead with their own mods to it. I appreciate that it needs work still, especially if you want to use in FSX, so no harm no foul. Just wanted to point that out though.

Cheers all,

Steve

Steve, the scenery addon that brings FS9 (and free) to a whole new level is available at www.avsim.com - file is here :

File Description:
Welcome to Real Environment Professional, an extensive environment upgrade package for Microsoft's Flight Simulator 9. This package includes: 1. New sun, sun6, corona1, sunglow and suneffect.cfg 2. New aircraft spotlight 3. New airport lights that simulate a glow onto the surface 4. New Envmap (affects reflections) 5. Revised AquaPro 2006 Bright & Dark versions (base water color, wave animation and environment effects that also simulate cloud reflections in the water) 6. Trees courtesy of Feng Zhu's TreeGen v1.0 7. New runway textures (per selected WX Environment) 8. New asphalt textures (per selected WX Environment) 9. New concrete textures (per selected WX Environment) 10. New tarmac textures (per selected WX Environment) 11. Taxiway markings (per selected WX Environment) 12. Sky & environment textures 13. 3D Environment Bitmap



Filename: reprosetup.zip
License: Freeware, limited distribution
Added: 24th September 2006
Downloads: 149573
Author: Tim Fuchs
Size: 26658kb

Thanks for the comments, I have many hours of FS Carrier flying time, and some from my real-world US Navy flying.

Having so much fun with your rendering of this classic British jet!

Cheers! Mike Tyler

[rayrey10]

Awesome plane. Very easy to handle (even for a rookie like me). Great aircraft for carrier ops. Can't wait for the final release.

[nazca_steve]

Flyboy, thanks a lot for that tip. I have resisted going over to FSX for a while, now this little lot will keep me even happier in FS2004 - it looks amazing. I am downloading now and will duly report back with some screens.

Bob, no hard feelings at all. Feel free to mod away as you want, but the final release may well be different.

Rayrey, very good to hear, the fact that it flies well is very important.

**UPDATE:

Ok, pack downloaded and it is amazing. Serious new lease of life to the sim - a big thanks for putting me onto that Flyboy. Here are some FGA.50 shots during testing:

[huub vink]

Showoff with those Dutch markings! :costumes:.

The V on the tail shows this aircraft belongs to Valkenburg AB. The aircrafts on board of the HMS Karel Doorman had a D on their tail. The Dutch Navy had two rotating squadrons equipped with Seahawks (860 and 3 squadron). When they were landbased the flew form Valkenburg and had the V on the tail and when they were carrier based they had the D on their tails.

After 1960 the aircrafts on board the HMS Karel Doorman were only used against submarines and all fighters were moved to Valkenburg AB, until they were phased-out (and demolished) in 1964.

Huub

[nazca_steve]

Thanks for the background, Huub, I didn't know the full tailcode story or their full usage. How did they operate against subs? Were the Neptunes getting a sonar fix and directing the Hawks in? Excuse my ignorance here. Great colour photo by the way - I have several more FGA.50s to paint up so any reference is useful.

[brian1305]

Well - I think we have a hit on our hands!!!

Im sure I read somewhere that someone was working on HMS Albion - Centaur class carrier some time ago? tried to find it but with no luck - anyone know?

[huub vink]

Thanks for the background, Huub, I didn't know the full tailcode story or their full usage. How did they operate against subs? Were the Neptunes getting a sonar fix and directing the Hawks in? Excuse my ignorance here. Great colour photo by the way - I have several more FGA.50s to paint up so any reference is useful.

Nope, I wasn't very clear in my previous post, but the Seahawks were never used against subs. Due to the Dutch NATO tasks there was no real use for naval fighters or a carrier. Therefore the Seahaws left the carrier in 1960 and were replaced by Grumman Trackers and Sikorsky HSS-1 SeaBats.

The Neptunes had Valkenburg as their homebase, but there was at least one at Iceland to patrol the Nothern Atlantic and another one was doing patrols in the Curacao.

Huub

[Flyboy208]

The Dutch Neptune AI traffic is great - thanks Huub! Mike

[nazca_steve]

Quick update on the Hawk chaps, I am close to finishing the virtual cockpit, and am in the process of testing out the FDEs for all variants. The plan is still to release all models apart from the FGA.101 in late November, with the latter following sometime after that. Thanks for your patience.

Steve

[Blackbird686]

Thanks for the update! I have had a jolly good time flying the beta model. (Never flew a real Hawk but this one is a real treat!)

BB686

[nazca_steve]

Nor have I, and I think it is getting harder and harder to find a real Hawk driver these days, given that this is a 50s era fighter. I did get in contact with the Royal Navy Historic Flight to see if their Hawk pilot was a simmer too, but no such luck. Still, we've built this thing to conform to the official Pilot's Notes as closely as possible. Glad you're enjoying it so far.

[huub vink]

Thanks for this great news Steve. I'm patient but nevertheless really looking forward to the final model!

Huub

[Flyboy208]

You know, I was just today thinking about this project. Thanks for the update Steve! Mike