F-106 VC Rebuild

[Sundog]

Thank you, Ed and Storm.

[usafvet]

Will we be using the radar from Eric Marciano?

Cheers, Larry

[falcon409]

Will we be using the radar from Eric Marciano?
Cheers, Larry

That would be at your discretion Larry. I didn't change anything as far as avionics. My contribution was strictly artistic.

[falcon409]

Forgot to mention, this is up on the SOH Downloads now too!

[Lewis-A2A]

Great job. As I mentioned to the cockpit repainter of our B-17, I'm surprised more people dont offer up cockpit repaints like external repaints given they are implmented exactly the same way within FSX and offer so much variation from one model.

[Naismith]

Nice job, had a quick test before bed last night, great improvement on the original. Thanks.

[DennyA]

Wow. Thanks so much for this!

If that's a case of "as-is.." Looks awesome!

[hschuit]

Ed thank you for the VC make over Once I started flying, I did not like the exterior shine, actually the plane looks metalic and that is wrong because they were a glossy light grey. I tweaked the MDL specularity with the MDLMat FSX tool. It all depends on personal taste I guess but if anyone likes what I done I will post the "how to". 1st pic is as it comes out of the box, 2nd is my tweaked MDL version:

[fsafranek]

It all depends on personal taste I guess but if anyone likes what I done I will post the "how to".

Yes please. These birds always looked best when clean and shiney. Even when we used them as chase planes for the B-1B they were still kept very clean.

[hschuit]

Here you go Frank: F-106_MDLMat_instructions.pdf

BTW: Love the repaints you did ! Anyone who wants to check them out, go here:

http://www.mirage4fs.com/Alphasim/index.html#F-106

[mbmorgan]

Ed thank you for the VC make over Once I started flying, I did not like the exterior shine, actually the plane looks metalic and that is wrong because they were a glossy light grey. I tweaked the MDL specularity with the MDLMat FSX tool. It all depends on personal taste I guess but if anyone likes what I done I will post the "how to". 1st pic is as it comes out of the box, 2nd is my tweaked MDL version:

Beautiful repaint ... although technically NL 17 was a B model (two seater). I was working as a controller at GTF back when the Montana ANG was still flying the 106 and even managed to get a little back seat time in NL 17. Quite an experience ...

Cheers,
Mike

[falcon409]

Beautiful repaint ... although technically NL 17 was a B model (two seater). I was working as a controller at GTF back when the Montana ANG was still flying the 106 and even managed to get a little back seat time in NL 17. Quite an experience ...

Cheers,
Mike

Also, never noticed this until you mentioned it in a round about way. . .the tail number isn't correct either.

[StormILM]

Folks, after looking at my FDE adjustments and the effect it made on both the takeoff and landing speeds, I went back and studied a couple more FSX Delta Wing models and decided to add a Flight Tuning section to the F-106's Cfg file which doesn't feature one. All the numbers are nominal except the cruise lift scalar which I adjusted in an attempt or better yet a tradeoff for a good liftoff speed and not quite so nasty landing speed/sink rate. After much testing and comparing, I sat the cruise lift at 1.500(the standard setting would be 1.000). So far as I can tell, the change didn't have a negative effect in the handling or pitch trim but the liftoff and touchdown speeds and profile seem more on target. Just copy and paste the below text into the Cfg file just below the Reference Speeds entry.

[Flight_Tuning]
cruise_lift_scalar= 1.500 //- increase to reduce aoa vs speed/G load
parasite_drag_scalar= 1.000
induced_drag_scalar= 1.000
elevator_effectiveness= 1.000
aileron_effectiveness= 1.000
rudder_effectiveness= 1.000
pitch_stability= 1.000
roll_stability= 1.000
yaw_stability= 1.000
elevator_trim_effectiveness= 1.000
aileron_trim_effectiveness= 1.000
rudder_trim_effectiveness= 1.000



BTW, I did the MDLMAT changes and they look great! Been many a year since I used to see the F-106's out of the detachment that was based here at ILM. I remember how loud they were! I miss the sonic booms when they returned from an intercept mission!

[falcon409]

Great! Thanks Storm!!

[fsafranek]

You're both wrong...

Beautiful repaint ... although technically NL 17 was a B model (two seater). I was working as a controller at GTF back when the Montana ANG was still flying the 106 and even managed to get a little back seat time in NL 17. Quite an experience ...

Cheers,
Mike

Also, never noticed this until you mentioned it in a round about way. . .the tail number isn't correct either.

I suppose next you're going to tell me that I used the wrong ANG badge on the tail, right?

The aircraft I painted for the payware package is absolutely 100% correct for the Montana ANG in 1971. Probably before your time Mike since you said "still flying".

When Phil changed his mind at the 11th hour and decided to do the single seater as the original type with the brace on the top of the canopy I had to backdate all of my schemes and throw some out (some schemes were revised to the B model and put out as freeware). So a bird from a decade earlier was selected because I've always been a fan of the Montana ANG scheme and wanted to keep it in the mix.

I did however paint a freeware version of a 1984 era two-seater in Montana ANG scheme with the more current ANG shield (and again with correct numbers).

I do my research guys. I never paint fiction when its going in a payware package.


Thanks for the FDE update Storm.