FSX Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat-Modified Full Pkg

[Milton Shupe]

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category FSX American Aircraft

Description: FSX Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat Mods by Milton Shupe and Ed Wells


*** This package is an FS9 PortOver ***


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Modified Bearcat F8F-2 by Milton Shupe and Ed Wells (textures) with Permissions from Oldliner52
January 22, 2014


Original Designed by Oldliner52 with Gmax
Gauges by Jean Pierre Langer
Flight Dynamics: Jean Pierre Bourgeois, Benoit Dubé
Original "Ray Dieckman" Textures by John Terrell


That excellent original package was modified by permission in January 2014 as shown below from the aircraft.cfg.


//************************************************** ******
//
// Grumman F8F Bearcat
// version 2b
// ALPHA BLEU CIEL
// 2006 feb 03
// Milton Shupe/Ed Wells changes January 2014
//************************************************** ******




Summary of changes
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Main and Tail gear animations to lengthen oleos for better ground ops
Changed tail gear to castoring
Changed braking strength to compensate for differential braking
Made blurred prop more transparent
Decreased P-Factor and Torque effect on roll out
Decreased yaw moments due to rudder
Added exterior cockpit night lighting
Decreased "glossiness" of main exterior body parts
Redid main VC panel gauge display for higher resolution
Added VC gauge night lighting to all vc gauges to eliminate the VClight Light effects on night time cockpit windows and display anomalies in FSX
Corrected elevator trim wheel animation to be clickable
Retextured VC interior
Added landing light and switch
Modified Mag switch to add pointer
Modified Fuel selector switch base texture
Other miscellaneous VC adjustments
Added a second panel/virtual cockpit panel folder for Olive Drab interior


NOTE: No changes were made to gauges, aircraft performance or fuel consumption. Only changes made to .air file were for yaw moments.


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Thanks to Oldkiner52 for permissions to modify
That's all!
Have fun! :-)


Milton Shupe
The Bearcat Modification Project
March 2014

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit FSX Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat-Modified Full Pkg
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.

[stansdds]

I did find one small issue and that is the direction of propeller rotation is backwards. I was able to fix this by making changes to the cfg file.

First, I changed this entry near the top of the file

[General]
EDITABLE=1

Changing the 0 to a 1 allows the file to be edited.


Then I scrolled down to this section and added the rotation line

[propeller]
rotation= -1

adding the rotation= -1 line reverses the visible direction of rotation.

Now my prop rotates in the correct direction.

A big thank you to Milton Shupe for sprucing up this aircraft.

[spokes2112]

Thanks so much Oldkiner52 Milton & Ed.

This was the aircraft I used on my first RTW leg 8 years back and have been a fan of it ever since along w/ another Grumman too!



Roman

EDIT - It looks like 2 little things were missed. For the FSX version only.. In the Light Blue texture options the "switch_panel" and "fuel_selector" bitmaps need to be converted to 32 bit from 24.. That's it.

Lovin the 'Cat!

EDIT AGAIN - When using the alternate textures donot include f8ffuse_T.bmp when transferring to alternate paints. It will override the fuselage.

[blanston12]

I know this is an old thread but not sure where else to ask.

I installed this into my P3D install last night and the windows were a completely white and opaque so it was unusable. I was about to just delete it but then I though, this is one of Milton's models, give it another chance, so I am here looking to see if anyone has a solution to this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Joe