INDIAFOXTECHO E-2 Hawkeye - C-2 Greyhound Released

[stovall]

Dino has released his E-2 Hawkeye - C-2 Greyhound package. There may be multiple vendors carrying this prize.

Here is the link to SimMarket. CLICK HERE

(https://secure.simmarket.com/indiafoxtecho-visual-simulations-e-2-hawkeye-c-2-greyhound-package.phtml)

[YoYo]

Crg! Too many new addons, too many new patches for favorites simulators in the last time.
The Life is brutal :biggrin-new: !

[jeansy]

https://image.ibb.co/hV2hVV/2018-11-24-19-1-6-160.png

[Dino Cattaneo]

For information a (much requested) paintkit will be released in the next few days - I just need some time to clean it up a little.

[RS]

Hi Dino...

simply beautiful .. and a top price performance ratio!

A big Thank you.

RS

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64989&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64990&stc=1

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http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64992&stc=1

Hawkeye has landed in FSX.

[Victory103]

Test flight complete out of NGU in the analog E-2 for now. A few small issues, but I feel this is the above standard quality from you and very happy you took on the project for let's be honest, not the most glamorous aircraft in the fleet, but 2 Grumman airframes with vital mission sets!

[Dino Cattaneo]

let's be honest, not the most glamorous aircraft in the fleet, but 2 Grumman airframes with vital mission sets!

...that is precisely why I did them. With the VRS Superbug and my F-35, with this package we now have a good model for each of the fixed wing aircraft you may see on carrier deck nowadays.

[jeansy]

...that is precisely why I did them. With the VRS Superbug and my F-35, with this package we now have a good model for each of the fixed wing aircraft you may see on carrier deck nowadays.

we just need a Dino Skyhawk(s), Intruder, Crusader and Vigilante

[ColoKent]

Matt-- with you totally on ALL 3 of those requests!!!! (Personally, I'd swap the order of the Skyhawk and Crusader, but....whatever works!!!)

Kent

[YoYo]

Hi Dino,
any chances to have update for the rain effect for P3Dv4 owners?
From now You can use ths free tool from A2A.

A2A Dynamic Rain Effects Released for FREE to developers:

http://www.a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=66613
https://a2asimulations.com/product/a2a-rain-effect-for-p3dv4/

C-2 and E-2 will look fantastic with this!

https://a2asimulations.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/A2A_dynamic_rain3-600x375.jpg

Cheers!

[Dino Cattaneo]

@Yoyo

It is my intention to upgrade all of my fleet with that rain effect. As for the C-2 / E-2 is a little "early" since I prefer to wait a couple of weeks to make any upgrade to see if any major bug pops-up - this is specially important for this package since there are 4 different cockpit models...so upgrading takes a while.

[Aircanuck]

Hello All,

Bought these ladies on the weekend and mighty fine they are but for one thing !?!?

All of a sudden (today) I have no control over the port engine on both models ... starts up fine, goes to full RPM and stays there, no control thru my CH Throttle quadrant.

Crazy thing is the Starboard engine on both model functions just fine ?? Did a test hop on several other twin's in my collection and no such concern.

Just curious if anybody else has encountered this problem .....

PS - I have been using "control + shift + R - ready to start the engine's over the weekend with no issues.

Cheers for now

[jeansy]

Hello All,

Bought these ladies on the weekend and mighty fine they are but for one thing !?!?

All of a sudden (today) I have no control over the port engine on both models ... starts up fine, goes to full RPM and stays there, no control thru my CH Throttle quadrant.

Crazy thing is the Starboard engine on both model functions just fine ?? Did a test hop on several other twin's in my collection and no such concern.

Just curious if anybody else has encountered this problem .....

PS - I have been using "control + shift + R - ready to start the engine's over the weekend with no issues.

Cheers for now

Are the engine control levers either side of the throttles in the start pos not feather, that caught me out at first, as i have 3rd party gauge hardware that have a start dial which didnt do anything until i found those levers

[TuFun]

It is my intention to upgrade all of my fleet with that rain effect.

A2A is working on getting the rain effects for muilt-engined aircraft.

* From A2A...

As time goes on the plan is for the effect to evolve, to enable multi-engine aircraft etc.

* And from Lewis...

Well the effects are out there now, real easy to use and free to use, so we hope so too. Limited to singles for the moment, but that will change in the future.

thanks,
Lewis - A2A

[Dino Cattaneo]

Hello All,

Bought these ladies on the weekend and mighty fine they are but for one thing !?!?

All of a sudden (today) I have no control over the port engine on both models ... starts up fine, goes to full RPM and stays there, no control thru my CH Throttle quadrant.

Crazy thing is the Starboard engine on both model functions just fine ?? Did a test hop on several other twin's in my collection and no such concern.

Just curious if anybody else has encountered this problem .....

PS - I have been using "control + shift + R - ready to start the engine's over the weekend with no issues.

Cheers for now

Hi - the E-2/C-2 both use custom XML code to simulate the working of the condition levers, as such they may not be fully compatible with turboprop hardware controls. However if your were working fine, I do not think this is an issue. There are some instances in which the engines can get stuck for a while at 100% RPM - they will eventually get back to 60% as expected. Do not start the other engine until this happens. Note that, if you are using P3Dv4, there is an optional better model of the fuel flow gain that improves the engine performance - see chapter 1 in the manual.

[Aircanuck]

Hi - the E-2/C-2 both use custom XML code to simulate the working of the condition levers, as such they may not be fully compatible with turboprop hardware controls. However if your were working fine, I do not think this is an issue. There are some instances in which the engines can get stuck for a while at 100% RPM - they will eventually get back to 60% as expected. Do not start the other engine until this happens. Note that, if you are using P3Dv4, there is an optional better model of the fuel flow gain that improves the engine performance - see chapter 1 in the manual.

Getting stuck is the right comment, on one instance the port engine did come "unstuck" and settled down.... but just the one time so far. As per the manual I'm using the "auto start" control - shift- R ... when the right engine RPM is steady at 87%, start the left !! so your comment about don't start the right engine till the left one settles down is a bit confusing ?? Note - not using P3Dv4.....

Cheers for now

[Dino Cattaneo]

Getting stuck is the right comment, on one instance the port engine did come "unstuck" and settled down.... but just the one time so far. As per the manual I'm using the "auto start" control - shift- R ... when the right engine RPM is steady at 87%, start the left !! so your comment about don't start the right engine till the left one settles down is a bit confusing ?? Note - not using P3Dv4.....

Cheers for now

Sorry - my bad about the RPM percentage. There were some last minute changes to the flight model so that the 87% is not accurate. On my system, in FSX-SE (Thurstmaster T.16000 with just throttle control), the engines settle at about 300 SHP, 71-74% RPM.
I encountered the problem you mentioned only once during testing, cause unknown - the situation was solved by aborting the engine start procedure by cycling the condition lever (full forward, then feather and then RUN). On the second attempt the engine ran fine.
There may be conflicts with prop-speed levers in some instances. Apart from that, all the cases of reported issues during start-up were due to the condition lever not being set to RUN.

Sorry I cannot provide a more meaningful feedback but I cannot replicate the issue.

[Dino Cattaneo]

Paintkit available on my blog:

http://indiafoxtecho.blogspot.com/2018/11/c-2-greyhound-e-2-hawkeye-release-and.html

...not the greatest of the paint kits, but I hope it is good enough.

[Aircanuck]

Sorry - my bad about the RPM percentage. There were some last minute changes to the flight model so that the 87% is not accurate. On my system, in FSX-SE (Thurstmaster T.16000 with just throttle control), the engines settle at about 300 SHP, 71-74% RPM.
I encountered the problem you mentioned only once during testing, cause unknown - the situation was solved by aborting the engine start procedure by cycling the condition lever (full forward, then feather and then RUN). On the second attempt the engine ran fine.
There may be conflicts with prop-speed levers in some instances. Apart from that, all the cases of reported issues during start-up were due to the condition lever not being set to RUN.

Sorry I cannot provide a more meaningful feedback but I cannot replicate the issue.

Mr.Cattaneo,

First off , thank you for the prompt response to my snag, not often one gets to chat to the "developer" (himself) when problems arise.
A quick cycling of the port condition lever (with engines running ) appears to have "unstuck" things and the RPM's have return to normal. Will amend my "start" checklist accordingly....

Cheers once again :jump:

[tgycgijoes]

Paintkit available on my blog:

http://indiafoxtecho.blogspot.com/2018/11/c-2-greyhound-e-2-hawkeye-release-and.html

...not the greatest of the paint kits, but I hope it is good enough.

Just opened up the paintkits and though not all of the weathering can be removed with a layer, they are very well done and exactly matching the textures makes painting so much easier than textures of puzzled pieces. Thank you for that and two great aircraft. I have a texture in mind for each that I did in the past for the Abacus Flightdeck 5 Greyhound and Hawkeye which were all there was for a very long time.

Richard

[tgycgijoes]

This repaint is a tribute to Rear Adm Sara A. "CLUTCH" Joyner. Adm. Joyner received her wings with TRARON 24 at Beeville, TX in 1991 after graduating with honors from the Naval Academy in 1989.


In 2013 she took command of Carrier Air Wing CVW 3 and deployed aboard the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) to the Arabian Gulf. She has flown the A-4E Skyhawk, the F/A-18 Hornet, Super Hornet and Growler.


She established her place in naval history as the first woman to command a fighter squadron, VFA-105 in 2010 and as the first female commander of a Carrier Air Wing (CAG).


She is now at the Pentagon in Washington DC.


I first did this repaint in 2014 for the AB FD5 C-2 Greyhound when with virtual CVW-3. I liked the contrast to the red/yellow/blue of the Rawhides of VRC-40 in the Mid East brown livery.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65131&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65132&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65133&stc=1

[Navy Chief]

Just opened up the paintkits and though not all of the weathering can be removed with a layer, they are very well done and exactly matching the textures makes painting so much easier than textures of puzzled pieces. Thank you for that and two great aircraft. I have a texture in mind for each that I did in the past for the Abacus Flightdeck 5 Greyhound and Hawkeye which were all there was for a very long time.

Richard


Richard,

I love the weathered look! Pete

[Fireball6]

Tried the paintkit today - pure fiction, but maybe sometime in the future ..... . The German Navy have a new "Toy". Thank you Dino for the great Hawkeye and the paintkit. Both are excellent :applause:

[Navy Chief]

Tried the paintkit today - pure fiction, but maybe sometime in the future ..... . The German Navy have a new "Toy". Thank you Dino for the great Hawkeye and the paintkit. Both are excellent :applause:

Fireball,

Your avatar reminds me of one of the squadrons I was with, VA-15 Valions! NC

65154

[Victory103]

Great repaints gents and Fireball, I'm cool with fictional skins if they look the part. Based off GN P-3's, I could see the E-2 looking just like that. In my air wing, VAW-125 seemed to keep their birds clean, but the visiting CODs of VRC-30 were always rough! Bare minimum maintenance ashore!

[PhantomTweak]

I can't speak for Navy squadrons, but I know the Marine squadrons had enough to do to keep up the Flight Schedule, not to mention the test and rework schedule. Didn't leave a whole lot of time to visit the wash rack. About the only time a bird got a good bath was when it was coming out of an Annual. The rest of the time, it was up to how well the Plane Captain assigned to that bird wanted to wipe his plane down between refueling, daily inspections, turn arounds, etc etc.
Another factor that entered into it, in Yuma, anyway, was that come the afternoons, especially in summer, touching the upper side of a plane could lead to 2nd degree burns.
And the dust in Yuma got everywhere. It stuck like glue too. Turn around, and the dust has settled everywhere. Very difficult to keep a plane clean in Yuma.

Just my 2 cents worth. To me, a clean plane is suspect. Is it new? Just come from Depot, or what?? :biggrin-new:

Pat☺

[tgycgijoes]

I had done VAW-126's paint job in 2014 before but I wanted this to be an up to date repaint so instead I did this one from current photos of Seahawk 603.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65229&stc=1

The photos were posed on the FSX Acceleration Carrier using the Carrier Tutorial and switching the aircraft to the Hawkeye.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65230&stc=1

I really like the paintkit and had just a couple of hiccups which I figured out with no problems.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65231&stc=1

VAW-126 as you can see does not put the aircraft number on the aileron but on the upper wing.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65232&stc=1

Thanks again Dino :loyal:

[Fireball6]

and another "what if" - WIP - Marina Militare ....

[ferondoe]

and another "what if" - WIP - Marina Militare ....

Tiger Meet NATO Flotille 4F

https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/11/50/01/05/screen55.jpg (https://servimg.com/view/11500105/2793)

https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/11/50/01/05/screen56.jpg (https://servimg.com/view/11500105/2794)

https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/11/50/01/05/screen57.jpg (https://servimg.com/view/11500105/2795)

https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/11/50/01/05/screen58.jpg (https://servimg.com/view/11500105/2796)

https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/11/50/01/05/screen59.jpg (https://servimg.com/view/11500105/2797)

https://i.servimg.com/u/f62/11/50/01/05/thumbn11.jpg (https://servimg.com/view/11500105/2798)
Marty

[Fireball6]

gents - your paints looks awesome - great jobs !

All the Best

Dirk

[WarHorse47]

Great repaints. Are they available for downloading somewhere?? I've got the NATO Flotille 4F from Avsim, but not the others. Thanks.

[tgycgijoes]

I will be sharing the C2 Greyhound from VRC 40 2014 and the E2D hawkeye from VAW126 2018 this week sometime here in the SOH. I will post here in this thread again when I upload them.

[Fireball6]

My MFG 3- and M.M.I-Repaints should be available at avsim.com soon - just finished the upload-procedere.

:wavey: Dirk

[WarHorse47]

Thanks, guys. :encouragement:

[tgycgijoes]

You're welcome Pam. Both of my repaints have been uploaded to the Warbirds Library in the FSX Post Coldwar Repaints Section. I found a "boo-boo" on the VRC40 that I noticed when I opened up the thumbnail for the Library photo that it had no Modex on the nose so that was corrected in the upload. :icon_redface:

Richard

[WarHorse47]

Pam?? I don't think Warchild and I look anywhere near related. :biggrin-new:

Got 'em. Thanks.

[Portia911]

Pam?? I don't think Warchild and I look anywhere near related. :biggrin-new:


Shirley, you must be joking. :biggrin-new:

[hawkdriver]

Richard,
Just downloaded the VRC40 2014 OEF and I'm not getting any unit patch forward of the crew door or ship name and/or lettering tribute to Rear Adm Sara A. "CLUTCH" Joyner on the aft side fuselage. Neither Port or Starboard side. All other textures look great. Any suggestions?
Hawkdriver

[tgycgijoes]

Pam?? I don't think Warchild and I look anywhere near related. :biggrin-new:

Got 'em. Thanks. Boy, I thought I'd get out of the year without any mistakes (LOL???????) EGG ON FACE!!! Sorrrrrry. I saw War*** and got it wrong. Enjoy the repaints.

Richard

Hope that Warchild aka Pam will enjoy them too.

[hawkdriver]

Don't apologize, I dig your paints!
Rob

[tgycgijoes]

I don't know. First, what sim are you using? I will check on it. I saw where I was missing the Modex on the nose and redid the PSD. I will check it out again and put in a patch here if somehow they got lost. Give me a few minutes to check it out.

[tgycgijoes]

Well, its having more than one file (which BTW is now gone) with names too much alike from when creating. Its a good way to do it I learned from one of the experts so that you don't mess up the last good one but when I went back to add the Modex on the nose and nosewheel door, well...you know what happened.
I checked it out on the ground at NAS Pensacola in my FSX and all is well.

Anyway, here is a Dropbox link to a zip folder with the correct C2greyhoundfuselagecolor file. Just replace in the texture folder.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qiw4wbiv4da45p5/Dino%20C2%20Greyhound%20VRC%2040%20Det%204%20Fusel age%20Patch.zip?dl=0

[WarHorse47]

Boy, I thought I'd get out of the year without any mistakes (LOL???????) EGG ON FACE!!! Sorrrrrry. I saw War*** and got it wrong. Enjoy the repaints.

Richard

Hope that Warchild aka Pam will enjoy them too.Gave me a definite chuckle..

Thanks again for the textures and patch. :encouragement:

[hawkdriver]

Thanks Richard, the texture patch works great. Great looking Greyhound.
Rob

[tgycgijoes]

I did this repaint for the Abacus Flightdeck 5 E2C Hawkeye back in 2014 when I was squadron CO of the squadron in vCVW3 aboard USS Truman with Wood and the other guys. I had a lot of fun doing this and I actually did ALL 4 aircraft paints. It took 2 days to get this figured out how to fit it on Dino's E2 Paint Kit but I think I managed. Here are three shots I took this afternoon after I completed Seahawk 600. All markings are authentic including the registration and the pilot and copilot. I hope you enjoy it.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65373&stc=1

On the runway at Pensacola taking off to return to the Truman.

A couple of closeups:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65374&stc=1

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65375&stc=1

[Josh Patterson]

and another "what if" - WIP - Marina Militare .... Lovin' the anchor on the rotodome!

[Fireball6]

Hi Josh, hope you like the rest too :mixed-smiley-010: Here is another one, this time for the Fuerza de Aviación Naval Peru .... (What if)

All the Best

Dirk

[Navy Chief]

I can't speak for Navy squadrons, but I know the Marine squadrons had enough to do to keep up the Flight Schedule, not to mention the test and rework schedule. Didn't leave a whole lot of time to visit the wash rack. About the only time a bird got a good bath was when it was coming out of an Annual. The rest of the time, it was up to how well the Plane Captain assigned to that bird wanted to wipe his plane down between refueling, daily inspections, turn arounds, etc etc.
Another factor that entered into it, in Yuma, anyway, was that come the afternoons, especially in summer, touching the upper side of a plane could lead to 2nd degree burns.
And the dust in Yuma got everywhere. It stuck like glue too. Turn around, and the dust has settled everywhere. Very difficult to keep a plane clean in Yuma.

Just my 2 cents worth. To me, a clean plane is suspect. Is it new? Just come from Depot, or what?? :biggrin-new:

Pat☺


Navy aircraft at sea were dirty/splotchy most of the time; especially during long at-sea periods and intense ops schedules. The fresh water supply was primarily for steam production for cats, and everything else was considered secondary. So when corrosion control was performed on aircraft, the end result was a paint job looking splotchy. Just the way it was. When squadrons returned from deployments, THEN aircraft were cleaned much better! NC

[gray eagle]

Navy aircraft at sea were dirty/splotchy most of the time; especially during long at-sea periods and intense ops schedules. The fresh water supply was primarily for steam production for cats, and everything else was considered secondary. So when corrosion control was performed on aircraft, the end result was a paint job looking splotchy. Just the way it was. When squadrons returned from deployments, THEN aircraft were cleaned much better! NC

Ahh...I remember at then NAS Miramar, the smell of Turco (soap) being used at the wash racks. Washing F-4/F8's

[Victory103]

FYI, just got the email from Simmarket about an update for 1.0.2.