OBIO
April 26th, 2010, 20:29
Earlier today, in spite of having a trillion projects already, I installed the freeware Alphasim EF2000 Typhoon and began tweaking it. Did away with the really cheesy afterburner, replaced it with much nicer gauge driver AB effects, a nice engine flame effect, wing tip contrails/vortices. For a model from 2003, the EF2000 isn't bad...the VC is dated, but usable enough. The external modeling is pretty nice.
I hope someone has the original package with the 2D panel, panel config file and gauges...and that they would be willing to share them with me. Would like to get the package put together and updated as much as possible. I found a package of the plane on Simviation, but dated by Bob Cichilio, with a 2D panel...it's a nice 2D panel, the gauges leave something to be desired....still no VC gauges though. I can hunt through my gauge collection and come up with something plausable for gauges for the Typhoon and get the 2D and VC populated and more usable if nothing else.
OBIO
EDIT: I know some of you wonder if I ever actually fly my sim...I do. In fact I flew today....my 5th attempt at the 5th leg of the Greek Island hop list as seen on the Sim Out-House.net flight server. I did this attempt off line. This is the trickiest hop I have ever flown. First attempt was in the F7F Tigercat...I crashed on landing, 2nd attempt was in the Razbam T-2 Buckeye....crashed attempting to land, 3rd attempt was in the Meteor F8 at dawn...crashed into a tree that I could not see in the dark. 4th attempt was in the Razbam A-4M....guess what....I crashed during landing. Can you guess how the 5th attempt went? In the Alpha RF-84. Yep, biffed it! I have enjoyed all the airtime over the scenery between LGEP and LGSP...beautiful scenery!
I hope someone has the original package with the 2D panel, panel config file and gauges...and that they would be willing to share them with me. Would like to get the package put together and updated as much as possible. I found a package of the plane on Simviation, but dated by Bob Cichilio, with a 2D panel...it's a nice 2D panel, the gauges leave something to be desired....still no VC gauges though. I can hunt through my gauge collection and come up with something plausable for gauges for the Typhoon and get the 2D and VC populated and more usable if nothing else.
OBIO
EDIT: I know some of you wonder if I ever actually fly my sim...I do. In fact I flew today....my 5th attempt at the 5th leg of the Greek Island hop list as seen on the Sim Out-House.net flight server. I did this attempt off line. This is the trickiest hop I have ever flown. First attempt was in the F7F Tigercat...I crashed on landing, 2nd attempt was in the Razbam T-2 Buckeye....crashed attempting to land, 3rd attempt was in the Meteor F8 at dawn...crashed into a tree that I could not see in the dark. 4th attempt was in the Razbam A-4M....guess what....I crashed during landing. Can you guess how the 5th attempt went? In the Alpha RF-84. Yep, biffed it! I have enjoyed all the airtime over the scenery between LGEP and LGSP...beautiful scenery!