Su-7 Port-Over Project

[mattcurry]

Afternoon all, a long time lurker here, with an idea/request for those more experienced than I.

I recently discovered the developer Mehlin Rainer (five years later than everyone else) and really liked the look of his Sukhoi models for fs2004, the Su-7 and the Su-22, although only released in Beta form.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=33823&stc=1

The external models, including the glass and effects, work well, and the flight model is excellent. However, the virtual cockpits rely on old gauges and generate a string of errors when the aircraft are loaded.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=33824&stc=1

I tried to comment in some replacement (alphasim) gauges to the panel.cfg file, but to no avail. Could someone with a better idea of what they are doing, and a good knowledge of freeware Russian gauges give it a look? I don't have a lot of time to be learning new things at the moment.

The Su-7 BETA_2 is available on avsim: http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=150235

The Su-22 is more difficult to find, but I can find a link if someone is interested/ allowed to develop it.

And on that note, is editing freeware without permission of the original developer above board? It looks like Rainer put a lot of work into these models and I wouldn't want to be undermining him at all.

Matt

[StormILM]

I always thought this model had a lot of potential but as noted, nothing really ever came of it. Any move to convert it to FSX standard would be most welcome.

[ian elliot]

I love this model myself in FS9, although it flys like a real SOB, cant help feeling there must have been a lot of training accidents in the real world with this bird, i still struggle to find the right landing configuration, its not very forgiving, get it slightly wrong and you drop to the ground like a stone, good luck with your project, like you say, its only seem to need re-gauging, the Su-22 is still ongoing, all be it slowly, Mr Rainer still occasionally posts in the FS9 forum so maybe dropping him a PM for advice or permission.

cheers ian

[mattcurry]

Unfortunately, Ian, I don't have the right programs, and definitely not the right skills to complete this project. I have seen re-gauging projects on here and on other flight sim sites, and I wondered whether one of these gurus of gauges would give either the Su-7 a look, or the Su-22.

The Su-22 is missing fewer gauges and is available (Again in beta form,) as the last dropbox download on this thread (http://forum.ddr-flugzeuge.de/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=39&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=4267ccd3636c850e9541ead4bbe8f7f1&start=380).
I am not by my PC at the moment, but as I recall this one only needs a fuel gauge, an AI, and a speedometer to be spot on as all the caption lights work well already (I think,).