707

Josh Patterson said:
I'll fly airliners if they're extinct in the real world. I do spend time in the 707, 727, 737 from CS flying them in a display setting. Also the Comet, VC-10, Tu-134, 154, 144, Concorde and Dassault Mercure get some attention from time to time. (Basically if it's an extinct turbojet powered airliner I'll fly it!) Just wishing the AH/JF Caravelle was still coming to FSX but I did just get the VC-137 and E-3 expansions for the 707. Didn't know they existed until a few weeks ago! As far as skins for the 707, I'd like to see one in John Travolta's Quantas livery!
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Never mind! I see JAFO did Travolta's plane!!
 
Aharon said:
Nobody painted crisp sharp high quality Wardair livery on Captain Sim 707 :(
Regards,
Aharon
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I have 103 B707 (!!!!!) skins (including the standard Captain Slack ones), both PAX, Freight and a few Military on my backup drive, not a single Wardair one to be seen.
Should add that I haven't used the Captain Slack supplied efforts very often.
What you need to take into account is the time frame, many repaints are 10+ years old (or older) and there are few really recent efforts, with repainters concentrating on newer subjects and developers.
And of course, FSX is a little passe at this point in time.
Just as a matter of interest Historic Jetliners Group have one only Wardair paint for a 1969 320C and that's only going to work on their HJG base.
I think you are pretty well SOL.
:encouragement:

Have you considered the Just Flight DC8 collection Aharon?
Massive number of first class repaints available and just about every variation of the 'Big Mac' included.
 
Initiated by this thread (thanks Teisco ) as I never could properly move the CS Captain 707 to P3DV4.5, I now modified the old legendary_707

It has the same bitmaps as Captain 707, but as beeing very old no bumpmaps ...

On panel I still work,rest pls see and all surfaces work

That Varig is from 2004 !!!

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As we have little other ( you can do same with HJG, but no VC ) I am really happy now

THANKS
 
wombat666 said:
I have 103 B707 (!!!!!) skins (including the standard Captain Slack ones), both PAX, Freight and a few Military on my backup drive
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Whoa!!!!!!!!!! Are those for FSX?? Got any crisp sharp high quality BCAl British Cadelonian cargo repaints??


wombat666 said:
And of course, FSX is a little passe at this point in time.
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FSX lives for FOREVER!!! :biggrin-new::biggrin-new:


wombat666 said:
Just as a matter of interest Historic Jetliners Group have one only Wardair paint for a 1969 320C and that's only going to work on their HJG base.I think you are pretty well SOL.:encouragement:
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Yes I already have that as well as few hundred repaints for many different variants of freeware HJG 707. BUT I do not understand your sol comment. What is sol??


wombat666 said:
Have you considered the Just Flight DC8 collection Aharon?Massive number of first class repaints available and just about every variation of the 'Big Mac' included.
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Only if Just Flight and Aerosoft announce the special NINE BUCK sale on that plane the same way Captain Sim does twice a year :biggrin-new::biggrin-new:

However, I do not understand BIG MAC comment????

Regards,

Aharon
 
Historic Jet Liner group skins are all old and small and fuzzy. I asked for a paint kit for them so I could update and sharpen some of the skins so they banned me.

I made my own paint kit and now redoing some of the schemes I like. If there is one you really want let me know.
 
Aharon said:
Whoa!!!!!!!!!! Are those for FSX?? Got any crisp sharp high quality BCAl British Cadelonian cargo repaints??




FSX lives for FOREVER!!! :biggrin-new::biggrin-new:




Yes I already have that as well as few hundred repaints for many different variants of freeware HJG 707. BUT I do not understand your sol comment. What is sol??




Only if Just Flight and Aerosoft announce the special NINE BUCK sale on that plane the same way Captain Sim does twice a year :biggrin-new::biggrin-new:

However, I do not understand BIG MAC comment????

Regards,

Aharon
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" I'm assuming BIG MAC = Big McDonnell in reference McDonnell portion of McDonnell/Douglas of the DC8.
 
Not wishing to hijack this thread, but as it was mentioned for those like me who can't use their cherished CS 707 in P3D, the Aerosoft DC-8 is excellent and has good immersive systems similar to the CS 707.
 
Hi all
Not to hijack the topic but do we know for sure that the Captain Sim FSX 707 does not work in P3D? I was told that the Just Flight DC-8 would not work at all in P3D V5 when in my opinion it works better than it did in earlier versions of P3D. Has some pretty acceptable repaints while not perfect, reasonably immersive systems.
I would also like to have a good functional 707 in P3D.

Warren
 
Two big problems with the CS 707 in P3D 64 bit - like the 727 all the gauges are 32 bit (end in ".gau") so don't show up AND the anti piracy "feature" means you lose the landing gear and flight contols if you install it anywhere other than your FSX folder. I tried to merge another VC (747, aerosoft DC8) and it was a no go.

Got her in the air and moving only by using the slew function. Largely unsatisfactory experience but took this screenie at the time not long ago:

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Just to clarify a couple of points.

'Big Mac': the stretched DC8 is a very long aircraft and the few flights I had as a passenger were 'interesting' if one was seated a way toward the rear.
(As serving members of the ADF on exchange duty we always ended up in the cheap seats!)

SOL: think about it. Has to do with being out of luck.

Captain Slack $9.00 sales: You get what you pay for.

Where their B707 flies: Originally FS2004, ported to FSX and FSX-SE, so it flies in P3Dv1 to P3Dv3, but not in v4 or v5. (32bit as opposed to 64bit sims).

British Caledonian cargo repaints??: Unless TDR can help out you are definitely SOL........:biggrin-new:

In FS terms this is ancient, an FS9 release in 2004 (IIRC) and ported to FSX around 2006 or whenever FSX was released.
I'd be first in line for a contemporary 2021 release of a B707 even at a 2021 price, but unless Captain Slack get inspired I'm not expecting anything.
 
I think it is a great model with many cool features and I have upgraded FSX to fly it in. We all want to newest, shiny thing and MSFS 2020 is very pretty but flying is what it is all about and, for me, the Capt Sim 707 is great fun in FSX.

For FSX I use Orbx Global and Vector and they both help with landclass details and such.
 
TeiscoDelRay said:
I think it is a great model with many cool features ---.
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Agree 110%; The 727 series is equally fine IMHO. BUT - boy, like the real 727, keep spooled up on final, don't use full flaps unless really necessary and watch the sink rates - hard to decrease if they build up on final, especially if you get slow!!!
 
TeiscoDelRay said:
I think it is a great model with many cool features and I have upgraded FSX to fly it in. We all want to newest, shiny thing and MSFS 2020 is very pretty but flying is what it is all about and, for me, the Capt Sim 707 is great fun in FSX.

For FSX I use Orbx Global and Vector and they both help with landclass details and such.
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In my case the Boeings are the reason I keep P3Dv3 operational.
It too has all the suitable ORBX additions that go with the B-707.
Thinking back to when I first purchased FS2004 both the B-707 and B-727 were my first additions, closely followed by the AH Spitfire collection.
Some 16 years ago as well.
:victorious:
 
RMIT Architecture [Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology] chartered a 707 back in '72 to go to England, Scotland, France and Italy as part of the Architecture course...so I have fond memories of the first jet aircraft I'd flown on. [first flight was at 2 weeks...on a DC3] ...;)
 
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