Aeroplane Heaven Lancaster available!

jankees said:
no, but when I try to apply another model, my paint does not show up, and I always have the H2S radar, even with the 'normal' model. I need a break, good thing I'm going on holiday this Wednesday...
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This is strange. I've spent a lot of time today, trying to figure out how to edit the aircraft.cfg. But every time I edit the model entry, the livery doesn't show up. model = "" seems to be the only way to see the livery (with H2S radar) :unsure:
 
OK guys, here's the thing. Are you following the instructions in the SDK? If not, please get hold of the SDK. In there it will tell you how to paint a livery and have it show. The process is VERY different these days. Now, the other thing is that because we do not use a separate model folder for each variant but use aliases, the structure is not the same as some other add-ons. We do this to save drive space and therefore total file size. This benefits the processing in MarketPlace.

Therefore you will only ever get the model used in the last entry of the aircraft cfg. So that is why it is always the H2S. We are going to produce a video on how to set up a repaint for our Lancaster. We will post a link to it here.
 
Bazzar, whatever the tweaks and corrections to be made in the future
I think this aircraft is one of the best looking warbirds ever produced for MSFS. Thank you so much!

Looking from below the flaps and ailerons could be a bit more worn.
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bazzar said:
Here's a link to a video explaining the repaint process to get your livery to show with the correct model.
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Thanks bazzar!
Looks better now
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Thanks for the video and helper file :)
My pink fuselage was due to my 'tidying-up' and deleting the local normals files 'because I hadn't changed them'.
This livery is a little inaccurate so for my own use only...
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BTW in Neville's video he says you have to run MSFSLayoutGenerator.exe in a command window by typing stuff, but you can save the exe somewhere and create a shortcut to it, then for each livery just copy the shortcut to your livery folder and run it by dragging your layout.json onto the Shortcut.
 
I'd love to see a proper Lancastrian, as well as one or two of the post-war Lancaster configurations ( e.g. the French and RCAF ones ) as a paid add-on. The AH Lancaster seems to have gone down very well, and I'd certainly be interested in an expansion.
 
On route to Berlin fully loaded @ 29.000 kg. Does anyone know how to get to 20.000ft? I'm flying by the book, 175mph, +8 boost , 2850 rpm and mixture leaned but the Lancaster won't climb above 11.000 ft.
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I once saw a Lancaster in its appearance at Mid Atlantic Air Museum's WW II Weekend in Reading PA, USA. I was very impressed with its massive size!! Quite a memorable bird.
 
ftl818 said:
On route to Berlin fully loaded @ 29.000 kg. Does anyone know how to get to 20.000ft? I'm flying by the book, 175mph, +8 boost , 2850 rpm and mixture leaned but the Lancaster won't climb above 11.000 ft.

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Probably don't lean much whilst still climbing.
Are superchargers engaged?
Are you using the Autocontrols? There is a 'feature' where they might lock to 10,000 ft (try editing runway.flt (for a runway start) and change the 10000 ft value to 20000 ft).
 
Tom Clayton said:
The Orbx app should allow cards and PayPal - at least mine does.
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I thought so too ! Bought various Orbx stuff earlier but now i couldn't find a link to Paypal anywhere.

Orbx should handle that better, they lost me as a customer for the Lank. Bought it at Just Flight (but not via the greyed out button at Orbx ??..)

Thanks Tom !
 
ftl818 said:
On route to Berlin fully loaded @ 29.000 kg. Does anyone know how to get to 20.000ft? I'm flying by the book, 175mph, +8 boost , 2850 rpm and mixture leaned but the Lancaster won't climb above 11.000 ft.
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I have just flown 22,000 kg to 15.600 and still climbing at 145 mph, supercharger "ON". . Fuel at 50% boost cutout ON and mixture leaned off to 9.5%. I am also getting severe icing which is also probably not great for engines and performance. As a matter of interest, the military service ceiling for a Lancaster is 19,000 ft. Lancs were used for night bombing at relatively low level. They left the high altitude stuff to the B17 which had the accuracy of the Norden bombsight.
 
bazzar said:
I have just flown 22,000 kg to 15.600 and still climbing at 145 mph, supercharger "ON". . Fuel at 50% boost cutout ON and mixture leaned off to 9.5%. I am also getting severe icing which is also probably not great for engines and performance. As a matter of interest, the military service ceiling for a Lancaster is 19,000 ft. Lancs were used for night bombing at relatively low level. They left the high altitude stuff to the B17 which had the accuracy of the Norden bombsight.
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I'll try to replicate your settings. Thanks.
 
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