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Little Sale at Lionheart Creations

L

Lionheart

SOH-CM-2014
Hey all,

Just a heads up. I am running an Epic Aircraft sale at the hanger. This is a weekend sale, ending Midnight Sunday night Phoenix Arizona, USA time.

Epic LT........Normally $24.95........Sale $14.00............FSX and FS2004 Models included

Epic Victory...Normally $28.95......Sale $15.00.............FSX only

The Sale is through my website only, through PayPal / Payloadz, and through Flight1.

These feature voice system Auto Pilots, Garmin G1000 glass panel systems, and too many paint schemes.

Just a heads up. So dont yell at me and say I didnt tell you about it on Monday morning...


Epic LT page; www.lionheartcreations.com/Epic_LT
Epic Victory Page; www.lionheartcreations.com/Victory


Bill
LHC
 
Thanks, Mr. Bill "LionHeart" - Those are great deals!:applause:
BTW: Sent you a PM response; do let me know; Thanks again! :wavey:

EDIT: Though you should know that the download links are backwards on those pages (i.e. Epic Page - has the Victory Download and vise versa). :kilroy: But, able to download...

EDIT: Thanks for fixing the web links ... Just Purchased the Victory; already own the Epic LT. Now just hoping/waiting for the CD's.


Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
From,
James F. Chams
 
Thank you Bill! Bought both. since just switching over to FSX I'm curious as yto how these will run on my new rig. I'm sure I'll end up getting the Socata also soon.
 
Skyhawk,
I have a collection of RealAirs which are all pretty smooth birds, Bill's Epic and Kodiak birds run as smoothly as the RealAirs on FSX for me.

The LT is my go everywhere exploration bird. It gets in and out under 1000' and with the long range tanks gives me 2000+nm range. I can cover SFO-HNL type distances even with a headwind

Bill, I edited the Eyepoint in my LT a little to give me a little better VFR view for the default VC view.

eyepoint=1.10, -1.20, 2.15

That point is slightly foward and gives you a little more view out the side window, and slightly higher. The standbys are still in view looking foward and at .40 zoom the engine instruments are in view too.

Cheers
TJ
 
skyhawka4m said:
Thank you Bill! Bought both. since just switching over to FSX I'm curious as yto how these will run on my new rig. I'm sure I'll end up getting the Socata also soon.
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Hey Skyhawk,

These arent 'basic'. They have a ton of textures in them, with a few textures being 'double size'. So be warned, they are not for really slow computers. They do not need super rigs either, so any middle range computer should run them just fine. My Garmin glass screen system is designed to be very efficient in FS. We have some interesting technology that makes them faster. I also used 'no' 32bit textures. I have some double size textures, but no 32bit textures as mid to slower range computers always seem to stumble slightly with those. Double size are usually ok.

The Trinidad and Tobago package is 'non-FSX' true. It uses FS2004 MDL files and FS2004 Gmax materials, so they will not run in DirectX 10 mode in FSX. They are also said to run slower then pure FSX models, so I dont recommend the Trinidad package to FSX people. As a matter of fact, I pulled the line and my vendors said no, so I am still selling it for FSX.

Let me know if you guys have any questions on them.


Bill
 
Well I just flew both and they fly in great order. No issues at all and getting good frame raters to boot.

I have a Quad core I5 with a Radien 5770 with 1gb ram. Seems to be a good system, made by Asus.
 
THe LT, Victory and Kodiak are all wonderful planes to go enjoy remote challenging sceneries like Lukla, Saba, St. Barts...etc. Sometimes I swear the LT and Vic pretend to be bush planes :jump: I wonder if the Kodiak can make it onto that Cub Challenge platform in that other thread :D
 
Gee Bill - Thanks!

I've got your Kodiak and Epic (there is an Epic at my airport, but I have not gotten a ride in it yet) and enjoy both of them immensely. My eye has been on your Victory, but I have had other things occupying my FSX time (just got my Anywhere map linked through FSUIPC 4 and bluetooth - so much more like the real thing). At $15 your Victory is way too hard to resist and the download finished while I was writing this note. Thank you.
 
Thanks, Mr. Bill "LionHeart" - Those are great deals!:applause:
BTW: Sent you a PM response; do let me know; Thanks again! :wavey:

EDIT: Though you should know that the download links are backwards on those pages (i.e. Epic Page - has the Victory Download and vise versa). :kilroy: But, able to download...
Click to expand...

EDIT: Thanks for fixing the web links ... Just Purchased the Victory; already own the Epic LT. Now, just hoping/waiting for the CD's. Thanks Again! :wavey:

Hebrews 11:6 "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
From,
James F. Chams
 
Bill....

Do your Garmins run better than the defaults? I can't run the default Baron, Cessna or Mooney with them. Cuts my frame rates in half.
 
i love the kodiak and the victory. i fly them more than anything else . if my c.c. wasn't maxed right now, i'd get the LT as well. LHC makes the best payware out there
 
Wow! Great offer Bill!
If I hadn't got them all I'd be queueing up to buy them all:jump:
 
Brian_Gladden said:
Bill....

Do your Garmins run better than the defaults? I can't run the default Baron, Cessna or Mooney with them. Cuts my frame rates in half.
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Hey Brian,

I havent run a comparison but I am told I have the fastest 'glass screens' on the market. We redid the code on the screens several times and found out some neat tricks to make them run fast.
1. Refresh rates were lowered, rendering them slower, reducing the pulses of system draw. This was done on both the PFD and the MFD.
Amazingly, the MFD or GPS (basically) is a seperate 'simulator' in a 2D form, like a moving map. The Sim and Computer are 'rendering' another FS in the main FS window (GPS being seen 'in' the FS virtual world). So reducing its rendering pulses or refresh rates helped lessen computer load considerably.

2. We made the GPS (MFD) to be able to have the map turned off. This brings up performance massively. At first, we were just turning off the view map, but found it was still rendering the map. Dwight found a way to turn it fully off. We called that Sleep Mode. Click the Sleep menu button and the screen goes to like a screen saver mode. The other Gauge functions surrounding the MFD still function, only the GPS map window is asleep and a screensaver Garmin screen shows.


Also... On the Victory, we added the checklist into the MFD screen. It has a bunch of Checklists for say startup to landing to shutdown, and also the FS controls walk throughs including working the navigation on the MFD and AP. On the Epic, the checklist is built into a fictional hand held LCD Tablet device. (So if you are looking for the Checklist, its not where you usually find them. Yes.... Its bizzarro, but its cool, baby). :d

Brian, it doesnt really answer your question. I dont know if mine are faster then the FSX Garmins. I want to say, yes, by a long shot, because of our handling of the MFD/GPS screen, but I might be wrong. Also, all computers seem to handle FSX differently, so it could be very fast on an old computer and slow on a newer one.. Crazy how it all works....



Bill
 
Hi Bill,

Great offer, great price, great product. Just purchased my copy and downloading now. Thanks!
 
Hey Koorby, most welcome.


Gang, if you are buying them now, please read through the manuals. Your main issue will be how the Auto Pilot works. Its 'sophisticated'. It might have a nice female voice, but it has 'sub systems'. Once you learn it the first time, its cake from there on. Just read how it works.

On the Epic LT, start it up with red condition lever at 40%. When you go to taxi, give it a bit of throttle and wait about 4 seconds. It spools up with a delayed effect. This is prominent on the actual Epic LT's and the management at Epic said I hit it dead on. They would take out real pilots onto the taxi ways and have them spend the day just taxiing around, getting the hang of the spool up effect. The turboprop powerplant is extremely powerful for such a lite-weight carbon fiber airframe.

Aside from that, the rest is cake.

You can program your own music into the sound system. They both have XML radio, via some demo music supplied. You can change the music renaming it to the ones that are in the manual. Just make sure they are 16bit WAV format for WIndows / FS to run. Anything else will not run in FS.

If your plane doesnt show up in FSX, you probably have vista 64 or Win7 64 and its hiding FSX from my registry sniffer. If that is the case, then run the installer again, and this time, before it begins actual files uploading, click the Browser button and point it to the location of FSX.

Let me know if you have any questions.


Bill
 
Just picked up the Epic LT and the Victory. Great work!!!

They both are a joy to fly and just look at!!
 
I hadn't picked up the Victory yet, and this sale was the perfect reminder. I just took my first short hop, and WOW. What a great-looking and great-flying little ride. How do you get them to look so good and be so easy on the FPS?

Thanks for the generous sale! Now I'm off to read the manual on the autopilot. :ernae:
 
Glad I saw the tread here. I'm batteling with a new machine, but definitely going to pick up the Victory for when I get things worked out. And I can vouch for the fast Garmins' in your planes as well Bill. I had no probs running them on my P4 7800GS AGP machine :ernae:
 
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