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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

FSD Turbine Toucan is now released

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Tim_FSD

Charter Member
The Turbine Toucan is now available for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. The FS X Turbine Toucan was made with the cooperation of Infinity Entertainment and represents the highest degree of accuracy possible.
The Turbine Toucan represents the highest thrust-to-weight ratio aircraft in the world today, including any current jet fighter in the U.S. arsenal. Now you have the opportunity to fly this incredible aircraft on their own PC with a virtual model that is absolutely accurate to its real world counterpart. This allows anyone to be inventive and create maneuvers and break boundaries in a way that can only be accomplished with the Turbine Toucan, in both the real and virtual worlds.
For more details see the Toucan web page at http://www.fsd-international.com/Hangar/Toucan

You may also be interested in the real world Turbine Toucan at the Infinity Entertainment site:
http://www.turbinetoucan.com/homepage/


Enjoy!
 
David Kervinen builder & a pilot of the Turbine Toucan , supplied technical data and much insight into how the aircraft performs , he hoped that virtual pilots could come up with some new manoeuvres to introduce into shows , FSD offers to place the scenery package included with the Turbine Toucan anywhere in the fs world in exchange for the production of utube video footage of stunts.
 
(following the link) seeing it's features advertised a.o. as This native Flight Simulator X model has the best detailed aircraft modeling you will ever see in this simulator , makes me lose interrest in it. Almost by definition, when such a statement is used.

Sorry, Rob
 
rcbarend said:
(following the link) seeing it's features advertised a.o. as This native Flight Simulator X model has the best detailed aircraft modeling you will ever see in this simulator , makes me lose interrest in it. Almost by definition, when such a statement is used.

Sorry, Rob
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not nice!

Sorry
 
the real cockpit looks a little FS 2004 to me, i think this is a great little Aircraft at a great price, with good feedback from users maybe a patch can be generated down the road to fix little things.
 
The aircrafts interior is quite Spartan , it was designed to be as light as possible in the real world and within FSX it has fewer draw calls than the default P51 and about the same texture load yet still has each screw modelled , the VC includes popups of all the glass displays and is rendered with VRay for shading and all paintwork , its uses state of the art production methods but looks very clean as the aircraft is kept spotless<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
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One of the best ways to familiarize yourself with handling the aircraft are the Red Bull Missions included with Accel , , the animations when you clip a pilon are well done and having other players on the course adds to the pleasure , my other favorite was a run up the Grand Canyon , that being a constant source of fun though not legal i suspect.

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Tim_FSD said:
The Turbine Toucan represents the highest thrust-to-weight ratio aircraft in the world today, including any current jet fighter in the U.S. arsenal.
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Eeew, that statement alone makes it kind of hard to resist! Like to hear some flight reviews by SOH members, nothing like a good hot rod! :kilroy:
 
It’s a handful , this plane can go pure vertical after a one hundred foot ground roll and has two time to climb records to date , engine management is the pilots job , without keeping a lid on power output it will blow the gearbox , it can be reset in game but i have listened to that boom grinding sound a couple of times.
 
It can be turned off in the engine management popup , there is other data that gets logged as well like fuel , hours and the number of flights.
 
Never heard of the plane but very interesting... is it's aerodynamic performance similar to a pitts?
 
That's a great link , gotta give a few of those a try ! , dont forget that FSD are offering freebies to Virtual Pilots for video submissions of their stunts uploaded to utube.

The aerodynamics of the Turbine Toucan share a great deal with the Pitts though the construction makes use of modern materials throughout , composites , carbon fiber and Aluminum alloys. CJ
 
Chuck and Tim,

Since no one has mentioned buying and flying this monster (stated with politeness and respect for the real thing):

No real issues at the end of this so hang in for a minute. :salute:

I bought it about an hour ago. I had an Installer Error 70, then it phoned home to to validate the license. That appeared to go OK. I couldn't shut down the installer, kept getting "Invalid Parameter". So, I ended it via the Task Manager. Then, I saw a thread on your site that was similar. I just did another run of the installer and it completed successfully. The PC is Win7, 32 Bit, UAC is off. Norton was off during the download.

First Flight: At first I forgot this was a turbo-prop so advanced the condition lever, and hit Start . The next thing I know, I'm 300 feet up and balistic. :isadizzy: This is one very twitchy airplane. Just via plane(?) dumb luck, I didn't break anything. Now - here is the only issue: Where in the heck is my stomach?

For the overly picky: This is a pilot's airplane. Accept it as that. :ernae:

Glenn
 
glennc said:
First Flight: At first I forgot this was a turbo-prop so advanced the condition lever, and hit Start . The next thing I know, I'm 300 feet up and balistic.
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Ditto! I have to say, so far starting it by the checklist doesn't seem to work very well. Not much guidance on flying it either, so you're kind of on your own...
 
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