Iris Pro series F-14 --> I need help please

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GregG

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Hello everyone,

I recently purchased the IRIS pro series F-14 and I'm very, very pleased with it.

I have a few problems though...first and foremost, I can't tune my com to 112, which is the ILS frequency of Javier's carriers. That means that I can't make an ILS landing! I contacted IRIS about it, but no joy, and their forum is like a ghost town too. I PM-ed David, but got no reply either.
Is there a file one could change in notepad that contains the com frequency range of an aircraft?

Refueling: the manual says that as long as the probe is extended and you're between 250-270 knots IAS, and between 15,000-17,000 feet AGL the plane will refuel itself. Well, it's not the case. (don't you need a refueling aircraft anyway?)

I also think the stock skins look way too bright and clean and rather ruin the look of it. Are there any nice repaints available? I'm tweaking the stock VF-84 skin (my favorite), I added some weathering and made it darker. Still too bright probably, compared to the environment:

stock VF-1
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my VF-84
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Such a superb and highly detailed add-on, why couldn't they hire someone who can make repaints that are up to the standards set by this otherwise breathtaking plane?

Thank you for your help in advance%

Greg
 
GregG said:
Hello everyone,

I recently purchased the IRIS pro series F-14 and I'm very, very pleased with it.

I have a few problems though...first and foremost, I can't tune my com to 112, which is the ILS frequency of Javier's carriers. That means that I can't make an ILS landing! I contacted IRIS about it, but no joy, and their forum is like a ghost town too. I PM-ed David, but got no reply either.
Is there a file one could change in notepad that contains the com frequency range of an aircraft?

Greg
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ILS Frequencies operate through your navigation (nav) radio, not your communications (com) radio.
That may be your problem, tuning the wrong radio system.
Not familiar enough with this addon to provide assistance with the other problems.
 
I'm afraid David is back in the hospital for more surgery at the moment. May i reccomend that you also drop a note on the iris facebook page. That way, I know Karen will get it and keep it aside for david to respond too.. I'm afraid I only made the bird fly, and i never use radios. Sorry..
Pam
 
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that :(

Thanks for the advice though, I left them a message on their facebook wall.

I absolutely love this bird - give me my frequencies and I won't stop flying her :)

@ Sean: Unfortunately it's your COM that you have to tune to 112 (or TACAN57x which is = COM 112). I tried it with my NAV, but no joy.
 
By coincidence, I have just been flying the IRIS F-14A/B Pro extensivley over the past couple of weeks. Also been flying and comparing it with Dino Cattaneo's F-14D. Each has different pros' and cons'. The main focus of this exercise was to evaluate and tweak the carrier TACAN avionics available and learing how to use this to find the carriers e.g. in the dark and/or foul weather. In the course of this, from a purely aesthetic standpoint, you become transfixed with how graceful and beguiling the Tomcat design was, and what a great job both IRIS and Dino did with their visual models.

Here is what I did:

1. Download the TACAN gauge by Sylvain availabe here http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...arrier-Tacan-available-on-RFN&highlight=tacan and install it as a pop up gauge in your IRIS F-14 panel.cfg. Note the entries for radio frequencies that go in the VC section of your panel.cfg. These give you a choice of setting the TACAN to work from either NAV1 or NAV2. In my experience, both will enable the gauge to point to the carrier and display the distance to it (so I can e.g. set NAV1 for 112 and NAV2 for 111 - so if there are any moving default carriers around, it will point to them as well).

2 Copy and paste into your panel.cfg the BendixKing radio stack/AP from the default Cessna/Baron etc - also used in many other freeware planes. I almost always do this to get a simple to use autopilot and radio. Can't remember which F-14, but I think one of them - maybe IRIS - would not let me change the NAV frequency displayed I think on the left console, perhaps as you are also finding. Anyway, the Bendix radio stack allowed me to tune the frequency to 112 for Javier's Nimitz and the TACAN guage would then find this and e.g. the Foch/Clem without a problem.

FYI - I added the "Realistic F/A-18 HUD for Dino Cattaneo" [i.e., his F-14D] done by Jivko Rusev at simviation.com to the Dino F-14, because it has a built in TACAN feature that displays the distance to the carrier and direction arrow for its heading right in the HUD. I then went a further step, and merged this whole VC - with the HUD/TACAN feature - into the IRIS aircraft. There were the usual steps involved with merging a native FSX VC in a different aircraft, and I also ended up de-activating the IRIS AP (it is well and realistically modelled, but I need one I can engage more easily/quickly) in the IRIS xml gauges, which allowed preserving the nice IRIS F-14 light functionality. Result: a great piece of air superiority kit for all weather carrier ops.

Like you, I tend to prefer the non-factory fresh paints, but those can also be over done. The best ones have more sublte grease stains and smudges etc. There is one I have for the IRIS F-14 for VF-124 Ghost Riders which is my favorite, but I could not find it - and one or two others I like and have in my file - anywhere on the net currently. May have been done by Banana Bob (or Yago?) and no longer available? Scott Minty did a whole bunch of IRIS paints - factory fresh variety - and I like and have several of these in my short list.

Let me know how you get on.
 
Thanks for the tips, I'll give it a try. However, I'd prefer to keep the stock HUD, I like it very much and I'm not very good at fiddling with files.

I agree, Banana Bob's skins look brilliant, but he's disappeared and his fiels are no longer availably anywhere which is a real shame :(
 
Reading it again, it seems that I can modify the default frequencies of carriers in my FSX/Gauges/carrier.xml file?

That alone would solve my problem. But are JAvier's carriers in there too? I can't check, I'm not at home right now (and won't be for quite a while :( )
 
i dont know about the cat, but, bananabob paints have been getting gathered..
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Thanks, have been there a few times recently trying to hunt down all the best F-14 paints. I keep seeing screenshots of Bob's work (and possilby others') in Google - and also maybe actually have in my own folders - that I cannot today find here under his re-grouped files or anywhere else. Very close inspection is required to judge which model it is as they are each so well done.

BTW - Pam - great work on the IRIS F-14A FDE. I have enjoyed many hours with it.
 
If you gentlemen wouldnt mind, and if you could be so kind, Bananabob gave us and OzX permission to gather up and archive his works for the masses. So if you wouldnt mind uploading them that would be awesome as it would allow everyone to have a copy.. Details are in the thread link i posted this morning..
Talk soon
Pam
 
I did the majority of the original paints for the FS9 release and they were converted for FSX. They are probably too clean, I admit that. They were mainly to represent the high viz era of glossy grey/white and they were kept pretty good in those days.
Sorry that they are not good enough for you. Another good reason to keep retirement :) I hope you're in luck with better paintjobs elsewhere.


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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=58.853034,5.719342
 
Installing that TACAN gauge didn't help. I still can't set my com to 112 and even if I changed the Nimitz freq to 118 in the carriers.xlm, it didn't work either :(
 
DagR,

For what it is worth, my own view is that the vast majority of simmers prefer the cleaner versions like you have done for the IRIS F-14 and that only a smaller minority like the quirkier "dirty" or "weathered" versions and, as I mentioned, too often these paints go too far and over-do it. If anything, the cleaner ones on planes like the F-14 are more historically accurate as the pilots and crews generally kept them very tidy. It's only a matter of personal taste. I fly the default paints you have done just as much if not more and these are absolutely first class as are your painting skills. Wish I could do what you can do.:salute:

Pam,

Would be happy to upload what I have asap, BUT, I don't have any notes or read-me's AND if I upload something stating it was authored by BananaBob and then someone else says, er, actually, I did it, then that could be a bit awkward . .

Welcome any suggestions on this!

GregG,

Probably should NOT change the Javier TACAN to anything other than 112. Not sure what the problem is and will do some testing on my native IRIS Tomcat.

Regards,

expat
 
Just tried out the "normal" IRIS cat - with Sylvain's TACAN gauge added - and had no problem dialling in 112 on the NAV display (to the right of the MFD with the red arrow pointing to it).

I would try putting Sylvain's gauges directly into your panel folder. Didn't work for me first time in the main gauges folder - I normally in FSX put all gauges these days in the a/c panel folder.

See screenie attached. My panel.cfg attached if that helps.
 
Hello,

Thanks that's one step forward, but what I would like to have are those vectors on my HUD, which I can only get if I tune my com to 112 and not my nav, apparently :(

Cheers,
 
Would be happy to upload what I have asap, BUT, I don't have any notes or read-me's AND if I upload something stating it was authored by BananaBob and then someone else says, er, actually, I did it, then that could be a bit awkward .
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Put it into a zip, rename it to "BananaBobs_F14s" and you can also include a txt saying "Repaints made by BananaBob"

After all, you're not uploading to an official repaint resource, you're merely sending it to us because we asked you to do so :)

I would buy you a virtual beer for that dirty VF-84 cat! :icon29: :salute:
 
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