RAZBAM T-2 Buckeye FSX released (Payware)

Darn, if this isn't the toughest plane I have ever tried to buy. I finally was able to login and purchase the T-2. Got my acknowledgement email from RAZBAM and my receipt from PayPal. Only problem now is how the hell do I download it ???? I login, go to my account and the purchase shows as pending...no download available. And it's snowing again up here in cold country:confused:
 
jojohnson9 said:
Darn, if this isn't the toughest plane I have ever tried to buy. I finally was able to login and purchase the T-2. Got my acknowledgement email from RAZBAM and my receipt from PayPal. Only problem now is how the hell do I download it ???? I login, go to my account and the purchase shows as pending...no download available. And it's snowing again up here in cold country:confused:
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Taking care of it, if you´re one of the few having download issues, i´ll fix it using "yousendit" with your purchase and same number of downloads, stby, please

Prowler
 
Prowler, thanks for the help. It downloaded fine...and quickly-big file! Installed it, flew it, love it. It was definitely worth the wait.
 
Wow, I seem to be filling up this thread. After clearing up all the new snow outside, I am trying to operate my new T-2. I seem to be having a few problems. I've read the manual through two times but can't get a few things to operate.

Launch bar: cannot get it to appear (ctrl+l according to the manual)

The radio preset and the Weapon Control Station panels display but do not function.

I have no rear cockpit, only vc is front pit.

Anyone else having these troubles ?
 
I am starting to like this plane a lot. I have to ask my instructor on tips as he surely flew them before flying A-7s for the HAF.

Meanwhile I had a great time with it tonight. I enjoyed carrier ops:

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but mainly flying the T-2E out of Kalamata, armed and dangerous:
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Here is the effect of a rocket attack on a farmer's warehouse and strafing a smuggler's boat with the .50s:
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jojohnson9 said:
Wow, I seem to be filling up this thread. After clearing up all the new snow outside, I am trying to operate my new T-2. I seem to be having a few problems. I've read the manual through two times but can't get a few things to operate.

Launch bar: cannot get it to appear (ctrl+l according to the manual)

The radio preset and the Weapon Control Station panels display but do not function.

I have no rear cockpit, only vc is front pit.

Anyone else having these troubles ?
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John, must be a typo in the manual (I'll check that and contact Ron), but the launch bridle is activated not by CTRL+I but by using SHIFT+I.
About the radio, haven't checked that out (sorry, I was just the painter......) but will do so eventually.
With the control CTRL + Enter you can move yourself into the rear cockpit, and adjusting your height with SHIFT + Enter.

Cheers, :salute:
Hank
 
Manual typo, you have to use FSX default keystrokes, that is CTRL+U for "deploying" the cat bar and CTRL+I to "attach" the cat bar
As for the 2nd cockpit, SNAFU from me, the coordinates are in the aircraft cfg, look for this:

[Views]
eyepoint = 10.90,0.00,3.38
//eyepoint=5.41,0.00,4.16


Just erase the "//" in the bottom info and add them to the top, that will put you in the back seat.

All will be fixed in the now mandatory patch

Best regards

Prowler
 
hae5904 said:
John, must be a typo in the manual (I'll check that and contact Ron), but the launch bridle is activated not by CTRL+I but by using SHIFT+I.
About the radio, haven't checked that out (sorry, I was just the painter......) but will do so eventually.
With the control CTRL + Enter you can move yourself into the rear cockpit, and adjusting your height with SHIFT + Enter.

Cheers, :salute:
Hank
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Thanks for the help. Works when I do it right. I had a massive brain fart on the Weapon Control Panel....it is printed on the panel that it only works with engines off and BRAKES set. I guess I need some more ground training.
 
Has anyone else noticed that the aileron movements seemed reversed in the virtual cockpit view? I.e. I bank right but right wing aileron moves down?
 
I was able to use the weapons control station as you can see from the pictures above. You have to have the engines shut down and parking brakes applied, just like in the A-7. Load her up and away you go. As for the back seat, I did not have it either. I'll check the cfg file as Prowler suggests.

One more thing on the weapons. When guns are selected the fire button (after mapping it as suggested in the manual) operates just once, like a bomb or rocket launch so I guess that to fire a long burst you have to fire repeatedly. Also there is no associated effect on the guns firing except for the round hits on the ground or water.
 
First repaint WIP

Here's my first repaint for the bird. It's a rehash of my HQMC paint of the previous version.
 
How to improve frame rates

First and foremost congratulations and thanks to RAZBAM. I, like several other customers, have encountered problems downloading my purchase but have been very impressed by RAZBAM's prompt and pragmatic approach to resolving the matter. :applause:

One thing I would suggest to user's who are experiencing poor frame-rates, especially in external view, is to consider downgrading your external aircraft textures using a utility such as DXTBmp. My system was running like a dog in external view. I noticed that the aircraft's external textures are all saved in the highest quality 32bit (DDS 888-8) format. I converted one of the texture variations to DDS DXT5 format which resulted in vastly improved external frame-rates with no appreciable loss in quality.

This is not a criticism of RAZBAM as they have provided the highest quality textures possible. However, it might be useful (perhaps in a future update) to include DXT5 and 888-8 textures and to provide the user the option of choosing which textures to install. This would save time and effort particularly for those users who are not confident enough, or inclined, to convert the textures themselves.

Regards, Taff
 
Just uploaded to here and flightsim.com my HQMC repaint. Now I'm toying with a 75th Naval Aviation paint scheme for this bird.
 
sarwulf said:
Has anyone else noticed that the aileron movements seemed reversed in the virtual cockpit view? I.e. I bank right but right wing aileron moves down?
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Yeah, from inside the VC, the aileron animations are reversed.
 
"Do you mean 100th ? Either way, looking forward to it." Nope, I meant the 75th ann. For those of us who were around then, ( I was a young Marine SGT at the time) there were some colorful navy birds flying around. Here's what I'm working on.
 
johndetrick said:
"Do you mean 100th ? Either way, looking forward to it." Nope, I meant the 75th ann. For those of us who were around then, ( I was a young Marine SGT at the time) there were some colorful navy birds flying around. Here's what I'm working on.
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That one is a beauty.

Just a quick heads up. The bugs have been fixed. We will start migration to another hosting service today. We expect to be fully operational by tomorrow.
 
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