Freeware Zlin Z-142!

[bmd]

Something is wrong !!!

Hello,

On my computer I have this kind of problem. But in my case it is because I have firgotten to put ON the inverter switch

Remember also that color convention in this kind of artificial horizon is that brown is the sky and blue is ground. One can find an interresting discussion about this on the following forum

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/10337-artificial-horizon-russian-style.html

Have a good day

Benoit

 

[Obie311]

Lovely aircraft! Nice flyer. We have one of the Lycoming engined versions at KSZP.

I am glad to see that PWDT is still active. I have flown their LET-410 and think it is an underappreciated aircraft in the West.

One niggle though... The glass in the instrument panel appears kind of frosty or translucent. Compare the pix of the FS9 panel vs the new FSX panel. The instruments are less legible in the FSX version. Is there a fix or patch for this?

 

[FentiFlier1]

What a nice surprise!

A very nice piece of freeware, great fun to fly - thanks a lot to the developers

Owen.

 

[delta_lima]

Thanks Benoit,

Yes, I was aware of the difference in how the artificial horizon was depicted - it was the colours that confused me.

After checking (Czech-ing?), I see that indeed many Zlin panels show this (blue=earth, brown = sky) ...





But on other models (on this 242, I believe), it's the more Western convention (blue=sky, brown=earth) ...





Wondering if the American-registered ones use the Western A/H instrumentation?

Still, from a pure "ease of use", I'm hard pressed to understand why blue=ground, brown=sky would make sense. Hoping some of our Eastern European colleagues can help understand this ...

Again, not a nitpick with the model - it's clearly accurate to how many, if not most, are done - I just find it interesting.

Had another spin - very enjoyable flight characteristics. Sounds are really immersive too.

Bravo!

dl

 

[Roger]

Thanks to vonstroheim, I'm becoming Hungarian with all that great LH Simulations freeware scenery and as a thank-you I will purchase some of their payware

 

[gaspen]

Thanks Benoit,

Yes, I was aware of the difference in how the artificial horizon was depicted - it was the colours that confused me.

After checking (Czech-ing?), I see that indeed many Zlin panels show this (blue=earth, brown = sky) ...

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But on other models (on this 242, I believe), it's the more Western convention (blue=sky, brown=earth) ...

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Wondering if the American-registered ones use the Western A/H instrumentation?

Still, from a pure "ease of use", I'm hard pressed to understand why blue=ground, brown=sky would make sense. Hoping some of our Eastern European colleagues can help understand this ...

Again, not a nitpick with the model - it's clearly accurate to how many, if not most, are done - I just find it interesting.

Had another spin - very enjoyable flight characteristics. Sounds are really immersive too.

Bravo!

dl

In Wild East everything is different Z-242 equipped with Lycoming engine, it has certifications for West and US, that's why it has western intsruments also. But we, eastern peoples love eastern planes, for example Z-142

Cheers
Bence

 

[delta_lima]

In Wild East everything is different Z-242 equipped with Lycoming engine, it has certifications for West and US, that's why it has western intsruments also. But we, eastern peoples love eastern planes, for example Z-142

Cheers
Bence

So it's simply convention then. OK - thanks for explaining.

Welcome to SOH, btw!

dl

 

[Rudyjo]

Lovely aircraft! Nice flyer. We have one of the Lycoming engined versions at KSZP.

I am glad to see that PWDT is still active. I have flown their LET-410 and think it is an underappreciated aircraft in the West.

One niggle though... The glass in the instrument panel appears kind of frosty or translucent. Compare the pix of the FS9 panel vs the new FSX panel. The instruments are less legible in the FSX version. Is there a fix or patch for this?

I have the same little nit-pick also. It almost looks like there is a piece of wax paper covering the instruments.

 

[AnotherOneJustGreat]

Very cool plane! Will definitely spend time with this one, a nice complement to the excellent Sibwings AN-2 and another little peek into a whole world of aviation that's basically still a white spot on my map, BoS and all.

One question: I tried a clean power-on stall just now, keeping the plane straight with rudder as is usual - this resulted in the plane basically falling down tail down/nose-up, no wing drop or nose drop. Fixed easily enough, just lower the nose again and she will recover, but I'm wondering if the real plane does this as well?

 

[ryanbatc]

I must ask WTF were they thinking when they decided to make brown the sky and blue the ground????

 

[b24_witchcraft]

Very nice work and thank you goes out to Zlin and the entire PWDT team!
Excellent freeware offering!

 

[dougal]

Put simply.... STUNNING!!!!

Thanks to ALL involved in bringing this to the FS community

 

[SeanTK]

I must ask WTF were they thinking when they decided to make brown the sky and blue the ground????

Based on the operation of this instrument, the sky is indeed blue and ground is brown on this gauge...not sure what you're on about.


Anyway....

Sounds like a layered paint kit may be in the works. If so, I'm looking forward to it.

Also, just an advisory for the crowd which doesn't browse through files they installed, there is a flight manual located in the aircraft's folder, within your simobjects/airplanes folder.
It's brief but useful, and contains a history of the real thing, a cockpit guide, and a checklist.

A few features to check out include the wheel "spats" or covers that can be applied/removed at will using a clickspot in the cockpit. Also, working sunshades on the canopy roof. Additionally, check out the automatic/built-in gauge back-lighting at night. Looks nice!

 

[heywooood]

yes the lighting, the sound, the textures and on and on - incredible freeware
Huge Thank You to the developer/modeler of this excellent plane.

 

[ZsoltB]

Paintkit available:

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fsxacrp&DLID=186701

 

[William Njurmi]

Maybe I remember wrong, but when I started gliding in early eighties our club had a Blanik. It was equipped with a artificial horizont that looked like the one in this Zlin. It was brown up and blue down to indicate that it is not switched on. When you engaged it and gyros started to run, it flipped itself into more logical position, blue up and brown down?

 

[Anneke]

Re the 'wrong' artificial horizon which is the famous russian style AH which seems counter intuitive for us westerns. See some background info here:
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/learmount/2009/02/which_way_is_up_for_eastern_an/

 

[Fireball6]

Dear PWDT-Team, thank you very much for this excellent plane

Kindest regards

Dirk

 

[bmd]

z-142 artificial horizon

Hello,

I have made a comparaison between the AH of the new model and the AH of the FS2004 model.

In the case of the new model, what one can see is that the AH behave as the brown collor is aassociated with sky and the blue color is associated with ground

In the case of the fs2004 model the blue was associated to sky and the brown associated to ground. But the color are upside down. Which one is correct?

Have a good day

Benoit

 

[ryanbatc]

My attitude indicator just keeps flipping around and around... inverter on and uncaged...

That's why I'm confused... shouldn't the brown be on the bottom and blue at the top?