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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

Avelina from Lionheart Creations is now launched!

Lionheart said:
Im sorry P38Man. I would offer you another one of my planes, but they all have seats as well that are normal person layout. I think they might all do the same thing.

Let me know what I can do.



Bill
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Hi Bill,

No need to be sorry at all its not your fault. I still feel you are not quite getting my point though so please allow me just to explain an aspect one more time only - I have almost all your other planes and there is no problem with them for me - no problem with the Epic Victory, Skylark, Epic Lt nor Kodiak nor A2A planes nor Carenado nor GAS nor Classics Hangars nor Aerosoft nor many others.

The key point is this - It is a very very fine thing you see. The seat and dash arrangement in the Avelina is just a combination of a fraction closer and a slightly steeper angle - just that tiny amount each.

I have decided to fly it completely without trackir and without a "full" view rather than create a hassle for something that really is my fault.

I really do appreciate your kind offer.

My personal opinion and feedback for others is this may not be the plane for someone with a HD resolution with Matrox as it is the only plane I have come across either payware or freeware with this issue with my setup.
 
Very nice aircraft! I am going to have to pick this one up. Like electric technologies, and love my electric car. In the back of my mind however I can only wonder like with the car if you are about to run out of electric juice while flying that it becomes a glider with a prop. :icon_lol:

As I side note kind of get peeved when people refer to electrics as "green" technology. More efficient certaintly since each gallon of gasoline has a BTU equivelent of 33.7kwh, and you are not giving off most of the energy as waste heat. However the electricity comes from somewhere. I charge my Chevy Volt with coal. Negates the green part, but helps keep my fellow Virginian's employed.
 
P38Man, have you tried to change the point of view in the aircraft cfg? You can move the seat back as well as lower the POV.
 
Many thanks guys for the kind words.

Roger that P38Man on the wide angle issue. I understand.


Hi Bill,

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Sale Active" on Monday on your website. Are both versions, FSX and FS9, going to be on sale for $28.95? I'm getting back a little into FS9 and would like to get both versions, but $57.90 would be a bit steep.

Thanks,

Joe
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Hello Joe,

Going on Sale meant going on Sale (Released) only, not being on a special.

It will go on a special sale sometime in the future, and I am sure SimMarket and FlightSimStore in Aus will do a 2 version discount on those. I'll post here when I find out.

I can understand how 'sale' can have dual meanings; for sale and on a special discount. Its not on discount right now.


I have nicknamed the Avelina 'Gauge Monster' over at FSDeveloper.com. With all the coding that went into it, it is indeed a gauge monster.



Very nice aircraft! I am going to have to pick this one up. Like electric technologies, and love my electric car. In the back of my mind however I can only wonder like with the car if you are about to run out of electric juice while flying that it becomes a glider with a prop.

Roadburner440
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Hey RoadRunner,

Yep, it will indeed become a glider, just like a plane that runs out of fuel, same thing.

We have a golf cart that is electric. It gets boggy as you run it low into the red. I wanted the Avelina to do this, but we couldlnt find a solid way of lowering power output as the fuel (electrical voltage level) got below 25%. One idea was to flip on an invisible spoiler lever, and add to it, so that the speed would drop, but the RPM would still be up, and that didnt seem right to me, or 'realistic'. Lowering the overall output was the thing that was needed, and I wanted this for FS9 also, so it had to work in both sims equally. We never did come up with a good system to 'lower' the power automatically when it was nearly drained.

But....! We do have some cool flashings and things that happen as you are nearing full drain. A red font will flash accross the screen 'Danger Low Voltage!', and the LCD screens darken incrementally. Then finally, blip.. prop loses power, motors are off line, screens are black.

But, before you run out of power, you can turn on the APU recharger and run off of that. Only you must kick that in 15 min's before you drain the Batts. It takes 15 min's for the first electrical dump of voltage into the grids, which will appear as 50% power. (50% power was the least amount of power we could do. I didnt want that, I wanted 10% fillup per every 10 Mins, but FS has alot of limitations on what all we can do. 50% fuel was the least, so we did a total time for the APU at 1 hour, and a 50% recharge at 15 mins mainly for the 'general' flight sim pilots. 30 Mins was more realistic for 50% power with 'exotic' futuristic systems years from now. At least you could run the plane on the APU without using batteries, and the MAIN design of the craft is to only run on the Batts and never have to use the APU. The hybrid APU is only for emergencies, though I think real time pilots would probably want to use a fuel system based propulsion as they are used to those.


But anyways.... I am waiting for someone to drop in a loud ole Lycomming soundpack in it, lol... What a difference that would make. :d


Bill
 
The vc looks amazing These aren't my type of plane but after looking at the vc I'm going to have to get oneWell done
 
AussieMan said:
P38Man, have you tried to change the point of view in the aircraft cfg? You can move the seat back as well as lower the POV.
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Go to your FSX in game controler settings and set a button for( moving eyepoint back) and one for forward,and use shift backspace on your keyboard to lower your eyepoint.
 
Thoe6969 said:
Go to your FSX in game controler settings and set a button for( moving eyepoint back) and one for forward,and use shift backspace on your keyboard to lower your eyepoint.
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Thanks guys - moving the eyepoint solves 1 of the 2 viewing issues at a time (being able to see the view vs being able to see the dash) but never both at the same time.

Complicated by a view of only 900 in height vs 4320 in width (for some reason depsite trying could not get the 1024 in height to stick with my monitors - that is the way it goes with Matrox)

Constantly switching is something I have been doing using my joystick with trackir off to change direction and zoom of view and at times resetting my Trackir by sitting right up then pressing the key (does the same thing exactly as moving the eyepoint- can do back and forward as well).

Because of the chair back blocking the view when I am looking at both the dash and the view then when I look at the dash then that is all I can see, when I look at the view I cannot see any of the dash - they are mutually exclusive - I really mean this in an extreme way not a fussy way (hurts my neck)

Maybe one of you could tell me if this is possible - if I could use Trackir 100% of the time and have a button that would switch the eyepoint between 2 exactly defined eye positions ?

It would be a LOT better than no trackir.
(rather than just moving the position and needing to hold the key until I get there)
 
A bug has been uncovered. This is related to the 'Cruise Control' system, speed control. Its malfunctioning. It was doing this in FS9 and we thought we had it taken care of, but its back in FSX. As soon as we can figure out why its doing this (we never figured that out), we will issue a fix.

Sorry about the inconvenience.


Bill
 
Well I am very embarrassed and have egg all over my silly face.

Bottom line is the Avelina works perfect now with my Matrox 4320 by 900. When I say perfect I mean 100%!!!

Without getting into complexities the solution (and the real problem) was to change my FOV hack setting.
As you adjust the hack back and forth yoiu either also get an increasing or decreasing "goldfish bowl" effect depending upon the zoom which meant with the eyepoint in front of the seat I could not zoom back without too much "goldfish bowl" effect so I thought I needed to sit back further (which would have had the increased view without the golfish bowl effect).

Without the Fovhack this problem could not even arise and with the Fovhack the adjustment wasn't even big. Sorry everyone and especially kind Bill.

On the positive I just flew out of Dunedin in the blue version (the interior is unbelievable!) and had one of the greatest and most immersive flights I have ever had in FSX. The systems in the Avelina are just great fun.
 
Hey P38Man,

Awesome to hear. Glad its all working right for you now. This will help you with other planes as well that might have similar cockpit dimensions.

A three screen setup must be pretty awesome to fly in.


Bill
 
Awsome little plane,all the little creature comforts a man could ask for and flies great.I can see me putting a lot of hours on this one.
 
I would LOVE to see a video of the Avelina in action. I have all the other Lionheart FSX aircraft and all are great. I'm leaning heavily toward the purchase of this one (I also fly electric RC planes) and maybe this would give me that little push :wiggle:.

Steve
 
I would LOVE to see a video of the Avelina in action. I have all the other Lionheart FSX aircraft and all are great. I'm leaning heavily toward the purchase of this one (I also fly electric RC planes) and maybe this would give me that little push .

Steve
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I have been trying to get the videos going on this, but my frames have been horrible when taping. I'll see if I can link in a 3rd HD for taping to when filming tomorrow and see if I can get something shot.
 
Lionheart said:
I have been trying to get the videos going on this, but my frames have been horrible when taping. I'll see if I can link in a 3rd HD for taping to when filming tomorrow and see if I can get something shot.
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Thanks, appreciate and looking forward to seeing it :salute:.

Steve
 
Looks beautiful and the gauge arrangement makes me want to
unhook the joystick and use the old yoke I have somewhere.
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Sweet little plane... will have to get this! Will be able to say then that I HAvelina. :icon_lol:




Aww I crack myself up.... BTW you can use that for your marketing Bill.:icon_lol:

Here are some in formation:
 
Bill,

Just picked up the plane last night and I must say it is rather unique. I love it!

Have you thought about sending a copy to Flying magazine? I can see them doing an article on it.

Bob
 
Hey Bob,

Many thanks and I'll send it their way at Flying magazine.


@Crashaz,

ha ha. :d It does sound like Havelina, and we have tons of those here. Avelina, the word, is a name from Italy from long ago, meaning small bird.
 
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