Carenado Arrow for FSX

N2056 said:
The Carenado Seneca is giving me a bit of heartburn...they make great planes, but that one will be direct competition to my rework of the FSD Seneca V for FSX. I think we (FSD) have a much better panel, and I think our interior lighting is better. My Seneca will also be very re-paintable as the fuselage & wings are not mirrored. This is gonna be interesting to say the least!
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Only one thing to do.....................GET BOTH! :ernae:
 
ryanbatc said:
I just bought this Arrow and it's decent except the rudder seems to have a lot of authority, even at low speeds. Is this accurate? Kick in some rudder and you yaw very quickly to the left/right. I flew a Piper Warrior III and the rudder was never like this. Is this behavior dude to the T-tail?

Also, where are the strobe lights? I don't see them at all? plus, using keyboard "L" turns on the panel lights and dome light but the anti-collision lights (as per the manual) don't do anything at all. Am I missing something? The gauge lights rocker switch has no effect in the day either.
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Arrows fly pretty much the same as the warriors you're used to. They are a little more stable, and the nose is heavier.
 
Here's my go at a repaint. I wanted a Kiwi bird for my Kiwi flying adventures, so I found one.

It's quite similar to one of the defaults. Also has a modified interior to suit the colours of the real one.

The serial isn't quite the right size nor in the right shape- the mapping is utterly unfriendly at the rear of the aircraft and on the right hand side. Unless the serial fits in the default serial area, it wont come out right- trust me.
 
Looks great Dan - dont have the Arrow yet but is there any chance uploading the "PAE" paint to SOH or Avsim??
 
Oh, they are a bit sloppy about interior changes now, methinks. The wooden Cessna 206 panel is still available on avsim ... ;)

Well, to be serious now. The reason why Carenado does not provide a layered paint kit is simple and straight-forward: They don't give avay their secrets. The way M. Illanes blends photographs with photoreal-style painting is an outstanding craftsmanship and i'm sure he wants that technique secure to himself. And hell, no one can (or should) blame him for that.

But even with a bare white bitmap a skilled repainter can do miracles. There's no need for rivet lines and things like that, they are all present. All you have to do is keep on trying. A old copy of Photoshop or PaintShop will do the job perfectly, even paint.net can do this.

Now the mirrored textures are indeed a little nuisance here. They prevent larger reg numbers and additional lettering on the fuselage and wings. Surely a layback on a repainters imagination for unusual liveries, but i can live with that. A poster further above said it correctly: Most G/A planes are indeed white with some stripes, and the average simmer doesn't care at all.
Additional texture files would blow up the overall texture load for FSX, and don't forget the fact that still most FSX simmers do not have a state-of-the-art rig to max out the sim.

All right, that all sounds a bit like a scoolmasters speech, but beleive me, i have some knowledge about repainting Carenado stuff. They provide the best textures on FS aircraft ever, and the best "paint kits" to work with.

just my 2 cents ...

cheers,
 
Interesting Maloney - they sure are good at keeping those frame rates as well as quality high :wavey:
 
Rick's Chippy is pre SP2 so you get some small things that are quite right. From what I recall, the compass and accelerometer are both transparent. Apart from that, (and possible the prop see-thru?) the huge range of textures all work a treat and she is a joy to fly, as always. With no planned FSX replacement, hopefully these older masterpieces may (one day) be updated.
 
maloney said:
Now the mirrored textures are indeed a little nuisance here. They prevent larger reg numbers and additional lettering on the fuselage and wings. Surely a layback on a repainters imagination for unusual liveries, but i can live with that.
Additional texture files would blow up the overall texture load for FSX, and don't forget the fact that still most FSX simmers do not have a state-of-the-art rig to max out the sim.
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A little nuisance is an understatement.

Plus, there are already 35 bitmap textures with no fallback. It wouldn't hurt at all to have one more texture if it meant mapping was done correctly.
 
It's all bloody the same over and over again, isn't it. :sheep:

I'd like to see Carenado doing a F-102, PMDG doing a Helldiver, A2A doing a Boeing 777, Iris doing a Piper PA23, Wilco/Feelthere doing a Tigermoth.

Now *THAT* would stir up our easy-going FS community, wouldn't it ! :d

One you can't catch is CaptainSim, next to their 757 they did a F-104 and even an ol' propfighter ( Yak-3 )

Just kidding here, naturally. :costumes: :friday:

Big fan of Carenado. Just about got them all. After i got their wonderful FS9 Bonanza i sent them a congrats and thank you email and just for fun inquired about 'hows the inevitable Mentor coming along'. Much to my surprise and great pleasure Fernando wrote back that they were actually working on it... :)

Although it looks absolutely marvelous again not sure if i'll be getting the Arrow.. Actually waiting for their F-102.. :d ( Oh, and their native FSX Bonanza naturally )

Cheers,
Jan
 
Anyone know where i can find performacecharts (fuel, distance, manifold pressure, rpm and such)? I might have missed them in the download somewhere but i can't find any.
 
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