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Cessna U206G Soloy Mark 1 V3.0 is available

TiAr

TiAr

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FlightPort Cessna U206G Soloy Mark 1 V3.0 is available here in library. For FSX and P3D V1+/V2+/V3+ and for P3DV4+ as a separate native version.

What is new in V3.0?

It contains all six models of V2.0, but with a lot of improvements. And the great repaints of Rafal "YoYo" with 4096 HD textures, too.

Alexander Metzger has reworked the airfiles - and the engine parameters of the Allison 250-C20S were very realistically integrated into the model.

The ground/flight idle switch (throttle_set) now has function (important for engine handling). Adjusted manual and automatic engine start. The starter switch MUST be actively switched off again after starting the engine, otherwise the throttle lever has no function.

Important: XMLTools for FSX or P3DV3 must be installed to get a realistic engine behavior. Only with this you can start the engine without having trouble, e.g. the unrealistic preclosing (hot start bug) has finally come to an end. Please see readme and manual in Custom model folder.

Cessna U206G Soloy MK1 Custom V3 is the base model folder. You need it to display all other models correctly. A new repaint kit V3 is available as separate download (see FSX Other or P3D-Addons).

More news and pictures in P3DV4 forum:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...y-Mark-1-V3-0-available?p=1123988#post1123988

Hope you like the new V3.0.

Cheers
Thomas
 
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:jump: Thomas, this is an absolute joy to fly and get to learn so much about. I haven't tried all of the variations yet, but your amphib is a lot of fun.
Thank you so much for sharing so much of yourself in this project. Many kudos to all those who helped in making this happen. Thank you one and all. Terry
 
Beautiful plane indeed! Thanks for updating and adding some features. I did not download this in FSX when you released it a year or so ago, but it will be downloaded tonight and run thru P3D, noting your post there too. Thanks again for a great labor of love.
 
Got some great reports, thank you very much! Again, please set the starter switch after ignition to off. This is very important. Than you will get full throttle response again. This behavior avoids fuel injection during start-up. (like the real one and at least the bad fuel bug since FSX...)

Thomas
 
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Thanks very much Thomas! I love V2.0, so can't wait to test out the new version. This is one of the best addons out there.

Cheers,
 
WOW THOMAS, thank you. TALK ABOUT A COINCIDENCE. Last night I was doing some pruning of my airplane folder uninstalling some planes that I haven't flown in forever and had no intention of flying anymore. Guess which ones went first? The old Carenado U206H planes and even the G1000 Carenado 206 HD. I was thinking, "Hey, I'll just wait on the new Soloy, I don't fly these Carenado 206 planes anymore and they are just making my plane choice screen in FSX way longer than it needs to be". So I uninstalled them thinking I'll just wait for the new Soloy even if it takes months longer.

Then the very next day I see this post, amazing timing. This will be my only 206 and will be used in Airhauler 2. In fact, I'm headed over to let the other AH2 folks know this is out as a few have also been waiting.

THANKS AGAIN!!!
 
Cessna U206G Soloy Mark 1 V3.0

Thomas, Thanks for all your dedication and work in bringing this aircraft to life. When you get a chance could you post some flight and landing settings. I'm having trouble getting the airspeed down for landings. Thanks in advance. Harley Dude
 
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this is first FSX shot showing F1 G600 of upcoming Mark 2, works very fine on it. I will go with it in Mark 1, too.

Thomas
 
The readme states:
Important: XMLTools for FSX or P3DV3 must be installed to get a realistic engine behavior.

I have XMLTools3D.dll(P3D V3) only, will this suffice?
 
Thomas, thank you so much for all the work you have done on this beauty - great work !:applause:

All the Best

Dirk
 
Thomas:

Haven't had time for anything but a ModelConverterX inspection and the manuals yet, but you might want to check the right rear windows on all interior models. MCX shows their normals as inverted compared to the other windows.
And there is a notable gap between the rear window glass and the frame. Not sure if it's shows like that in the simulator. The gap on the other two rear windows is smaller and less notable in MCX. Should be an easy fix though (move glass inward and make the pane larger).



If I can pull myself away from the drag of installing AI flightplan after flightplan, maybe I can come up with a simple engine damage gauge based on the limitations in the manual.
Engine torque exceedance is a no brainer (mechanical failure), but what happens if prop RPM is exceeded for some time? Hot bearings and a cooked engine?
 
Thank you very much Bjoern - there are some more gaps out, I know. I used an open source 206 of the year ´1886´ which had big errors on source models (but better than nothing to begin) - anyway, I will a closer look on the current ones.

A damage gauge would be fine. RPM is set, sure, but also torque limitation is in Allison engine a factor. I can provide you all the limitations of engine data of real Mark 1.

Thomas
 
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