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DFW C.V late production 1917 & 1918

DFW late production 1918

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Aircraft - World War I

Description: The DFW. C.V was possibly the most important aircraft in the WWI German Air Force. The overriding purpose of aviation at that time was support of the ground war. This made observaton and artillery spotting the primary air forces' mission and the DFW C.V equipped front line units in greater number than any other German 2 seater. It was highly succesful, well liked by its crews, and was reported to have outstanding performance comparable to the F2B Bristol fighter. It served continuously from 1916 to the end in 1918. Almost 4,000 were produced, with 2005 manufactured by the parent company DFW (Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke), and under license; 1400 by Aviatik, 400 by LVG (Luftverkehrsgesellschaft), and 150 by Halberstadt (Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke).


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DFW C.V late production


The model, textures. panel and air files are by Captain Kurt. The pilot figures were developed from Wolfi's freeware Japanese pilot .fsc source file. The prop spinning texture is by Kelticheart.


German 12.5 kg PuW bombs are from the 'Aerocrate Misc. Uires and more.zip' by Gary Aumaugher
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/freeflight/Areo_Misc.zip


Gauges are by Bastian Hundt, Horst Weingärtner, Stuart Green, Martin Klein and Just Flight

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit DFW late production 1918
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DFW CV(LVG) late production 1917

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A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Aircraft - World War I

Description: The DFW. C.V was possibly the most important aircraft in the WWI German Air Force. The overriding purpose of aviation at that time was support of the ground war. This made observation and artillery spotting the primary air forces' mission and the DFW C.V equipped front line units in greater number than any other German 2 seater. It was highly successful, well liked by its crews, and was reported to have outstanding performance comparable to the F2B Bristol fighter. It served continuously from 1916 to the end in 1918. Almost 4,000 were produced, with 2005 manufactured by the parent company DFW (Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke), and under license; 1400 by Aviatik, 400 by LVG (Luftverkehrsgesellschaft), and 150 by Halberstadt (Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke).


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DFW C.V (LVG) late production


The model, textures. panel and air files are by Captain Kurt. The pilot figures were developed from Wolfi's freeware Japanese pilot .fsc source file. The prop spinning texture is by Kelticheart.


German 12.5 kg PuW bombs are from the 'Aerocrate Misc. Uires and more.zip' by Gary Aumaugher
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/freeflight/Areo_Misc.zip


Gauges are by Bastian Hundt, Horst Weingärtner, Stuart Green, Martin Klein and Just Flight

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit DFW CV(LVG) late production 1917
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.
 
:applause::applause:

Very nice and very useful! An added bonus is that she lands on the airfield (in my landing at Koolkerke) rather than taking ages to stop.

Many thanks!
 
Super impressed by this CK - you've picked up the modelling skill vey well, & seem to be very quick at producing some excellent models for us, many thanks! :medals::redfire:
 
Kurt, thanks very much for these magnificent aircraft. They just keep getting better and better. I love the engine and interior detail. :applause:

A couple of minor things: I think fssound.dll is needed for the BHHW gauges to work. The compass gauge should probably be included in the pack. I would suggest the attached one rather than the Caudron's. The points of the compass are in German instead of French. Martin Klein used this gauge in his Pfalz and Brandenburg W.29 gauge sets.

Looking forward to the missions.

Kevin
 

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Kurt, thanks very much for these magnificent aircraft. They just keep getting better and better. I love the engine and interior detail. :applause:

A couple of minor things: I think fssound.dll is needed for the BHHW gauges to work. The compass gauge should probably be included in the pack. I would suggest the attached one rather than the Caudron's. The points of the compass are in German instead of French. Martin Klein used this gauge in his Pfalz and Brandenburg W.29 gauge sets.

Looking forward to the missions.

Kevin
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Thanks Kevin,

Good call on the compass, I'll make that change. In fact after looking at Martins gauges, I think I will replace the Bosch starter, altimeter, mags, airspeed and RPM gauges as well. That leaves only the BHHW clock and water temp. Thanks for the steer towards Martin's gauges.

BTW, these BHHW gauges seem to work without the sound dll, except for the Bosch Stupmag. But it is a somewhat copy from somewhere because the original gauge in the 20ies package will not show up after install. So, I don't know about it. Probably the sound required is for some of the other gauges in the package? In any case, I'm replacing most of them now.
 
Lovely planes Captain, and mmmm... I had some lozenges, I'm fond :applause:

If you need specific gauges not still available for your future models, I'll be happy to help.

Keep on your good work, cheers
Martin
 
CK
Beautiful planes and nice flyers but I am ​
having a bit of trouble with both versions. When they load they do a lot of dancing on the runway. Don't know if it is just me or if others are having the same problem.

voyager
 
The tail should vibrate (dance) a little when the engine starts but that's all. Dancing when still indicates the contact points and/or height above ground are set too low in the aircraft.cfg file. It doesn't do that on my rig. :dizzy:

Anyone else having this issue?
 
Hi Captain Kurt,
Same with me.
The problem seems to be in the Moments of Inertia section.
Try empty_weight_pitch_MOI =3978.27000

Hope this helps,
B24Guy
 
Hi B24Guy

That might stop the dance but unfortunately also affects the flying characteristics negatively.

I'm going to take the flight files back to the drawing board starting tomorrow when I am awake and see if I can work out any bugs. :banghead:
 
Hi Chaps,

My DFWs are behaving on the ground the same as Kurt's. Perhaps some aerodromes make the dancing more pronounced?

Kurt, you're right about the BHHW gauges. There's probably only one gauge which requires the DLL file. I notice the Westfront team hasn't included the DLL in all the recent aircraft packages and we haven't had any complaints.

Martin has converted and made many authentic German, French and British gauges with probably more to come. They are definitely worth looking at.

KD
 
Ck

On my setup it still dances. Takeoff is a bit bumpy. Smooth flying in the air. Can always blame it on a rough starting engine!

voyager
 
Takeoff will be bumpy no matter what. When it is sitting still does it dance, or just when starting the engine?
 
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