Eurofighter Typhoon Work-In-Progress

[scotth6]

It does look like it's coming along nicely. Thanks Dino for the update (I don't do facebook).I agree, it will be worth the wait.Cheers,

 

[Dino Cattaneo]

...and the finally the Virtual Cockpit 3D modeling is complete. Now let's tackle the avionics (...I have 62 lines on my to-do list)...

 

[Daube]

Beautiful job as usual, Dino

 

[Dino Cattaneo]

A quick video while we are getting closer and closer to the Beta version (taken in P3Dv3):

 

[jeffv]

Really nice!

 

[Dino Cattaneo]

Getting closer to the Beta stage....

 

[Daube]

That second picture is really cool

Concerning the first picture, could you remind me what kind of weapons are you planning to support ? I'm especially interested in the laser-guided bombs, since they remind me the good old EF2000 (DiD) days It was in 1995, a sim in which we could aim and drop a laser bomb from a virtual cockpit ! (and I think it was also possible in TFX, from two years before if I'm not mistaken...). Looking forward to do that again in P3D, 20 years later

 

[Dino Cattaneo]

EF2000 by DID was awesome (and so was their F22 simulator and TFX) - I've spent countless hours with ther games (including F-29)!

So far the Typhoon supports GBU-10 and GBU-12 (both will have USN colors, as they come from Tacpack) LGBs, as well as AGM-88 and GBU-31 (they are both part of the Typhoon weaponry although afaik no air force uses them with this aircraft). Storm Shadow will be present as visual loadout only (non functional).

Also, the aicraft will support AIM-9, AIM-132, IRIS-T, AIM-120 and Meteor A-A missiles (although at present AIM-132 and IRIS-T don't work due to a bug).

 

[YoYo]

Conformal Fuel Tanks. Bravo Dino!

From his FB.

 

[Daube]

First time I see such fuel tanks on a Eurofighter.
Reminds me of the F-16

 

[Daube]

Dino, please ensure the aircraft can be started from cold&dark without running into troubles with typical problems such as missing avionic switches etc... The kind of problems created by the usual cold&dark default flights in which we switch everything off, including generators, avionics, radios etc... Since some planes don't have these switches, having to press CTRL+E after starting the plane is sometimes a bit frustrating

 

[Bjoern]

Avionics switch and mixture problems can be overcome with an XML gauge sized around 20 lines. Tops.

 

[YoYo]

First time I see such fuel tanks on a Eurofighter.
Reminds me of the F-16

Its a Typhoon Evo . You can notice JADM also.

Picture: http://www.ainonline.com/sites/defa...5056_0.jpg?itok=VdJf1CN6&timestamp=1384796375 .

 

[Dino Cattaneo]

Yes, I have decided to include some optional features from the "Eurofighter 2020" feature list, including JDAM, AGM-88 and CFTs. Storm Shadow will be present, too - but won't work with Tacpack (at least for the moment).

The Eurofighter consortium is indeed working on CFTs although AFAIK there is no customer order. More info here:
https://theaviationist.com/2014/04/22/eurofighter-typhoon-cft/

As for the "cold and dark" potential issues, I have to admit I often neglect these in my planes - I will have a look... as Bjoern noted, it is quite easy to implement some code that makes sure that non-existent switches are Always "on".

...then, Beta testing will strart soon - so we'll know if I screwed up something big.

 

[YoYo]

FYI. Beta soon: http://indiafoxtecho.blogspot.it/2017/02/eurofighter-typhoon-beta-application.html .

 

[Jafo]

Looking...brilliant, Dino...

 

[jeffv]

Awesome work Dino, awesome.

 

[YoYo]

For impatient .

Manual for the model (beta) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1VJtKJlye7FZ0hvZkFoTXR5WFU/view .

 

[scotth6]

For impatient .

Manual for the model (beta) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1VJtKJlye7FZ0hvZkFoTXR5WFU/view .

Thanks! I am one of the impatient . I am really looking forward to this aircraft.

Cheers,

 

[Dino Cattaneo]

...in reality these are just the first 50 pages of the manual. It will most likely exceed the 100 pages.