F6F from Flying Iron coming...

That screenshot certainly is a surprise ! :eek:

Looks like a Hellcat that got lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1944 and now has returned ... Forboden cloudscape also adds to the erie scene.. (Close Encounters coming to MSFS ?... :wink: )
 
Javis said:
Thanks Marcel ! :encouragement:

Must say bit dissapointed with the panel/gauges, looks pretty dull and unappealing to me. No 'contrast' at all. Bummer..
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I mean, you kinda need to go back to the early 1940s and complain to Grumman...

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The plane itself looks amazing. Compare that engine and the skin detail to the Hellcats in earlier sims. I love living in 2022.

(I'd love it more if the sim team at MS didn't have an aversion to combat sims, but still...)
 
In all earlier versions of MSFS that I've flown, this is not an aircraft that I would have thought about adding to my hanger, being mostly into flying large multi-engine aircraft. Tail-draggers were also something I wasn't too excited about. But, with trying a new perspective on flight simming this time around and with a really fresh feeling new MSFS, I've been excited about this release since the minute I saw it.
 
It hit me the other day that this kind of looks like the navy version of a P47!

LouP
 
DennyA said:
I mean, you kinda need to go back to the early 1940s and complain to Grumman...
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Why ?... This is exactly what i'd expect a warbird panel/gauges to look like in MSFS. And with a bit of effort that could already have been accomplished in FSX/P3D as well (for one thing, personally i'd always try to put a 'glass effect' in front of the instrument faces)

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I'm almost sure you'll notice the difference too :

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There's just about no difference between the texture/material of the gauges' faceplates and the panel itself. Faceplates background atleast 2 times darker than the panel would already help a lot. MSFS has its own glass effect for the gauges but i guess it needs to be applied very very carefully because in most VC's it is hardly visible, if at all..(just like here in this F6F VC..). Pity because it adds a lot to the realism and appeal of a VC and is also preferable to the 'static' version of a gauge glass effect. (which, on the other hand, is always visible..)

( i haste to say that the screenie i shot of the panel above is from a video. Depending on the lighting the panel as such can certainly look better compared to this static shot. Also, the VC looks great otherwise, just like the VC of their wonderful Spit).

The plane itself looks amazing.
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Absolutely !

Compare that engine and the skin detail to the Hellcats in earlier sims.
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Sure but they can't help that, that's the beauty and magic of MSFS. Besides, IIRC (really ! ;-) there were some fantastic looking Pacific Theatre Warbirds to enjoy in FSX/P3D already, even in FS9 i might add..

I love living in 2022.
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Hmm.... having ambivalent feelings myself...

(I'd love it more if the sim team at MS didn't have an aversion to combat sims, but still...)
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Personally i have no problem with that. I love warbirds just for their looks not per se for their purpose. In fact just like they still fly around today. Beautifully restored, just for their looks and sounds. Talking about that, check out this beautifully restored F6F start-up extravaganza :

 
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Here's certainly the most entertaining, awesome video and audio of a Grumman F6F Hellcat Air Display i have ever stumbled upon. I seem to understand this particular immaculately restored F6F belongs to "The Fighter Collection" at Duxford where she arrived in 1990. She wears the colors of VF-6 as flown by fighter ace Alex Vraciu. It seems that a squadron of Corvus comix, better known as "The Hooded Crows", also occupies this particular airfield. One wonders if this isn't actually extremely dangerous for both species ?.... Funny guys, the Brits.

Anyway and in any case, it didn't withhold the producer/director/cameraman/soundengineer of this exhilarating warbird video to create an extraordinairy beautiful spectacle of it. PUMP UP THE VOLUME !!
( observant viewers may just hear one of the crows adressing the cat : " you do know how to whistle, don't you ?..." ) :

 
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It's released, and I've split everything from the release announcement to a new thread. This is for the benefit of visitors - the new thread will be stickied.
 
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