• Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning old domain name stealing credentials

  • IMPORTANT INFORMATION - ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ

    Due to an increase in the number of new members who are trying to systematically download our entire Resource Library (one new member yesterday tried to download 3,000+ files AT ONCE!) we are being forced to implement some changes regarding who can download what, how many files at a time and at what speed. As the forums and Resource Library share the same bandwidth when the Library gets overloaded with demand like that the forums fall over, as we have all seen recently. It's sad that greed has forced our hand in this way but we must do something for the benefit of all our legitimate members (many of whom paid money for the upkeep of the site) and to prevent the files stored here being used for nefarious purposes. Many of our uploads have specific conditions tied to them that forbid uploading to any other site or deny uploading to any site that has a 'paywall' (i.e. a pay to download policy). Due to the number of mass download attempts recently we can only assume that somebody, somewhere, is attempting to stock up a new file library with our files and we owe it to our up-loaders to protect their files and intellectual property especially as many (like my own LDR Development projects) are made available at SOH only and are specified as such in the 'read me' files.

    The forums and Resource Library will be taken offline as of 13:00 EDT with the forums coming back online shortly after without the resources library while we work on setting up permissions on the new Library module.

    We hope our members understand why we need to do this and will bear with us while we implement the changes.

    Thanks in anticipation, SOH ADMINISTRATION

    Downloads are now active. You may proceed with downloading as desired

    The download limits are a work in progress. Some settings are likely to need tweaking in the coming days.

Finistair Aviation

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I completed the FSHub Challenge flying to the Canne Film Festival. I wanted to fly my Carenado Cessna Grand Caravan and Googled what Airlines in France were using this aircraft. I discovered Finistair Aviation. In searching for photos I discovered that Jan Kees Blom did a repaint for the Carenado Grand Caravan F-GJFI back in 2011 of the livery they were using at that time. I found it over at Avsim. (A really nice job). I am doing a repaint I will share here of their current livery. This is the 2011 livery:
finistair.jpg

This is a real photo of their current livery:
F-FHTS 2.jpg
 
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Working away slowly but surely. I got support with information from Textron aviation over the weekend and from the chief pilot at Finistair this morning with photos and actual decal info sheets detailing the decals on the nosewheel fairing. Here is a screenshot of what I just finished:
Nosewheel fairing screenshot.png
My only objection to Carenado's texture sheets is that some of the parts (like Microsoft did and FSX and P3D does) is use one part for both left and right sides and then type that is attached is mirrored on the other side depending on which one. There is no way around that beyond a total redo in Blender IMO which is waaaaay beyond my skills. I'll just deal with it. I am repainting in Adobe Photoshop and enlarging the texture sheets to 4096x4096 as I usually do. Then when I share the repaint I reduce them to 2048x2048 like Carenado to save space.
 
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Yesterday and today were really productive work days despite Carenado and their confusing files. (Jan Kees knows what I mean he did a repaint for this aircraft). Anyway, here are two screen shots that I just took of the progress. I want to thank Textron Aviation and Finistair's chief pilot for their assistance with the decals making this as authentic as possible. Check out the TKS decal on the cargo pod.

Finistair C208B left side.jpgFinistair C208B right side.jpg
 
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