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Flight Replicas C-54/DC-4....

BendyFlyer said:
Grey Eagle - alas no. All the good ones with stairs and ladders they are incorporated into the model design and activated that way. I know what you mean I bought GSX some time ago only for the stairs feature to find it was nothing like what I expected and it was as buggy as hell for me. Shame about that. If GSX can do it I am not sure why somebody has not come up with a simple program just to do this stairs say 3 one front one back and one on the other side.
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So this repaint has the built in stairs? :wavey: I'm using the FSX version in P3D 4.5 and will eventually upgrade to the P3D 4/5 version.
 
gray eagle said:
So this repaint has the built in stairs? :wavey: I'm using the FSX version in P3D 4.5 and will eventually upgrade to the P3D 4/5 version.
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YES it is a feature of the FR C54-DC4 for all the models, stairs front and back activated by a mouse click in the cockpit VC. You can repaint the stairs for various operators but I am sticking with a vanilla white-grey for all mine.
 
BendyFlyer said:
YES it is a feature of the FR C54-DC4 for all the models, stairs front and back activated by a mouse click in the cockpit VC. You can repaint the stairs for various operators but I am sticking with a vanilla white-grey for all mine.
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Thanks for pointing that out. All this time I had not known of the auto ladder feature- I used the #3 and #5 option to show the stairs.
Now, on some repaints, the Pax stairs will not show. The stock liveries show the #3/5 (Crew/Pax) stairs. For those repaints where the Pax stairs do not appear,
is there a file that I could copy over so that the Pax stairs show?


Thanks
Butch

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Edit: When I click on the Co-pilots wiper motor, no Pax stars will show. No issues with any of the civilian liveries.
I checked the textures of the Mil planes and it looks like there are stair.dds images there, they just don't show when I click the #5 switch.
I sent Michael (FR) email about this. I found it odd that there are no texture.cfg files either.

I the Co-pilots side, there isn't a hot spot click area for the pax stairs for any of the military aircraft.
Do you have the pax stairs working for the mil aircraft. Could be that I am using the FSX version in P3D 4.5 -


I tried this plane out in P3D 3 and get same results - no Pax stairs for any Military aircraft. I think those AC were meant as cargo.
I did try to use the TWA model in one of the Mil folders and modded the aircraft sim= entry and that way, I get a pax ladder.
Strange.
 
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My hunch was right. Using MCDX I took a peek "under the hood" of a civilian mdl file and it has the pax ladder that swings into place.

I then looked at the military models and there is no pax ladder and both cargo doors will open whereas the civilian mdl have just one door open for the pax ladder.

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Grey Eagle others interested a repaint of ATC 56498 in the Atlantic Division Colours now up at FlightSim.com look for 56498.zip in P3D new files.

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Just got this wonderful paint and took the C-54 out for a spin. Now I have an engine management question for this bird.

For the Connies, CC DC-6 and 7 you can fine tune the mixture control by observing BMEP and/or fuel flow rate gauges (I think). I could not find any gauges for the FR DC-4/C-54 to eyeball against my mixture settings - except when I made it too lean and the engines started to die. Any thoughts?
 
Expat - you have to do it the old fashioned way. Fuill Rich below 5000 ft, lean to about 85% on climb and then dependant on altitude in the cruise lean to between about 65-45% (Tool tip on the mixture knobs will tell you the percentage), leave the mixtures in the cruise position on descent (the engines would richen by the change in atmospheric pressure) then over to full rich below 5000ft. There is a cylinder temp gauge (possible EGT) on the very left hand side of the captains panel not sure if it works. In real life you leaned out gently and slowly, and you need to constantly monitor the cylinder head temps (on the Overhead) to keep them in the green range and did it by ear, in otherwords if they started to run rough it was too lean so you would richen it up again to get it smooth and then add a few more nudges or percent. The fuel flow and BHP you could expect was given in the manual charts for the performance, so you selected a MP and RPM and altitude and lean (or autolean) based on the BHP you wanted to achieve.

if they stop on you going full rich should get them running again - it was an old trick to simulate an engine failure on checks and training to pull the mixture, the engine stops running but keeps windmilling and putting back mixture they start running again almost instantly.
 
OK, got it - thanks. Was cruising at about 45% so my instincts weren't too bad. Also was eyeing the cylinder head temps overhead but my reaction was to crack the cowl flaps instead of the mixture levers.
 
expat said:
OK, got it - thanks. Was cruising at about 45% so my instincts weren't too bad. Also was eyeing the cylinder head temps overhead but my reaction was to crack the cowl flaps instead of the mixture levers.
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Yep pretty good! you should only get hot engines on the climb so cracking the cowl flaps open is fine, you only get a small increase in drag but help the engine cooling a lot. With cowls in the trail position you only lose maybe 2-3 knots, so make it up with the wind aloft instead. In cold regions you can keep em closed and you want the engines running at their best thermal output anyway so hot is fine!
 
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