FSD/Milviz YF-23 OUT NOW!

"get high, go fast?" I hope your not trying to tell the young ones that doing drugs is acceptable as long as your flying a yf-23!! Just kidding. Love the plane, should ask Nick N or Banana Bob to make up some Really stunning Screenshots for this babe. Marketing it would be a lot better with some good crisp "Jaggy free" photos. *Wait I see its the compression of the photos, but I know you understand*

Good work guys!@

PS, if you want me to run some photos through Lightroom I have some Really awesome presets to make it look good.
 
I bought the plane and I like it except for a few small problems. Wondering why it is so zoomed out by default. It is tiny in the FSX preview window. My other question is one that you will see in the attached screeny below. There is a white bar to the left of my HUD. there is also a little tiny see through part on one of the switches on the panel to the left. I just found it, It is above the throttle quadrant. The line that seperates the box with the rest of the panel has a tiny little see through spot.
 
Hello Raptor11 , thanks for reporting the items in your post , they will be investigated and the solutions found released in the service pack.
 
Whats with all the keyboard warriors on SOH lately :173go1:

Back on topic:
Just got it and initial impressions are very good! Well done FSD and Milviz. Given how much they want for it I think this one is very good value.

Now I'm off to see what she can do :wavey:

PS I also have the white bar on the HUD issue but good to see it will be resolved.
 
Just quick observation that maybe you could look at. It appears the left MLG door disappears when viewed from the right (see attached). You can see the rear of the door outline but not the door itself. The right hand door does not have this problem.
 
A couple of other observations. Going back and looking at video, the gear retraction and extension sequence on the model is far too slow. Also, regarding the flap settings, during take off and landing, the leading edge slats should hang down considerably and the trailing edge flap deployment are full span similar to the Hornet with the outer section going into aileron mode post flap sweep up.

I also went in and added more Stabilator effectiveness. The actual YF-23 didn't have Thrust Vectoring but the design of the extra large stabs and the FCS logic setup gave the YF-23 incredible pitch and yaw maneuvering moments. Especially at low speeds. Adding the extra punch to the pitch in the config file deffinitely gave the model more maneuver power!

It has been argued that the F-22's TVN system is a waste of time and adds unneeded complexity to the design and more maintenance nightmares. Not that the YF-23 gave up enough in term of maneuverability to call it inferior at all. The YF-23 was far more stealthy and faster. The "Official" reason the F-22 won was cost. But looking back, that may have been a serious error in judgement by the Air Force(not the first or last).



Enjoying this model for sure! :ernae:

Good video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVG9xgHefzg&feature=related
 
It is, of course, very difficult to prove that a production F-23 would have been significantly less expensive than the F-22A. Prototypes and demonstrators rarely reflect the true cost of an operational variant - and virtually never do with engineering this advanced, even excluding thrust vectoring. It's just the nature of the beast that this is so. Such speculation is interesting, but without Northrup having done the same research and development which Lockheed did to make their prototype operational (nevermind the expensively fickle mind-changing of procurement officials for it to fit new roles - from F-23 to F/A-23 and back to F-23, etc.), we'll never know.



Back to this model - in case anyone is offended by the spectacular performance of this aircraft (ha!), if you go into the aircraft.cfg's station.load section you can activate the loads for four each of Sidewinders and AMRAAMs.
 
Tim_Horton said:
Love the plane, should ask Nick N or Banana Bob to make up some Really stunning Screenshots for this babe. Marketing it would be a lot better with some good crisp "Jaggy free" photos. *Wait I see its the compression of the photos, but I know you understand*
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What exactly is wrong with my screenshots? Not a lot of people do better. There is also no way or reason to upload a 10 megabyte file to a file service. The compression makes sense to me. Those screenies are pretty sharp.

If you want, I can attempt to email you the original maxed-out hi-res shots from my 24" monitor. Like I said, they are 10 megs a piece and go beyind most people's full screesn several times over.
 
Your Screenshots are perfect Tig , its the set on the website that are in need of an update.

Re the gear bay door thanks , neither i nor any of the beta team spotted that , i will get it fixed and included in the service pack due out next Weekend.
 
Sideshow said:
Whats with all the keyboard warriors on SOH lately :173go1:

Back on topic:
Just got it and initial impressions are very good! Well done FSD and Milviz. Given how much they want for it I think this one is very good value.

Now I'm off to see what she can do :wavey:

PS I also have the white bar on the HUD issue but good to see it will be resolved.
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where or who's hanger is that??
 
I only got to do a quick takeoff, vertical climb to 70,000 K feet. WOW that was something ( on a touch and go clearance from the tower too).

Good old FSX, after seeing the edge of the sky go black, while I was upside down and pulling through the horizon, I descended back to the airfield below me. Tower cleared me and did I my T&G. :)

During my 20 mins. "kick the tires and lite to fires, never mind the manual" flight I had no problems with control. Just watch the throttle settings. At approach speeds it is very sensitive. I did see the white bar others have reported but it went away quickly.


I wish FSD had published some basic speed numbers in the Dash-1 for power and speed settings. I did look for that. I tend to fly by numbers. Tell me roughly 30% and 170K on final and I will set up for that.

On my second approach I was able to set up and fly the final turn from the perch at 150K or so, and flared around 135k. Nothing broke.

Then mama called and I had to get ready for a dinner party. Hope to fly more today.
 
Tim_Horton said:
Nick N or Banana Bob to make up some Really stunning Screenshots for this babe. Marketing it would be a lot better with some good crisp "Jaggy free" photos. *Wait I see its the compression of the photos, but I know you understand*

Good work guys!@

PS, if you want me to run some photos through Lightroom I have some Really awesome presets to make it look good.
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tigisfat said:
What exactly is wrong with my screenshots? Not a lot of people do better. There is also no way or reason to upload a 10 megabyte file to a file service. The compression makes sense too me. Those screenies are pretty sharp.

If you want, I can attempt to email you the original maxed-out hi-res shots from my 24" monitor.
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In defense of Nick Churchill,
When you got so some payware companies (Aerosoft for one) and look at their marketing screenshots, the vast majority are done by Nick Churchill....even the small size shots....:engel016: Nick is sought after by quite a few payware vendors when it comes to marketing their products website screenshots...

Some of Nick's excellent work for those who are interested is below - Note the vast list of commercial vendors that have solicited Nick's work...
--> http://www.screenshotartist.co.uk/gallery_index.html
 
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