• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

FSD/Milviz YF-23 OUT NOW!

Fantastic shot Noddy - how did you zoom to get the scenery sharp? Or is that a optimum height to capture it?
 
Ctrl plus - or + should be every screenshotter's best friend. Slightly edited shots. :ernae: Great shots too Andy. :ernae:

yf23burst1.jpg


yf23burst2.jpg
 
Great Shots Bob - and that ctl +- worked tx

Here is a shot only with some exhaust shimmer added. As it was a test flight I thought I would stay legal and have lights on!!
 
A couple of questions for Chuck. First, regarding the flaps and slats. I have followed the checklist on setting the flaps and slats and can't seem to get them set for take off configuration no matter what I do. Not sure if it is me missing something or if the deployment of the surfaces(both leading and trailing edges) are modeled correctly in at least as takeoff or landing configs are concerned. In-flight control & flap/slat operation seems to be correct for the VMS (Vehicle Management System) of the actual YF-23.

The other issue still taken note of is that the landing gear retraction and extension seems slow.

Here's the video again that I posted before pointing out some of the things mentioned above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVG9xgHefzg
 
I can only answer part of the questions here so here goes.... the flaps, flaperons and leading slats are all controlled automatically UNLESS you turn that off. It's described in the manual how to do so. To be honest, you don't need the flaps/slats extended to either takeoff or land. But, given that, below a certain speed the flaps will extend.

for the rest, I'll leave it to Chuck.

kc
 
I can offer you an alternate .CFG with flaps lowered on the ground if you like as well as the gear extension and retraction somewhat faster, this aircraft does ballistic takeoffs and is over its stall speed so fast that the flaps on ground were not needed for takeoff in FS , i coded these to be automatic and to variably deploy when below 196 and be at their max at stall speed but as soon as you hit the ground they retract .

Be sure to back up the original , we have a pilot on staff who did the .cfg and two others who were jet pilots on the beta team , one of them a carrier pilot as well who were instrumental in making this model behave as it was described and we were grateful for their input through the beta tests.

Its too bad we couldn't get Paul Metz to do some testing for us but he was one lucky fellow ,
its with this model we get to share in his fun , guess that makes us lucky as well
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
 
Hi Chuck

I have noticed that in dawn or dusk lighting that the rear undercart does not match the front in the way the light hits them. Can try to get a screen shot if it would help?
 
Panel problems?

Hey folks,

Just got the YF-23 with my FSD P-38 purchase. (Thanks for that! The two-for-one is what made me break my $25 cap for planes, FYI...)

Having panel issues -- my MFDs and other instruments are dark. Tried flipping various switches and no luck. Wondering if it might be an install problem? This is under Win 7 RTM x64.
 
I had the same problem as Denny, also recieved mine by purchasing the P-38. I'm running Accel, on Windows Xp

Regards, Diego
 
Please Email Tim with your situation so he can get you guys up and running, he is the " Installer Dude " and knows how to get this set right.

Sorry i cant be of more help , C.J
 
I worked on the YF-23 back in the day. If you can find a video of her coming in to land.....every control surface is moving around like you wouldn't believe. The computer was basically flying the plane. The pilot could put whatever control input he wanted but if the computer didn't like it then it wasn't gonna happen.

Were you able to model the control surfaces going all over the place like the real thing during approach and touch-down?

-G-
 
Any luck, MenendezDiego? Tried flipping all the switches, etc. but no instruments. Given that none of the backup instruments except the artificial horizon are showing up, I don't think it's just the electrical startup.
 
Good news , looking through the dll.s that shipped with the P 38 and preparing the update that problem was resolved as well and will be included with the updated installer, as the model fixes are finished it should be posted shortly .

CJ
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top