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FSX Douglas C-117D Skytrooper

TuFun said:
I will await for Jan's LAC to be uploaded.

LAC CP-2421 startup/taxi video...

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excellent video, which also gave me a first glimpse of the wings, with a registration on top.....so back to the drawing board...

edit: so now we have the registration and airline ame on the wngs too:



but I did something wrong with the metal textures (sorry, G!!) so here we go again....

Good news too, the Colombian aircraft is done, now with roundels on the wings and the FAC logo on the nose (took me while to figure out what that logo was..):






and can be downloaded here.
Interesting history, this one: Originally C-47 c/n 10020, it was rebuilt as c/n 43360 R4D-8 with the US Navy as BuNo 39070, and later flew in civilian life as N4458H and N34AH. It was sold to Colombia in 1988 and flew with the FAC at least until 1997. It was later impounded by the DEA for drug running apparently (any one know more about this??) and sold to Classic Air of Las Vegas. It is currently in Arizona I believe, as N34AH, but I am not sure of its current status. Anybody know this?
 
Hey Jan...what was the glitch with the metal textures...? Maybe I can help.

Have you found the alpha for the rudder and ailerons? I can't find the buggers. Must be dain bramage.
 
fsxar177 said:
Well, I was pretty much mis-read there. That's okay, I can take it. I have no reservations toward anyone in the thread!

Will anxiously look forward to what's next! Carry on!

- Joseph
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I know...I'm pretty much bullet proof. I got bigger issues in the world to take on, don't let much ruffle me here. There will be more skins along this vein coming. The C-117 is very limited for available skins without doing fictional, but the C-47 would be a different story.
 
gman5250 said:
Hey Jan...what was the glitch with the metal textures...? Maybe I can help.

Have you found the alpha for the rudder and ailerons? I can't find the buggers. Must be dain bramage.
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dain bramage? this is not good...

There were still de-icing boots in the spec and alpha, but these have all gone now.
Compare this to the beginning of the video posted earlier:


I've uploaded the paint, you can now find it on OZx, so give it a go and let me know what you think?







 
jankees said:
dain bramage? this is not good...

There were still de-icing boots in the spec and alpha, but these have all gone now.

I've uploaded the paint, you can now find it on OZx, so give it a go and let me know what you think?
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I think she's beautiful. I'll go back and take another look at those base skin files and make the changes. Just between you and me, I started my own version early on. If I overlay your file on top of mine, they are almost identical. Great minds and all that....

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Two thumbs up...
G
 
FSX68 said:
OK Gman, Jankees, et. al., one of you repaint these?
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I was wondering when someone would ask that question...:banghead:.

Back when I was painting real drag boats and hot rods I did a few big offshore racers in similar graphics. I would spend a few hundred hours on the work, then the guy with the checkbook would go out and wad the thing up first time in the water. I loved those guys...deep pockets and no common sense. lol
 
RMI bug fix

Ok, I checked why the RMI is not displaying correctly: The compass rose
bitmap has been enlarged but that messed up the whole gauge. There is
another problem with the background bitmap of that gauge.

So, would say, the fastest way to fix the RMI ist to use that gauge from
Manfred's Basler BT-67. To do this you must locate the file BT67_HD.CAB
in the Basler PANEL folder. Create a copy of that CAB and place it in the
C-117D PANEL folder. Then, as a last step, edit the PANEL.CFG file and
change the following line in the [Vcockpit02]-section:

Change the line

gauge03=R4D8_HD!rmi, 12,341,98,98

into

gauge03=BT67_HD!rmi, 12,341,98,98

That should do it.

Btw, excellent repaints, guys! Great job! :applause::applause::applause:
 
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