Indiafoxtecho/Dino Cattaneo Long-EZ now available
- Thread starter ak416
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Problem solved! With the latest update, the flight model in the sim was switched from Modern to Legacy. Once I set back to Modern, all of the pitching and out of control behavior vanished. It appears that the ASOBO aircraft can fly in either mode without issue. Happy it's flying!
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Dino Cattaneo
Charter Member
Screenie looks like a photo. Nice!
The EZ looks like fun. Will have to add it once I get going with FS2020 down the road.
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Really liking this scheme with the latest update.
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
After having done several flights with the aircraft, a pre-takeoff item I do now is set the elevator trim about halfway/50% between neutral and full aft (nose up), which allows the aircraft to fly off easier when takeoff airspeed is reached and is close to the trim setting required for cruise.
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That last shot looks like something out of an IPMS competition - nice!
sonicsolutions
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Fun Flyer
Picked up my copy today after work, what a fun lil bird to fly. Thanks Dino!
Picked up my copy today after work, what a fun lil bird to fly. Thanks Dino!
confirm on that. I've even had to go a little further aft in flight for level cruise.
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FlyingsCool
SOH-CM-2019
I may get to this eventually, but I thought I might share a pretty cool real one that would be a nice one to paint up, N812SP. Pretty ones seem to be few and far between.
And another...
John Denver's was pretty, I don't know how people feel about doing that one, though...
This would be interesting, kind of an XP-55 Ascender throwback scheme.. http://aviadesign.online.fr/pages/scaled-ascender2.htm
One more... Oshkosh 2019 Plans Built Grand Champion (remember when...)
And another...
John Denver's was pretty, I don't know how people feel about doing that one, though...
This would be interesting, kind of an XP-55 Ascender throwback scheme.. http://aviadesign.online.fr/pages/scaled-ascender2.htm
One more... Oshkosh 2019 Plans Built Grand Champion (remember when...)
YoYo
SOH-CM-2023
Btw. here is nice video with the answer, why on parking Long-EZs are parked on his nose ;>:
This is interesting skin, you can notice also external tanks for Long-distance EZ (it could be nice feature in model too ; ), Id like to know also is it possible to add on external station someting in MSFS?):
And this time its not Chinese fake, its Pakistan's drone: https://www.flyingmag.com/news/new-pakistani-drone-eerily-similar-rutan-long-ez/
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I've never understood why a highly skilled inventive air- and space engineer like Burt Rutan went with the awkward landing gear configuration for his otherwise graceful Long-EZ. In flight it looks like it has lost its nose gear along the way, parked it looks like it collapsed during landing... Imagine how to get a potential buyer interested in your design when walking up to it looking like that, with its nose buried in the grass... 
(how would the nose gear be extendend before taxi ? By hand, lifting the nose up and the gear would simply fall out ?)
( Edit: wrote this before Yoyo posted his comment, thanks for the video link. ;-) (still looking awkward but nontheless very inventive and elegant nose-gear design)
(how would the nose gear be extendend before taxi ? By hand, lifting the nose up and the gear would simply fall out ?)
( Edit: wrote this before Yoyo posted his comment, thanks for the video link. ;-) (still looking awkward but nontheless very inventive and elegant nose-gear design)
I was thinking the same thing !
Obviously it's the blurried background that does that. RW parked aircraft photo's never look like that, because the're so small RW plastic model aircraft photo's usually always look like that.
Not tried it myself yet (i'd always use PSP build in motion blurr to achieve speed of a passing by aircraft) but ever since that first photo of the MSFS screenshot blurr effect with the Caravan flying over sea it has not been MY cup of tea. We want our aircraft to look like real ones, not like plastic models..
(and with MSFS they do look like real ones like never before, don't they !
)jetstreamsky
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YoYo
SOH-CM-2023
Dino,
ideas for the next patch:
1/ can you add this arrows for rotating switches/knobs and fuel selector like in default planes (left and right position of arrow) when mouse cursor will be over rotating point?
2/ more and louder clickspot (sound of switches), sound for working fuel pump
3/ vertical line on whiskey compass.
4/ fuel selector - here it looks like by mouse you can use it only in one way (mouse wheel)
(btw. I know also that MSFS SDK isnt completed yet)
Thank You!
ideas for the next patch:
1/ can you add this arrows for rotating switches/knobs and fuel selector like in default planes (left and right position of arrow) when mouse cursor will be over rotating point?
2/ more and louder clickspot (sound of switches), sound for working fuel pump
3/ vertical line on whiskey compass.
4/ fuel selector - here it looks like by mouse you can use it only in one way (mouse wheel)
(btw. I know also that MSFS SDK isnt completed yet)
Thank You!
FlyingsCool
SOH-CM-2019
Dino,
ideas for the next patch:
1/ can you add this arrows for rotating switches/knobs and fuel selector like in default planes (left and right position of arrow) when mouse cursor will be over rotating point?
2/ more and louder clickspot (sound of switches), sound for working fuel pump
3/ vertical line on whiskey compass.
4/ fuel selector - here it looks like by mouse you can use it only in one way (mouse wheel)
(btw. I know also that MSFS SDK isnt completed yet)
Thank You!
Also, the mouse wheel rotation action is backwards from the default. Up in value should be forward rotation, and down in value is rotating backward. Granted, the direction you have it is more natural, but the default is what it is.
It's not a big deal, but I thought I'd just point it out.
