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LDR Development Ryan Navion B Released!

Having been on this project over a year... And finishing the majority of the external texture work around 4-5 months ago, I had some time on my hands... I have around 30 schemes either finished or partly done but I really want to see others throw paint at this aircraft...

Aside from Larry, Dave and myself, many SOH members had their fingers in this project in many ways... advice, ideas, tweaks and fixes... I want to see SOH members throwing paint at her too! It's why I released such a comprehensive paint pack... People have everything they need to paint her and I hope will. As such, I'll only be releasing my favourite schemes and no more... I want to see others doing it too... others getting enjoyment from the process.

As a texture artist this aircraft was a pig... complex shapes and surfaces. Rather hard work indeed. As a repainter... its a joy. Part of the project's consideration has always been making it work for painters... Parts are all identical in scale, and lined up where they cross multiple parts... Draw a line vertically over the fuselage parts, it will wrap perfectly. We wanted it to be easy to work with and help make good results.

It's easy to paint and fun at the same time. Its why I went overboard... I got a little bored, I painted a new one! But no, I want to give others the chance to paint schemes I may have done... I'll keep most for my own enjoyment and let others have the opportunity to show their awesome work to the community.

I will say to any potential painters or existing painters with questions... please PM me if you need help! I would love to help answer any issues and help you to make awesome work!
 
This is one terrific job of airplane building! The quality of detail is extraordinary, and she is a joy to fly. I am always in awe of the skills of those who can produce such work.

Freshman year at Syracuse, new AFROTC cadet, orientation flight. Aircraft was an L-17 and the pilot was the detachment commander, a bird colonel with a whole lotta hours. As we flew about, over the university, etc., he handed off to me, and a moment later, the engine quit, and would not restart. I don't remember the specifics such as altitude or distance to the runway, but he called the tower and declared the emergency, saying "I've got an engine cutting up." Bit of an understatement. Tower cleared him and told an American DC-6 on short final to pull off to the right and go around. He did, and must have startled the passengers with the degree of bank and climb. The colonel, with a bit of sweat on his brow, deadsticked that plane all the way down to the runway, coming in under some phone lines on the way, which I always believed was for show once he knew he had it made. Once on the runway, he managed to get the engine going enough to taxi. I commented on the Air Force's notion of orientation being a bit strange, and he asked me if I'd like to buy an airplane.

It turned out that it was not the first time this particular event had occurred with this plane, and even after considerable mechanical efforts, it still misbehaved. One of the other pilots threatened that he was going to fly out over Onondaga Lake and bail out rather than muck with it ever again. He believed there were demons in that particular plane.


So now I can see if I can replicate the fun we all had that day.
 
Excellent flying characteristics. Thank you all who worked on this one. Another classic! :salute::salute::salute:
 
OleBoy said:
Not finished yet. Amongst other things. And here I am playing! As the wife GLARES at me. :kilroy:

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where can i find this repaint?
 
Firekitten said:
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Dedicated to Larry... because he loves it secretly and Anneke's Daughter of course!
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Thanks Rachael!! She's sleeping right now of course (23:59 pm) but I'm gonna install it right away. Tomorrow afternoon after school there will be a little surprise :applause:
 
I've had the pleasure of knowing Larry and following his production of this model. His work and the contributions of Rachel, David and support from community have provided us with one of the best freeware aircraft to hit FSX in a long time. The dedication and effort involved in creating such a work of art is exemplary. The Navion is now a permanent part of my hanger collection and will probably need an engine overhaul before to much longer.

Thank you very much Itchy Taco :jump::icon29:
 
Watching this project evolve behind the scenes from the start has been a whole lot of fun. Larry and team have done an excellent job bringing an old classic to FSX. :ernae:
 
It's possible to add a click area for parking brake and ones to hide the pilot and passenger?
just a question




Maury
 
Hi Maury,

We didn't add a parking brake click as its a simple keyboard short-cut, ctrl +. and as for the pilot and copilot... they do disappear. When parking brake is engaged and electrics & engine are off, they vanish and the ground equipment appear.

As for adding both as specific individual check options... I'll have to ask our modeller, but I suspect it may not happen at this stage. It is something we can look at for the A model though.
 
The Parking brakes are actually built into the rudder pedals. They roll over and lock into place. How exactly that works I don't know but Larry found it in one of the documents used in development.
 
Having a slight issue with the radios. A while back I had a corrupted Quartz font which screwed up my radio displays. I downloaded a replacement and got it working again. With the Navion, there was a new Quartz font and I installed it. Navion radios work fine but all other default radios... no numbers. Put in my replacement quartz font and default radios work fine but not the Navion.... I can fly it but I have to bring up the pop up window to set frequencies and the autopilot.

Running it in P3D by the way. But I had the quartz font issue in FSX before I switched. Also running Win 7 64 bit
 
Thanks for raising this Brian, haven't seen this one in Beta and I can't replicate it... anyone else having this issue too?
 
Brian_Gladden said:
Having a slight issue with the radios. A while back I had a corrupted Quartz font which screwed up my radio displays. I downloaded a replacement and got it working again. With the Navion, there was a new Quartz font and I installed it. Navion radios work fine but all other default radios... no numbers. Put in my replacement quartz font and default radios work fine but not the Navion.... I can fly it but I have to bring up the pop up window to set frequencies and the autopilot.

Running it in P3D by the way. But I had the quartz font issue in FSX before I switched. Also running Win 7 64 bit
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I just checked the XML gauge files to see what was being called. The 'Quartz' font is only used by the Navion Hobbs gauge (the one located inside the RPM gauge). The Navion radio and auto-pilot are actually calling the 'LCD' font. I'm not sure what is going on here Brian as so far you are the only one who has reported this issue.
 
Been enjoying this for the past week while SOH was down. She is just a joy to fly.
Been playing around some more with the paintkit. I think she looks good in combat
fatigues. :)





Joe
 
Tako_Kichi said:
I just checked the XML gauge files to see what was being called. The 'Quartz' font is only used by the Navion Hobbs gauge (the one located inside the RPM gauge). The Navion radio and auto-pilot are actually calling the 'LCD' font. I'm not sure what is going on here Brian as so far you are the only one who has reported this issue.
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I have your LCD font installed.... not sure what is going on...
 
I have assigned differential braking to buttons 1&2 on my CH Eclipse yoke and the brakes to button 25 and parking brake to button 26. Parking brake is just one press.

Also went looking for Australian Navions but so far have not found any on the usual sites so out comes the Google bible.
 
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