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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

LHC Avelina Giveaway!

For the procedures checklist, go to the Kiosk screen and tap on the clipboard avatar. You will then go to the main Checklists page. From there, you can access Stats, Prep, Takeoff, Flight, Landing, and Shutdown pages.

Everything you should need is right on those two screens, the Primary in front of you and the Kiosk 'info center' in the center console.

There are so many things (features) in this bird, that I cannot remember them all and the list would go on, but I'll try to name a few of them.

When you take off;
* If your windows are rolled down (yes, they lower, all four), they will be raised up automatically at 120 knots by the flight computer. (In the old days, your plane usually had opening or roll down windows. Didnt know that?).
* When in flight, like in a landing or practicing stalls, your air speed font will read 'yellow' at slow maneuvering speeds, 85 to around 60 knots. From 60 knots and under, if airborn, you will have 'red' font for ASI and an alarm will sound. When dipping under 85 knots, a nice little 'ding' will occur letting you know you are approaching flaps speed. When you stall, a very 'alerting' alarm will sound off, unlike the 55 Knots alarm, (separate).
* When you fly past 130 knots and your gear is down, you will hear a 'ding' and your gear will be auto-raised by the flight computer to keep the main gear 'door skins' from flapping off the gear. If also you are in descent and pass through 200 feet ALT, a ding will occur and your landing gear will be automatically lowered. Drives you nuts if you are trying to buzz the ground, but great for people that might forget.

If you leave your throttle at full, you will have warnings on the motor avatars on the main Primary. Try not to melt them. ;)


The plane has a brilliant aerodynamics drag coefficient and with the motor, will cruise nicely at 50% throttle. You can actually take off at high cruise throttle setting (just under 70% power) as the aircraft is slightly overpowered for emergency purposes (such as a turboprop Pratt and Witney 67 series on an Epic LT). Thus you can run around at a very nice speed at half throttle and fast cruise at the 'second gold strip mark' (on the throttle dial, center console) and clip along at 175 knots. 200 Knots is attainable, but will run you out of power quickly.
 
The meeting with the future. Very nice model and fantastic programming of OS. Id like to have my car inside like here, in VC. :applause:Time to go bed, but time to start to read 91 pages manual ! : )
Thank You Bill!

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Sorry guys. There will be other times.

Nice photos Rafal.

When I created the interior and mapped it, I wanted to be able to change the combinations of colors to make the interiors for each color pack look as totally different as possible. Another thing I did, which we used to do alot at the actual Range Rover engineering I worked at, was change out types of burled wood, so in the Ave series, I have several kinds of wood trim in the cabins. So, in the end, if you pick a diff version of the Ave to fly, you get a nearly totally different cabin as well. The full black cabin, the yellow and black cabin, the cabin with Ferrari style Corinthian leather and black, and the beige on Khaki colored cabin.

Flipping through the Wallpaper settings (different instrumentation graphics settings) will also give you some matching gauge textures to the cabin textures, like yellow for the yellow, red for the red, etc.

Its not just a basic concept plane, its got 'alot' of stuff! :d

Oh, and you have pilot options as well. In the settings screen, you can set up for male, female, couple and 'none' loadouts of pilots. I guess none is for those that always request being able to load up a plane with no one in it. You could also perhaps imagine that the smart 'android' auto pilot has 'taken' the ship for a joy ride. heh....

And... another cool thing is, (speaking of the auto pilot), you can set airspeed on the ground for say 12 or 15 knots and the craft will rev up to the proper thrust and produce that speed on the ground. Nice for some automated taxi control, more 'cruise control' stuff.


Bill
 
She looks awesome Bill. Your Epic LT is still my bird when I want to go some place far and fast. She'll outrun almost everything in my hangar except the fast jets. She is on my paint list for a Tejanahawk-esque scheme.

Live Long and Prosper:icon29:
 
Thanks guys.

This was very 'spur of the moment' and sort of just came to me out of no where.

I'll try to make this a time oriented thing next time, giving a notice ahead of time at what time the give away will occur.


I hope every one that won their new Ave's will enjoy them. They are a 'radical' step in aviation. Like the new Icon aircraft, it is taking a step in more refined cockpit design, more towards the advanced automobile sector. I find it intriguing. The verge of a new frontier.



Bill
 
Spur of the moment or not that was and is a VERY NICE gesture of you Bill. This one will complete my Lionheart collection so I'll be checking back often:salute:.

Steve
 
I'll try to make this a time oriented thing next time, giving a notice ahead of time at what time the give away will occur.

To be honest, I like the randomness of this giveaway style. I was on and I got off literally one minute before you posted! That makes the stakes that much more interesting!

Just my opinion! Cool sweepstakes, by the way! :mixedsmi:

Walter
 
To be honest, I like the randomness of this giveaway style. I was on and I got off literally one minute before you posted! That makes the stakes that much more interesting!

Just my opinion! Cool sweepstakes, by the way! :mixedsmi:

Walter

I agree with Walter. If it's a timed event, then it's really just a contest of who can click the fastest.
 
BTW. It was nice idea Bill, its a part of "silent marketing" and good PR for You.

:jump:
Thank You.
 
Well, it took until last evening before I had the chance to fly this beauty. Just my "normal" checkride, EGHS - EGFF. Most entertaining I must say. I will now print and read the manual per Bill's suggestion :) , but for me, this was an excellent first "drive". Thanks again Bill.


M.
 
Well, it took until last evening before I had the chance to fly this beauty. Just my "normal" checkride, EGHS - EGFF. Most entertaining I must say. I will now print and read the manual per Bill's suggestion :) , but for me, this was an excellent first "drive". Thanks again Bill.


M.


That manual is not very printable. It has alot of black and color in it. If you have a Tablet like an iPad, or a secondary laptop, you can view it in there while flying. You can import PDF's into Tablets, at least most of them. Apple iPad can save PDF's to its Books section.

I have to make the most wildest, themed, colorful PDF manuals around, so beware for those that like to print them. It will be a LOT of ink! :S My humble apologies.

I guess one could print it in gray scale. I didnt think of that.




Bill
 
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