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Merry Christmas - Sibwings Birddog is Ready to Go!!!!

Roger said:
This activation is rubbish! I follow the Activation to the letter and I get to item 6 and click the unique link to find "Haven't id in db" end of story.

I hate this sort of hacker sh*t. I've paid and I want my product.

Merry Christmas
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Sorry for inconvenience.
It's my fault!
Try one more time, please, and everything should work fine :)
 
more photos!

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What ever you did Alex it worked. I thought I was going to have to wait 2 weeks for a failed activation, hence my annoyance!
It is a superb model:applause:

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Well, after first flight, and a crash. It is very well done. Be very careful going into a stall. I got it into a flat spin at too low altitude. It wasn't pretty.

I do have a couple questions or observation for Alex (I've only skimmed the book). Where's the avionics master? Does the propeller control work? It looks to me more like a fixed pitch prop in the way it acts. I scanned a few sites and couldn't find an answer on the real airplanes.

That doesn't detract from my opinion (if anyone cares) that Sibwings has another masterpiece.

Glenn
 
glennc said:
I do have a couple questions or observation for Alex (I've only skimmed the book). Where's the avionics master?
Glenn
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I have the same question Glenn. I finally hit ctrl+E after start-up, and at least got the radios to function....kind of...Looked all over the manual, and no mention of a avionics switch. Once I did get the NAV/COMM 1 active, I also could not get the NAV1 frequency to tune to the VOR I was heading for; even number VOR 109.20, nor was able to get the frequency picked up one the VOR1 Indicator after settling for 109.25.

The ADF seemed to work OK.

Also, not a fan of the default Garmin 500, and am having a heck of a time swapping it for the freebie SimFlyer 296 handheld I have. Seems if I change anything in the default panel folder, I get problems, or nothing shows when calling up the GPS pop-up window.

EDIT::: I'm finally getting it figured out, and have the 296 handheld installed. The USAF NAV1 radio is still 'screwy', so I attached a Friendly Panel COMM/NAV1 radio to my GPS pop-up in order to tune in VOR1. That seemed to work, but would be interested in why the NAV1 gauge is acting like this. It seems most frequencies go in 'half hundreds', as example: 110.00 to 110.05 to 110.10 to 110.15 etc., but for some reason, I cannot get to 109.20, it goes from 109.00 to 109.15 in .05 steps, then jumps to 109.29 from 109.15 instead of 109.20. I notice this happens in some other ranges as well, but just so happened for the frequency (109.20) that I was trying to tune into. Which is why I could not get my VOR to become active.

Did take a short flight anyway, navigated via ADF/NBD''s and it is a nice handling aircraft, I just expect some additional functioning of the various radio's and switches for this price point. The ones that do function, do so cumbersomely. In general, excellently rendered though.
 
Alex Petrochenko said:
Guys, Cessna O-1/L-19 Bird Dog is officially released!
Sorry for a little mess in the beginning. Thanks to moore1018 we are happily released few hours ahead of schedule. :ernae:
Looking forward to your feedback on our forum.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Everyone can just call me Santa. :) Sorry for any added pre-release stress Alex! She's beautiful!!!
 
Alex - excellent work. Thank you and all involved for a brilliant product :salute:
 
Been there, done that myself. Hence the 'simple' activation, knowing that whatever we do it'll be on the torrent sites within hours anyway... that goes for the Lizzie AND the Bird Dog. Enough aggravation in the world already :icon_lol:

Looks like a nice aircraft though... I might try and overcome the Russian hurdles myself.....
 
Well, after download I got it working within 3 minutes, so no worries there..
I'm loving it so far, very nice little bird...dog.

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switched planes in the air, and got this on landing:

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When the Sibwings Safir was published I was the first customer to purchase this great addon. Consequence: Today I recieved a free copy of the new FSX Birddog!

Thanks a lot Sibwings/Alex for that gracious move :ernae::ernae::ernae:
 
All through the project, I never even thought to look at the FPS counter, it simply wasn't an issue.
 
Beautifully smooth - the testers deserve a pat on the back for the way this turned out as well :salute:
 
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