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gribouil said:
Good evening Milton's team,
I can't tell you how grateful I am as the Tracker is one of my favourite aircraft of all time!!! Fantastic 3D model and panel, FPS friendly, stunning sounds and flight model... nothing's missing on this award winner!!!
What could I ask for? Well... if I could I would ask for a Netherlands Navy repaint (as I don't know how to do it myself unfortunately!) to suit the superb R81 "Karel Doorman" aircraft carrier which comes with wonderful animations (working meatball, marshallers...) and available at avsim.com (file: r81r8-v10.zip)... BTW this ship was created by someone I think you know: Marcel Ritzema!
Many thanks again to you all, best regards,

Stéphane.
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Thank you Stéphane :)

All the team members did excellent work, and, there is more to come. Hang tight!
 
Radios Issues Final Fix

Here is the final correction to the radio frequency selection issues.

[Radios]
// Radio Type = available, standby frequency, has glide slope
Audio.1=1
Com.1=1, 0
Com.2=1, 0
Nav.1=1, 0, 1
Nav.2=1, 0, 0
Adf.1=1
Transponder.1=1

I will be updating the lights issue soon with a panel update upload.
 
AutoPilot Fix

The auto pilot on the center console, although hard to use pitch and aileron trim settings, did not work correctly due to a conflict in the aircraft.cfg Autopilot section.

To get the pitch trim to work correctly, remove these two lines in conflict:

[autopilot]
autopilot_available=1
flight_director_available=0
default_vertical_speed=1600.0
autothrottle_available=0
pitch_takeoff_ga=8.000000
use_no_default_bank=0
use_no_default_pitch=0
default_pitch_mode=0 //remove
default_bank_mode=0 //remove

This change is for all the radial released aircraft to-date.

I will be uploading a new panel.cfg, console.bmp, and cab folder for the other AP changes regarding ILS APR, BC, and NAV/GPS switches.

 
Official Grumman Update Uploaded, Awaiting Approval

Update is uploaded and ready, once approved.

"This V.1 Update Applies to All Radial Based Aircraft Panels (E-1b, S2F-3, C-1A, S2ACDF, and S2ALCDF) and provides Manual Updates for All Aircraft.cfg Files.

It corrects issues with the Electrical Panel Lights controls, Radio Frequency changes, the Autopilot trim adjustments, and the missing ILS APR, BC, and NAV/GPS switches."

EDIT: Update now available at: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?catid=6&linkid=5350
 
Many thanks Uncle Milton. This is beautiful. If I may add my very simple input as a proud member of this fine SOH community, attached is an alternate prop spin with white and red tips in lieu of yellow. I also added the line "prop_anim_ratio=1.025" to the aircraft.cfg below the "ui_variation=USN S-2D VS-39 Hoot Owls 1963" line in my cfg. My attachment is 512X512, you may change it back to 256X256 to your choosing. Simply Left-Click to enlarge to proper size, then Right-Click and Save As to a temp folder and replace the original if you wish.

Is there to be a Paint Kit or is there one now available?

Caz

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Cazzie said:
Many thanks Uncle Milton. This is beautiful. If I may add my very simple input as a proud member of this fine SOH community, attached is an alternate prop spin with white and red tips in lieu of yellow. I also added the line "prop_anim_ratio=1.025" to the aircraft.cfg below the "ui_variation=USN S-2D VS-39 Hoot Owls 1963" line in my cfg. My attachment is 512X512, you may change it back to 256X256 to your choosing. Simply Left-Click to enlarge to proper size, then Right-Click and Save As to a temp folder and replace the original if you wish.

Is there to be a Paint Kit or is there one now available?

Caz

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Great suggestions Cazzie; thank you. I encourage all users to take you up on this.

As always, any changes you wish to make to better personalize your copies are encouraged. And feel free to share here.

I hope that no major issues surface at this point warrant an updated release of the 5 aircraft to all to upload sites so these kinds of suggestions are great for users who would like to see improvements to their copies.

The links to the paint kits were posted on page 1, post #2.
 
I had to do a little fussing to get Caz's prop tex to work for me, but it looks good now. Thanks Caz.

My computer wouldn't save it as a layered bitmap, so I had to save as a JPEG. Then I opened it with MS Paint, resized it and resaved as a 24 bit bitmap. Then I opened the original spinprop texture in the texture folder with DXTBmp and overwrote the original bitmap with Caz's. Works fine, just thought I'd post this for other graphically challenged types like me that had trouble using the file as downloaded.

edit: When I wrote my post I had assumed Caz's post was the complete layered bitmap ready to drop into the texture folder, just now when I moused over the image in his post I see it showed as a JPEG, so that's why it saved as a JPEG. I had thought I was so clever to make this work! I guess Caz assumed I'm smarter than I am, lol.
 
The forum software will change an image into a jpeg when uploaded unless it is zipped up.

Cazzie- Thanks for the prop disk. Here it is again in bmp format with the alpha channel still intact.
 
Milton Shupe said:
...The links to the paint kits were posted on page 1, post #2.
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Thanks, Milton and team! No sooner than you do something really good, you move on to something superb!

I tried the d/l link for the paintkit, intending to do an Aussie Tracker or two (we still have one flying with the RN museum and another under restoration, incidentally). Couldn't reach it on Chrome or on Firefox. Searching from Google for the main site also suggests it's down.

I think the paint which comes with the Tracker is the one in the RAN museum. But I'm keen to do one or two others... :)
 
My apologies on the links. My host website server was being moved to another data center over the weekend. The links should be working now.

I will have the paint kits uploaded here at SOH.

EDIT: The Paint Kits have been uploaded to the FS2004 Skins section, awaiting approval to be posted. Thanks to "mgr", "Duckie" and Matt, and "Snurdley" for the huge efforts on these paint kits and the awesome skins each provided for this project. :)
 
autopilot holding banked turns...by adding the following to the autopilot section of the aircraft config..
DEFAULT_BANK_MODE=0 ..the autopilot will hold the turns/banks with adjustments made to the console knob.

(i got lucky..) :jump:

rgds
t creed
 
t.creed said:
autopilot holding banked turns...by adding the following to the autopilot section of the aircraft config..
DEFAULT_BANK_MODE=0 ..the autopilot will hold the turns/banks with adjustments made to the console knob.

(i got lucky..) :jump:

rgds
t creed
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Ah, thanks for that tcreed. I need all the help I can get right now. :)
 
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