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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

Nemeth Designs Sikorski CH-54 Skycrane released

ColoKent said:
....I will-- I'm about to try a reinstall.
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Make sure your master battery is on, and try starting with CTRL + SHIFT + F4. FSx like FS9 plays silly beggers when loading aircraft into a saved flight where the aircraft previously was of a different format, ie GA piston or Civil turbine etc etc. Your saved flight probably has parameters that the helo FDE doesn't so when you select it those parameters are not read and it'll die.

I've no idea what format the Skycrane FDE follows (Bell, Merlin, or Hybrid) but some don't fair too well with SP2 or Accel or vice versa, however the key commands above seem to work across all formats but check your master battery or APU, you may not even have key commands listed for those actions, some are not coded by default.

Hope that helps

Michael
 
Thanks, Michael...

...it didn't work. but thank you for the suggestion. Also, most of the text on the instrument panels are not legible, so it's difficult at best to tell where anything is. The external model looks great though!
 
Your settings are probably not high enough as you are, for sure, the only one with that difficulty (blurry textures).

Please remember that this is a high quality release and therefore your settings for the model should be, if not at max, then pretty close to it.

In terms of not being able to get it off of the ground, have you posted on the Nemeth's forums?
 
ColoKent said:
...it didn't work. but thank you for the suggestion. Also, most of the text on the instrument panels are not legible, so it's difficult at best to tell where anything is. The external model looks great though!
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Theres a setting in FSx, under aircraft, show detailed VC or something, sometimes it gets unchecked, make sure thats on as that will reduce VC textures dramatically, and I mean unreadably bad.

It'll be something simple, I know I had days of problems with the old S-55 engine not starting or stopping, turned out my saved flight was the B737 ie jet turbine, saved a new flight with the R-22, ie piston helo and the S-55 worked perfectly ever after.

Best

Michael

Addendum, you need in sim, options/settings/display then aircraft tab, left hand side middle is a tick box 'High-Resolution 3-D cockpit' you must tick this. Additionally, check your key command for master battery its null by default, you have to specifiy which key commands you want.
 
Kent,

Do you have FSX and Acceleration/SP2 installed? I am not to privy on how the flight model was built, but I think it is a real twin engine helicopter (based on a Merlin type flight file most likely). So without SP2/Acceleration the chopper will not work.
 
I have SP2 installed, but not Acceleration....

....and the website says "FSX SP2 (Acceleration recommended).
 
Roadburner440 said:
Kent,

Do you have FSX and Acceleration/SP2 installed? I am not to privy on how the flight model was built, but I think it is a real twin engine helicopter (based on a Merlin type flight file most likely). So without SP2/Acceleration the chopper will not work.
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Funny you should say that, currently fiddling with a Merlin based FDE right now, ie next generation (as it offers so much more flexiblity) and it too will not work in SP2 set ups, works fine in Accel but just will not start engines in SP2 at all. I dont know if SP2 will accept NG FDEs, does SP2 accept sling loads etc, there may be some SP2 set ups that will not accept these NG FDEs that are now turing up. I dont have SP2 so its impossible to test and bug squash but those that do are not fairing well thus far.

Easiest way to check if a Helo FDE is NG is to look in the cfg, if it has main and tail rotor sections then its almost certainly a NG FDE.

Knowing Nemeth, I'd lay a small wager its a NG set up.

Best

Michael
 
Okay....

...I'll try loading Accel-- back soon to let you all know how it works.

Kent

AND...that's PRECISELY what it is-- it REQUIRES Acceleration, apparently. Anyone know what I can do to get rid of all of the extra Acceleration airplanes I don't want??? <Grin>
 
The quick way? Go to their simobjects directories and rename the "panel" folder to say "lenap" or "panel.dis" or something similar.

The aircraft in that folder become invisible to the User Aircraft selection system, but they're still there if something calls the sound from them or whatever.

Ian P.
 
This one will be a definite once I hear plenty of good. A rarity of a helicopter mammoth in the flight sim world for sure.
...Looks nice. Videos anyone?
 
IanP said:
The quick way? Go to their simobjects directories and rename the "panel" folder to say "lenap" or "panel.dis" or something similar.

The aircraft in that folder become invisible to the User Aircraft selection system, but they're still there if something calls the sound from them or whatever.

Ian P.
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Another quick way is to simply move all the unwanted aircraft folders into a safe place, there should be very little if anything that is looking at those aircraft, I've no problems with all of the Accel aircraft and about 90% of the stock aircraft shunted to another safe folder TBH.

Best

Michael
 
ColoKent said:
...I'll try loading Accel-- back soon to let you all know how it works.

Kent

AND...that's PRECISELY what it is-- it REQUIRES Acceleration, apparently. Anyone know what I can do to get rid of all of the extra Acceleration airplanes I don't want??? <GRIN>
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Excellent, perhaps someone in marketing needs to revise the requirements list, pretty sure this will catch a few others out as well.

Have to be honest, its creating a bit of an issue for me as well, thought I'd got out of all this dual sim crap by going over fully to FSx, now we need two helo FDEs, SP2 and Accel.

Kindest

Michael
 
michael davies said:
Excellent, perhaps someone in marketing needs to revise the requirements list, pretty sure this will catch a few others out as well.

Have to be honest, its creating a bit of an issue for me as well, thought I'd got out of all this dual sim crap by going over fully to FSx, now we need two helo FDEs, SP2 and Accel.

Kindest

Michael
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I`ve asked them to change the requirements. Accel is required for the water stuff to work.
 
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