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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

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Piglet's Porter...

On the lower left is the fuel cut off, must be up to be on. Also on the defaut saved flight, preferably the cessna, ensure both tanks are selected, also try ctrl-shft-f4 just to ensure mixture on, not sure if it will do anything, but this is fsx. And managed to switch off radios last run dont know why i had problems before. Lovely plane to fly, its just the prop pitch and torque dont behave as i am used to, if you reduce throttle, RPm, torque and EGT reduce, if you change prop pitch, plane reduces speed, but shows no effect on rpm and torque for a time, then it causes torque to increase, but finally got it flying at 117Kts. Easy plane to land so far. Great work Tim.
 
Got it going through the default 172, I love it! Spent an hour below treetop height playing with buildings and trees lol :jump:
 
On Piglets A-1 I had to use the keyboard command to turn the fuel switch to All even after setting the VC controls. I have mapped the F key to "Fuel Tanks All" just for this reason. Many other developers (including some payware) have this peculiarity also so I am guessing it is an FSX thing. I believe the mixture Axis works correctly as the condition lever, so the Ctl-Shf-F4 is prolly not necessary if you have a mixture control set up.

Still have not figured out proper use of the pitch control though.

Dave
 
Hi Piglet, not sure if this is correct, but will play some more. It seems that the Prop Pitch is reversed, Ie when pushed in it decreases torque, when fully out it increases torque, whcih seems to go against the default keys. Not a major issue, just couldnt figure out what was happening, So push the Prop Pitch in fully on before start ( that should stop it spooling so long ), then fully out for take off, then adjust during flight, Will play again in morning. Loving this bird. Please a UK paint. Just did 3 flights in uk, be nice with correct markings. And could you do a ski version, so we can do some repaints for New Zealand.

Thanks again
 
VinFlyer said:
Ah, shoot! :) I was planning to do that one after my Swiss repaint. Looking forward to your paint Ed :mixedsmi:
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Hey Vin. . .go for it bud. . .I'm not terribly adept at FSX repainting anyway, so no guarantee this one would be as good as it should be. . .and we could have a much better repaint with your talents!:salute:
 
After two long days of blood, sweat and almost tears (quite literally when I accidentally did a 'Save' instead of 'Save As' after I had flattened all my layers and I lost my multiple layer file! Thankfully I was able to recover it and carry on....PHEW!) I finally have something to show as a WIP.

F-GKIA_2.jpg

F-GKIA_1.jpg


The red and yellow are all done now and just (just ha!) have to work on the text, bare metal parts, panel lines and dirt and the alpha channel then the spec map for the main sheet and finally update the interior a bit.

Looks like at least a couple more days before she's ready to roll out of the paintshop...hope nobody is holding their breath for this one!
 
Looks very nice Larry! It sounds like you are having fun.

I have some experience with the "save" instead of "save as" disaster, so I know what you were feeling. First the "no I didn't feeling" and than the paralysing feeling "OMG I did!". So I'm glad you could recover your layered file. (Thank you dear Lord for Crtl-Z!)

Cheers,
Huub
 
huub vink said:
Looks very nice Larry! It sounds like you are having fun.
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Thanks Huub but as far as fun goes some might say I have sado-masochistic tendencies considering the amount of work I put into a paint (but then again you know what pains we painters go through to get the 'perfect' paint job...and very rarely does that happen!)

huub vink said:
I have some experience with the "save" instead of "save as" disaster, so I know what you were feeling. First the "no I didn't feeling" and than the paralysing feeling "OMG I did!". So I'm glad you could recover your layered file.
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LOL...you got it! The language I used would have made an Amsterdam call-girl blush!

huub vink said:
(Thank you dear Lord for Crtl-Z!)
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Actually CTRL-Z wouldn't get me back and I was really panicking then but luckily I found a 'new to me' command that is a bit like 'Revert' (but called some thing else that I can't quite remember at the moment) and that got me back to my layered state again. I certainly breathed a big sigh of relief when I did get it back though. I thought I'd lost the lot for about a minute....one of the longest minutes of my life!
 
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