So, now that we have a native Connie...

I would love to see it in Varig and Real colors

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but it's too complicated for painting, i don't master Blender
 
Read all the reviews, watched all the You Tubes...and still pulled the trigger, because I like Connies too (mainly the short nosed ones). Thoroughly unimpressed. Going to pull it out of the community folder, and consider it an investment in the future that **might** pay off down the road. Problem is, once you've flown the PMDG DC-6 a lot...you're spoiled.

We'll keep on eye on these guys and see how this product matures...

Kent
 
Hello everyone! :wavey:

Switzerland also had 2 Connies, it was the HB-IBI and the HB-IBJ. Both aircraft were painted in the Swissair colors and were in Nierdland. Unfortunately, they never came to Switzerland and never in the possession of Swissair, which was a shame.

Here is a small excerpt from the book "Aircraft over five decades" by Armin Baltensweiler (* April 20, 1920, † February 12, 2009)

"After lengthy studies, which mainly related to a comparison between the tried and tested Lockheed Constellation L-049 and the DC-6 offered by Douglas, the management initially decided to take over two used Constellations from the Dutch KLM on a rental basis, this in the I intend to later place an order with Lockheed for two brand-new Constellation L-749s. Together with a cockpit crew from the Operations Department, I was delegated to Amsterdam to take over the rental aircraft and transfer them to Zurich. The two units were already carrying Swissair -Colors; the designations HB-IBI and HB-IBJ were chosen for matriculation. Shortly before our departure in the Netherlands, however, we received an invitation from Zurich to return home without an aircraft Swissair suddenly and drastically deteriorated. As a result, all e plans to acquire a new long-haul fleet suspended and the planning studies had to be restarted.

So Switzerland never got to own Connies. Because on June 24th 1951 the first DC-6 of Swissair was delivered.

Here is a model of a Connie in the Swissair livery, unfortunately there are no original pictures of the two machines.

https://www.aviationmarket.ch/pi/Ma...super-constellation-swissair-genf-hb-iby.html"
I would also be very happy if a painter could take the time to paint one of the Swissair machines. :wiggle:

Have a nice Sunday... Chris... (Pirosch)
 
@Pirosch/Chris, Redwing is working on a better Swissair livery - I am quite sure, they put it on a shortnose. Same with Lufthansa Classic of the Fifties.

@Banjoman1960
Yes you are right. My repaints are not accurate due to bad UVW-Mapping of parts. Only the blue/orange crane logos on tail are splitted into 16 different part sections on texture. Some are turned, some are mirrored. Some are not unique scaled. I am sure, with a repaintkit or with Blender, work is going much better - but it is not there. So it is a dirty try and error.

@Kent
I am really happy with the flightdynamics - for me they are better than PMDG. It needs a closer look into manual. A comparison with the real manual shows amazing similarities here. Really good for an MSFS simulation. Sounds are now high level (WWise) with the updates. But I noticed some loops with power settings. But overall they are great. Systems now are working great with step II and updates - only hydraulics and oil-management are not PMDG benchmark. I hope, that will come as announced with step III and IV.

Anyway, my Lufthansa Freighter state 1964 and Qantas state 1960 liveries are published. Hope you like them.

https://de.flightsim.to/file/25974/l-1649a-starliner-lufthansa-d-alub-1964

https://de.flightsim.to/file/26046/l-1049g-super-constellation-qantas-vh-eab-1960

Thomas
 
Hi Thomas!

Thank you so much for the Infos. And i am very excited about the new Swissair paint from Redwing.:encouragement: I am now flying around the world with your great and cool Luftahansa Paint, because it is an absolutely beautiful livery. :wiggle:
I wish you all a great start to the week:wavey:

Chris/Pirosch
 
About the two mystery Switzerland Connies, Chris mentioned. Thanks for that info. Did HB-IBJ. It wears the Swissair colors of 1950. This repaint is nevertheless a fake, because the L-1040G is operating since 1954. It is my very first shortnose repaint. It seems, only front fuselage texture is different.

HB-IBJ1 by TiAr, auf Flickr

HB-IBJ4 by TiAr, auf Flickr

Hope you like this WIP

Thomas
 
Hello Thomas!

Now I'm really surprised to see a paint of the HB-IBJ. Even if it's a fake, you did a really good job of painting the HB-IBJ. Even if the story seems a bit mysterious, it's still nice to breathe a little life into it with this beautiful paint. Thank you very much for your work and painting. And that you go into my stories, great thing, I appreciate that. thank you. :applause:

And I am very happy to fly the HB-IBJ sometime in the MSFS..... :icon37:

And you Thomas, and everyone else here have a nice Sunday.

Best regards, Chris/Pirosch.:wavey:
 
Having difficulty using and understanding how to use VOR/Glide to autoland the Connie.


In the TWA model the ILS frequency was set in the Overhead Panel. The entry was made in the popup area named NAV 1 STANDBY FREQ. with the adjacent switch ON.


Is there an ACTIVE frequency? I can't find one marked as such.


At these settings, when near the ILS/VOR, the needles appear in the Course Deviation Indicator and if flown manually can follow the beam down to landing.


Next the Flight Path Selector Switch was rotated to the Localizer & Glide position and the plane flown at an acute angle to intercept the beam with the AutoPilot turned ON. The Localizer and Guide Path yellow lights never illuminated.


When the plane approached the beam the horizontal needle moved in the correct direction but did not lock on and moved past the center.


What is missing from this procedure that fails to lock onto the beam? Thanks for any help.


Jim
 
jimjones said:
Having difficulty using and understanding how to use VOR/Glide to autoland the Connie.


In the TWA model the ILS frequency was set in the Overhead Panel. The entry was made in the popup area named NAV 1 STANDBY FREQ. with the adjacent switch ON.


Is there an ACTIVE frequency? I can't find one marked as such.


At these settings, when near the ILS/VOR, the needles appear in the Course Deviation Indicator and if flown manually can follow the beam down to landing.


Next the Flight Path Selector Switch was rotated to the Localizer & Glide position and the plane flown at an acute angle to intercept the beam with the AutoPilot turned ON. The Localizer and Guide Path yellow lights never illuminated.


When the plane approached the beam the horizontal needle moved in the correct direction but did not lock on and moved past the center.


What is missing from this procedure that fails to lock onto the beam? Thanks for any help.


Jim
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I also need a guide or video on how to use the autopilot in this plane. I downloaded the manual but no info there.
 
jimjones said:
This helps but did not solve my problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WudCSUJDxE0

Perhaps the A/P does not work. Also looking for an update that might fix.

Jim
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For me it works, my problem is to find working VORs in MSFS. Page 72 of the manual gives a lot of information. Did you set the flight director knob 74 correctly? If you forget to set it the autopilot remains of heading and altitude. There is no switching of an active frequency, just NAV1 and NAV2. The frequency set is active. I think the NAV1 is linked to blue and NAV2 to yellow on page 72.
 
Thanks, ftl818 for your response.


We concor that the NAV frequency displays are ACTIVE despite they are marked STANDBY.


I think I'm using the flight director knob correctly. You can see my steps in message #71 of this thread.


Our MANUAL page numbers appear different. My page 72 displays section 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6. The UK version shows extra A/P info on page 39. Perhaps yours is a different country version.


I'm using v1.5 of the Redwing sim. Interesting is that there are two manuals in the download, one labeled v1.5 and the second labeled v1.68 (Dec 2021). :dizzy: Probably a Redwing oversight.


I tried looking into DISCORD messages and saw that there was success with the localizer but that there were still problems with the glide slope.
Jim
 
ftl818 said:
For me it works, my problem is to find working VORs in MSFS.
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There are quite a few. The only ones I've found that don't work are the military TACAN-only transmitters. The one next to 8R/26L at PHNL works perfectly, so you can enjoy the island scenery while getting in some practice.
 
jimjones said:
Thanks, ftl818 for your response.


We concor that the NAV frequency displays are ACTIVE despite they are marked STANDBY.


I think I'm using the flight director knob correctly. You can see my steps in message #71 of this thread.


Our MANUAL page numbers appear different. My page 72 displays section 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6. The UK version shows extra A/P info on page 39. Perhaps yours is a different country version.


I'm using v1.5 of the Redwing sim. Interesting is that there are two manuals in the download, one labeled v1.5 and the second labeled v1.68 (Dec 2021). :dizzy: Probably a Redwing oversight.


I tried looking into DISCORD messages and saw that there was success with the localizer but that there were still problems with the glide slope.
Jim
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I'm referring to the 1.68 version of the pdf. Page 72 explains the zero reader_ils. I did an approach as described there and the autopilot did lock to glide and heading. A possibilty could be the sequence of things. I flew to the VOR on the airfield manually with nav2, nav1 tuned to the ILS. I set the zero reader to approach (altitude on, green light) and only when the indicators showed signals from the ILS I switched the flight director knob. The aircraft reacted to centre both needles.
 
Thanks again, ftl818, for your response and information.


I located and reviewed the zero reader information in the v1.68 manual. The zero reader selection knob is not given a number in the center panel diplay, section 4.1.3. That ommision is interesting since several other controls on the zero reader are numbered and explained.


I've successfully locked onto the localizer/glideslop using the flight selector knob alone by creating a flight inline with Ithe ILS beam.


The Connie reacted too slowly to the beam to give control close to the runway. The plane weaved across the ILS , broadly, displaying insufficient control for a low visibility landing.


The pilot in the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69Ne1k1kbs, at 36:37 is shown capturing the ILS manually. At around 36:57 he starts the A/P Localizer/Glideslope. At 38:17 he notices the plane shifting away from the ILS. At 40:14 he disconnects the A/P Localizer/Glideslope, and decides to land manually since the plane was still hunting the beam. This gives credence that the current v1.5 Connie poorly controls to the Localizer. True to the real Connie or just the sim?


Jim
 
Here is the most amazing film showing the Super Connie in flight and navigation technique. This film is a must for any lover of the Super and you will learn some interesting operations on ground and in the air. I never knew about the landing gear pins and they must be removed before flight and, in fact, are part of the check list when you ask ground crew to show three pins. This and much more detail, really an amazing vintage film.

Ps: The Connie used in the film in my favorite livery :)

Eastern Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Promo Film - 1953 - YouTube
 
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