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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Team SDB USS Enterprise.

TARPSBird said:
See ya out in town later. I'll be at the Oro Club, or upstairs in the Zanzibar! :icon_lol:
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Rgr that Tarps! I'll be out to some place at the end of Gordon street. They have (had) the best tacos and the coldest San Miguels in the whole city. Dang this project is getting me all nostalgic and stuff. Here's another cool pic from the 1982 cruise. Notice there are two of the ugly flat gray painted A-7s parked out there. It had already begun! A flight deck full of SLUFs, don't get no better!
 
Looks great guys, I loved this Ship from the Alphasim offering, I am looking forward to it moving in FSX. Keep up the great work.

Is this going to be free or payware?
 
PRB said:
Rgr that Tarps! I'll be out to some place at the end of Gordon street. They have (had) the best tacos and the coldest San Miguels in the whole city. Dang this project is getting me all nostalgic and stuff. Here's another cool pic from the 1982 cruise. Notice there are two of the ugly flat gray painted A-7s parked out there. It had already begun! A flight deck full of SLUFs, don't get no better!
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Nice pic - looks like a deck re-spot in progress.
There used to be a bar called Mom's Club on Rizal Ave. that had tacos as their specialty. Figure by the time you bar-hopped your way up the main drag and were on Rizal, you needed something to eat. We used to joke about the conspicuous absence of cats in the neighborhood around Mom's. That may have been the Navy's original don't-ask-don't-tell policy: Don't ask what kind of meat is in Mom's tacos, and they won't tell you. :icon_lol:
 
sketchy said:
Looks great guys, I loved this Ship from the Alphasim offering, I am looking forward to it moving in FSX. Keep up the great work.

Is this going to be free or payware?
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It will be Payware Sketchy price to be decided. But rest assured it won't break your piggy bank.

robertorizzo: Why would it NOT work with Javier's Freeware Nimitz? Yes it should do. :)
 
Mickey D said:
Simple Question. Simple answer. When it's ready. :)
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Originally we were figuring by the end of last year. But now it will for sure (fingers crossed) be by first quarter 2012 if not sooner. Initially we thought it was going to be basically the original Alphasim FS9 version with all the hinderances to a good FSX experience corrected. But thanks to Sylvain's passion for naval aviation and ships it has gone far far beyond that. At the rate things are being improved and enhanced it will be the same as the original in name only. For FS9 users we are fixing that version to include the enhancemets that Robert Baum (AI guru for the original) made for it but that weren't released by Alphasim.

And PRB, there are seven A-7's on the the deck in a mix from VA-22 and VA-94. All are gray over white scheme for the early 80's version and low-vis for the later version. Thanks also for those images you've supplied.
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Glad to be able to help, in a teeny tiny way. Looking forward to the release!
 
This will be a fantastic addition to the upcoming Razbam Buckeye, which must be very close based on all the feedback from last week. Anyway, in case I missed it, does the carrier offer period specific AI aircraft/helo's? In other words, can you pick a 70's based carrier with warbirds from that era? If not, not a deal breaker for me.

Matt
 
strykerpsg said:
This will be a fantastic addition to the upcoming Razbam Buckeye, which must be very close based on all the feedback from last week. Anyway, in case I missed it, does the carrier offer period specific AI aircraft/helo's? In other words, can you pick a 70's based carrier with warbirds from that era? If not, not a deal breaker for me.

Matt
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The aircraft you see in the screenshots are modelled into the carrier and can't be removed or replaced by the
user. That's the only way it can be done on an AI ship so they "move" with the ship. AI aircraft can't be
made to work with a moving carrier. They require an airport facility file, a so called AFCAD, which remains
stationary. Any "AI" that you may have seen with a moving carrier are in fact dynamic objects which may
becompiled into the carrier.
This first release represents the two post-refit cruises of the 1980s. The one you are interested in, the
pre-79 refit Enterprise is physically and visually a different beast and is planned as the subject of a
future release.
 
strykerpsg said:
This will be a fantastic addition to the upcoming Razbam Buckeye, which must be very close based on all the feedback from last week. Anyway, in case I missed it, does the carrier offer period specific AI aircraft/helo's? In other words, can you pick a 70's based carrier with warbirds from that era? If not, not a deal breaker for me.

Matt
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First off, glad that's not a deal breaker. Usually those posts are meant to be negative.

When we first started this project one of the questions was what era would be represented. The decision to go between 1982 and 1997 was influenced by two things -- 1) during a 1979-1982 refit the roof was changed to the type we have now and 2) the A-6 Intruder we have as one of the statics left service in 1997. We've since learned even more about the Enterprise's cruises and that has narrowed the range a bit to the earlier 1990s.

The FS9 version still has the three static aircraft deck layouts like the original Alphasim version did -- launch, recovery, and dual-purpose. Since they are changed by moving files around there is also a clean deck option. On that clean deck you can place whatever aircraft you want from any era. As long as you don't look at the roof of the island it won't matter.

As Mickey D mentioned, since the FSX version is a moving carrier we must fix the static aircraft in place and so we are configuring it to represent the Enterprise in the early 1980s and in the early 1990s. These decisions are based the static aircraft made available to us to use. You can of course launch and land any aircraft on her.

As mentioned in the opening post of this thread we have always had in mind changing the roof design to represent the original very distinctive beehive version that was in place up to the late 1970's -- we've collected the necessary static aircraft to represent the 1960's through the late 1970s. In order to go forward with this second release (I hope we do) there are several people involved with other interests and we all need to agree that it is worthwhile to put a few more months into it. So the successful acceptence of the first release will determine how that goes.
 
Great to hear of the periods covered, I cruised on Big "E" in '96, as mentioned the last Intruder cruise (VA-75 Sunday Punchers). Sorry I don't have any pics scanned yet of that cruise but I can help with research if required, I own the "Cruise Book" as well.
 
crashaz said:
Awesome work indeed! Doing a great job of representing our Navy eh Chief? :salute:
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A most remarkable job. Incredible is the word to describe it. Having lived and worked on carriers of that time period...well, it really brings back memories.

Pete
 
Looks fantastic.

You simply can't enough carriers.

Looking forward to the release.

It is now on my must purchase list.

VCN-1
 
Wonderful work and will be an early buyer. Kudos to all involved.

There is still a real need for a e.g. Forestall or angled deck Essex class cv for FSX
 
So, gonna spam this everyday until release now that I have the Buckeye and Kestrel to fly off of her.....kidding, about the daily spamming, just every other day. Have an approximate ETA?

BTW, I would buy all the variants of era's you make available, as it would also go great with the VRS Superhornet and Dino's upcoming F-35C.

Matt
 
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