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Update Douglas_C-47_Beta_V3.14 feedback and support topic

v1, v2 callouts on landing

for some reason i always get the v1,v2, we are committing aviation callouts right after touchdown on landing, instead of during the takeoff roll. i think i'm doing all the checklists properly?! at first i thought maybe it was because i forgot to wait for the engine warmup.. but i was careful to wait for that the last few flights and i still get it.

cheers
-andy crosby
 
That seems to happen if you don't turn on the pilots' voices right at the
beginning of your flight.
You don't have to use the checklist to hear the callouts but as you have noticed,
if you don't hear the take off callouts when you are taking off, you will hear them
instead when you land.
If you were then to take off again, the callouts will have reset themselves and you
should hear the V1 etc as you take off.

It can be quite useful to assign a key to the Aircraft (Reload) command.
Doing this after the aircraft is loaded into the FSX and before you start either
the voices or the checklist will set everything back to the beginning and hopefully
let it all work properly.
I use the (letter) O key, as it doesn't have a function that is of any other use to me.
 
Feedback - no issues whatsoever so far, none. With operations, menus, sub-menus, controls or performance, does as advertised. What more can I say! The DC-3 C-47 has come back to life and this is simply outstanding.
 
Parachute drop help

Help, unable to activate parachute jump. I'm using FSX have done everything according to manual: Open door 4 while still on the ground, enable callouts and parachuting on the clipboard, kept red/green light switches off until it's time, fly level at 800ft while keeping speed below 110kias.

Red light on nothing happens & no voices. Switches are showing fasten seatbelt & no smoking not labelled as jump switches.

Really enjoy the a/craft but would also like to enjoy use of the parachute drop

Appreciate any help to sort this prob.

Thanks
 
MZee1960 said:
Hi guys,
I may be just nit picking here, but although I never tried the wiper feature at all ever before - just by fluke I clicked the wiper switch on my last flight and discovered all works well (sound, animation) in all interior VC views, but I am only getting sound in exterior aircraft spot view - no animation. No big deal, but just thought I would mention this in this devoted thread. MZ
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Thank you, it's in the works.

(Also working on checklist "completed" calls, revised chocks visibility code, multiplayer concerns. More soon.)
 
baz11 said:
Help, unable to activate parachute jump. I'm using FSX have done everything according to manual: Open door 4 while still on the ground, enable callouts and parachuting on the clipboard, kept red/green light switches off until it's time, fly level at 800ft while keeping speed below 110kias.

Red light on nothing happens & no voices. Switches are showing fasten seatbelt & no smoking not labelled as jump switches.

Really enjoy the a/craft but would also like to enjoy use of the parachute drop

Appreciate any help to sort this prob.

Thanks
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Hi,

A couple of points. I assume you are using the Paratroop version of the aircraft. Make sure that all the effects and effects textures have been installed. The Paratroop version should be showing "Red Light" and "Green Light" switches in place of the "Fasten Seatbelt" and "No Smoking" switches. There is a bug in this version that makes the Fasten Seatbelt and No Smoking labels appear at night when the blue fluro light is switched on. See post #6 in this thread for an explanation and some replacement files to fix that issue. The lights will still work for the paratroopers without this fix, it will just fix the labelling when the fluro light is on.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...upport-topic?p=1069763&viewfull=1#post1069763

Start on the ground and open the checklist window (Shift+5) and click on cold and dark to reset everything. Open door 4 (Shift+E and 4) and leave it open for the flight. Select the co pilot and paratrooper selections on the first page of the checklist. This should automatically turn the intercom switch on (up). Leave the jump lights off until airborne and ready to drop. Run through the checklists and take off.

Climb to at least 800 Feet. I have dropped from 3000 feet so anything above 800 is fine. When almost at the jump site, about 2 minutes before the drop, turn on the "Red light", and you will hear the jump master shouting his instructions. You will hear him shout a bit and then shout "1 minute". After this 1 minute has then passed turn the "Green light" on and you will hear (and see from external view) the paratroopers exiting the plane.

Things you must do just before and during the drop:

- Maintain an indicated airspeed of 110 knots.

- maintain a straight and level, or slightly nose high attitude. Maintain a constant altitude and gyro heading.

- throttle back left engine to approximately 12 - 13 Hg to avoid severe shock to the jumpers from prop blast.

- advance right throttle to maintain jump attitude.

For these last two points I actually start with a speed slightly higher than desired, then throttle back both engines to the 12 Hg, and let speed decrease slightly to around 110 knots before switching the green light on for the signal to jump. It doesn't have to be exactly 110 knots, just around that speed.

Cheers,
 
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Parachute drop help

scotth6 said:
Hi,

A couple of points. I assume you are using the Paratroop version of the aircraft. Make sure that all the effects and effects textures have been installed. The Paratroop version should be showing "Red Light" and "Green Light" switches in place of the "Fasten Seatbelt" and "No Smoking" switches. There is a bug in this version that makes the Fasten Seatbelt and No Smoking labels appear at night when the blue fluro light is switched on. See post #6 in this thread for an explanation and some replacement files to fix that issue. The lights will still work for the paratroopers without this fix, it will just fix the labelling when the fluro light is on.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...upport-topic?p=1069763&viewfull=1#post1069763

Start on the ground and open the checklist window (Shift+5) and click on cold and dark to reset everything. Open door 4 (Shift+E and 4) and leave it open for the flight. Select the co pilot and paratrooper selections on the first page of the checklist. This should automatically turn the intercom switch on (up). Leave the jump lights off until airborne and ready to drop. Run through the checklists and take off.

Climb to at least 800 Feet. I have dropped from 3000 feet so anything above 800 is fine. When almost at the jump site, about 2 minutes before the drop, turn on the "Red light", and you will hear the jump master shouting his instructions. You will hear him shout a bit and then shout "1 minute". After this 1 minute has then passed turn the "Green light" on and you will hear (and see from external view) the paratroopers exiting the plane.

Things you must do just before and during the drop:

- Maintain an indicated airspeed of 110 knots.

- maintain a straight and level, or slightly nose high attitude. Maintain a constant altitude and gyro heading.

- throttle back left engine to approximately 12 - 13 Hg to avoid severe shock to the jumpers from prop blast.

- advance right throttle to maintain jump attitude.

For these last two points I actually start with a speed slightly higher than desired, then throttle back both engines to the 12 Hg, and let speed decrease slightly to around 110 knots before switching the green light on for the signal to jump. It doesn't have to be exactly 110 knots, just around that speed.

Cheers,
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Hi & many thanks for your detailed instruction.

Followed it exactly as you instructed, unfortunately without any success still no Jumpmaster instructions & no Paras.

Checked properties on the effects to be added & noticed they were blocked for some reason, unblocked them but still no success, looked for Jumpmaster sounds in the sound folder but couldn't find any, should they show in the sound folder ?

Got me stumped at the moment.

Thanks again for your help & any other suggestions you have would be appreciated.

Regards
 
Really great aircraft, will there ever be a civil version of this (DC-3). I flew on an Ozark DC-3 from Cedar Rapids to Chicago when I was a kid and always hoped for a great version of this plane to come to flightsim.
 
Seatbelt Colors in V3.14 VC ...

I have successfully changed the seat color in the V3.14 VC from the default brown to black as well as adapted the interior VC colors to black, blue and green using the 'fallback' method and Nick's '2 file fix' outlined above, and in this post :
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...upport-topic?p=1070171&viewfull=1#post1070171

My question is, however, is there now a way of changing the color of the seatbelts from the blue to another color such as grey, or black to also go along with the brown (or black) seats, as we had in the previous version of this fine aircraft ?

( For example : http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...eta-Released?p=1035482&viewfull=1#post1035482 )

Cheers,
MZ.
 
Hello,

actually, the seat belts on the black seats are black and white.
It is fairly easy to vary the seatbelt colour, it involves a little editing of the
new vvc_2bump.dds file and Jan has made it very easy to see which parts
you need to edit.

Here, I have made the brown seat seat belt black and white also.
If you would like that file, it is attached.
If you would like other colours, you might like to experiment yourself.
(Thanks to EZdok for the camera angle)

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I saw your screen shot and the seat belts were a very vivid blue.
For me they are a much more subdued colour as Jan made them.
It may be different settings, all the blue items in your VC look more vivid, though mine
(settings) are perhaps a little too subdued.

Untitled2.jpg
 

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ncooper said:
Hello,

actually, the seat belts on the black seats are black and white.
It is fairly easy to vary the seatbelt colour, it involves a little editing of the
new vvc_2bump.dds file and Jan has made it very easy to see which parts
you need to edit.

Here, I have made the brown seat seat belt black and white also.
If you would like that file, it is attached.
If you would like other colours, you might like to experiment yourself.
(Thanks to EZdok for the camera angle)

Untitled.jpg


I saw your screen shot and the seat belts were a very vivid blue.
For me they are a much more subdued colour as Jan made them.
It may be different settings, all the blue items in your VC look more vivid, though mine
(settings) are perhaps a little too subdued.

Untitled2.jpg
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Thank-you, very much for this file Nick. I will try it out tomorrow, but it looks great ! ' Exactly what I was after ' .... based on your pics above.

Cheers,
Milan.
 
Seatbelts in V3.14 VC ....

This color works beautifully ! Thank-you, Nick .



As I am no painter, just one more bother if I may .... Please would it be possible to also give us files (similar to the ones you kindly provided to us in post #52 above), but which would have black seatbelts with the black seats ?

Cheers,
MZ.
 
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Hello,

I am not convinced that you are seeing the files I have attached.
The seats in your last three shots seem to have the faded blue seat belts
that Manfred gave us.

The image of the black seat and black seat belts above is from the files
I attached earlier and I see no blue.
However, I have removed the blue from the vvc_2bump_spec.dds
file as well in the hope that this will make the seat belts look black
on your screen too.
 

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ncooper said:
Hello,

I am not convinced that you are seeing the files I have attached.
The seats in your last three shots seem to have the faded blue seat belts
that Manfred gave us.

The image of the black seat and black seat belts above is from the files
I attached earlier and I see no blue.
However, I have removed the blue from the vvc_2bump_spec.dds
file as well in the hope that this will make the seat belts look black
on your screen too.
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Hi Nick,

Thank-you for the latest files. I substituted these for the previous 2 files you provided and took before and after shots. As you can see below, the new files show no blue in the seatbelts but give them a really nice dark, grey appearance.




 
Here are a few more close-up shots of the new files when applied to the seatbelts with black seats in the V3.14 VC.



Thank-you, once again, for these, Nick.

Cheers,
Milan.
 
Nick may I ask you to do the same for me with the light brown seats of the original VC of the previous release.

Cheers Chris
 
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