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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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V(S)TOL, Harriers, and other stuff...My POV.

Fairey Rotodyne would be superb, can only wish.


I bought the G.A.S Pitcairn gyrocopter X currently on sale at 50% off, it's pretty fun to fly and their implementation using a second engine for the rotor works pretty good until you get down to 20 kts at which point it's a full stall.

Rob, have you ever considered an autogyro module in your line up?

Allan
 
jetstreamsky said:
Rob, have you ever considered an autogyro module in your line up?

Allan
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Yes, and made one :)
Two years back someone was working on a freeware model (Xenon_XLC2), for which I made that.
Even included a switchable pre-rotator function. (one engine only, as IRL; the main rotor was "driven" by my gauge.)
But the designer (forgot his name) couldn't get the rotor animation quite right if I remember correctly; not sure if he ever released it.
So I left it archived since.

Anyway, a generic module is pointless; it always has to adapted to a specific model

Rob
 
Thank you for your great work on all those VTOL models.

Rob if you have done a new version for the Virtavia Osprey Can you release it?
 
Your vtol gauges are great
I have a pilots license so if I really want "as real as it gets" , I go to the airport and hop in the cessna.

Your gauges contribute to feeding the imagination , add to the enjoyment of the simulation and expand what is possible inside fsx.
They exceed my expectations and inspire my imagination of what can be possible.
... like your automatic transmission gauges for road vehicles, now thats thinking outside the box, but in a very scientific and logical way. very cool

I have been playing around with your controlxml files and have found ,that when coupled with extremely powerful sub-orbital flight files, they work above 400,000 ft in a way that succeeds in "emulating" space flight
at least in my expectations, as I understand that FSX doesn't do spaceflight or many other things we all wish it would

- i can climb all the way to 10 million feet, descend , manuever , even dock (stable hover) with my space station scenery 178 miles in space.
or fly from Kennedy Space Center to Detroit in 24 minutes (mach 4.6 / fsx max) at any altitude - and never go into slew !!
- maybe a ghost in the machine but another example of how your work expands what is possible in FSX

with thanks and appreciation.
keep pushing the envelope-:salute:

Bruce Fitzgerald
 
Delta_Whiskey said:
Your vtol gauges are great
I have a pilots license so if I really want "as real as it gets" , I go to the airport and hop in the cessna.

Your gauges contribute to feeding the imagination , add to the enjoyment of the simulation and expand what is possible inside fsx.
They exceed my expectations and inspire my imagination of what can be possible.
... like your automatic transmission gauges for road vehicles, now thats thinking outside the box, but in a very scientific and logical way. very cool

I have been playing around with your controlxml files and have found ,that when coupled with extremely powerful sub-orbital flight files, they work above 400,000 ft in a way that succeeds in "emulating" space flight
at least in my expectations, as I understand that FSX doesn't do spaceflight or many other things we all wish it would

- i can climb all the way to 10 million feet, descend , manuever , even dock (stable hover) with my space station scenery 178 miles in space.
or fly from Kennedy Space Center to Detroit in 24 minutes (mach 4.6 / fsx max) at any altitude - and never go into slew !!
- maybe a ghost in the machine but another example of how your work expands what is possible in FSX

with thanks and appreciation.
keep pushing the envelope-:salute:

Bruce Fitzgerald
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Hi Bruce,

Can you point out for which aircraft you are using it at that altitude ?
Maybe I tried it with the wrong basic FDE's, so if you have one that works I'll surely have a look again.
You know how to contact me on Email :)

Cheers, Rob
 
letourn said:
Thank you for your great work on all those VTOL models.

Rob if you have done a new version for the Virtavia Osprey Can you release it?
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Not ready yet, since it was still a beta.
And with the other stuff I'm working on, like some extra's in Dino's F35 update package (ssssttt :) ), I have to start somewhere with updates.
So I'll do one for Bazzar's (Wilco) BA609 Tiltrotor first, since that is a much better visual model then the Osprey.
Unless you know other types of Tiltrotor aircraft addons then the Alphasim/Virtavia V22 Osprey.

Rob
 
The abacus V-22 was mentioned in an earlier thread, a free trial of it can be downloaded here:
http://www.abacuspub.com/fsd/premier/premdown2.php
No registration required.
I found it when I was looking for a small single engine jet, also available.
I couldn't get the trial to work so I modified the D-jet to work with this similar plane's mdl file.
http://fs2000.org/index.php/downloads/doc_details/34326-fs2002fs2004-cirrus-vision-sf50

It may be possible to get the V-22 to work with the old freeware V-22 mdl.
Reading this tread has persuaded me to try out Rob's gauge, so I may have a look at the V-22 myself.

Definitely looking forward to the space flight gauge. Hopefully the Skylon will be released.
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=302434
 
Rob
Without your gaugs, the SU-37 would just be a pathetic simulacrum.. I understand that the SU-37 is not a VTOL aircraft, but so much of what you describe overlaps with what happens in all TVC aircraft.. As the engines rotate up or down or sideways, External forces are applied that combat the basic flight model. Exactly how i was able to counter the basic fde I dont know.. Somewhere in the years i put into it, i got lucky and discovered the relationships. However as i learned with the F-22 the relationships change with each plane and have to be completely unique to that plane..
What you do, is a godsend, and without your work, so much of this simply could not exist..
Thanks
Pam
 
The new V-22 gauge is really spectacular. For the first time, one can exploit the stovl aspects of the aircraft and really fly it realisticly in helicopter and tiltrotor mode. The transition modeling is just wild. I wish all the fs rotorcraft flew as smoothly!
Brilliant!
 
hehehe. i think we're begining to see a revolution, or evolution in flight dynamics thanks mostly to Robs work..
 
The your gauge for the Tilt Rotor works like a charm. I was able to land on lazarus's Zumwalt class destroyer tonight with no trouble even though she was underway and it was just past sundown. In fact I had an easier time of it than using a true helo. Having used your gauges in some form from my entry into flight simming in 04 I was not once let down by their function and ease of install. Thanks for all of your work and contributions.
 
Rob,
I just had a chance to try out your new gauge....to quote Strikehawk...it works like a charm!

Fantastic Job!

Thanks very much.
 
Thanks for the enthousiasme and kind words.

But wait untill you see my new "spaceflight" gauge (based on the same principles I use in my "VTOL" gauges) for Bruce Fitzgerald's Spaceshuttle "Atlantis", interworking with his new "Galactica" and "ISS" sceneries at 900.000 ft altitude (all freeware....)
THEN you'll be amazed :)

Cheers, Rob
 
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