Virtavia C-17 Released

[Wing_Z]

Thats a great video!

Thanks, it was fun...

Just like a C-17 demo! :ernae:

I'd hope not exactly - I'd prefer a little more respect for a quarter billion dollar aircraft, if it were mine! :mixedsmi: Especially regarding that little scrape of the rump on the runway...

 

[Tom Clayton]

I had a little fun with this bird, which I thought I might share here:

Great clip! What scenery is that?

 

[Wing_Z]

Thanks Tom, scenery is RealNZ Wanaka.
It has an airshow bit that pops up at Easter, simulating the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow.
http://windowlight.co.nz/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=8

 

[Tom Clayton]

I was afraid that might be payware. Looks nice though!

 

[Wing_Z]

You could do worse for 10 bucks or so...yet another advantage of FS9: how cheap the addons can be!
Erm, present topic excluded, of course.

 

[fsafranek]

The painkit for the C-17 is available on the paintkits page of the Alphasim/Virtavia freeware site.

http://www.easyfly.co.nz/Freeware/index.php?dir=/Paint Kits
:ernae:

 

[fsafranek]

There's been an update to the Virtavia C-17. This update includes:

• Improved pilot’s HUD graphics
• AP knobs for SPD, HDG and ALT are now also mousable using left and right click in addition to the mousewheel
• Fuel burn rate has also been adjusted following feedback from realworld C-17 pilots

New purchasers should just download the main C-17 download .exe wrapper file as normal. Existing owners can use the small update Zip file available on the Virtavia site at the link below. Extract the contents of the Zip to the root folder of the sim (the way we used to always do it at Alphasim), which for FSX will be ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator X’, and for FS9 ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator 9′. Overwrite the existing files when prompted.

http://www.virtavia.com/?p=427

If you made any adjustments to the original aircraft.cfg file (adding older textures, adjusting contact points, etc.) you should save your current copy to the side and put those changes into the new one.

 

[Wing_Z]

Thanks for letting us know, Frank :salute:

 

[Wing_Z]

A tiny Gripe

I don't know if this is fixable by a small tweak, or requires a lot of work:
When adjusting settings, the scroll wheel operates in reverse!
Every other FS model I have, increases values when you "push" the wheel away, this is the opposite.
I just cannot get used to this...