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

    Post 16 Update

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  • IMPORTANT INFORMATION - ALL MEMBERS PLEASE READ

    Due to an increase in the number of new members who are trying to systematically download our entire Resource Library (one new member yesterday tried to download 3,000+ files AT ONCE!) we are being forced to implement some changes regarding who can download what, how many files at a time and at what speed. As the forums and Resource Library share the same bandwidth when the Library gets overloaded with demand like that the forums fall over, as we have all seen recently. It's sad that greed has forced our hand in this way but we must do something for the benefit of all our legitimate members (many of whom paid money for the upkeep of the site) and to prevent the files stored here being used for nefarious purposes. Many of our uploads have specific conditions tied to them that forbid uploading to any other site or deny uploading to any site that has a 'paywall' (i.e. a pay to download policy). Due to the number of mass download attempts recently we can only assume that somebody, somewhere, is attempting to stock up a new file library with our files and we owe it to our up-loaders to protect their files and intellectual property especially as many (like my own LDR Development projects) are made available at SOH only and are specified as such in the 'read me' files.

    The forums and Resource Library will be taken offline as of 13:00 EDT with the forums coming back online shortly after without the resources library while we work on setting up permissions on the new Library module.

    We hope our members understand why we need to do this and will bear with us while we implement the changes.

    Thanks in anticipation, SOH ADMINISTRATION

    Downloads are now active. You may proceed with downloading as desired

    The download limits are a work in progress. Some settings are likely to need tweaking in the coming days.

X-Plane Screenshots

Humbug01's Lockheed 12a over the californian desert, with ZL14 orthos on the ground. Then a change of aircraft to oliXSim's Lockheed 18 and a switch back to default ground textures. Hand flying these birds is quite a bit of work!
 

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Hun in the Sun - Albatros DVa

Here is something at I am working on and hope to have ready by the summer. It is flying nicely and looks good so far.

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That's looks fantastic Radioman. All the Albatros aircraft looked elegant. It's one I considered doing myself.

Matt
 
XP12 Qantas Rising

Manky Dash 8 (100,200,300 and 400) now all upgraded for XP12. Very nicely done they are!

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And of course the Shensee B720 - again not payware but payware quality.












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Bad Weather - Returning to RAF Valley

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Standard or default C172, weather engine and clouds. Love the rain on the windscreen. Realism in XP at a whole new level with XP12
 
Now here is a Hot Rod the Aerostar Jet

Ted Smith who designed the Aerostar always intended it to be developed and when the right engines became available a pure jet. Well many many years later the company that now owns all the Aerostar designs etc did just that converted the Aerostart 700P into a pure Jet with PW 615 engines. Simple to fly and does it go - rotates at 90 kts, intial climb at 140 kts then it gets going to climb at 200 kts with 15 degrees of pitch up and a ROC of 3500-5000 fpm. It can go all the way to F410 and cruises at 440 kts. This one released in XP12 (free ware) is a pure delight. Great fun.

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Live traffic in xplane

There is a really neat plugin LIVETRAFFIC that takes real time traffic data from a variety of sources about the planet and then translates that into traffic for you in the sim - so if there is lots of traffic you get lots if there is none then there is none. You even get contrails displayed for high level traffic. Simply amazing you could just sit at your favourite airport and go planespotting. The program correctly finds the right aircraft and livery from an extensive library of AI models.

Anyway I was doing a flight in the 707 and here I am stuck in the queue at Sydney Airport - awaiting my turn:

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Still waiting

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Finally on my way check out the contrails of moving traffic

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Just Released the Albatros DVa

Just Released for X-Planes 11 and 12 (two different versions) - Albatros DVa
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Many thanks to “Captain Kurk” for permission to use his Microsoft FS2004 model as a starting point to create the X-Plane 11 and X-Plane 12 models. Although, many items have been updated, redone, or created from scratch, “Captain Kurk’s model is the basis and starting point for this model.

Many thanks to Dan Hopgood for the use of the correct airfoils, and the excellent FMOD sounds specially created for this aircraft. The FMOD sounds are based on the flying exact replica with an original Mercedes D.IIIaü piston engine owned by Mr. Kermit Weeks at Fantasy of Flight in Florida. ((1) Albatros D.Va - WWI Event Flight - Bing video)
 
F-4B for X-Plane 12

Working on modifying the Laminar Research F-4J to be an F-4B. It is coming along nicely.

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