FlightNight 18th May - It's my party and I'll cry if I want to
This Saturday night I invite you all to celebrate me, for it will be my birthday.
To do some of that we're going to be flying around my neck of the woods and generally having some fun. The first half of the evening we'll depart from EGMD - Lydd, fly along the South Coast and enjoy the scenery before making our way up towards EGTD - Dunsfold
That's where we'll have a half time break then we're going to test our ground handling skills as we go round the old Top Gear test track. After that everyone will be given the chance to entertain me by taking off individually from the runway and performing their most impressive single pass airshow that they can, each participant being given 1 minute to provide the enjoyment for those of us on the ground.
Once all that is done and everyone is happy we'll be heading off to EGKK - Gatwick to finish the day off, via the waypoint at EGLL
For the flight I've given a bit of a spit and polish to the De Havilland Chipmunk, this isn't a full release it's a test/Beta version where we can get feedback for a release soon.
The cockpit tub has had some work (not the panel yet though), the effects have been worked over and Stuart helped me sort some funny artifacts with the glass. The prop has had an update (not perfect yet) and the engine modeling within the FDM has been tweaked to make it more realistic to the real numbers.
It also has all of G-Man's amazing liveries in there too which are worth exploring as he did some of his best work so far on this one, in my opinion anyway.
She's easy to fly, probably too easy, but lots of fun and hopefully won't see anyone wrestling with an ungrateful aircraft all evening.
Download is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHecyohfxGnWJk5nv9PU8BQEk8pfbCLq/view?usp=sharing
Meeting at 8pm UK time, Weather will be live weather and time will be set to Afternoon.
Comments
OOOH I'm intrigued.
Yay!
VooDoo
Updated with all you should need ^^^
Looks good, I’ll be around before hand (Lydd is one of the places I fly most of the time). And I’ll try to join at least some of the FlightNight.
And Happy Birthday Alex for tomorrow (iirc you’re Alex)!
CJ
OrbitalMartian
Callsigns: G-ORBI
Chipmunk?!? She's a no fly for me.
VooDoo
What’s wrong with the Chipmunk?
CJ
OrbitalMartian
Callsigns: G-ORBI
Works ok for me. Whats happening when you try it?
Spins/ground loops incessantly and when it lands, it plows thru the runway up to it's belly.
VooDoo
VooDoo, have you tried that version I linked to? I think I sorted any possible issues, she flies like a dream and I'll be honest I thought you'd be pretty stoked for it - I spent days trying to get it right.
This sounds fun AH, I hope I'll be able to make it and I wish you a very happy birthday Alex.
Here's an updated version of the Chipmunk with some better gauges - still utter dog toffee in terms of cockpit but slightly more usable
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHecyohfxGnWJk5nv9PU8BQEk8pfbCLq/view?usp=sharing
Really !!!
Happy Birthday dear Alex....you old sock!
The good Spirit of the FGUK....and here your Birthday songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2DxJW6ytSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX-RaO_QqQA
The landing looks like so.
That's interesting. I can't replicate
Any ideas?
Not really at the moment.
It's not a Linux thing. VooDoo has the same issues but he is on Windows OS like you...and you say it works for you.
Hmmmm It make so sense.
I put the old yasim.xml from that website into your Aircraft and it works now.....for me....only !?
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/dhc1
I downloaded from the second link Alex sent, and have no issues, really nice to fly, and I got my best fixed wing landing in it. Maybe you're touching down too hard?
CJ
OrbitalMartian
Callsigns: G-ORBI
Ooh....Orbi.... it's too early to be drunk.
Well it is the weekend so you never know.
I have done about 4 or 5 landings now and haven't had any issues with doing through the ground.
CJ
OrbitalMartian
Callsigns: G-ORBI
I cleared the Aircraft-data cache, installed Alex' second link and it flies like a dream now and with improved gauges. Super thanks, Alex!
It still settles on it's belly on landing no matter how soft.
VooDoo
I’m not getting this issue, my landings are above, which airport are you landing at?
CJ
OrbitalMartian
Callsigns: G-ORBI
When Alex says I assisted with this, I did not actually touch it in any way. I just gave instruction to alex.
LOL....
VooDoo
dhc1.zip
Try this - guys who are having sinking issues try this one.
VooDoo
WORKS !!! ....Uncle VooDoo....you are also the good Spirit of the FGUK.
And you can also rem the shadowOSG in the dhc1.xml.
Odd - it worked for me for a couple flights and now I'm back to sliding underground again. Never mind. I'm clueless.
VooDoo
It's just as odd as my H145 input issue. No-one else can replicate.
CJ
OrbitalMartian
Callsigns: G-ORBI
I'm just seeing blue gliders until I get within an invisible bubble then I can see the model, happened with both VooDoo and Eagle.
CJ
OrbitalMartian
Callsigns: G-ORBI
LOD Ranges?
VooDoo