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Hi ksgy, I have your AN-2 and fly it when I can and time permits, she is both a pleasure and a pain to fly.....took me 3 attempts to get her started!!!! I would love to donate something to you once she is finished as I feel it is the right thing to do, and I to have a love of 3d modelling, just cant program at all thus no planes coming from me at this stage. Thank you for all the time you have spent on her thus far and the renders that have made me excited Slainte, Andy NZCH

Basically, I do it for myself - to fly with her. First of all because I love the plane itself, and secondly because I love 3D, and programming. After I finished the plane, I just share with the community. Not doing it for the money, but to fly with her. Why should I take the opportunity from someone else? Like I did with the Annushka. You can donate if you wish, but it's totally non-mandatory. Same in this case.

Really? All that work for freeware???? What about making it donation-ware or something.....I would still pay for this just to support the creators for their time and effort. Unless someone is making a joke....... Slainte, Andy NZCH

Cockpit is just about finished. One more panel on the overhead and then wrap up the cabin and then it's off to Theo while Lukasz finishes the systems. Lukasz just came on board recently after showing me some things he coded with the DC-3 engines. This is not a "Full Throttle and fly" aircraft. If you don't manage the engines properly, they WILL fail. I've broken 5 engines so far.

LEFT engine is unhapppy - unless pilot manages it properly. Don't worry, I won't fail them immediately at the slightest redline crossing, but the redlines (and other less obvious limits, not present in X-Plane, but calculated by Gizmo) do matter and have to be respected. The more you abuse the engine, the less time you have before failure occurs. You could get away for minutes with a slight mismanagement, but a big pull on a wrong lever at the wrong time will tear the engine apart in a matter of seconds. The more power - the more strict the limits become, so if manual says "takeoff power limit: 1 minute", then it would be a good idea to respect that remark! Having said that, the plane is a joy to fly, as long as you fly it by the rules, which will be outlined in the manual Oil shutters are separate devices, that regulate the airflow through oil coolers and work independently of cowl flaps. If you see the oil temperature going over or under the limits and cowl flaps already are full close/open, then it's time to adjust the shutters. 0.5 is a temporary setting, suitable for most "normal" temperature conditions, but you will need to close them on cold winter days. Both cylinder head temperatures and oil temperatures are linked to failures system, so you'd better watch them all closely, from startup to shutdown. Both engines are modelled separately, which applies to performance overrides and monitoring, failure triggers, oil shutters and some other cool effects and features, that are still under construction (they do work already, but need some fine tuning). Flight model and engine modelling features, that already work and have been checked, are between 95-99% true to the real plane (the difference is only visible in the numbers on specific test flights, you won't notice it during normal flying).