Boeing 747-200

[Simmo W]

I'm going to adopt the Indi style of direct communication here.

bloody beauty maaaate! Theo you are getting very, very good!

[samen]

Theo we need a texturing tutorial from you. I forgot Texturing in the process of learning blender . And also I am going to inisist you help me texture the 3D cockpit of the A330!

[WombatBoy]

[Goran_M]

We both appreciate the comments, gentlemen.

I got asked "But how does it look in sim?"

Well, here it is. 

A quick export.

[blizzard84]

its going to look good in sim

[Simmo W]

wow that was quick. is it for sale at the .org yet? it has an impressive field of view..

[Testpilot]

I can just imagine the features list... "Working throttle, properly spelled labels, and correctly positioned levers. Welcome to unparalleled heights of quadrant simulation." Seriously though, you keep me hopeful on the future of aircraft simulation.

[Goran_M]

You guys crack me up

[Airbus]

I can just imagine the features list... "Working throttle, properly spelled labels, and correctly positioned levers. Welcome to unparalleled heights of quadrant simulation." Seriously though, you keep me hopeful on the future of aircraft simulation.

;D Thats brilliant!

[Oliver]

I can just imagine the features list... "Working throttle, properly spelled labels, and correctly positioned levers. Welcome to unparalleled heights of quadrant simulation." Seriously though, you keep me hopeful on the future of aircraft simulation.

;D Thats brilliant!

Hmm we should direct a link to this post on the org shoutbox

;D

[samen]

Goran you still run X-Plane ??? ??? Anyway did you start with the flight model.

[Goran_M]

No, I deliberately have not started the flight model as I knew there would be more and more updates to x plane itself.  I wanted to build a flight model for the most recent x plane version and that can only be done when the 3d model is nearly finished.

[samen]

Guess you are waiting for XP 10.99 Hope Austin finally comes up with a version that is not buggy.

[MaidenFan]

Can't wait for the lumps you all are making.

[Goran_M]

No, I deliberately have not started the flight model as I knew there would be more and more updates to x plane itself.  I wanted to build a flight model for the most recent x plane version and that can only be done when the 3d model is nearly finished.

Should have rephrased.  The most recent version of x plane at the time of the 747 being nearly finished.

[samen]

rgr that captain

[Colin S]

Where will it be available... the X-Plane.org Store?

[WombatBoy]

Nope. It's waaay to good for that It'll be sold only through X-Aviation. Here: http://www.x-aviation.com/catalog/

[-TheoGregory]

Nothing here will ever get sold through the .org store.

[Oliver]

Nothing here will ever get sold through the .org store.

X-Aviation is where all the real addons are 

[MaidenFan]

Don't deal through the org. I keep buying stuff and most of it is shit.

Good products from org store: BK117, A37/T37, and Yak

[samen]

Goran will you be offering the extended upper deck with this aircraft which is a retrofit offered by boeing?

[Goran_M]

Goran will you be offering the extended upper deck with this aircraft which is a retrofit offered by boeing?

Too early to tell.  It's possible we might but to be honest, I just don't know.  If you had to nail me down and get an answer out of me, I would say it's 50/50 that I'll add it.  It depends what's involved in texturing another fuselage. 

If I do end up adding it, I'll let you know when we have the original one textured.

[samen]

As all of you might know (I blab alot) I recently sat on a B743 and considering the two planes are somewhat similar I noticed that after one notch of flaps the flap tracks go to a fixed deployed position and then dont move at all. I guess that is something that happens when you have triple fowler flaps (which are awesome). Are you aware of this and if you like i made many videos of the flight although they are not hi-res.

[Goran_M]

As all of you might know (I blab alot) I recently sat on a B743 and considering the two planes are somewhat similar I noticed that after one notch of flaps the flap tracks go to a fixed deployed position and then dont move at all. I guess that is something that happens when you have triple fowler flaps (which are awesome). Are you aware of this and if you like i made many videos of the flight although they are not hi-res.

Sorry for the very late reply.  I just didn't see it.

Anything we are not aware of, we will be aware of as time passes.  I have a retired 747-200 Flight Engineer who is going to help me with testing and he has already given me quite a bit of info.  When the 747 is ready to start test flying, he'll be pointing out any mistakes and refinements that are needed.

The flaps are going to be a nightmare along with the landing gear.  Getting it all to work properly will be quite a lot of work.  Hopefully it won't take me too long to get it all moving smoothly.