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YSSY-NZCH and KORD-KLAX in the A320

My last Pictures today

I think it was a question for me. Skymax Pro I used all sliders in the middle and from pull down menu Special/Show Sky Colors, I believe I used mount: ( for mountains I guess) Maxx XP, I do not remember, I was playing with so many settings that I just do not remember this particular one but it was a POwer User Option. I used the latest scripts from Tom's links, did not changed anything. I am sure you will also like the video below. Enjoy! Cheers, AJ

There already is a plugin to export from 3ds Max to obj. http://www.steptosky.com/forum/index.php?topic=22.0

So that was actually meant to be...?: 1, Seasons 2, Plugin for 3DS Max 3, Tesselation

A little late to this, but just for fun... The B-17 didn't exactly fly from London to New York; the vast majority of the traffic was the other way, from the USA to the European Theatre. I don't believe the plane was capable of flying directly across the Atlantic Ocean. What they did fly was a route beginning at perhaps Bangor or Presque Isle in Maine up into Canada (Gander or Goose Bay), further north to Greenland (Bluie West One or Bluie West Eight), east to Reykjavic, Iceland, and then onto the British Isles at Prestwick perhaps. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_air_ferry_route_in_World_War_II From there the would disperse to the many many Eighth Air Force fields in England. There was also a Mid Atlantic route through the Azores and a South Atlantic route down through the Caribbean Sea, Natal in Brazil, Ascencion Island, and on to North Africa and points west (all the way to the China Burma India Theatre !) Navigation in the early days was rudimentary to say the least, involving ded reckoning etc. but given the vast distances, bad weather, and high winds involved better resources were fairly quickly put into place. NDB and Radio Range facilites were put in in Canada, Greenland, etc. The on board navigators also used bubble sextants (a powered sextant that would generate its own horizon reference) to take star sights and establish position. Lots of people and planes lost in the frigid north due to weather, aircraft failures, bad navigation. I did the route over three nights in the FlyJSim 727, it would probably take a week in the DC-3 or B17 but this is how they did it. They even ferried fighters over to the European Theatre this way. Lots of stuff on the internets about all this, amazing stories... Terry

Nope, this is XPFW

Sunday Beaver Update 14 Hello all, As you probably know I spent the last week on the S-TEC 50 autopilot and it was driving me nuts at the beginning, because my custom code was fighting with the stadard XP behaviour. However, I reached a state where the S-TEC can be operated almost as the real one. I guess most people won't notice it and won't miss anything. I am quite happy with it now. All availabel modes are working like STB, ALT, HDG, NAV, APR and REV. You can also manually roll the aircraft to a selected heading by using a rotary knob. I haven't done any AP constant fine tuning yet. This will be part of the flight model testing and tuning. I am getting closer to the development state where I could show a video for demonstration purposes. You all have a nice day!

Gentlemen, as promised. SkyMaxx Pro, Maxx-XP and FlywithLUA scripts together. Three Stooges? Awesome combination for my taste. Judge for yourself. First two are around KASE ( Aspen , CO) and the airport is KPHL ( Philadelphia International , like nobody knew it.. ) Enjoy! Cheers, AJ

Sunday Beaver Update 13 Hi, The mid week update didn't work out, but the Beaver made good progress again during the second half of this week. 3D cockpit and external Animations All switches and controls in the 3D cockpit are now hooked up properly again and can be accessed via my custom cockpit interface. As you know I tried to support external hardware, but not everything was working out as planned. The radios can be operated properly via external radio equipment. However, switches were not always properly working and some of the Beaver switches are not supported by external hardware anyway, so the virtual cockpit has to be used. Everything can be operated properly via the virtual cockpit though. I will provide the list of all custom and standard XP datarefs which are used in the 3D cockpit, so if somebody wants to make custom hardware work, he or she should be able to do so having this information. The cockpit lights (instruments, map, cabin, warning lights) are properly working now, according to their state and power source and the same is true for external lights. I also added a few more animations for the external model. The prop, flight control surfaces and the tires are working fine now. A nested animation for the tail wheel steering is driving me crazy at the moment, because the parenting of parts is correct from my point of view, but I will figure it out. Systems I also continued with systems coding and the main part has been the implementation of the S-TEC autopilot. Still some work to do, but it looks fine so far. That's it for this Sunday.

Sunday Beaver Update 12 Hello, time for the Sunday update and today I can actually show some new pictures. At least something visual today. This week I kept myself busy with a few more changes to the cockpit interface and I sent the new version off to the test team a few minutes ago and I hope they come back with positive results for their external equipment. If so, all this re-work was worth it. My plan is to finish all cockpit animations and controls by the end of next week and then maybe two or three days on the external ones. Then I will have all the visuals in place. After that I will dive back into the more technical stuff like flight modeling, systems coding and sound again and I am really looking forward to it. The visuals I can show today are for the Beaver pilot. He got a headset now and it not looking so tanned anymore. You will also see two shots of him in the cockpit, but don't be afraid that he will be there forever. He will only be visible in external view. I just did these shots so that you can get a better impression of what he looks like. You all have a nice Sunday!