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Nothing external just yet. A few things need to be fixed. Theo wants to work on night lighting first and get that out of the way (looks incredible so far, btw) and then he'll make some fixes to the externals, and then I'll throw some more screenshots up.

Happy New Year to you too. I can appreciate what you are saying, but we're limited to what's available to us. Is it possible to make the props feather and NOT windmill? Anything is possible with plug ins. X Plane is not a "perfect" sim. But it comes close.

A small update to keep you informed. Night lighting is being worked on. We still have a few panel regions to take care of for the radios. Manual is half way done and then testing. If things go smoothly, with no other problems, it will definitely be this month.

Yeah, I miss that thing. It's not a dead project. I've actually remodelled the cockpit completely over the last year. Just a small change from my other stuff. I go back to it maybe one day a week. I'm happy with how the cockpit looks now. When we finish the stuff we're doing, we'll look into programming it. That'll take a while.

Might take this opportunity and say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays, or whatever holiday you celebrate, to ALL our customers and we look forward to sharing a rather "large" 2012 with you! Drive safe and appreciate each other. All the best! From Goran, Theo and the extended LES family.

Thanks Have a happy and safe one!

Very simple avionics. 2 Nav Radios, 2 comm radios, 2 ADF's and a Transponder. All on the overhead panel. I've had to change the overhead radio panel from the earlier render I posted because the windows for the frequencies were too small to read. So I found another radio panel from the period that is much easier to read. On the main panel, an RMI for the Left side that tunes to ADF 1 and NAV 1 and the right side will tune to Nav 2 and ADF 2. Marker Beacon indicator lights. Sperry Autopilot that has a heading hold function and a pitch hold function. No ILS. ILS is for whimps!

Short answer is no. To make it work the way it's supposed to work, with modulated signals, will take a bit of work. We might put in some simple distance measuring equipment. That would take about an hour to customize it and add it, but we'll see how it pans out.

Not much more to show yet. Lots of work going on lately to make things work. When I get a finalized cabin and exterior, I'll put up a few screenshots of that. I'll see if I can get a few screenshots of the overhead and center console in the next day or 2.

I'm not really sure what you are trying to correct. I never said the feathering or the prop governor was dependent on the electric current. I said you need an electric current to cause spark plug ignition. The windmilling will start the engine if the mixture is set to rich, there is an electric current going to the spark plugs and the prop levers are pushed fully forward. Without an electric current, the spark plugs won't fire and the engine won't start.

If you're talking about "fully feathered to 90°", then yes, it is possible. It's possible to feather props to any amount. The Beech Duchess prop feathering limit is 80° to 82°. I set it to feather at 81°. Taken from the Beech Duchess TCDS: "Pitch setting at 30 in. station: low 12.1° +- 0.01°, high 17° to 20°, feather 80° to 82°" Pulling the prop levers on the throttle console all the way back will set the props to a feathering position of (what I set it as) 81°. Because of this, there will occasionally be some amount of windmilling.

The angle of the props when fully feathered is 81°. Because of this, they will sometimes continue to windmill. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7x8iAjFtzI

If you'll notice, when I mentioned the electric current, I was talking about an electric current going from the battery to the magnetos, which in turn sends a current to the spark plugs, which in turn is able to ignite the fuel in the combustion chamber. Without an electric current, the engine won't start. The magnetos send a spark (dependent on the piston position) at the correct timing and location of the piston inside the combustion chamber of the engine. "it is able to do a windmilling start as long as there is electrical current going to the magneto's and the mixture is set to rich"

Almost definitely. There are a few small things that have to be sorted out, but it's looking like lat Dec/early Jan

Work is progressing nicely and quickly now. Lukasz has wrapped up the systems code and the flight model. Theo is getting close to finishing the textures, but there is still the night lighting to do. What I have so far animated on the panel and gauges is working very nicely. We're pushing for a late December finish, but it depends on any problems we may find. We're also trying to get the floats version finished at the same time as the wheel version. In the meantime, a couple of screenshots in XP9.

We're not ruling it out, but we're not saying definitely "yes, we'll do a modernized panel". To make a more modernized panel means modelling a new panel from scratch, including overhead, and then re-texturing it, re-animating it, and making new panel regions and manipulators.. Because of the amount of work involved (about 6 weeks worth of full time work), it won't be a free upgrade. However, I don't want to start anything by saying we're thinking of doing it. It's 50/50. We've got quite a few things going on at the moment and a modernized version of the DC-3 panel is somewhere in the middle of our job list...if we decide to go ahead with it. We just want to get this DC-3 done (Floats and Wheels version), wrapped and packaged so we can move onto our next project. If we do a modernized panel, it'll be a side project.

Coming together...

Not days. Definitely weeks. 9.7 and 10 compatible.

Nice, Ola. And stopped JUST in time before the time limit ran out.

Cockpit is textured so animating starts today. Taken in XP10

When it comes to insanity, rich people are eccentric. Broke people are just crazy. I'm certainly not rich.

Thanks, dude. That's all I want to do.

I work with a 19 year old. nuff said... (you know I love you, Theo!) In all seriousness, I don't know WHY I do it. Maybe I just like helping people too much.

Max beat me to it. Anyway, thanks for your comments. Very much appreciated!

Still coding and texturing. I'll throw up a screenshot when I get it back from Theo