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Thanks Eric! That's much appreciated. Your scenery ain't too shabby either. Still hanging for Oahu!

http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/x-planestore/Detail?no=261 http://www.3dvia.com/models/A260C598AABC8EA0/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ Looks like copyright infringement to me.

Didn't know the 1900D was that popular. I will take the double voting into consideration for the 1900D.

Let's hope so.

Added to the poll

Goranified and Theofied? That's going in the features lists from now on. "Goranified Modelling and Theofied texturing". We'll see what we can do with airport traffic. We made a transponder glow, I'm sure we can manage some traffic.

The scenery would be very easy. MUCH easier than making an aircraft. An aircraft has panel regions, clickspots, manipulators, animations, etc... Scenery...does not. We will do scenery. When...is a matter of aircraft work. Maybe Hamilton Island will be the 2nd side project to the 747.

But of course.

BTW, I might mention, to avoid going crazy while working on the Saab, I actually started on the Duke and DC-3 around July last year. I was only working on them maybe 2 days out of every 3-4 weeks. Just for a change. It's like eating the same cereal every day for months. Sometimes you just want something else before going back. The F-14 was an aircraft I always liked and only considered doing it about 2 weeks ago. I plan on making the DC-3, F-14 AND the Duke, but which one comes first will be decided by the poll. Of course, if the scenery gets voted for, then I'll do that first but if not, then I'll do it at a much later date. Anyway, the beginnings of the DC-3 and the Duke. (Duke exterior is done except for the control surfaces but cannot, for the life of me, find the screenshots.) DC-3 exterior Duke Panel Oh yes...Theo was BUSTING to tell everyone about the DC-3 in the aircraft request thread in the General Discussion. He eventually HINTED that it was being made by SOMEONE.

As we near the finish line for the Saab, I thought I would post this. I plan on doing a side project. When I say "side project", I mean something that can occupy my time while Theo textures the 747-200 and -400 (which will take about 2-3 months). The modelling for the 742/744 is about 90% done so I will have a lot of time on my hands while they get textured. So to keep me occupied, I have managed to collect a lot of documentation in the last few months on a few aircraft I would like to make. However, I would like to leave the final decision to a poll. This side project will start after I finish some other work. 2 jobs that will take priority for January are the Duchess update and Sundowner update. These updates will be the last for these 2 aircraft. I'm not limiting myself to the shortlist. If another choice is very popular, I will consider it. I have a large amount of documentation on all 3 of the listed aircraft. Look forward to seeing the results.

If you saw the old Saab cockpit screenshots, I think they would shock you. Theo refuses to look at them. It's testament to how much faith Cameron had in us as developers to criticize our own work and to make something that people would be happy to spend money on. You're welcome. Just enjoy it when it's done.

No one is verbally bashing you. But you said this will be your last purchase of these products. It carries an "I'm being ripped off" tone. We're trying to make you understand that you should not be disappointed in paying the extra $5. We (Cameron and all the XA developers) want to do this for a while. In any case, have fun with Eric's scenery. It's unlikely you will find anything that can match it.

I had a hard drive crash in December of 09. Because of my misplaced confidence in Windows, I never backed up my work and lost all my documents and work in progress files. I was fortunate that the majority of my work was backed up in dropbox. I tell you something. I would have paid a hell of a lot more than 5 bucks to get it all back. $5 is a small price to pay for a valuable lesson learned. The scenery itself is MUCH cheaper than anything else out there for its size. X-Plane.org is obviously bigger than X-Aviation. Yes, they offer free re-downloads. Guess what...They sell ad space on the front page. At last notification sometime in 2009, it was $100 a month for a banner. There are 9 banners on the front page. $900 a month would go toward a very nice server. Not to mention the commission Nicolas charges his developers and other payments he might receive for newsletter ad space. And the fact that all the payware at the org is less than 100MB in size. Consider the $5 an insurance payment for a 2+GB file that is stored on a separate server.

Makes me wonder if people will complain about shelling out $5 for a dinosaur in x plane. I'll give it 1 thing...it's an x plane first.

But does it have custom sounds and plug ins? If not, I'm not interested. I noticed it doesn't have a feature list.

Ha, thanks Kamil. I can only take credit for the modelling, flight model and making all the gauges and switches work. Theo is the one that textures everything, although it does have to get my OK.

A few more night time landing screenshots. It's getting very close to finished. Few more flight model adjustments, final testing with a European Saab pilot, fix any bugs that might show up in that part of testing and it's done.

I think it's because of the glare from the sun. Try it again from a very close up view and from the side and see if it still disappears.

I actually did a grass landing in a Sundowner after my first few lessons about 13 years ago. Scared the living crap out of me when the instructor did it first, but wasn't so bad after that.

We're getting very close to final testing. Theo's wrapping up final areas of panel regions while I have been working some crazy hours on the flight model, ironing out any bugs (and there were quite a few), making sure all animations work accurately and getting the manual done. Testing shouldn't take more than a week as most of the bugs were taken care of in the last month. Depending on what problems the testing exposes will depend on when it will finally be available. A few more screenshots to show a nearly fully working panel...

Please take screenshots and show me what is happening on the screen. What was the situation right before the crash? Heavy scenery? Heavy weather? What are the settings you are using for the sim? A screenshot of the settings page would give me volumes of information. What version of X Plane are you using? Regards to the prop, it has been fixed in the new set of instructions I posted. If you are nervous about using planemaker, then we ask you to be patient until the new update comes out in about 2-3 weeks. Most importantly, we need to know your systems specs. As a first "try", move all your preferences out of your x-plane/output/preferences folder. Restart the sim. You will have to set your joystick calibration and button assignments again. If this fixes your problem, then permanently delete the preference files you moved. If not, move the preference files back into the preferences folder.

Thanks for that, Dozer I'm sure many will appreciate it. Goran

If it happens again, could you list what happened prior, what you did to try to correct it, fuel level in each tank and the position of all engine levers, fuel crossfeed and carb heat. If it's only happened once or twice, I'd say it has something to do with the sim (which can happen but not often) BTW, I posted a small set of instructions to make the flight model a little more accurate. This may eliminate the tach problem. http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=1611.0 Only the screen works for the stormscope. It was just something we added as it was available as a generic screen in X Plane. It's only functionality is to display storms.

I must admit, I am guilty of working on the Saab today. :-[ Can't help myself.