Goran_M

I'm totally speechless. I'm actually completely lost for words. All I'll say is, buy at your own leisure. I'd rather spend my $15 on helping a homeless guy get a good meal.

That's a 747-200???? I noticed there are no panel screenshots. And what's with the paper thin fuselage? I'm surprised it doesn't have the Boeing License. What an embarrassment.

Great photo!! As has been said before, just because it's quiet, doesn't mean nothings happening. ;D A LOT has been going on in the last few weeks. I will say one thing about the Hawker 4000. It's a very complex aircraft to make and will take quite a bit of programming. The 747-200 will be out before the Hawker 4000

You can't go past Fly Tampa for KSFO. Try the Avsim download section for KLAX and use FS2XPlane to convert. Goran

And my wife thinks I'm nuts for buying an X52 Saitek throttle and Stick. Very nice, indeed. I know of a gentleman who has built a full motion 747-400 simulator that runs FS9 scenery and the 747-400 from Aerowinx. He has so far spent 12 years building it and he's still adding to it. I have a lot of respect for people who build these things. Keep up the good work. And the 747 simulator... http://www.hyway.com.au/747/747.html

I'd be surprised if he wasn't reprimanded for that idiotic stunt. How many people have to die before moronic pilots like this get the message?

Twin Otter's cool, but it's nothing like a C421. There's a somewhat decent Beech twin at the org, but it's still lacking the payware quality finish. It also seems to have stalled in development. The Citation X currently available flies nice, but comes nowhere near the quality we're seeing emerge these days. Who, by the way, is developing the Twin Otter? The Twin Otter is a slow going project being made by a developer at X-Aviation in his somewhat "spare time". I cannot say who it is as they do not wish to be named at this time.

I'll do what I can within the bounds of what is available to me. I do not plan on adding a failures module customized for the Saab. This was originally intended to be a "lite" version of the Saab but we do want to add the CTOT as it is an integral part of the aircraft. I do want to make it highly detailed but it won't be a dedicated study sim. It will hopefully come close, though. The majority of it is done. All the gauges are working "almost" accurately. The only things left to do are adding a plethora of manipulators, click spots, making sure everything works and is linked to all the switches, a little more texturing and finally programming the CTOT system, which will take a few weeks. We are working very hard on this along with other things but we are optimizing our time to make sure nothing slows down.

version H or J? Waaaaaay too early to make any firm decisions. I'll be tied up with the Saab 340 and 747 until the end of the year. But X-Plane is going nowhere so there's plenty of time.

There is a Twin Otter currently in development as well as another twin engine similar to the C421. I am actually tempted to make a fully functioning C130 with full 3D cockpit but that project will have to wait until after I finish the 747. Goran

I was busy testing some stuff in x-plane and occasionally I close x-plane and restart it with changes in graphics settings. I find that after I do this a few times, x-plane slows down quite a bit. The other day, I was on skype with Jason (Airbus) and I told him I was getting slow fps again. He told me to check that x-plane still was not running as a process. I told him it wasn't running at all. He said "Just check in the task manager that it isn't left behind!" Low and behold, there it was. 2 X-plane processes running at the same time after I closed the program. I started it again, and framerates were even lower. I'm not sure if this problem exists on a Mac but it sure does exist on Windows but it doesn't happen all the time. Whenever you run x-plane more than once in 1 day and without a computer restart, do a CTRL-ALT-DELETE and check x-plane is not running in the Processes Tab. If it is, click it and then click "End Process". This will take care of the majority of FPS problems you may have. Kudos to Jason for picking this up. Goran

We'll look into making the click spot larger. Goran

Thanks for the compliment Steven. The update will be ready very soon. A few manual ammendments, some refinements on the flight model and panel regions (clickspots), clearer gauges, a repaint kit and some extra modelling and texturing. Cheers Goran

Should try flying it. It's like flying a Porsche. No, I didn't take off or land. I flew it at cruise for about 5 minutes and it flies like it's on rails!

Here's just 1 link that may interest you. There are others. http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=853.0

Still working on other things while mixing in the 747. We still have a Saab to finish (340A and . I can't say when the 747 will be finished as there are a huge amount of gauges to animate and program and there's no point animating them all and then testing them. I have to program 1-4 gauges, export them, test them and fix them if they need it. I can say programming all the gauges can take about a month to 6 weeks. And nothing on the 747 is even textured yet. Actually, I lie. The fuselage has been "experimentally" textured. But nothing can be programmed and animated until Theo finishes the textures. I'm still optimistic about a pre-christmas finish.

I'd like to see you land my 747-200 on that runway. ;D

I actually cringed when I saw that first Sundowner landing. At least it never went down the mountain like the Falco and the 737. Does that say something about the Sundowner?

Feel free to scrutinize. I already did http://picasaweb.google.com/nicolas.xplane/787Cockpit?feat=directlink# Put it this way...I won't be spending my money just yet. :-X

If Iron Man wasn't the first one on there, I would have banned you on the spot!

I wholeheartedly agree. I'll think about posting the relevant information in the rant forum. Let's keep this section Sundowner video related.

x-plane.org is slowly getting worse. Anybody who disagrees with their policies, will eventually get banned. As of yesterday, I was banned from their as well. And Theo will have his posts heavily screened by the moderators before being approved. I'd rather not say what the circumstances were as there are other peoples livelihoods I do not want to mess with, however, if the mods who frequent this site would like to know MY side, I have the emails from Nicolas (totally uncensored) and you can judge for yourself if the reason for my ban was justified. I don't want to get into the specifics, but it's just Nicolas being Nicolas. Anyway, back on topic, Simon, I'm looking forward to another video from you! Cheers Goran

I'd have to see a close up of the join on the real aircraft. It appears to be ok, though. You will learn more through building. Keep going.

Oliver Very, very nice!!! Thank you for making that!

It depends on what it looks like. Many aircraft, 747-400 for example, have the wing smoothly merging into the wingbox, whereas the Sundowner I made, do not. It is good practice to make a wing, wingbox and fuselage, all 1 object and then split them each accordingly to make UV mapping easier but without ruining the shape of each object. Of course, you don't have to go that way if you don't want to. But it is the proper way to do it if it looks that way in the photographs.