Goran_M

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I've had a lot of feedback from people regarding performance on the sundowner. Namely, video card performance. We are in the process of optimizing the textures and reducing the resolution on many of them that don't need the higher 2048 resolution. This should ease the strain on some graphics cards out there. Apologies for the inconvenience! Goran

Were you at a high altitude? If so, how was your mixture? Full rich will flood the engine at higher altitudes due to the thinner air. If you don't know how to set mixture in the Sundowner, please check the manual. There is a section on how to set the correct mixture. If you were at a lower altitude, your mixture may have been too lean. Who said this thing was too challenging to fly? ;D The 747 will have ultimate realism. I have contacted a retired BA 747-100/200/300 flight engineer to help me with this project and he is looking forward to seeing it fly and perform as realistically as possible. I told him to not hold back on the criticisms when it comes testing time. Sorry to say, the 747-200 will not be for the casual simmer wanting to hop in and take off within 3 minutes. Please, get back to me on how you get on with the Sundowner mixture setting.

From Theo and myself, Thanks to everyone who took advantage of the Sundowner Sale, and also to the others that paid the full price. The sale took both of us by surprise by the amount of people that took advantage of it. Your continuing support is greatly appreciated and will not be forgotten. Thanks again! Goran

You have got to be kidding?? They put it on sale before it's finished??? Nicolas pays his developers on a monthly basis so it seems as if it isn't finished by end of June, Heinz misses out on money until end of July. Not 100% certain of that but that's certainly what it seems like. Will wonders never cease.

If your engine was at idle, you probably had carb ice. Pull the middle lever on the throttle console towards you and then continue trying to start the engines. Goran

Thanks Oliver Stay close. An update is coming very soon. Just some small tweaks here and there and added aileron trim. Goran

Of course. All updates will be completely free of charge.

Rudder trim and elevator trim do work. Aileron trim has been added along with some extras in the flight model. Currently making ammendments to the manual and it will all be ready to download very soon.

Simply Outstanding!

If you get all that working, why not team up with Greg and you can license out your plug in work with his F-16 instead of giving out your work for nothing? Just a thought. Goran

Thanks for the comments, guys. They are very much appreciated! Goran

Something you have to understand about payware, on top of it having to be as accurate as possible, you are going to have to spend money on documentation. Although X-Plane has a decent library of airfoils, it doesn't have them all. You're going to have to try to find documentation on the airfoils and make them in airfoil maker. You could opt to go the basic route and use a default airfoil and basic systems implementation. It all depends on how realistic you want to go with it. Goran

Yes, there will be custom sounds. (I love the sound of a turboprop spooling up from cold and dark!)

Underline "very close to a study sim" about 10 times. We'll see what we come up with.

The Saab is turning out to be more work than we originally anticipated. I just had my "technical consultant" over today for a good few hours and we went through A LOT. Over the last few weeks, as I have been animating and implementing the various systems, there were areas of the Saab I didn't fully understand. So I made notes and we went over them today. The Saab can not be made with straight out of the box datarefs. It will need custom programming for a few systems. The CTOT system, setting engine torque for takeoff, even the engine start sequence looks like programming work. We do have a rough time frame of finishing this, including the programming. But if we were to include a buffer and being realistic about it, I would say it will be at least 8 weeks at the bare minimum before it's ready. The reason we have taken this long so far was because Theo went back to completely re uv map and re texture everything and I chose to do animations from scratch. (Sorry Reuben). Not because Reuben didn't do a good job. But because the person testing it for me (Saab 340 pilot who wishes to remain nameless) came back and gave me a ton of feedback of things to fix. I figured it was easier to start again rather than fix things. Also, instead of just adding a small handful of plug in work, we decided to go the whole hog and program every system that needs it and use out of the box datarefs for the other stuff. Bottom line, this will be, at the very least, very close to a study sim of the Saab 340. Cheers Goran

Try to google the technical specs of the aircraft. It should list the airfoil in the tech specs. Then google the airfoil and see if you can find a cross section for it and model against that. If the airfoil is not in the planemaker library, you will have to make it using x-planes airfoil maker or javafoil.

Cheers Gents.

This is where we're going with the cabin seats. Not much to show but Theo is making things look better than the original textures in the Saab.

Don't buy it because I like it. Try to get more feedback from other users. The more opinions you get, the more informed your decision will be. If you can spare the money, then I say definitely get it. It has been programmed with a lot of detail and has taken a long time for Javier to make it.

The CRJ is being made by Javier Rollon. Javier Cortez makes the FMC that is compatible with the 737. Considering the 737 is freeware, I think the FMC is worth the price. I have it and I have enjoyed using it. It is updated through Navigraph using the PSS AIRACS.

Update is pretty much finished. A few things to test and it'll be ready. There is 1 major cosmetic change in the update. I don't want to mention what it is here. I'll let everyone else see what it is. It was something that bugged me quite a bit and I had to fix it. As for the flaps, they are not audible in the real aircraft as they are manually operated via a linkage through the handle located between the seats. For that reason, we have taken the flap sounds out.

I just saw a review on the Sundowner by Dave Claerbout on the X-Aviation website. He writes the engine won't go to 2700RPM if he goes full throttle. This is realistically modelled on ground roll and climb. There is ground friction to overcome on the ground, and on climb, the weight of the aircraft limits the power. If the pilot had enough runway and kept rolling with full power, the RPM would reach 2700. Once established in the cruise, it will easily reach 2700RPM.

I think this would be more suited to the ERJ support forums. http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showforum=103

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