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The blackbox has been found. Atleast now some light will be shed over these speculations

Well you have to run the exe on a windows machine first then convert it.

I will just reply to your answers point by point 1) First of all Chaklala airbase/Benazir Bhutto International Airport is an army base and partially converted for commercial use. Work on the new airport begain in 2005 which will have ILS systems installed. On such a limited budget on all projects they dont think it as important ot have ILS installed at RWY12. Other than that the planes would need to go over the Margalla hills which is a no fly zone. 2) I think that the first Go-around was instructed by the ATC. I am not sure of this but if this is the case when the ATC did tell them to go around the pilots did not feel it was the bad weather. Checking the Metar the winds were not that powerful. Perhaps it was that frequency jam the pilots were talking about. Two planes had landed before the A321 and they were able to make it down safely. 3) The converssation with the ATC is still not reliable information. I am not sure who reported this but if this is the case then this might explain the high banking angle of the plane. Due to the supposed frequency jam the GPWS was not working properly and so wasnt the GPS.

Yes I was referring to ANO 4. I think in the rest of the world ANO3 is implemented?

I remember once flying into Islamabad and the circle to land approach. My brother thought that the pilot was giving us rides in that plane although I was in an Airbus A300 at that time it did get alot of turbulence. Its these monsoon rains. They have a characteristic of changing wind directions and magnitude very quickly and because of this once my sisters' flight changed cruise altitudes quite a few times. Its like hell trying to come in and land in the monsoon. Too much water and winds. Floods further north have killed about 200 people and in the neighbouring city to Islamabad a building collapsed the same day. All in all its not good news for Pakistan

Yes that was it. In a TV show an eye witness explained that the plane was banking heavily and that he could see the belly of the plane easily. Two planes landed before it that are known to be much bigger than this plane and they landed safely. Another cause being ruled out is wind shear and that the bigger planes have less effect on it. Other than that all TV anchors are being smart A**es and acting like Aviation experts even when they dont knwo a single thing about planes and are giving out wrong information. The plane is in alot of pieces and I mean alot and dead bodies are in so many pieces that rescue workers have reported that not even one body has been found intact and unburnt. There are videos of bodies being shifted around in small bags. I think that this is mostly pilot error according to a summary I found between the Air Traffic control and the pilots but I dont think it is that reliable. The black box has still not been found. I checked the site of the plane crash using co-ordinates on Wikipedia and if the plane was to clear that hill it has to be at around 3850~3900 feet but it would do that barely. The approach to RWY 12 OPRN was as follows. The plane will intercept ILS to RWY 30. When the RWY will be in sight the plane will stop the approach turn right and fly a sort of a circuling approach. in which it will fly downwind for a specified time, turn left 90 degrees fly a specific time and then finally turn 90 degrees again and perform a visual approach. The plane conducted a go-around after the first try and was instructed to fly a circuling approach again this time not going to intercept the RWY 30 ILS. This is where the things would have gotten wrong. The Margalla hills are a good 15 NM from the airport and the pilot might have either been faster than the specified speed and taken too long a turn and covered a much larger distance and thereby veering onto the Margalla hills. Another CAA official blamed pressurization as a cause of the crash but I am still not clear of why this might have caused the crash. Eye witnesses at Margalla hills also reported the plane being lower than 3000 ft (Did the person check his own altitude) and disappearing into the clouds while maintaining a sharp banking angle and that they heard a bang sound after a few seconds. The plane had climbed to 3000 ft and I think that since the plane crash was a bit higher than the 3000 ft the pilot must have started climbing as a result to any terrain avoidance warning systems but he might have been unable to get to a safe flight. In another report it was specified that the plane was to climb to 3600 ft and it did but suffered a loss of 400 ft due to weather ad then it collided. seieng the wreckage one can deduce that the plane was indeed at a very high speed prior to the collision and therefore the crash was spread in three different sites according to rescue staff. Its clear that the cause might be easily known if the blackbox is decoded once it is found. Airbus officials are due to come today (dont know if they are there yet) to help with the investigations. The path to the crash site has still not been cleared and people are going there through the thick and dangerous forest (presence of wild animals). There are some bigger pieces of the wreckage that the rescue staff was unable to lift and there are dead bodies still there and there is a chance that the blackbox is under that wreckage. Since machinery can not be taken up there it might take a hefty man force to clear the crash site. The conversation between the ATC and pilot: ATC: You are heading away from the Airport. Pilot: We have the runway in sight. ATC: The Margalla hills are ahead of you, Turn left immediately Pilot: We can still see the RWY. BTW for those who want to check out the Crash site enter this into you FMC + 33.739722 +73.058056. EDIT: One cause I forgot to mention is the lack of navaids towards rwy 12. An airliner when landing on RWY 12 is like a pilot landing a General Aviation on a small landing strip. The landing is largely based on the approach to RWY 30 and I would partly blame the CAA for the lack of interest in installing any sort of navigational aid towards that side of the airport apart from just visual aids which are only advisable for mostly VFR approaches in small aircraft. When they did allow airliners to come and land here they should have made better improvements rather than just do half the job. This will change with the new airport but will they let such things happen until the new one will open.

The metar at the time of the crash was this OPRN 280300Z 05016KT 2000 RA FEW015ST SCT040 BKN100 FEW030TCU 24/23 1006.5

That is something you will learn when you come and live in Pakistan. They have a history of doing things very late. There are many incidents but I am sure that we dont want to get into politics here.

The things stated above were taken through interviews with the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) and the GM of Airblue and the MD of PIA. So I will say there is a slight chance of them being correct.

The pilot was too old for flying as a commercial airline pilot atleast thats what the Tv news channels are saying. They are also blaming the navigational law used in Pakistan and that there are too less restrictions on pilots flying. The pilot had flown a plane from Italy before this flight and in Pakistan a pilot can fly up to 12 hours in a day.

An Airblue A321 plane crahed today in the morning due to bad weather and thick fog . All people have been confirmed dead. Fourth plane crash this month I think.

OKay I know old topic but, My A330 has normal maps etc and I have all the specific texture files included. What should I name the texture file containing the maps and should I just drop it into the objects folder or something like that?

Some screenshots of the nose gear I have started work on the main landing gear and hopefully it will have canted gears as I just learnt how to do that!

The wingflex is now very good due to a proper technique used this time. The gear doors have been animated and I am just about finished with the nose gear. Just a few height issues are left and then the 3D exterior will be complete. Next step after this will be the 3D cockpit which only needs to be animated and then textured.

I am not sure if this question has been asked before but a few months ago I saw a post regarding a person asking why x-ivap or x-squawkbox dont use opensceneryX objects as they are very similar to the CSL's used. I was thinking about this today and wondered when people post XTraffic files for downlaoding at the x-plane.org DM they use a common aircraft such as the default b777, or b747. How about if Xtraffic was edited to use opensceneryX objects aircraft and the user who is making Xtraffic files would specify a code or a name linked to an opensceneryX object so that we have a larger variety of traffic. The end user might also be given the power to change the object file being used and to suit his needs. Just my 2 cents. :-\

Thankyou Theo , I am making the wingflex much better right now. The model currently only has the wing cut up in 3 pieces only but I am making them seven to make it look better. Thanks for the tip btw Mick. EDIT: Just finished with the new wing flex, It looks much better now and I think the flight model should be given my biggest attention. Still cant seem to figure out how to stop it from flying like a glider. I will make a video of the wing flex later. Just a few more bugs to tweak out and the wings will be complete.

And another update It has wingflex now. It is still being improved and i might even make it much better. Still there are more things that need attention such as the landing gear which are killing me right now.

And an update: .obj exterior lights have been added. fan blades have been animated. Flightmodel is being improved.

A planemaker model made by Roy Hahmann for version 7 and after my blender skills got better I imported a FSX model made by Thomas Ruth. I started animaitng it this past week but I had the model in blender last year. Its nearing completion and inly the landing gears are the only thing not in X-Plane at the moment. The landing gears are need alot of work and the gear doors also require animation. It may contain a 3D cockpit and canted landing gears with wingflex. Yes realised this yesterday. A friend of mine at X-Plane.org (ALTAIR) has offered to help me with the 3D cockpit and to make a 3D interior for the aircraft. The cabin doors will be animated and so will the cargo doors. I need to fix alot of problems performance wise. I will let the screenshots speak for themselves.(If you see aggressive Z-Bias on the aircraft in the screenshots its due to a hardware malfunction in my computer :)

Right now, I believe the release will be on may or june 2010. That is a reasonable time for making this relating to how complex Airbus systems are. Also in June I may release some information on a secret project I am working on.

Take your time. We may as well wait until next year just for a very well made aircraft. By the way what about the freeware models of the Hawker 800 XP and the 4000. What is the forecast realease dates on those two?

Looks great. Good luck and how are the wings coming along.

Rafeal there are hard edges here.:-\. Also please post a front view because the embraer's have a distinct shape that I am not sure you are modelling on. Otherwise looks good. The bottom part is strange because the nose part of the fuselage abruptly increases in size and stands out.( I hope you are getting what I mean here)

Are you using curves to make the wing?

I was actually referring to his aircraft for V9. Also he only has the A345, A342 ,A332 with RR and GE engines and an A333 that is of the correct length.