Bongodriver

I am based at an airport called Manston in SE England, flying for HM Coastguard, our primary duties are surveillance to monitor the traffic sepparation scheme in the Dover strait (English channel) and we patrol the Thames estuary and southern part of the north sea, also for SAR we provide the search part of it visually and with on board homing receiver for marine band vhf, 121.5 mhz airband vhf, 243 mhz military and 406mhz, if we need to we also have an air droppable 7 person liferaft and 121.5 mhz marker buoys.

Had no Idea I had created thunder to steal But heres a pic of my Islander 'Bongo' Yes, we do fly that low all the time.

A percussion instrument is a very accurate way of describing the Islander, one hour in that thing and your ears are bleeding.

I'm In

I got this sim ages ago, I had to as it is developed from rowans original (just wish the same company could do the same for mig alley) simply a fantastic sim, as a rl pilot I can say flight dynamics seem well modelled i.e. the aircraft will bite if mis handled and depart in a realistic manner, the A.I. is very smart, sometimes you think it's another human on a multiplayer session, if you manage to shoot something down you know you deserved the kill, The graphics are v good and will run pretty well on full with an average machine, there are some cute features like looking out the side of the cockpit (this feature is awesome used with track ir) NFG's description of the feature is spot on, I can almost feel the wind through her hair too but seriously if I had hair I would feel it too U.I. is pretty good too with loads of settings to change, I could go on.

Yes, I understood that, I was replying to Silverbolts post, he seemed confused by the reference to a Mirage 111R when it should have been Mirage IIIR. To answer your original question: personally no, haven't heard if one is in the works.

Try Googling a Mirage IIIR, there are actually quite alot of pictures.

Hi Killer and welcome, In most cases the add ons come with a 'readme' file and again in most cases these readme's explain clearly if there is a requirement for any other add on, the weapons packs are a good start if you want some of the add on aircraft to carry the correct weapons, most of the time though the add ons can be a stand alone, prepare yourself for alot of trial and error while you get used to customising any of the series of games and try not to overload the forum with questions, not that we don't like helping (quite the contrary) it's just alot of very smart people have taken time an effort to set up a knowledge base to try and answer some of the most asked questions. p.s. if you download the EF-2000 Typhoon then please be patient, there are issues with it and wings over europe as it was built for wings over israel, the full functionality of it will come when the patches for the rest of the series are released, in the mean time you will find a few threads here relating to getting around these issues.

Damn, that is another one I am working on too!!

I am still going to do this one, it's just on the back burner at the mo, that article would be great if you could send it to me.

Am working on a Mk 14 spit (razorback)

Yep, I had this problem when I was building the Typhoon, noticed it quickly and corrected it, it is in the 3d model the fix must be made, as amokfloo said the reflection is calculated from the pivot of the mirror mesh, in my case I had forgotten to reset the axis on the mirror I had (excuse the pun) 'mirrored'.

How could you miss it, no one else did Yes, the weather can get a little limiting on flying prospects in Dec, and it's close to my birthday, the prospects of finding me sober will be the other challenge, Kent is the south east county closest to france, parts of it merge into London, not a difficult journey to get to the airfield from londinium.

Exellent work bobrock!!! I love the pit. If you don't mind I had planned to make a big wing Harrier myself, not for the sake of competition, I just love building cool planes. Great work!!

it's making steady progress, but nothing worthy of screenshots yet.

In theory if the animation already exists then an ini edit could change it, not something I have tried deliberately yet but it is worth experimenting, just back up the original ini and try it.

Well it is a six of one half a dozen of the other question, yes most of the time animations are built into the LOD, but it is possible to get animations purely through ini edit's too, either way it is better that you are well aquainted with the Max model even if you animate purely through the ini, you need to know how pivot axes are set up in the model and mesh names etc.... Try to be patient if no one answers immediately, not all questions have answers so readily availlable. Hope this helps sloghtly

Not sure what mine counts as, it's a pentium 4 with a hyperthreading virtual second core, 3.5 ghz

The stuff you terrain and enviroment modders do is worth a million add on aircraft, exellent work CA_Stary.

Did you make sure the transparent part of the tga is 100%transparent? easyest way I find is to just use the erase tool to erase all the parts I want transparent

Viper, Need to repost that second pic, I didn't see a helicopter

Ah! of course the IFR in flight refuelling probe, DOH!, yes as I said this beastie is still WIP, all the goodies are yet to come.

Nope, it's called Paint.NET. http://www.getpaint.net/

Hi Ultramax, There is a freeware paint programme I use alot, it's FREE 100% and it can do anything a potential skinner or decal creator might need it's called paint.net and it's easy to use, I don't have any association with them, but I have been pushing this software as much as I can, the reason being you said you don't have PSP, you don't need to buy PSP because this software if free, did I mention it's free

Funny, none of my reference photos show a 'bulge' on the left side, but there is a venturi probe on XR219, but no other prototype had this probe, I believe it was just placed for the first series of testing, any additional probes and bumps are being added as the model progesses, all these screens show an aircraft still very much WIP.