Tecnam P2008 project

Thanks for your kind words guys.

The aircraft will be freeware, available when it' finished... I guess in 2 or 3 month

Radios and GPS installed and functional.

It is a simple moving map like the one we have in the default C172 but it's big enough to exempt me from using the in game moving map.

I spent the day adding some night lightning to the panel. Hmmm, I like that.

I'm on vacation this week so I made good progress. Still far from finished though.

Here is a little video of the beast in action.

Hello everyone,

A little feedback of last week's work. I have focused on the TMD, especially the fuel system. I now have a nice almost perfect fuel system with :

- fuel consumption from left or right tank depending on the selected tank (quite basic you will say);

- the engine will fail if the usable fuel is burned in the selected tank (about 3% unusable);

-the tanks can be refueled. I have setup a minimum security rules for that :

1) the fuel selector must be set to off position

2) the battery switch must be set to off

So this means you better check your tanks before take-off if you don't want problems during your flight. No panic though, with full tanks you have about 4 hours range.

The tanks can be refueled separately. To refuel one tank, you simply click on the needle of tank you want to refuel.

Jet-Pack (IPACS) : I have a problem with the refilling function which I have copied and fine tuned from the Just FLight Cessna 152. Once a tank is refilled it seems that it is overfilled. I can fly one hour without seeing the needle moving a yota. I have not checked this on the C152, maybe it's the same.

So the state of the plane so far:

- modelling 100% finished. At least I decided so. You can always add a screw here, a bolt there, but the time has come to say stop;

- texturing is 99% finished for the cockpit including specular, ambient, reflections and normal mapping. Still some work on the exterior textures...

- last but not least, add a few liveries. If you guys, have some special repaints in mind, please let me know. if possible add some detailed pictures.

What about a release date? Well, it's almost Christmas, you might have a little surprise below the Xmas tree.

Progress on the exterior bump textures.