Tried various downloads and installs and although it shows OK in the aircraft preview it defaults in flight and or RW to the Cessna 172.
Un-installed the Cessna to see what effect if any this would have and FS 2 crashes.
Please don't uninstall official content of AFS2. The aircraft defaults to the C172 because it cannot load the P2008.
Those having problems, are you on a beta version of AFS2? I have the latest non beta (2.04.07.43 20191009) and never had any of the problems you describe.
Can you check the tm.log file) located in: documents\Aerofly FS2) and see the ERROR messages that appear ?
Thank you guys,
Bring up the screenshots !
Wow, that was a quick download! It's on line since only 12 minutes.
Great shot, thank you Thomas
It's been a long trip but the wait is over.
So let's count down
5
4
3
2
1
And lift off
Don't forget to read the manual (in the "_manual" sub-folder).
Thank you all for your support and have nice flights
Rendez-vous on flight-sim.org. Don't forget to sign-in to be able to see the download link.
https://flight-sim.org/filebase/index…4-tecnam-p2008/
did I miss the download link?
Not yet, I have a few liveries to finish before.
First livery I deem completely finished.
Still three to go, setup the cold ans dark version and it should be good to go.
Progress on the exterior bump textures.
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.
Display MoreYep they are complicated but the biggest problem by far to a sole developer is we become a Jack of all trades and a master of none.
Modeller, texture artist, sound engineer, aerodynamicist, systems analyst, computer programmer, tea boy and general dogs body.
Or in others words, we spread ourselves too thin, which I guess leads me into another point.
Where should we focus our model detail ?
Super detailed exterior model and basic cockpit or
Super detailed cockpit and basic exterior model
We can't really have both and keep the frame rates high, so which is more important ?
Edit..missed one........thermodynamicist
I can feel your pain, as a single developer for one aircraft one have to be good in all branches. That's simply impossible sometimes one have to make compromises.
For the TMD's it's a do, undo, redo for hours. I usually reload the aircraft after each block I write just in case I have forgotten a comma, but there are always unexpected errors like yours.
Courage...
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.
Hi Sylvain,
Using the mouse to interact with ATC might be possible as a future enhancement. Thanks for the feedback.
Regards,
Karl
Thank you, that would be great !
someone probably can figure that out, but, there are a couple of buttons on the controllers that might be easier to press than trying to find the mouse and then looking for a spot to click. I take it you are thinking VR?
Hello Ray,
All the buttons on my yoke are already assigned. I'm flying a 2D screen. I like to click on switches in the cockpit, also tuning the radios and VOR's manually, so my mouse is never out of sight.
Hello Karl,
Is it possible to make AFS2 ATC interact with the mouse?
What I'm thinking of is turn the Radar Contact commands (1 to request RWY, 7 to acknowledge ...) into click-spots.
That would make things much more easy instead of searching for the right button on the keyboard or the controller.
Maybe I'm just dreaming.
Well! After two days I must say I'm very happy with this addon. It really brings AFS2 alive. No more long quiet flights, you hear voices all along the way and following the controllers instructions brings a lot of realism to the sim. Thank you Karl for your efforts.
Two things I would like to see implemented (I hope someone at IPACS reads this):
- Give the possibility to adjust automatically wind strengh and direction according to the downloaded weather;
- Offer the possibility to export AFS2 flight plans directly to a Radar Contact compatible format.
Anyway, congratulations to all involved in the development and testing of this product.
Thank you Ray. That would be a great feature to add if it's possible with IPACS SDK.
Installed, waiting for my trial license key.
When I launch AFS2, visibility seems to be affected already even though I did not receive my activation key yet.
One question : does AFS2 ACT affect wind direction and strength?
I spent the day adding some night lightning to the panel. Hmmm, I like that.
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.
Thanks for your kind words guys.
The aircraft will be freeware, available when it' finished... I guess in 2 or 3 month
