747 Classic Progress
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Just Flight how is the progress coming along, didn't you guys say you would show us a video back last December?
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Will you release it by February? I won't use my PC next month, for I'm leaving home for school, I just can't wait to fly it.
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@centurion88 No that won't happen, a few months still left of the development schedule yet, sorry.
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How is development progressing? Can we see the 747 before summer?
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@Captain-Bakon That's the aim, yes. Look out for some new In Dev screenshots making an appearance very shortly too.
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So like March?
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@Captain-Bakon No definitely not. A while after that and can't give you a date, even a month just now as it's just guesswork. As and when we're more confident of dates we'll give more details. Hope that helps for now.
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Is summer a good guess?
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@Captain-Bakon It's a guess, whether or not it's a good one remains to be seen. :winking_face:
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Release next month? I keep seeing more and more pictures, although it would be nice to see some new photos of the night cockpit too.
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@Captain-Bakon Yeah I was kinda getting worried that JustFlight forgot about this for a second, but it looks like they're putting on some.. final touches?
When can we expect release, by now you guys should be able to tell I assume?
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All, work continues but there's still lots to do, test, tweak and so on so an April release is out of the question. Will update with more pics and hopefully videos in the coming weeks but for now at least you can put your credit cards away :)
Thanks to all of you for the interest you're showing in the project.
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This is looking like a great add on, I just pray that focus goes into ensuring the flight dynamics and ground handling model are correct and that resources are diverted into systems, high quality base textures up to the standards of freeware developers like Tavers, and the flight deck rather than novelty stuff like fancy cabin designs that waste PC (and development :P) resources.
Please.... make it a good one and worth the wait. This aircraft deserves to be done justice!
I know the folks at BAVirtual are anticipating this one and are hopeful that it delivers on quality!
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@cmcloughlin said in 747 Classic Progress:
I just pray that focus goes into ensuring the flight dynamics and ground handling model are correct
The flight dynamics base was the calculated figures for the early 747 from Roskam's paper, "Airplane Flight Dynamics and Automatic Flight Controls Part I". Further to that, a thorough reading (multiple times!) and application of information therein of "Handling the Big Jets, third edition" by D.P. Davies (chapter 9).
Those were the two primary sources, alongside a rather large selection of original manuals and flightcrew's notebooks.
With regard to the ground handling, the undercarriage is being coded seperately to the flight model because it is so complex - should resolve the usual problems inbuilt to the sim that we often see in that area.
I hope it'll be close enough!
Paul.
