747 Classic Progress
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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!
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It's been a long time since the last time your pics came out, could you guys release the latest pics?
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Especially some pics about AP, INS and ILS
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Are we going to see this plane this year?
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Are we going to see this plane this year?
@Captain-Bakon I'd be relatively optimistic in thinking there will probably be a release within the year. I however would prefer that the product wasn't rushed in order to ensure the aircraft is as polished as it realistically can be so that we can get all the more enjoyment out of it when it eventually does release.
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Hi all, have you had any thoughts on just using GSX integration? That would be really neat.
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Are we going to see this plane this year?
@Captain-Bakon Yes you will, the team are working hard very hard and good progress is being made, hope the wait won't be too much longer for you.
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Hi all, have you had any thoughts on just using GSX integration? That would be really neat.
@cmcloughlin You'll have the option of both.
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Hey Voice of Reason, do you have any more pictures of the night cockpit for us? it's been a while and the last ones were taken early WIP.
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@Captain-Bakon Yes you will, the team are working hard very hard and good progress is being made, hope the wait won't be too much longer for you.
@Voice-of-Reason said in 747 Classic Progress:
@Captain-Bakon Yes you will, the team are working hard very hard and good progress is being made, hope the wait won't be too much longer for you.
great news :-)
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Hey Voice of Reason, do you have any more pictures of the night cockpit for us? it's been a while and the last ones were taken early WIP.
@Captain-Bakon Will get some sorted for you this coming week
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@Captain-Bakon Will get some sorted for you this coming week
@Voice-of-Reason hey any updates? I've really been wanting to fly this especially the cargo version for soo long now
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JF any updates? You said you would provide us some pictures. Can we expect to see the plane initiral RC this summer even?
@Captain-Bakon said in 747 Classic Progress:
JF any updates? You said you would provide us some pictures. Can we expect to see the plane initiral RC this summer even?
Yes :thumbs_up:
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It will be out this summer for sure?
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Doubt they can make any promises but that lighting is looking absolutely wonderful. Can’t wait to eventually see this in FS2020.
@Noob21 It would certainly be a wonderful aircraft to have in FS2020 assuming it's feasable to port it - then again I reckon I'm going to rack up many hours bussing the Cathay -200 model between Taipei and Kai Tak in P3Dv4 so I can wait plenty of time before that!
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@Noob21 It would certainly be a wonderful aircraft to have in FS2020 assuming it's feasable to port it - then again I reckon I'm going to rack up many hours bussing the Cathay -200 model between Taipei and Kai Tak in P3Dv4 so I can wait plenty of time before that!
@SimeonWilbury My guess is it is reasonably feasible to port, especially from P3D considering the FSX framework that FS2020 is built off of, but we obviously won't know until JF gets a handle on the SDK and we get a more public view of FS2020's files to see just how much of a change the aircraft system is. It could be as easy as a flight model redux, or as difficult as having to rewrite the code for the model in it's entirety. I certainly hope it's an easy endeavor though.
