Screenshots WALL : Tack up your pictures!

[aquila1004]

:) looks good aquila!

Thanks!

C162 in central Australia.


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[AADX]

how'd you like that for trekkin around out there?

[helipilotut_1]

Awesome pics.I cannot wait to get to fly again.my graphics card went kuput so i am saving to get a new one.really sucks:(

[AADX]

awws. I could say ebay is your friend. but saving for a new juicy one is smart wise and good too.

I hope you do soon. my flying gets interrupted by blender & blender baking time. I load up xplane long enough to see something I need to adjust, and then go do. maybe, while you're down from flying.. you might try your hand at writing some flight_assignments for charter division.

[Stormdreamer]

This is the JOKER over Iceland. Now the pic is bigger.

This is my JOKER with Droptanks and my personally Paint. With Droptanks you can fly and fly and fly..........I love this Plane. With the Droptanks it looks like a little Bomber.

[AADX]

Lookin good stormdreamer. you can go ahead and put up the full size image if you like.

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now, we're gettin somewhere. I forgot about the 3d emit lamps in planemaker to turn off. I re-rendered it without the cockpit side overhead or area fill. it looks properly cockpit_dark for night time operations to me now. the spill lights from the side insets and under the kick board edge put light down below for map reading, etc, and out of the look up and out, night acclimated eye view. I still have more playing to do to get it just right. now that the planemaker emit lamps are gone, I can better adjust the blender lamps for the night rendering and get it exactly how I want to see it. I call it rig for "o'yeah".

[MdMax]

Hi all !

Night lighting looks awesome !

I put in the same AOA gauge into the CTJ that I use in my custom designs, LFX, LJX, 3600, et al.. and it is the single best instrument for knowing where you are in the envelope.

I'm quoting an old post from Jason you can find here... and (again) the BEA recommends the use of this instrument. The BEA is the "Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses" (french NTSB) that makes the investigation for the accident on 1 June 2009, the Airbus A330-203, flight AF447 from Rio to Paris:

One recommendation relating to airplane certification: Angle of attack measurement
This recommends that the regulatory authorities evaluate the relevance of requiring the presence of an angle of attack indicator directly accessible to pilots on board airplanes

Source:
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol.af. ... af.447.php
http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol.af. ... 011.en.pdf

In my screenshot today, you can see the Mustang cockpit, and in the X-Plane failure settings I had pitot tube 1 and 2 "inoperative", pilot airspeed indicator "inoperative".

Stall horn didn't work with the failures (it normally shows a red "STALL" on top of the PFD). TAS (True Airspeed) and GS (Ground Speed) were still working fine (GPS driven ?) but with this pitch (17° nose up) and sink rate (-4560 fpm), it should be easy to guess I'm far out of the flight envelope. The AOA indicator, first gauge above the navigation display shows it clearly: I'm stalling ! The needle is in the red zone.

[AADX]

Wow Max. Thank you very much for quoting and linking that. I really appreciate it.

That is a great demonstration of it having indication when others have failed.

For the Mustang, I'm comfortable with it up there in the row of standby's for just as you've shown, for the straight and level pitch modulation at low speed. namely, for straight in final approach to land, eyes up and forward.. that would be right there in view, right side of view, in line with throttle hand. In my opinion, in Mustang, when flying VFR pattern, pattern turns would be with sufficient airspeed to be looking forward to have it in view, and low speed aoa exceedance fall out is less of a concern. is valid, but is less.

For my models, I have it there on the left corner. the vfr left traffic pattern corner, especially for base-final turn when conceivably at the lowest speed, or preparing to get to the lowest speed for a small runway landing. In LFX/LJX.. getting down to full flap, ~60knots.. is very mushy and air stretching. the increase of loading while in the base to final turn.. with some uneven air, is enough to really watch the AOA gauge swing through it's range, and need to be very smart and mindful with the *left* hand on the yoke, to reduce back pressure just a hair when the AOA gauge swings high in that sort of turn, while pulling backpressure. CTJ.. lol.. it was a bit of an afterthought as to where to put it, I have the digital pie in there for AOA, and where it is on the bolster panel is valid enough for straight line appraoch speed monitoring. I think that's valid for GA propeller to jet transition pilots who are used to x speed and may have a risk of slowing down too much into floating prop ga plane speed.. and finding the CJT running out of airspeed and stretching the air too far.

[AADX]

while it's a render, and will be also posted to the skunkworks topic. this one processed most of the night last night after I went to bed. I think it's getting closer. I turned back on the cockpit overhead ceiling cast lights, and the cockpit area fill lamps. I'm going for a very .. very subtle quantity of mild to faint light, with the dramatic panel and inset lights that are for seeing panel, console, and then for hip level and below. 'realistically' cockpit is black dark except for faint light on the panel for the maximum amount of eye night vision ability. even a diffused micro-mag-lite is too much. but, for prettiness and enjoyability sake. the beauty & vanitly lights are in there and on for a delicious view.

[AADX]

p.s. & obtw.
LFX IX update just posted, with the new interior, day and night rendered interior. grab it, and tell me what you think.

updated interior pictures for that one are in progress.
LFX IIX will stay with the prior interior (since it's often given as a gift item).
LJX will use the prior interior as the _OUT and the new interior for the _IN.