I have a question regarding the de Havilland Dove, a beautiful model of which was recently released for FS9 by Rick Piper in collaboration with several others. My question relates to the transparency of the cockpit above the standard windscreen height. Saverrio Maurri chose to depict his panel as mostly transparent leading to a very open appearance when sitting inside the cockpit. However, the implemented external model shows that part of the fuselage as solid. That prompted me to search airliners.net to look at photos of actual aircraft to see what, in fact, was true. There are several Dove photos there, and I did find one that appeared to have the whole top of the cockpit area made out of plexiglass. However, there was only one photo with such an option and the rest had solid enclosed cockpit tops. Is this an aircraft version situation wherein later (or earlier) versions of the aircraft had plexiglass cockpit tops or was the plexiglass top a purchase option? If anyone is familiar with this aircraft, please enlighten me.

The new Dove add-on contains three different versions. Pick the "Sea Devon" and you'll have the pexiglass "bubble cockpit" in the external model. Have fun, she's a GREAT add-on!Jaap Verduijn.

Aaah - credit where credit is due.... The new Dove was actually by Derek Palmer. Rick Piper was one of the many helpers on what is an excellent freeware aeroplane.