Hi All,The next version of my new VTOL/Hover gauge (for Adan Preece's freeware GR7 Harrier)is now available in the library.File: RCBhcb.zipBesides VTOL and a completely reworked flightmodel, it also adds a number of (controlled) visible effects, like directional smoke, wingtip vortex and a cannon.Enjoy ....Rob Barendregt

Intake momentum drag ;) ?

Hi Rob, Thanks for your contributions to the hobby. I'm sure they are appreciated by a great many simmers.I do have a question for ya, though I will preface it by stating that I know nothing about gauges or gauge programming.Could your VTOL gauge somehow be configured to work with AI helicopters? It would be great to add some AI helos to some of my sceneries.Thanks man.Adam

>Could your VTOL gauge somehow be configured to work with AI>helicopters? Hi Adam,No, I don't think so.I'm not even sure it will work for helo's in general, because these have a completely different flightmodel then a jet. I'm not a helo flyer myself in FS, but do the good flightmodels really need a new solution ????Even IF it would work for helo's, it wouldn't work for AI aircraft. Because AI aircraft don't use panels (and gauges) as far as I know.And although my XML code could be included in the aircraft .mdl nodel, the interaction with FSUIPC cannot (again, as far as I know :-) )Regards, Rob

Hi Rob,Thanks for the explanation. I think there are some AI helos but I believe they take off like an airplane.Adam

Awsome work Rob!http://www.dreamfleet2000.com/gfx/images/F...s/Mullins01.jpg"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting."Don MullinsNiceville, FL.

I recently read an article by John Farley, a former Harrier test pilot. In the 1970s he suggested making the Harrier's nozzles work independently. Putting the nozzles down on one side only, the roll rates would "make any opposition's eyes water". Putting down the front or rear pair would generate a pitch "nobody else could even dream about."That would be an intersting modelling challenge!