Well, release time for the HN-433/434 is occured !

The story of Menestrel HN-433/434:

Henri Nicollier, a young glider pilot, planned to build an airplane at the age of 16 after having discovered Mignet's  famous book: "Le Sport de l'Air". He reviewed the few possible  airplanes of the time, and decided to   design (and build) his own  airplane; he elaborated several projects,   and his choice settled on an  all-wooden single-seater, with curved   shapes. Above the very first  drawing of what will become the Minstrel. Henri launches into the  construction of his prototype with confidence.  His workshop: a corner of  the hangar on the ground of Besançon/Thise,  but he runs up against the  general skepticism of the members of the   local club. He will manage to  finalize his construction and it is in   the general indifference which  will carry out the first flight of   F-PKXO in Thise, on November 25,  1962. The plane has not been modified since.

The HN 433 "Ménestrel" will also be built in amateur with 6 specimens. Among the builders, two friends of work: Bernard Cintrat and Jean Claude Afflard  who will build the N°37-PYJZ and 43-PYKA.  They completely modernize the  plane to make it very attractive to the  eyes of the amateurs of the  time (1982). Thus modified the plane will  take the name of HN 434 "Super  Minstrel". It will be more comfortable  with an enlarged cabin and also  simpler to build by removing several useless wing reinforcements.
References: http://www.acaatlantique.fr/2017/10/nicollier-henri-concepteur.html

This plane, I started it in 2010 for FS2004 and then transformed it   to be FSX/P3D compatible. Nevertheless, it remained unfinished in my   eyes because I could not go to the end of my ideas.

With MSFS, I decided to take it back completely and make it a native addon.

So here is the current version, which I call a Beta since there are two  or three little things missing (radio) which should be solved before the end of June 2021 😇

You can find 5 livreries in this release :

• - F-PYKA (HN433 model) of my friend Jean-Claude AFFLARD, who help me  during 2010-2013 with a lot of documentations (he was the constructor of this aircraft),
• - F-PGRB of Mr Lamglait which is a HN434.
• - and three fictional livreries

The direct link for download (english page): http://frenchvfr.free.fr/download.php?lng=en&pg=782&tconfig=0

 

Sorry, my video was made for a french forum www.pilote-virtuel.com where I post very often 😎

Knows bugs, in spite of numerous tests by my testers:

• the texture of the F-PYKA has some defects on the top of the fuselage (this will be corrected with Inkscape)
• the movement of the ailerons is reversed
• the radio is not yet modeled (I will change the old VHF Badin-Crouzet 360 channels by an ICOM owned by the last proprietary of the plane)

Edited June 9, 20214 yr by lagaffe

Thank you for your work but I get an instant crash (plane not software) when starting on the runway...I haven't tried cold and dark yet. I will try a C&D when I get the chance and see if that makes a difference. I am using the add on linker if that makes a difference.

 

Edit: Hurricane maybe? 😛

 

Edited June 9, 20214 yr by Target71

Very strange, this plane has been tested by several simmers on many airports without any problem.

I just made some tests on LFML, LFMN, LFPO, LFBZ and also CHT3 and CYMX, all was OK and on KMNC, 3 crashs again "something" just after the READY TO FLY and 1 time the same situation as your ... Don't you think rather that it is KMCN which have a glitchK ? Do you have try another airport ?

Just now I did an another test with: DEV Mode - GOTO KMCN : Slew mode not validated !

Very strange as behaviour ... I will investigate.

EDIT:

Try to edit the flight_model.cfg in the TAB  [CONTACT_POINTS] and remove the two ";" before " the lines static_pitch" and "static_cg_height"

=> The patch has been uploaded on French-VFR,  archive for download is correct now !

Edited June 9, 20214 yr by lagaffe

Ok will do...weird, I always knew Macon was a strange place....

Macon ... What are you talking about?

Macon = MCN => KMCN ok 😎

Edited June 9, 20214 yr by lagaffe

5 hours ago, lagaffe said:

Macon ... What are you talking about?

Macon = MCN => KMCN ok 😎

LOL...that's Georgia, USA not France...no little squiggly thing over the A, but the K gives that away, right? 😝

Brilliant...

Macon, Georgia USA

Mâcon, France (do you put the département after the city like we do the state? I dunno)

Haven't flown it much but it seems nice so far, the sounds and animations have some quirks. Thanks again for your work.

P.S. the squiggly thing is apparently called an "a circumflex," sounds painful...😄

edit: to clarify, the sound I was referring to is that the gear sounds to retract but it is, of course, fixed gear.

Edited June 9, 20214 yr by Target71

" the sound I was referring to is that the gear sounds to retract but it is, of course, fixed gear."

Ok, you are right. i put this on the changelo for the v1.0

Hi,

Last week I have been contacted by an another user: the son of the owner of the F-PYXE. With the help of some photos sent by this user, I have add an another repaint at this addon.

The radio also has been finished and integrated :
- model 3D ready
- XML codes to manage a single COM1
- animations and textures.
In order to be able to use this radio in the absence of battery on the aircraft as well as switches for the battery, avionics and alternator, I have made some modifications in the XML code of the gauge to bring a solution.

Second Release:

Yesterday, I have release the v1.0.0 of this addon which containt now:
 - 6 repaints
 - a radio with a single COM1
 - a few modifications in the code (removal of the sounds for the opening/closing of the landing gear, etc) to take in accounts some remarks (SOH, AVSim, pilote-virtuel).

=> The new version has been uploaded on French-VFR, which cancels and replaces the previous version !
The link is unchanged: http://frenchvfr.free.fr/download.php?lng=en&pg=782&tconfig=0

Edited June 21, 20214 yr by lagaffe