16 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

Did you guys look at manual? Graphics definitely not in par with PMDG. Look at the "edgy" gauges

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LFZdhL070NnmkObKQRHF8gImRA_g3zWo/view

Yeah, the cockpit panel graphics look similar to the JustFlight Connie that I purchased a few years ago and flew in FSX and P3D. Externals looked great, but cockpit gauges and controls looked somewhat cartoonish. Hopefully this one will be better than that.

8 hours ago, Fielder said:

You can still get 199 and 201A tubes in America (made about the year 1900). Two of my favorite AM broadcast radios use 201A. I think I paid $20 for each tube.

My oldest working AM broadcast radio is from 1921. Plays great!

This one of mine uses more modern tubes (1934).

I have a few boxes full of tube numbers like 45, 24, 27, 2A3, 201A

Most old tubes are not hard to find.

https://vacuumtubes.net/Prices 12A to 29LE3.htm

To buy (restored) old tube broadcast radios, most in glamorous wood cabinets, go here:

https://radioattic.com/

In FSX, one of my favorites was the "Sky King" plane which used RDF radios (which were popular in the days before ADF went into use). You dialed in the frequency much like any other radio. But  instead of turning a loop antenna you turned the plane. Instead of reading a dial, you listened to Morse Code. Amazon library had (I think it still does) a utility to put Radar Range stations at any airport in FSX.

Yes the DC-6 radios, which PMDG left dead, are decades old. So is the plane. They would go well together. And making them work would not be hard. Other far more simple flightsim planes had working old pre ADF radio systems installed.

 

 

I can remember doing service calls with I started as a color TV Tech back in he early 60's. We had to large boxes which were called tube caddys, full of every type of tube we could run into on a service all. If a tube, or other parts we carried didn't fix the problem in the customers home, we pulled the chassis out of the TV, and brought it to the shop where we had jigs set up to work on it. Solid state chassis changed much of that, 

Edited November 5, 20214 yr by Bobsk8

9 hours ago, fppilot said:

And the aircraft type was last in active use......  (active use)

 

Last commercial flights of the DC6 were in 1968, by United Airlines. 

3 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Last commercial flights of the DC6 were in 1968, by United Airlines. 

DC-6 still fly in Alaska. And not so long ago did some passengers flights over there

 

 

9 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

DC-6 still fly in Alaska. And not so long ago did some passengers flights over there

 

 

https://evertsair.com/about

20 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

https://evertsair.com/about

I know it's Everet on the video. I don't know if they still do pax flight in DC-6 now, but there was a video from few years ago  flight to Seattle as part 121 ops which is airline or "commercial" flight 

I like Re WIngs complexity of Constellation, it would be fun to learnt. and satisfying to operate. However, graphics by MSFS standards is not that good. I think that was a reason Milviz decided to postpone their C310 and not rushing with release

By all the systems implemented in this Conny it seems like these three developers have worked really hard the past year or so. Impressive work. But by the looks of it I might pass for the moment. I''m too spoiled already by scanned models and pbr texturing.

Awesome article on the 6

https://airwaysmag.com/featured/flying-dc-6-across-alaska/

 

I had the A2A Connie in P3D, which was alot of fun. They did a good job with that aircraft. I wonder why they can't do one for MSFS?

I agree with many, the graphics are not up to 2021 standard.

11 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

I can remember doing service calls with I started as a color TV Tech back in he early 60's. We had to large boxes which were called tube caddys, full of every type of tube we could run into on a service all. If a tube, or other parts we carried didn't fix the problem in the customers home, we pulled the chassis out of the TV, and brought it to the shop where we had jigs set up to work on it. Solid state chassis changed much of that, 

Yeah there is an antique radio forum where I go from time to time to see how everybody is repairing and restoring old radios and even TVs. Mainly the capacitors which were paper and wax back in the day go bad and need to be replaced with modern plastic capacitors.Unsolder the old, solder on the new.

https://antiqueradios.com/

My old TV (1949) is very easy to work on because the very early ones used relatively low voltage power supplies. And there were far less electronic parts inside. Not much different than a 1940's AM radio. Along about 1952 maybe high power supplies and complicated circuits came into being and only TV repair guys like yourself could work on them. I know I can't, I have no clue.

I do know that to this day some ham radio operators and short wave listeners that are running the old classic tube rigs will stop if they see an old TV on the curb. Because that high voltage power supply inside is worth a lot! They offer to carry away the set, remove the PS, and dispose of the rest of the set. Cathode ray TV's and computer monitors have those valuable high voltage power supplies!

I bought a big old wooden tube caddy box to haul outdoor sporting goods inside it (instead of electronics). They are way better than nylon or canvas to haul stuff in.

 

I loved the Connie back In my FSX days! Yes, a little more attention to texturing would bring this model a lot further!

22 hours ago, Chock said:

.

If you listen to stuff such as Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower, or Purple Haze, the guitars he was using for those recordings were ones which had been bought a couple of years beforehand from a regular guitar shop and not some revered classics, especially considering that Hendrix was prone to setting fire to guitars and smashing them up etc during his shows, so he got a lot of new guitars simply of necessity. As a result of this, on the recording of Purple Haze, Hendrix wasn't even using his own guitar, or even a Stratocaster for that matter, he was using a Telecaster which he borrowed from someone in the studio. But even though this is true, you'll never convince many guitarists of that, especially when there is money to be made from such myths to get them to spend thousands on what is in reality nothing more than a battered old guitar. And these days they're even making new ones which are 'reliced' to look like that and charging a fortune for them for the 'pose value', when what guitarists should be doing, is getting a Marshall valve amp and using any guitar they like - including one made last week for less than 200 quid if they so desire - and they'll find it's the amp which is giving them that sound whereas - pickups notwithstanding - the guitar itself hardly matters. Of course it also helps if you happen to be as talented as Hendrix. 🎸

 

Fender did sell some pretty awful Asian made guitars from the early 70's though to the 2000's but by all accounts the new ones you get these days are pretty good and on par with a lot of the "classics".

That said Fender are still not above producing "custom models" they sell for big bucks to cash in on an a trend ...

 

 

 

Edited November 6, 20214 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

Would be ideal that someone could fit an old fashioned GPS like this in the Connie. http://www.allflightmods.com/fs-gauges/kln90b-gps-readout-ver-1-1/