March 23Mar 23 Having battled with this aircraft for weeks, the mighty fine folks around here pointed out the error of my ways and at last I have managed to get successfully from Cold and Dark to ILS Landing! Special thanks to @P_7878 for tracking down my error. These shots are stills taken from an OBS Studio through-the-VR-lens video of a short flight flight from EBOS Ostende in Belgium, to EGKK London Gatwick in UK. From a VR point of view, there is an added dimension to this aircraft as it has, of course, a third and vital crew position - the Engineer station. Here's a shot of the pilot/copilot positions: The Engineer's station is at the right of the shot above. And opposite the Engineer's back, behind the Captain's seat are the circuit breakers. And in amongst the circuit breakers, it turns out, are these two vital switches - which I had never noticed until @P_7878 mentioned them. They basically turn on the Localiser/ILS systems: And I had previously tried maybe twenty 'cold and dark' flights, all failing at the last 5 miles when the Localiser and ILS systems 'didn't respond'. I am very grateful to the fine folks on the forum for their help in helping me retain my confidence in flying the sim's excellent tubeliners...and in stopping me jumping out of the window in frustration!! Nav set up, aircraft fuelled and loaded up, engines started, lined up EBOS Rwy26: It always was a beautiful aircraft: Ostende is on the Belgian coast and UK is at the other side of the Channel, aircraft clean and climbing: When I demo the sim in VR or 2D to friends and family, it is usually that the sun patches move around as the aircraft turns that wows them the most . I still find it pretty cool myself! Bye Bye Belgium.... If it looks right, it IS right: Now over the UK and heading towards Gatwick. Descending gently towards the 2000' ILS capture target: Terrible photo, but here's the bit that had eluded me for so many flights - I have two green lights to the left of the red handle (ALT Hold and Localiser) and one red (Glide Slope capture) as the aircraft approaches the airport in the distance. Hard to see on the photo, but the Localiser and Glide Slope yellow guides on the artificial horizon instrument are now also active: And now the red Glide Slope light is green and the red Alt Hold light indicated that it is no longer active: we're on our way down!: Gear down, flaps down: Red light and klaxon confirming I've just turned off the autopilot: And Made It!!!! At last!!!!!! Ryzen 7 9800x3D @5.2GHz; ASUS X670-P Motherboard; nVidia 4080 (factory o/c); 32G 5600MHz DDR5 SDRAM; Pimax Crystal Light VR Headset; Quest 3 VR Headset
March 23Mar 23 Geat pics - love to fly this Aircraft, such authentic old style.. cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
March 23Mar 23 Wonderful series, @AJZip2...Love the livery... You are back in the Pilot's seat of this one...🙂... Enjoy.
March 25Mar 25 Nice screenshots! I would love to buy this one but my hangar is full. I've been having fun with helicopters and shooting ILS approaches in the BAE-146. Glad you got it working, I remember working on these "lead sleds' back in the day and man were they oily and greasy. I loved them. Jack Sawyer
April 9Apr 9 Great to hear you have sorted your problems out and are now enjoying flying the 727 all the way down. Wonderful pics as well as an interesting narration.
April 9Apr 9 Author 11 hours ago, alex40 said: Does Boeing 727 support VR reality? Yes - absolutely. All of my pictures are stills captured from a VR flight video I did using the Pimax Crystal Light. The aircraft is superb in VR. The only tweak I had to make was to add a 90 degree turn command that I assigned to a spare HOTAS button so that I could use the usual L/R & Fwd/Back position commands to get easily to the Engineers position and facing the correct way (ie, face on to the panel with an easy seat turn to turn on the APU, which is on a panel at the back, facing the opposite direction to the pilots' instrument panel). Edited April 9Apr 9 by AJZip2 Ryzen 7 9800x3D @5.2GHz; ASUS X670-P Motherboard; nVidia 4080 (factory o/c); 32G 5600MHz DDR5 SDRAM; Pimax Crystal Light VR Headset; Quest 3 VR Headset
April 9Apr 9 Author 30 minutes ago, VH-KDK said: Great to hear you have sorted your problems out and are now enjoying flying the 727 all the way down. Wonderful pics as well as an interesting narration. Thanks! There's maybe even more satisfaction to have been blocked by an issue for sometime and to finally suss the problem (with a little help from my forum friends 👍) than it all going smoothly first time! Maybe Ryzen 7 9800x3D @5.2GHz; ASUS X670-P Motherboard; nVidia 4080 (factory o/c); 32G 5600MHz DDR5 SDRAM; Pimax Crystal Light VR Headset; Quest 3 VR Headset
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