Steve Dra

One of the best-looking jets in existence! Classic delta shape...the proverbial lawn dart, hehe. Get shots and paint J !!

To add another question to this thread.... I have addon linker and have my community folder setup with links within the app. I also have many Marketplace purchases that show in either the official or official\one store folders. Can I also safely link those in addon linker, then turn them off/on at will as I do with stuff in the community folder? For example, I have the FSDT Chicago O'Hare airport and drzewieckidesign-narita there...could I link them and turn them off in addonlinker?

And some pilot's like to test that theory "on the fly" 🙂 Not belittling an aircraft incident...but nobody was harmed, except for maybe the pilot's ego. 🙂

I have to say in my 20 or so years here, that is the funniest visual I ever got from reading an interesting local phrase from a country I've never been to! 🤣 I actually laughed out loud with that one! Regarding the 727...I know Raul @simbol will create a masterpiece as in a recent interview has stated that the 727 is his all-time favorite airliner...and if you know Raul, his passion in any project is evident...imagine how ramped up that passion will be for a favorite of his? 🙂 I painted the 727 20 years ago on a freeware model, on 1 k maps. Imagine the detail we can produce with 8k maps today!

If you haven't already checked...make sure your sim has not spontaneously set itself to the Legacy flight model. I've had the sim do that (when it was new and many SUs were flying at us), and had a heck of a time with the default Bonanza until I stumbled on to this. Now its the 1st thing I check whenever a plane is not flying right, and everyone else says its working fine for them.

The alluring specter of dropping into the MSFS market is much too overwhelming, even for FSL who's been P3d focused despite the fact its not the market of choice for the majority of simmers. I can almost guarantee that in those months of silence, not one minute on developer time was put to P3d bug fixing, rather trying to get the Concorde into MSFS. They are probably now just seeing how far behind they are, even with the full steam efforts to grasp the completely different coding they have to deal with now. This is similar to what Captain Sim did...working on a rather good P3d 767, promising to keep developing and refining, in addition to releasing a highly anticipated freighter...making not one peep over many months on the progress of fixes or the freighter. Then one day just announcing their 1st MSFS product. Since then, they released the freighter as a pax model with a painted-on main cargo door, and not one version-update to the base 767 since. Don't even ask about their comical attempt to bring the 737 model past a late beta stage, despite all their promises. They still won't admit that P3d work for them is dead, but then again they never were good at communicating things like that. Ray, you're going to have to move to MSFS if you want to see a truly revolutionary Concorde in a flightsim, as FSL has sadly just announced . Don't worry, you have a lot of simmers here willing to help you through the transition. 🙂 Unless they address the P3d bugs as an afterthought...You have the final, complete, and "finished" version of the P3d Concorde on your PC. 😞

Good read on the topic here: CAMERAS.cfg: Is the 'transition' property broken? - Questions & Community Discussions / Aircraft - MSFS DevSupport (flightsimulator.com) Bottom line...the "Transition" property is what should control this...as of September 2023...it is still not working properly in MSFS. I too have tried both options (0 and 1)...and neither snaps the camera between views. We can only hope its addressed one day.

I talked to Rob about this Anti-Ice issue, and since he's determined to model the MAX as close to real life as possible, he's going to add this issue in the plane. However, since some inexperienced simmers may misuse the anti-ice feature in the sim, and may severely damage their engine inlet on the virtual MAX they purchased from PMDG, he has decided to cancel the MAX project for fear of liability from all the angry simmers who now have a damaged MAX. Thanks a lot for pointing out this glaring issue...now we'll never get a PMDG MAX! 🤨 /sarcasm mode off.

Outstanding pics, plane and paint :) Have not picked it up yet....too busy painting a slightly bigger plane :)

Hehe....I've been officially crowned as the king knee-jerk anti-CS responder here. However...... The 767 is probably my favorite airliner of all time, and I too picked up the 767-300 when it was on sale...and it came with the UPS livery so I was fine with that. I did buy their P3D 767-300 (also on sale) back before MSFS...i was a good release from them and I always gave them the benefit of the doubt before I commented on their business practices. Won't even get into how they strung along customers that the freighter was coming...and it did...a few years after announced, and just a painted on cargo door to the pax model and dropped P3d like a hot rock when they saw how big and unsuspecting the new MSFS market was . Anyway, that alone should give anyone who's never heard of CS and their antics should need to get an idea of what kind of company they are. That behind us...there is no doubt their modeler and texture guy can make a pretty plane, and it looks great sitting on the ramp...but that is far as I got with it. Tried a flight...took a few screens, put it back in the hangar. I can't offer any constructive comments other that for $10 it's not bad as a screenshot tool, but for that is about it for me. At this point, even if someone made some mods that made her fly better and less like a 747, I still can't see myself flying her, knowing that Sherv and Bluebird are making one that will bring back the glory days of LDS and even further back if you've been around the hobby that long. I'm glad you're enjoying it and it was money well spent. I just want to know if there were any CS customers who had a chance to buy the CS TIE Fighter before Disney/Lucas slapped a C&D on them. They completely wiped any existence of it....closing the forum and insta-zapping any posts that asked anything about it. Serious want to know how they got those customers to "return" their purchases. It was only available a few days (if even that)...so a lot of folks here don't even know about it. But....once you post to the internet...its there for forever....somewhere, so for those who never heard of this brilliant move by CS, here you go: https://msfsaddons.com/2023/04/11/captain-sim-releases-the-tie-fighter-for-msfs-an-iconic-spacecraft-from-the-star-wars-universe/

minor thing IMO...the flash is there and if they get to it and fix it that would be cool, but it doesn't detract from the experience, its a great plane!

Oh the strobes are there. If fact...it has dual LED strobes that flash independently...very nice touch. As for the beacon...its there too, but sadly the physical bulb inside does not flash.

You should try testing just the front and rear of the aircraft! Rob is being so secretive about the model that he not even letting the beta testers know. I have to say it looks odd sitting on the ramp with the middle missing...and the CG and weights are totally messed up, but the parts we've been given to test are looking really good so far. 🙂

A Merry Christmas Everyone She is going to be a stunner...and as one of my favorite aircraft, a very welcome edition to my hangar. The beta test team is still grumbling about the contract negotiations about having today off...but the increase in salary has been nice! 🤣 I think everyone will agree that 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest release-fest in all of Flight Simulation history! From near-zero long haul options to just about every one in the skies.... Wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable Holiday Season. We fight like brothers and sisters here at times, but in the end we should remember we're all just passionate about our hobby and we should harbor no ill-will towards anyone in our extended family. Peace and Prosperity to all.

To me, he's the father of the hi fidelity airliners we see today. I painted this AA back in the 2004 days on the LDS 767...actually re-mastered the textures to the LDS model from the POSKY model who Mr. Cox created the original photo-textures. Even in this age...I think she still looks pretty good! Then I painted this one, and laterally flew the paint off her as I love cargo ops. 🙂 Can't tell you how excited I am to get a proper 767 in MSFS...and Bluebird will deliver that! 🙂

Conjunction Junction, what's your function? (One of us old geezers had to say it!) 🙂

Great shot! (I don't need to see high res shots of her....I have plenty) 😄

I'm really hoping for the A300....she is still actively flying with many freighter companies. Will we get it before Christmas? Well...I'm not a believer until I hear it....ready for it?... "Straight from the horses mouth". 🤣

The lead dev and CEO Sherv is certainly not new to the scene...but yes the company "BlueBird" is. I have full confidence that Bluebird's releases will be great.

I haven't picked up the F-14 yet...but will soon. The fact they have the "plane guard" helo hovering off the carrier is beyond cool! Here is some more SH-3 trivia...not that anyone asked, but since a great new MSFS plane at least includes it, who doesn't want to know more about it? Hehe. If you notice in the pics below, the "sponsons" or the big fairings around the landing gear struts, where how you could identify which model you were looking at. The sponsons are stubby compared to the later version showed in bottom pic of her. This example is a "G" model...it's basically a cargo version with all the ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) ripped out of it. This is the last model created...the "H" model. It has all the gadgets, including the towed "MAD" bird. (Magnetic Anomaly Detector). The pic below also shows the white datalink antenna extended below helo. Being essentially a bunch of boys in the Navy...we referred to it as the "Donkey Dxxx". Boys will be boys, LOL If you're wondering why the MAD bird had to be towed behind the helo...it was because the detector had to be away from the aircraft's metal as it interfered with it's detection abilities...and its the same reason the P-3 had a "Stinger" in the back. 😉 Sorry if this was TMI on the Sea King for this topic....Lord help us if we ever get an SH-3 in the sim, LOL.

I know right Dave? If you have a sudden urge to fly a military aircraft from your neck of the woods, I painted this one recently for a good friend of mine in Canada: Your country will be getting them in the future...but you get to fly her in flightsim before the real pilots do. 🙂 You can get her by clicking the big here in the link under my sig.

It was this longevity that actually influenced the end of my Navy career. I had been in the Navy several years when the SH-3 was being phased out...and due to that fact, when it came time for my new orders...my detailer (the guy who assigns sailors to their next duty station) told me that since I was already trained on the SH-3 systems, and there were no new sailors been trained behind me to pick up the job...I was destined to stay with that bird until she left service. Sadly the only orders he had from me were to a "Gator Freighter" off the coast of Mogadishu when we were playing World Cop for that region of the world. I decided to get out at that point and pursued a new career. When I was in the Persian Gulf..I worked on an SH-3 that had the same birthday as me...but 3 years older...LOL. She was an old...but very reliable bird.

That is one of the best release vids I've ever seen. The scenes could pass for real at a casual glance...and the F14 is just spectacular! Here she is doing one of her many jobs back when I served....shadowing a Russian "P-3" that was snooping around our task force when we were doing exercises off Bodo, Norway. The helicopter you see in the video (with its tail and blades folded to squeeze on to the carrier deck) is the one I worked on. 🙂 Here she is doing what we called "Vertreps" or Vertical Replenishment...hopping cargo from one ship to another in the task force.

I had the EXACT same problem! Look thru your email for a BMT Mirco email...I think back when it was 1st available FlyTampa was using them (if you did buy it from FlyTampa direct) When I finally dug that up and got the serial key...I could use the FlyTampa installer to reinstall it with the new version. I put that data in a card I keep on a google maps site where I track all my purchases.

Here is the one in Addon Linker...you access it by clicking the blue globe icon. Its nice...but you can't add the details I want to keep track of (or I don;t think you can...never explored that)