SteveAull

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Show me what you want. I'll have a go at it.....

Sweet !!! Can't wait for this one. Nice work.

Oh yea...What a pain! The way the fuselage stretches the textures, and at different rates as you go down the top. Got to love it!

Haven't finalized the colors, but the hard part is over.....

Marcelo nice paint job. Still haven't tried to tackle metal. Pete your shots are always so crisp. Great work by all.

Oh that will be fun on the ribbons...........It's looking real good!

Coming along....

Ok guys I was just giving him some suggestions. Don't want to get in a contest with you.....Peace.....

I never said VNAV would not follow proper take-off procedure. I said that not every airport will have a procedure where VNAV can be used immediatly after takeoff. As far as the tight turn is concerned again if you have a coded departure for this great....if not VNAV will want to accelerate to cleanup speed, increasing turn radias.Most the time I'll use VNAV but again it's not the be all to end all for every airport or situation. Last time I checked there are pilots in the cockpit.I sould have mentioned to him, to go to an airport that has a nice departure where VNAV can be armed on the ground and watch to see how it does it!

Just to give the non-painters an idea on how weird it can get note the following just to get what I wanted...Straight lines turn into a curve.....I guess now is not the time to quit smoking and drinking :)

Also remember when you rotate to not follow the FD pitch commands. Thats why the book says rotate at 3 degrees per sec. Once clear of the runway and positive rate of climb (altimeter). Initial climbout body attitude will vary inversly as to your wgt. If your below V2 FD pitch will drop to get you to at least V2. If you are at V2 or within 10-20kts above FD will pitch to maintain. If above that the FD will command pitch down. Concerning climb out speed, as long as you're above V2 you are safe. Someone mentioned under rotation. This is true. If you are taking your sweet time rotating then by the time you get to the correct body angle you are fast. At acceleration hgt the FD will command pitch down to accelerate for the flaps retraction schedule. Depending on your mode you'll want to adjust speed window to flaps up manv speed. Once the FD commands pitch down don't be waiting around to make this adjustment, you have to get on in.Best thing to do is forget LNAV/VNAV. Setup a saved flight and just practice the T/O procedures. As far as LNAV is concerned sometimes this is relied on to much. A lot of airports don't have departures setup so you'll have to get the bird onto a hdg that will intercept the first LNAV crs.So forget LNAV and VNAV for now and just try the T/O procedures. Let's say you were doing local touch and goes to practice ILS work. You won't be using LNAV or VNAV.Also LNAV and VNAV are not miracle workers. Let's say you have to conduct a tight turn after takeoff. You'll want the lower speed to reduce the turn radius, which means flaps may have to stay out longer. Or let's say I'm flying the local pattern and want more visibility over the nose than a lower body angle is needed. Only two thing can help you here. Higher speed or flaps left out, I believe in and around the airport it's 235 kts. I generally fly at 190kts and flaps 1 or 2 sometimes 5 to see where I'm going. Also when making small altitude adjustments sometimes it's best not to use LVCHG. If your really light making a 1,000 altitude change with LVLCHG will produce a nice pitch change which will be noticed in back. I make this statement concerning a drop in altitude. I just dial in new altitude and rotate the verticle speed dial. Mind you this is when lowering altitude. Remember V/S does not provide speed protection.As you can see there are a ton of variables at play but ultimately this thing is still an airplane. Practice T/O procedures until you feel comfortable with them and then move on to other things. Good luck.

Bryan the plane looks good. It can be maddening getting things lined up. Sometimes you just have to step away. Just when you think your done you find something else.

I can relate to that! Getting things lined up where the body stretches them can be a bear. Sometimes a break and maybe a beer can help the process along. Just don't do what I did once. Just finished the tail section and converted to dds. Instead I saved a flatten file to php format. Oh and of course in my rush no backup.

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Ok I'll darken the strips up.

Looks like chrome is out. I wanted to try it on the engine intakes but their part of the common textures, so every livery would end up with chrome.

I'm gonna try but it looks difficult.

Hey Christian,I too borrowed someones readme file as a guide. It might have been yours, not for sure. When I started painting and uploading files to AVSIM I looked at a number of readme files to see what was appropriate. If I used yours it was to save typing. However I'm going to just retype a new one to ensure no one thinks I'm ripping them off.Steve

Yea I think so also. Will make some changes and repost. Now if I can learn to do chrome we are in business.Steve

Not sure on the colors. May change the bottom....

I'll give it a go. Is that a -700.

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