New Chip off the old block

[J0hn]

Thanks for the quick review, Dave. It was inevitable that I'd be shelling out for this one, barring a complete dud.

I'm downloading it now - and a glance down my previous purchase list brings a look of delight and then horror to my craggy fiz. Delight, because I have a number of very nice aircraft in my virtual hangar, but horror as I realise there are several (F-111, Viscount, BAe-146, Harrier GR7/9 etc etc) that I have either only had a quick test flight in, or had completely forgotten about and not flown at all!

Have to put that right!

Having just banished CFS3 from my pooter for ever, after spending a few days trying to set it up with modern hardware and latest mods just to find it's completely rubbish, I am ready to get stuck into some serious VFR. Time to get off on the UK VOR Tour I'd spent months planning end of last year/beginning of this!

"I'm leaving, on a jet plane..."

[PaulC]

Hello Martyn,

At the risk of hijacking this thread, I'll just post this one so as not to bore the good folks of CBFS!

I wrote a nice email to Just Flight with my last product issues. I explained that I had bought products from JF right back to the days of The Associates, and used to really like them. It seems however that recently, a load of aircraft seem to have been half finished. The TriStar was the first wide-body airliner with autoland- your model doesn't have it. It has animations of toilet doors and compressible oleo legs, yet the EPR gauge doesn't work which is how takeoff was calculated on the TriStar.

Do you see my point? You're so near being a brilliant company and I really do want to like you, but you make it hard!!

Going back a few years with the FS9 Concorde I got great support with an issue I was having, couldn't fault you, but over the last year or two it seems that half-baked products in large numbers have become the norm, not the well supported, quality products we're used to.

Admittedly, I got a no quibble return from JF which was good, but I'd rather have had a working aircraft!

Thanks for making the point anyway Martyn, I hope you see my view.

Paul

[DaveB]

Good job we landed.. our tail's on fire!!



No you silly passenger.. that's our nav white!

Nav Red/Green are borderline ok.. the nav white is off a 15" signal projector! I'll have to do something about that Incidentally.. I tried taking off with the canopy open (as one might on such a lovely day.. wind blowing through your hair e t c.. but it closed on it's own with a couple of tugs as I took off. When I landed.. it did a 'trombone slide' a few times then opened Nothing drastic.. you obviously shouldn't fly with the canopy open

This is one of the very few models (outside a helicopter or a Storch) that I can get into and out of Otherton with no problem. Given 1 notch of flap, it will unstick itself at around 55kts and landing is equally un-rushed. I did have live weather on (though there's next to no wind at present) AND.. I've just realised AccuFeel has had a hand in what I've been doing (I forget the darned thing is active!!!) Still.. it flies well with it on and a lot of models don't. I'll have to try it with AccuFeel off to see if it's any better or worse A quick look in the aircraft.cfg shows a [Lights] entry so I should be able to change those darned lights (ironically for Rick's originals!) without having to blow the dust off either MCX or Notepad++

EDIT: Incidentally (and while I remember) I popped over to Allnodes to see how many downloads Rick's Chippie had there.. a staggering 24,371 Now.. if each of those had gone at a tenner a shot hey

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DaveB

[Effoh]

I think Colin's hammer must be broken - I've just been unable to resist

The CGH™ asks that I point out that it was unaware of the release of this product until now, and therefore, was not in a position to assist. Members are advised to 'watch their credit/debit card fingers' from now on

[Chris Sykes]

Well P3D my Chippie doesn't want to work, any one else having issues?

[DaveB]

Well.. here's an odd one. I changed all the lights referenced in the aircraft.cfg but still had the 15" signal projector lamp as a navwhi on the tail. So.. I looked at the model in MCX and both variants (military and civilian) reference landing-9, navwhi-11, engfire-10, navgre-12, navwhi-14 The aircraft.cfg references navred, navgre and navwhi. What are we to make of this? No reference to the landing light in the aircraft.cfg so this is presumably modelled (it is and referenced above). How about the navred/navgre?? I remmed out the lighting section in the cfg and looked at the lights again. The landing light shows as does the 15" navwhi

OK.. another look in the sim with the ac.cfg lights section remmed out. The taxi switch turns on the landing light and if you hit the L key.. the navgre referenced in the mdl appears, modelled about midway on the lower RH wing root and the ubiquitous navwhi shines across the countryside. This is a very odd way to set your lights up don't you think. I still can't make out where the first navwhi referenced in the mdl is coming from Think I'll go and paint something

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[DaveG]

One embedded navwhi is set at the landing light position, & the other is at the tail. I've modded mine

[DaveB]

I did wonder about this. If you look closely at the landing light.. it looks like 2 fx. Would have been better to have not embedded it I reckon but there you go. Modded models all round and only a few hours old. Your navreg/gre work a treat too

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[DaveB]

Somewhere over Cornwall...





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[DaveB]

Oh.. and painters stand by your beds.. the paint kit doesn't contain wings as far as I can see

I still like the model though. Seems very over-powered and this has been confirmed at JF by a chap who owns and regularly flies one. I don't mind the extra power but I'm not flying by the numbers.

Re the nav lights.. I still find it hard to believe how these get past beta testers or how the modeller thought them sufficient. The team have obviously gone to a lot of time and effort to make a Chippie LOOK like a Chippie yet they are happy with shoddy nav lights OK.. so nav lights and aerial wires are a pet hate with me but why ruin the look of a model by having a super-nova rear nav white (unashamed quote from another user) I contacted Bill Ortis about the rubbish he had fitted to his TriPacer (to all intents a lovely looking model spoiled by cr@p lights) and he wrote back saying they couldn't be made smaller. Dear oh dear

Anyway.. that's enough about lights. You poor souls will either have to change them yourself, put up with them or (as I used to do with the TriPacer) not put them on

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DaveB