ALM DC-9-15 departing St Kitts

[Nathan Ford - HJG]

Hi all, Happy New Year everyone.

The latest video is up on YouTube. It’s a little bit different to previous videos in that it is in the style of a plane spotter.

I was inspired by a YouTube plane spotter called SKBenergy. You can find his YouTube videos here:

SKBenergy_YouTube_page

I hope you all enjoy,

Cheers,

Nathan. 

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Nathan,

This is your best video!!! Wondering why you are not using beacons for your plane? Also is DC-9-10 series supposed to produce lots of black smoke during take off run and take off?

Regards,

Aharon

[Nathan Ford - HJG]

Hey Aharon, thanks for your cool reply.

The beacons where turned on (you can see them reflecting on the landing gear as the plane back tracks) but I think my REX runway light setting has affected the aircraft lights too. You can hardly notice the wingtip lights. I used the default panel in FSX so I think this may have affected the engine smoke effect. Either that or my setup for FSX doesn’t like the effect as yes, there are meant to be plumes of black smoke pouring out of the engines on take off. Something else that I did wron, is I think I still had the engine sound volume setup for the cockpit as it should have been deafening on takeoff.

Oh well, with every video I’ll get better

Have a fun day,

Nathan.

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

I used the default panel in FSX so I think this may have affected the engine smoke effect.

Yes .... that's precisely what will happen Nathan.

The smoke effects for all of HJG's (own) simulations are "auto-generated", but, can only work (as such) if the corresponding HJG supplied aircraft panels are also used with each of our simulations.

This is due to the relationship that exists between EGT gauges (in our panels) and the smoke effects we provide.

If not using HJG supplied panels .... and only if one has HJG supplied smoke effects installed also .... my understanding is these smoke effects do work with other panel options per "MANUALLY" selecting keyboard command "I" in order to toggle these effects "ON/OFF".

Other than that our DC-9 smoke effects are quite fine .... as they should be the case

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[darrenvox]

I had never heard of alm but that's interesting..

[Nathan Ford - HJG]

Thanks for the update Mark, now that you mentioned it, I do recall reading about the “I” command. Oh well, that’s something else for next time

Thanks again everyone,

Nathan.

[Nathan Ford - HJG]

Darren, ALM is KLM’s Dutch Antilles airline and are based on the ABC islands. I used them as it was one of the few airlines that flew Historic Jetliner passenger traffic into St Kitts. Apart from owning two of their own DC-9-15 aircraft, they used to also wet lease DC-9-33 CF aircraft from ONA (Overseas National Airways) for flights from JFK. Sadly one of these wet leases ditched in the Caribbean Sea after making three unsuccessful approaches into St Maarten. 23 of the 63 passengers and crew perished in the accident.

[Nathan Ford - HJG]

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

The accident to which Nathan refers ....


AIR ACCIDENT REPORT - DC-9-33CF N935F ONA/ALM ANTILLIAN AIRLINES
aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19700502-0


Mark C
AKL/NZ

[Benoit - HJG]

Truly enjoyed watching your video Nathan, very nicely detailed airport scenery and graphics on your FSX set up.

Benoit

[darrenvox]

Thanks Nathan and aerofoto,

[Herman]

Another amazing video production Nathan.

The graphics and animation are truly excellent. The ground textures and graphics are very realistic, to the extent that even the wild flowers / grass\weeds look real.

What sort of ground textures \addons are you using in FSX??

Just for fun I did a video in FS9 (default) recently. Not too good. It didn't even reproduce the aircraft flap retraction.

Herman

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Herman,

Unless I am mistaken, I believe Nathan is using Taxi2Gate scenery

[Herman]

Yes Aharon, I think you may be right. Thanks.

Herman

[Nathan Ford - HJG]

Yes, Aharon is correct, it is the Taxi2Gate scenery and one of my favourite. I also use FTX global and North America which updates the land class Caribbean as well