Post by mirageiii on Dec 24, 2011 14:42:26 GMT
Hello
First of all, thank you for the latest update, it's a nice christmas surprise ;D
I have a question regarding the assignment of the rear stairs to the tail hook command. Is there any way it can be re-assigned to use the wing fold command instead? I suspect it's part of the model file and that'll need to be modified, but I figure I'd ask anyway.
There are two excellent MD-80 panels available (not to knock on the Marco Spada/Paul Golding's efforts as theirs are very nicely done), but users may want to take a look at these too as they model the real thing more closely. They are Samuli Sutinen's/Aldus panels, and Lonney Payne's, both sets include analog, digital, or a combination of both displays. They can be found here:
Samuli:
efis.altervista.org/Samuli%20MD80.htm
Flightsim.com, search for Lonney Payne or MD-80 flightdeck.
The engine gauges will not be correct of course and would require tweaking for the HJG model.
The second conflict is that these panels were made with the SGA model in mind, so the landing light switches activate the tailhook command (since the SGA model uses the tailhook animation to raise/lower the wingtip landing lights).
Using them on the HJG model results in lowering of the aft air stairs!
My suggestion is to change the animation of the rear air stairs in the HJG models during a future update so that it is activated by the "wingfold" command instead...think of it as a "DB Cooper switch" on the 727s which prevents the air stairs from being deployed in flight! ;D
Thank you again for the great work!
First of all, thank you for the latest update, it's a nice christmas surprise ;D
I have a question regarding the assignment of the rear stairs to the tail hook command. Is there any way it can be re-assigned to use the wing fold command instead? I suspect it's part of the model file and that'll need to be modified, but I figure I'd ask anyway.
There are two excellent MD-80 panels available (not to knock on the Marco Spada/Paul Golding's efforts as theirs are very nicely done), but users may want to take a look at these too as they model the real thing more closely. They are Samuli Sutinen's/Aldus panels, and Lonney Payne's, both sets include analog, digital, or a combination of both displays. They can be found here:
Samuli:
efis.altervista.org/Samuli%20MD80.htm
Flightsim.com, search for Lonney Payne or MD-80 flightdeck.
The engine gauges will not be correct of course and would require tweaking for the HJG model.
The second conflict is that these panels were made with the SGA model in mind, so the landing light switches activate the tailhook command (since the SGA model uses the tailhook animation to raise/lower the wingtip landing lights).
Using them on the HJG model results in lowering of the aft air stairs!
My suggestion is to change the animation of the rear air stairs in the HJG models during a future update so that it is activated by the "wingfold" command instead...think of it as a "DB Cooper switch" on the 727s which prevents the air stairs from being deployed in flight! ;D
Thank you again for the great work!
I first subbed in the autopilot section... nothing, radio section... nothing.... on and on. Only when I used a fresh JCA cfg supplied by Payne did I get things to work. I have no idea why. 
