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[walterleo]

The bare metal Swissair CV 990B landing:



Kind regards

Walter

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Did not know that Convair CV990 had night tail logo light!!

Regards,

Aharon

[darrenvox]

Neither did i

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

They "didn't".

Tail logo lighting didn't come into vogue until the early 1970's.

Very few B707's/720's and DC-8's ever had it installed .... and no CV-880's or CV-990's had it either so far as I'm aware.

What's include with the texture is likely a "discretionary thing" on the part of the artist concerned .... but .... can/should be resolved by the "L" tail (lighting) BMP file in that particular texture being replaced with one that results in "no tail illumination" from virtual FS dusk t'il dawn.

An easy switch

MRC
AKL/NZ

[darrenvox]

Cool good to know...I've actually never flown the convair jets..I have nothing against it but haven't had any experiences with them and not really my type of plane I like to look at..nothing against it or the models here...never seen one nor seen real photos and became interested...sorry...but hey Walter nice pics!!!

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

I've actually never flown the convair jets..I have nothing against it but haven't had any experiences with them

You haven't lived then

You really don't know what you're missing

The best way to solve inexperience or unfamiliarity is to get some experience and familiarity

Mike and I updated our CV-880 FDE's a little while back .... and consequently these are now "almost as fine as can be got" (without starting to bugger up other things) .... right down to being able to pop the spoilers during approaches to landing as was the common with the real thing.

Just bear in mind the CV-880's not only cruise at a very high velocity (MACH 0.88/MACH 0.89) .... but also .... approach to land at very high airspeeds too (166 KIAS CV-880 full flaps .... and 156 KIAS full flaps CV-880M) .... and which is all "perfectly normal" for these aircraft.

Haven't touched our CV-990 FDE's much yet .... although I am doing so .... but .... these cruise even faster (MACH 0.89/MACH 0.90 for the drag impaired CV-990 .... and MACH 0.95/MACH 0.97 for the modified CV-990A) .... and with a more modest approach to landing airspeed of around156/157 KIAS full flaps.

It takes a bit of getting used to .... but .... once ones accustomed to planning and thinking a bit more quickly so as to stay in front of whatever's happening .... aided by the basic flying guides (not a full manual yet) we have release (for the CV-880's only so far) ....

tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/1699/cv880-panels-installation-handling-notes

.... then it's actually sad to have to eventually slow down in during the cruise in order to start ones descent in preparation for arrival.

It's "a lot of fun" .... at the very least.

Mark
AKL/NZ

[walterleo]

Hi Friends:

Staying mentaly in front of your airplane is a good advice for every real and simulated airplane. The CV 990A teaches that very well because of its high speed capabilities even besting the Tu-154M.

Sorry I never made it onboard of one but did see and filmed the Modern Air CV 990A taking off form Salzburg airport LOWS back at the end of the 60-ies. What noise and the plume of dark smoke behind that rakish bird.


Think with the new flightdynamics one can get a good impresión how it felt to fly it, an airplane one of its long term pilots described as an "aerial Maserati".


With Marks handling notes at hand one can master this beast quickly. What I miss with this and other simulations of early jet-airliners is a genuine navigators workstation offering the methods of early long distance flying. So I got to the Soviet early airliners, those simulations offer exactly that.



This is the navigators station of the Tu-114 simulated according original fotos and the airplanes handbook. Whish (and I am tinkering with that) to have all that on early Western Jet Airliners also.

could look like this:



would have e.g. a polar compass sytem and a Doppler radar navigation system. Together with the adeqaut flight planing tools one can navigate around oceans and deserts. The gauges are not fully "westernized" would be above my capabilities.

Kind regards

Walter