posted 09-01- 01:13 AM               

You all know the drill... Go here, download, extract, have fun, give me feedback!

Go here to download please: http://www.geocities.com/dczurawski/

posted 09-01- 08:03 AM               

1.) Can you say "no more tail-slide of death"? It's now a pleasant "Flat spin that scares the crap out you"

2.) Top speed, turn rate and climb-speed are now reasonably close to historical (considering this is a beta)

3.) Did major Damage-model and DOF work (still needs further refinement)

4.) "Housecleaning". Went through and re-aligned some parts, removed useless texture references etc.

5.) Hanger pic and stats.

6.) Fixed the "Hiroshima" drop-tank bug.

7.) Re-did the training missions.

Hows that?

posted 09-01- 08:31 AM            

Took F86 into a dive and pulled out level at 398mph. The F86 shook badly and then came apart on me.

posted 09-01- 08:38 AM               

You 100% sure of that speed?

Above 19,000ft. it reqires a pullout around 850 mph to break-up. Below 15,000 ft. it only require apull out around 580 mph. to bust it up.

(I have a feeling the increased air density intruduced with the 1.5 patch may be affecting the low-level viscosity.)

Mind you... it's BETA and your imput is much apperciated and your find will be looked at further!

posted 09-01- 11:29 AM            

I have to thank you... I've been out of the SDOE mood for several months now but last night I took your baby out for a spin...and I'm hooked again! (by the way, my wife is not too pleased with you right now.. ) I had one of those moments where you look around and can't help but feel that you've experienced something as close to real as you can get. It was in the air to air combat training mission, I came in from 4 oclock high at about 80 knots of closure, got a good guns pass and took out the right elevator and right outer wing. I came around in a hard left turn and dropped in on his six and watched the ai try in vain to maintain the AC. The pilot finally gave up and bailed out at which point the F86 began to pitch up and slide to the left, as I passed by it I saw it slowly slip into an uncotrollable spin a spiral to it's death in a kind of slow motion plea for life. It was truly captivating.

Now, about that cockpit...

-Stark 33rd~GS

posted 09-01- 11:32 AM               

I am looking even more forward to Gecko's Mig so that we can have some good Korean Conflict action!

Thanks

posted 09-01- 11:37 AM               

THANK YOU SO MUCH! and your welcome...

PLEASE tell what's wrong with the cockpit? "Now" is the time for me to make wholesale changes if need be...

posted 09-01- 11:41 AM               

Visit my site later tonight... I'll be adding a couple addtinal skins done by Razer, Zoycite and lfbpro...

(cough)..I need some Aussie skins...(cough)

posted 09-01- 01:32 PM               

OK, folks... The few skins I have are up!

posted 09-01- 06:10 PM               

I have 9 Aussie skins at 95 % completion.....

Be ready in a week or so. If I worked on them now Werner would shoot me Seriously, Aust Nations needs my attention and its holding Werner up.

I luv what you've done so far...

Cheers,

posted 09-02- 02:32 AM            

Nothing is really wrog with the cockpit... I guess I'm just spoiled by the level of detail in alot of the planes compared to the F86... and yes, I know it's not done. Just greedy for a pretty cockpit to go with the outstanding ac model.

posted 09-02- 03:04 AM               

Just wondering...!

posted 09-02- 04:25 AM               

Well sort of.....

Zur has done a load out option for two cannons...just select 'cannons' as the loadout when you create a mission.

The other things to be done to make it a CA-27 Sabre ar eup to Zur.... I hope he does do the full conversion - including it appearing under Australia....but that is up to him.

BUT it makes a lot of sense getting all the 'bugs' out of this one before going onto different variants.....

Cheers,

posted 09-02- 11:22 AM               

"Yup"... as AGAS-5 hinted at I do plan on a full Aussie version. (If requested evan a Japan and German versions if requested)..

posted 09-02- 11:25 AM               

Yeah your right... They should drop a bit more. I'll look into it.

posted 09-02- 09:42 PM               

First let me say this aircraft is incredibly fun! I've done a couple 2vs2 missions, and I had to giggle like a school girl a few times when viewing one through the gunsight- the images of footage flashing in my head. Very cool. Rolling scissors, vertical scissors, high speed yo yos, etc. haven't been, to my memory, this much fun. When not careful, the craft will put you to sleep pronto!

One thing I noticed, and I'm not sure if it's good or bad, but when going vertical, If you try cutting power, going skyward until zero velocity, you'll then start a decent (with your nose in the same direction- straight up) that is unrecoverable without applying power. Going straight down to the ground (tail first). Otherwise, I found myself in unrecoverable spins a few times from just the normal abuse. It's also one tough sucker to land and when you do, the runway is never long enough

posted 09-02- 11:04 PM               

But still, is that jet really so powerful? I did a vertical climb to over 20,000 feet without going bellow 200 mph, sounds like it would kick an F-16's butt, no? But I know nothing about jets heheh

This model looks so nice, AGAS - 5 - those enhanced screen-shots look so neat!

------------------
-Sv =FC=

WWI in SDOE!

posted 09-03- 07:16 AM               

Yeah, the climb is to strong. Problem is there really "is" no reliable way to model a jet engine thrust in FS. We can "fudge" it. For the low-power Me-262 it was fine... But for the speed of the F-86 it's just too damn powerful.

It's one of those things that I'll need oodles of time to figure out. It's getting closer.... Just gonna take more time.

posted 09-03- 07:26 AM               

Yeah, that's a troublsome bug...

at least it's now recoverable! (wasn't before)

posted 09-03- 09:38 AM               

Regards

posted 09-04- 04:52 PM               

Thanks for the accolades! I promise it'll only get better! I've recieve numberous recommendations and suggestions both here and privately in email.

Thank-you all for your assistance in assessing where the F-86 is and where it needs to go to be finished!