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For old times' sake

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:33 am
by emfrat
Really must sort out my Classic install - CH elevations are all over the place :(

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Re: For old times' sake

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 11:47 am
by Ian Warren
That Elevates me to so many years back gawd ya look at almost 15 since the first build :o .. today you cannot even recognize the place but for that ole blue OP Deep Freeze hanger put up in 1959.

Re: For old times' sake

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:42 pm
by Splitpin
:thumbup: Nice work Mike ..... where did you find that SP ?

Re: For old times' sake

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:50 pm
by emfrat
Splitpin wrote::thumbup: Nice work Mike ..... where did you find that SP ?


Thanks, Marty - If you google POSKY SOFIA you finish up in the POSKY archive, and in the textures section about halfway down there is a zip which has the whole aircraft + the NASA repaint.
I found a listing at flightsim, but the D/l link gives a 404 error.
There is a little bit of cfg copy/pasting to do, but it's all there in the readme.

Re: For old times' sake

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:17 pm
by Splitpin
Thank you Mike ......

Re: For old times' sake

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:30 pm
by Charl
LOvely Stuff!
That SP is the most underrated of models... thanks for finding and pointing, it belongs in this sim for sure.

Re: For old times' sake

PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:14 pm
by Splitpin
Charl wrote:LOvely Stuff!
That SP is the most underrated of models... thanks for finding and pointing, it belongs in this sim for sure.


:hesaid: As i have said many times before ....... almost all of this freeware stuff is amazing. HJG and POSKY are very underrated resources , these people are keeping the hobby pure.
I look and wonder about all the hype about the F-27 release (for example) ....... a couple of screens and paints .... and ?? waiting for" the next best thing" :rolleyes:
To me at least , it seems we are nothing more than money pits to the developers , and in a strange way i (and other visualites) are their primary target .... the old "if it looks good" , don't give a flying F about the dynamics (which i don't) because really , they all fly the same anyway .... turn accusim off on your spit , and you have a loose representation of a 172 im sure.
Systems , i agree , are modeled beautifully in some sims , and i derive great pleasure from being able to start a 737 or whatever from "cold and dark" but then i lose interest..... again , i have said in the past ... horses for courses.
Got a little off track there guys, sorry ...... but , these freeware guys are amazing , and so overlooked .

Re: For old times' sake

PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 9:36 pm
by Ian Warren
Its funny 20 years ago, aircraft had no true shape, look head on to and the tail looked like an aerial wire, it has come a long way and when Project Sky released their 747 I could honestly say I spent a good hour and a half just walking around the undercarriage .. simply studying the model .

It was the Wigram build that Adrian and Ian Brausch come into the mix with in 1998 with their P-3 Orion and the C-130 , then Clive Ryan put in the 2D photo real C-130 cockpit .. revolutionary times that was .. WOW using keypad for your cockpit views WOW!