Pesky Posky

[Charl]

The POSKY B747 SP has been my toy of choice lately because it has some fine detailing.

It requires serious flight dynamic and ground handling tuning, but I love looking at its external bits




It's all about WHEELS and ENGINES and I am a sucker for both







It's going off my hard drive because of its handling issues, but thought I'd share the view.
Someone will no doubt patch it in due course.

[Jimmy]

I downloaded the same paint scheme as you charl, looks wounderful!

I took it for one flight, NZCH-NZWN. during taxi I considerd chucking it in cos I had stuters and teribly low fps (5-8) and my sim just looked absolutly terrible, at least the aircraft looked prety I decieded to continue but during climbout my nose gear didnt retract.

Not likeing the idea of going along at M072, FL210 I jsut fly a big circut around NZCH and landed again, I put the nose down at the slow speed of 80kias and it promptly sunk into the runway! "crash"

I also found it will often rear up (like a big elephant) when you start a flight and you get the "crash".

Before you delete it charl look in the 74sp's panel folder do yo uhave a mdl file called "OS747SP.mdl" whereas the .mdl in the model folder is called OS747SP_JT9D.mdl. Hmm intersting lol

James

[Charl]

Yeah I do have a stray .mdl file
Who knows what effect it might have? beyond me
What did happen is that after takeoff at NZWN I switched to spot view and the thing just...sank.
Nothing I could do would get it back up so the video I was doing gave way to a few screenshots.
Maybe some smart person will patch it because I reckon the engine detailing is fantastic.

[Ian Warren]

Recent 'NZWING's' showed a SAA SP landin on a .. well what looked like a dirt airstrip (South Africa)only to park it under a tree for a Museum , .. eck i'll have to look at the Posky Hanger , and this plane is ideal for Welly maybe early model not tested properly

[brownbox]

i thought you werent allowed to post photos as screenshots!
Nice pics B)

[creator2003]

why dont you guys get image tool and convert the textures to something your computers can handle ,aircraft are not to be ripped apart nor scenery alot of the time you need to upgrade or puters whatever the cost thats part of being a fsimmers ,,,as one member says hardcore,,"simple"

[JonARNZ]

I wonder if the flying performance issue is something to do with FSX? I have this one installed only in FS9 and had no problems with the way she flys.

[FlyingKiwi]

Recent 'NZWING's' showed a SAA SP landin on a .. well what looked like a dirt airstrip (South Africa)only to park it under a tree for a Museum , .. eck i'll have to look at the Posky Hanger , and this plane is ideal for Welly maybe early model not tested properly

That would be Rand airfield in Johannesburg; it's not actually a dirt strip but it's an extremely narrow runway, only just wide enough for the 747SP.

[Ian Warren]

Just shows in any event , any good pilot could put down anywere , another show of skill was in the late 80s with a 737 along a US motorway

[ardypilot]

Extreamly decent shots Charl

[JonARNZ]

Recent 'NZWING's' showed a SAA SP landin on a .. well what looked like a dirt airstrip (South Africa)only to park it under a tree for a Museum ,  .. eck i'll have to look at the Posky Hanger , and this plane is ideal for Welly  maybe early model not tested properly   

That would be Rand airfield in Johannesburg; it's not actually a dirt strip but it's an extremely narrow runway, only just wide enough for the 747SP.

I believe a 742 did the same thing a few months earlier, now that would be impressive.

[Charl]

I wonder if the flying performance issue is something to do with FSX? I have this one installed only in FS9 and had no problems with the way she flys.

The shots were made in FS9 you can see why I'm hanging on to it, because despite all the addon textures I get very respectable framerates.

[ardypilot]

The shots were made in FS9

Fooled me! I thought those close up engine and landing gear shots were from that new FSX camera perspective! Are you using a special addon to achieve those angles?

[ZK-Brock]

Great Shots Charl. I used to fly POSKY all the time, though now I realise how off the flight dynamics can be.