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by **Adamski** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:48 pm

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Jan 23 2011, 05:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Come on for christ sake Marty what would you sooner have a bloody big cloud of fertilizer flowing from a crappy old Airtruk

Hey, I hope the

smiley was implied there, Mr Screenshot Comp Moderator, SIR!

by **Splitpin** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:40 pm

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Jan 23 2011, 04:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
As in "Transavia PL-12 Airtruk" ... the one that re-defined the word "ugly"?

I'm sure I saw an FS version of it around somewhere ... though I found a nice pic of the real ZK-CJU here.

There is....and was a version...Deane made it, Ive had it for years, but theres no way my computer will even look at f/s98 otherwise i would have screened it.
Dear old CJU......Ahhhhhhh, maybe I'll try and make one....should be ready in about 8 years...as an alpha

by **Adamski** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:23 am

Who needs a Nanchang when we could have an Airtruk?:

Photographed with a seized engine as the prop texture doesn't work in FSX. Cute, eh???

by **dbcunnz** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:38 am

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Jan 24 2011, 01:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Who needs a Nanchang when we could have an Airtruk?:

Photographed with a seized engine as the prop texture doesn't work in FSX. Cute, eh???

Hi Adam where can I get this Airtruk I have a program that does most props to run them in FSX i will try it and if it works I can give you and Marty the prop file then maybe yes just maybe Marty will let us get on and get our Nanchang

by **Adamski** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:46 am

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Jan 24 2011, 01:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hi Adam where can I get this Airtruk I have a program that does most props to run them in FSX i will try it and if it works I can give you and Marty the prop file then maybe yes just maybe Marty will let us get on and get our Nanchang

pl12fkf.zip and spl121.zip ... both on flightsim.com ... but the prospect may be too awful,

It really is a very old/crude model, but I'm sure it looked OK in 2002!

by **Splitpin** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:14 am

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Jan 24 2011, 01:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
pl12fkf.zip and spl121.zip ... both on flightsim.com ... but the prospect may be too awful,

It really is a very old/crude model, but I'm sure it looked OK in 2002!

It did from memory, and in 98....ahhhhh, i remember soaring among the big "square" clouds ....looking down at a square river........the good old days.
If you and Doug can get that prop moving, I'll be a happy old airtruker

....

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Jan 24 2011, 01:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hi Adam where can I get this Airtruk I have a program that does most props to run them in FSX i will try it and if it works I can give you and Marty the prop file then maybe yes just maybe Marty will let us get on and get our Nanchang

Maybe.......

maybe not

by **connor** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:10 am

Look dean, you've done such a brilliant job with your cresco, I will stop nagging you about an AIRTRUK!!! Feel free to make what ever you want.

AIRTRUK!!!!!!

by **dbcunnz** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:45 pm

OK guys stop moaning about getting an Airtruk these pics are FSX DX9 but DX10 you get a solid disk prop

Could do with a 2D panel make over got stuff all gauges has no VC

But for you guys and that includes Marty that are hell bent on having an Airtruk it should do you fine until after we get our Nanchang
If you are still having prop problems there are a couple of programs that can sort it out.
This program fixes a lot of FS9 and earlier props for FSX http://www.interkultur.de/gossmann/fsx/dow...lacer-Setup.zip

by **Grumble** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:06 pm

Airtruks are so incredibly ugly they're cool. I would LOVE an updated model...

Edit by Mod You had a double up so have deleted one

by **Alfashark** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:49 pm

Grumble wrote:
QUOTE (Grumble @ Jan 24 2011, 07:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Airtruks are so incredibly ugly they're cool. I would LOVE an updated model...

On those long winter days sitting in the TGC's caravan waiting for a short cold front to pass, I can remember Stew Griffiths (one of the club's tow-pilots) telling us how the club had leased an Airtruk in the 80's or early 90's...

Reckoned it was the best thing since sliced bread

Great for dual towing - two Januses (Janii?), both 2-up and one with full water ballast on board, launching of rwy 03 (that's 04 now) in the middle of a stinking hot summers day.
He also recalled returning to NZTG after a weekend away (possibly the Easter flying camp at Taupo) after having dual-towed the two-seaters back, with a couple of members in the crew/loader's cabin... He'd pretty well forgotten them by the time of release and proceeded to try and chase the end links of the rope while still high over the back blocks of Oropi.

After landing, words were spoken

grass was kissed, and two members walked away having witnessed/experienced looping in an Airtruk

by **deaneb** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:37 pm

Good anecdote Alphashark.

Anybody want to guess what the first aircraft to land at Mangere Auckland International just prior to opening?

by **connor** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:36 am

Let me guess. . . Not a Nanchang?

Anyway, you think the PL-12 Airtruk was ugly, Have a look at thePL-11. It was made out of Harvard parts after the war.

by **Splitpin** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:16 am

Doug

....that will do me fine....i can have a play around with it......., thankyou.

by **Adamski** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 1:03 pm

connor wrote:
QUOTE (connor @ Jan 25 2011, 08:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Anyway, you think the PL-12 Airtruk was ugly, Have a look at the PL-11. It was made out of Harvard parts after the war.

What a horrible thing to do to a Harvard!!! Just as well they only built 2 or 3

by **TonyM** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:05 am

Hey All.

A MP flight, to break the record
(whatever that may be) with the most Crescos in the sky at the same time ????

Whooooohoooooo !!! I'm up for that

On the subject of Crescos, here's some shots I posted on the OZX
forum recently.

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/topic/...1631#entry51631

Cheers

TonyM

by **Ian Warren** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:38 am

Tony , great plan coming in the wind , Fletcher every variant to the Cresco , has to be New Zealand and a freeware Taranaki or Coromandel or any part , TITKITUMU

by **dbcunnz** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:27 pm

OK Marty and Adam here is your UGLY Airtruk flying in FSX DX10 with AddonconverterX and a prop fix. Now don't rush me for the Prop fix file cos it will cost you

Just joking anyone that has AddonconverterX and wants the Airtruk files or the prop fix send me a PM with your email address and I will email it to you.

Now get off our backs until we get our NANCHANG

by **Ian Warren** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:07 pm

Following up on NANCHANG details , i stopped in at my Tech Book shop and unfortunately no books or info published .

by **connor** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:37 pm

Have a look here for some basic specs, nothing to technical though.

by **Ian Warren** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:45 pm

Thanks Connor , yip , not a site i frequent , i prefer the searching the data via a tech shop or other sources , we have many on the forum with access to the aircraft , just hoping i could find information and details relevant to a build , frame diagrams and such .

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