It's time to move, though fortunately that's only my decision to move from a blog to a website, to allow more flexibility in what I can do. I've transferred much of this blog, and will add new posts on the website only - so please check out www.g-bvob.net.
This html lark's still new to me, so apologies if things stay basic for a while, hopefully I won't be too slow a learner!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Moving on....
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Over to the Dark Side
Two years ago I bought FSX, tried it, hated the results with slideshow framerates and consigned it to a shelf gathering dust. A few weeks ago I read some online posts about cfg file tweeks and thought I'd give it a try. Result! Frame rates up in the 70's with the basic default programme and without spending money on new hardware; I can't believe what a difference it's made.
So I bought a couple of the Australian sceneries from Orbx, and wow, their stuff just puts FS9 in the shade! I think BVOB's going to be spending a bit of time down under, running along the Queensland and NSW coast.
I've now got the Simkits instruments working now with FSX, and cobbled together a combination of Fokker 50 external model (the only F27 ever done is a really dated FS2002 version), HS748 flight model (2 Dart engines and very similar weights and performance and a cracking smooth flight model by Rick Piper), and F27 panel which gives us the basic systems. Here's a test flight over Rockhampton, Qld, can't wait to try it out on 3 projectors!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Back to Work
After the weather problems at the start of the year, and frozen water mains, things are back to normal. The garage is almost finished, just waiting for the doors and it'll be a week away from completion.
The cockpit is mobile again, Derrick has fabricated a frame for it to sit on. The mounting at the front is particularly neat using the nose gear mounting points on the forward bulkhead. It's really easy to push around; adding a couple of grab handles will finish things off. There's a bit of heavy work to clean up and enclose the back and then we can sort out the control links and start work on the panels.
