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Post by noob21 on Feb 25, 2019 3:32:09 GMT -5
Hey Mikey, btw, shouldn't there be a version of the DLH 763 without the star alliance emblem by the nose? Star alliance didn't start up until the late 90s and D-ABUC was in service in 1994-1995 and didn't ever even see service with DLH long enough to see any star alliance stuff. It entered service with CFG in 1996 and has been there ever since.
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Post by mikeblaze on Feb 25, 2019 10:55:01 GMT -5
Noob, you are right, I didn't catch that. At least it is just a missing paint, not a mistake on an existing one, lol. There's also another odd variation I didn't include, D-ABUV was leased to Lauda Air for a short time and re-serialed to OE-LAY with an Austrian flag. However, the pix I have show that they only changed the fuselage serial, so UV still appears on the tail and gear doors, and the aircraft still retains full DLH colors. Not trying to get too diverse, but If I ever do a Lauda Air package, I will include that serial there.  |
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Post by mikeblaze on Feb 25, 2019 13:34:46 GMT -5
Just uploaded CKT with two serials and three variants, this includes the re-branding to Caledonian. Note this is not a British Caledonian package, I will do that later minus Brian's serial already done. On the subject of British Caledonian. My four main sources for reference are airfleets.net, rzjets.net, planespotters.com, and Wikipedia, although the last one is probably the least accurate. I have using BCC as an ICAO for this airline, and the vote is split evenly between airfleets/wiki (BCC) and rzjets/planespotters (BCA). Airfleets doesn't always have the most complete airline history in terms of ICAO/IATA or callsign info, I have found quite a few gaps, and they don't always have the engine type listed to airframe (may have caused my MAS 744 calamity). In that light, I vote BCA, and will use that in the future, as to not confuse the people I have already done so to. |
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Post by sunking on Feb 25, 2019 14:38:37 GMT -5
BCA is the right code for BCaL.  |
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Post by mikeblaze on Feb 25, 2019 14:41:07 GMT -5
Hey I am throwing this out there for opinion or personal knowledge, on a PAA paint I did that might be wrong. I don't feel bad about this one if I got it wrong, so don't be afraid to speak up. N732PA, in the 1986 experimental stripe livery, it's a -100 repaint I did, there is a possibility that the aircraft still carried the standard big billboard livery on the starboard side of the aircraft. I have reference pix of left/right sides which are dated about six months apart, so that doesn't prove it. I have pictures of a model kit, but that doesn't prove it either. What I do not have is photo-proof, with pix taken at the same time, of right/left sides of the aircraft. If it can be proven that definitively, I will happily fix it with no frustration, it's one of those odd research moments. Let me know. |
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Post by mikeblaze on Feb 25, 2019 14:46:12 GMT -5
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 26, 2019 1:56:28 GMT -5
Mike, again, THANK YOU for all this! I see you wanted some Lufthansa 767-300 flightplans. I only found info of Lufthansa flying to SAN in the 2000s with a Lauda Air 767. However, I did find out that in 1994, the 767-300 supplemented the existing 3x weekly(Mo,Fri,Sat) LH796/797 FRA-DMK-SYD route with 2 extra frequencies(Sun/Tue) routing FRA-DMK-SYD-DMK-SHJ-FRA, with OMSJ being an unlisted tech stop with no de-boarding. These flights only lasted a few months April-July 1994 from what I gather. I have made you plans for these, and these may supplement the existing Lufthansa 1994 plans as they do not over-lap, only supplement. AC#764,D-ABUC,1%,Week,IFR,0/09:40,0/20:05,370,F,0796,VTBD,0/21:19,1/05:59,370,F,0796,YSSY,1/08:00,1/17:05,340,F,0797,VTBD,1/18:19,2/00:48,360,F,0797,OMSJ,2/01:45,2/08:04,380,F,0797,EDDF,2/09:40,2/20:05,370,F,0796,VTBD,2/21:19,3/05:59,370,F,0796,YSSY,3/08:00,3/17:05,340,F,0797,VTBD,3/18:19,4/00:48,360,F,0797,OMSJ,4/01:45,4/08:04,380,F,0797,EDDF EDIT: LOL didn't know Funk did the same thing! It was 3x weekly and non-stop with his info, nice to have options? |
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Post by mikeblaze on Feb 27, 2019 0:41:17 GMT -5
Just to prove I'm a good guy, even if I occasional get grumpy.... I am currently uploading a combined service pack which address the following issues or variants: BOAC: added small BOAC titles over L1/L5 doors, I missed it twice already, lol PAA: confirmed that the 1986 hybrid stripe was only on the port side of the aircraft, and fixed it, the flip side is the big billboard scheme. I have a humorous note about that in the documentation. TVA: TVA painted their tri-stripe on the wingtips, very cool but hard to see in old photos, I added it to my paints and corrected the base blue-green to match Jason's paints. I also updated the UTA lease in the TVA colors. MAS: complete aircraft replacement to the 744 GE model, but I left the aircraft entry title lines the same, so if you added them to your traffic you won't have to get back into the FP, just remove the PW variants. UTA: Late UTA -200BM/SUD and -300M variants added with #4 and #4/5 (respectively) door paint removed, and added Groupe Air France stickers, to reflect these aircraft right before UTA was completely absorbed into AFR. DLH: Added the non-SA sticker variant of D-ABUC, and revised the aircraft entries to better clarify the aircraft variants. ... and the easter egg, which is the screenshot for the package, a 747SP-44 leased from Luxair in 1989 by UTA, plain-jane white with small UTA titles. 15 aircraft total, 4 are completely new or new variants. Now I can sort out KLM with a clean conscience, lol, and then on to new things. |
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Post by noob21 on Feb 27, 2019 0:45:02 GMT -5
Hmm, I suggest possibly preemptively uploading your paints somewhere like dropbox to get a clean bill of accuracy before uploading to Avsim to reduce the amount of service packs for these things. Regardless, excellent work Mikey.
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Post by mikeblaze on Feb 27, 2019 1:19:50 GMT -5
Hmm, I suggest possibly preemptively uploading your paints somewhere like dropbox to get a clean bill of accuracy before uploading to Avsim to reduce the amount of service packs for these things. Regardless, excellent work Mikey. I have a better idea, but it is still in-process. I signed up for Dropbox a couple of years ago, and forgot my password, and they can't seem to send me a reset to my email after multiple requests by me, so it's a dead end. I actually have a website domain partially set up, so I can update paints without a service pack, just notify the boards when they are fixed. If you read some comments on some other artists' websites for their files, there are corrections that get done smoothly and quietly without a bunch of fuss or extra files. The website is Mikey's FS Corner, www.mpai4fs.com, but other than a partial home page it's non-functional right now, but very soon, hopefully within the next month I want to have it up and running. I plan to host some of my new files directly, and mirror a lot of my previous work back to AVSIM. In this manner, I can use the website as my beta-test to screen my files for accuracy, fix anything that needs it, and then upload to AVSIM and mirror. This will save cloud storage space in the long run and keep my cost down. I am not done with modeling either, but I am only probably good enough right now to do FSX-native. I have no idea what lua-scripting is, actually, so no true P3Dv4 models for now. I still haven't figured out MAX modeling (G- or 3ds-), but I can model in FSDS and use MCX to covert into basic FSX-native format. In the civil aviation world, I really want to do a DC-8 model series, and an early 707 model series which includes the 720. The trick is to make them physically match the NAAI 707, pity they didn't do the shorties and the Conways. The Convair CV's (240-990) come to mind as well, as I have a basic 880/990 modeled, and the 990 has never been done for AI, everybody has to settle for the 880 (990's a little longer). As far as oddities, the ATL-98 Carvair and Boeing 377-SGT Super Guppy also come to mind, and I have modeled the DC-4 (Carvair base aircraft), and I have Dee's original source for the 377 (I did the KC-97 package years ago), so those wouldn't take too much time at all. The Guppy is still in service with NASA, 54 years later (old as me, lol), and it's a re-build of a 70+ year-old C-54 airframe. I've done most of the military aircraft I wanted to do, so I can focus on the civvies if I get seriously back into modeling. We will see, don't start bombarding me with modeling requests just yet. |
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Post by noob21 on Feb 27, 2019 1:38:54 GMT -5
I'd love a new set of DC-8s and 707s. The HJG DC-8s just feel wrong and the DWAI models just don't cut it nowadays. I also wish NAAI hadn't just cut all development after only doing the -320. As for a Super Guppy, I'd absolutely love that. I've been wanting one of those in flight sim for years, and the only one modeled is A2A's Pregnant Guppy.
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Post by adjetsdesfs on Feb 27, 2019 8:16:44 GMT -5
Hey, Why not contact with Paul Haak. And talk with DC-8. Him no finished the others models. Him have a prototype of Boeing 707 and DC-9-50 no finished.
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Post by chrisP on Feb 27, 2019 11:09:58 GMT -5
Hmm, I suggest possibly preemptively uploading your paints somewhere like dropbox to get a clean bill of accuracy before uploading to Avsim to reduce the amount of service packs for these things. Regardless, excellent work Mikey. I have a better idea, but it is still in-process. I signed up for Dropbox a couple of years ago, and forgot my password, and they can't seem to send me a reset to my email after multiple requests by me, so it's a dead end. I actually have a website domain partially set up, so I can update paints without a service pack, just notify the boards when they are fixed. If you read some comments on some other artists' websites for their files, there are corrections that get done smoothly and quietly without a bunch of fuss or extra files. The website is Mikey's FS Corner, www.mpai4fs.com, but other than a partial home page it's non-functional right now, but very soon, hopefully within the next month I want to have it up and running. I plan to host some of my new files directly, and mirror a lot of my previous work back to AVSIM. In this manner, I can use the website as my beta-test to screen my files for accuracy, fix anything that needs it, and then upload to AVSIM and mirror. This will save cloud storage space in the long run and keep my cost down. I am not done with modeling either, but I am only probably good enough right now to do FSX-native. I have no idea what lua-scripting is, actually, so no true P3Dv4 models for now. I still haven't figured out MAX modeling (G- or 3ds-), but I can model in FSDS and use MCX to covert into basic FSX-native format. In the civil aviation world, I really want to do a DC-8 model series, and an early 707 model series which includes the 720. The trick is to make them physically match the NAAI 707, pity they didn't do the shorties and the Conways. The Convair CV's (240-990) come to mind as well, as I have a basic 880/990 modeled, and the 990 has never been done for AI, everybody has to settle for the 880 (990's a little longer). As far as oddities, the ATL-98 Carvair and Boeing 377-SGT Super Guppy also come to mind, and I have modeled the DC-4 (Carvair base aircraft), and I have Dee's original source for the 377 (I did the KC-97 package years ago), so those wouldn't take too much time at all. The Guppy is still in service with NASA, 54 years later (old as me, lol), and it's a re-build of a 70+ year-old C-54 airframe. I've done most of the military aircraft I wanted to do, so I can focus on the civvies if I get seriously back into modeling. We will see, don't start bombarding me with modeling requests just yet. Fyi, Tom Gibson has a 990 over at Calclassics |
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Post by mikeblaze on Feb 27, 2019 12:03:41 GMT -5
Well, that's a surprise, I just checked it out, it's modded from Dee's 880, I can tell by looking at the textures and through MCX. Still an older model without a lot of advanced animations, but I'm glad it's in the mix. There's actually some painting that can come from that. |
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Post by mikeblaze on Feb 27, 2019 12:06:21 GMT -5
The big KLM fix is being uploaded right now, it's in two parts due to size, FSX and FS9 variants. It addresses the "flying dutchman" title on the starboard side, and the black nose radome issue. Hopefully this will bring to a close the worst painting month I have ever had, and it will be good from here on in. |
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