@randomusername
The electric and spaceship tag exists because those are the things/attributes the creators intend their designs to be. The user PlayingSimple intended his STOL 'n Thunder design to be an all-electric aircraft, so he put the electric tag in it because his design involves electric propulsion, even if it's not 100% accurate or realistic.
@randomusername
You LEGIT think people outside of SP are going to get offended by some tagging system that isn't exactly 100% accurate to real life in a game that isn't even that maintstream or significant to the gaming community as a whole and cause an uproar over it? You. Have. Got. To. Be. JOKING.
@randomusername
I think your waaay over-thinking this and making a big deal out of nothing. STOL N' Thunder and the flying iPhone drone use fuel-consuming prop engines and are under the electric tag because the author/creater intends those engines to be electric, but they used the default piston engines since there are no true electric engines in SP other than rotators. And again, electricity IS NOT unlimited! A Tesla Model 3 or a an quadcopter drone are fully electric but don't have an unlimited supply of electricity. You have to charge the batteries back up before they run out. And the electric tag in SP never specifies whether that means unlimited rotator-spinning-wing powered planes or planes that use the standard SP engines but the design is intended to be electric. I know damn well what electric energy and power is and I know for a fact its not unlimited. The only person I see getting offended over nothing is you.
@randomusername
Fuel for electric vehicles is electricity. Electric vehicles don't run forever unless that are nuclear powered or have solar panels/cells. Every electric vehicle will run out of "fuel" (electricity) if they aren't recharged. And I'm not pretending. This is a hybrid gas/electric hybrid concept and hybrid aircraft concepts have been looked at by both Boeing and Airbus recently (except the electricity drives electric fans/propellers, not plasma jets). I added the electric tag because it incorporates electric propulsion.
@randomusername
Unfortunately no, because the plasma ramjet's electricity is solely dependent on the gas-burning turbine running. Without it, no electricity gets generated and that means no power for the plasma ramjet. So when the gas turbojet runs out of fuel, the plasma ramjet also stops operating.
@randomusername
Its a hybrid, with the fuel-burning jet engine turning a generator that powers a plasma ramjet on the lower second body. Yes I know the original FA-1 Fand and FA-2 Fand II don't incorporate any form of electric propulsion but this isn't a full-on exact replica of the Fand. I just used the unused production drawing/concept for the Fand and incorporated a little bit of my own originality with some design tweaking. And then I gave it the Fand name since it has ties to the original design.
@Brields95
DTG unfortunately no longer supports their flight sims. After their FSW debacle, they've completely moved out of the flight sim business, with the only exception being minor steam-related updates to FSX:SE, and the occasional new payware that joins the steam store for FSX. The Jeppesen databases for MS weather are no longer supported or updated by DTG, so the real-world weather feature no longer works with FSX (I use FSrealWX to substitute default weather engine). Your only shot at VR flight simming is Aerofly FS2, P3D V4, XP11, or the upcoming Deadstick bush flight simulator (it will support VR by default).
@Brields95
FSX Steam Edition still is. There are still around 15-20 online servers still active. With the improvements DTG made to the sim, included SP1, SP2, Deluxe, and Acceleration in this one version of FSX, and drastically lowered its price to $24, I think they made it relevant again. IMHO I think its the best entry-level flight sim for beginners right now as of 2019, and its the biggest bang for the buck.
If I ever move past FSX:SE, I'll probably go with P3D V3 or V4 (depends on what PC I have in the future). I may get XP11 as well, but it won't be my mainline flight sim, and I can't play XP11 on my current PC because my PC can't even launch it (I've tried the demo).
That's all the freeware I'll list. If you want more I can give you links to more planes, especially warbirds n' such. FlyAwaySimulations, Rikoooo, Avsim, Flightsim.com, and Simviation all have excellent freeware gems in their libraries!
@TheMutePaper
The vast majority of the other addons I have are freeware, but I do have some payware, mainly from the FSX Steam Store. My payware addons include:
A2A Accu-feel (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Cessna 172N Skyhawk II
Carenado Cessna A185F Skywagon (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Piper PA-28-181 Archer II
Alabeo CSA SportCruiser
Just Flight Beechcraft Duchess 76
Virtavia Rutan Long-EZ
Lionhart Creations Piper Pacer 150/180 Super Pack (Highly Recommend)
Milviz Northrop/McDonnel Douglas YF-23 Black Widow II (Milviz took all there products off of steam so you can't buy this one anymore, which is kind of a good thing as all of Milviz's products on steam were HEAVILY watered-down compared to buying their products directly from them).
Lionhart Creations is probably my favorite addon developer. LHC's products are very high quality but not super-duper expensive.
@TheMutePaper These are the skybox textures I'm using. Like I said it doesn't look as good with the lighting and time of day the screenshots were taken at, but it's a very good freeware addon (although its highly recommended you back-up your original skybox textures in case you don't like the new ones). My only complaint is I think the day-time sky is a little too dull/grey-ish. I miss the default deep-blue day-time sky textures, but the default dusk and dawn textures never looked that realistic to me (looked a little too purple/red-ish). But either way I highly recommend this addon.
@TheMutePaper Oh that XD. Ironically those are my tweaks. It's just after dawn so the sun is still low and everything is rather dim, by the skybox textures I have are actually very good, particularly right a dawn and dusk, but even in the daylight it still looks good.
@TheMutePaper
What do you mean? If your talking about the scenery (and how it appears mostly blurred in the distance), that's Moses Lake, WA for ya. Not a whole lot out there besides semi-desert, shrubs, and some crop fields. And stock FSX Grant Co. airport itself doesn't have a whole lot of buildings. I've got my FSX scenery settings nearly at max, with an exception for building/tree/vegetation autogen scenery, where its on low settings.
@ForeverPie
Flies like a dream! Although my only complaint I have is the engine prop fan blades tend to break if you land a little too hard, even though no part of the fan blade is sticking outside of the nacelle.
@WNP78
Nice! Those new tankers look sweet! Altough I have two questions: A: Can I change out the tankers that spawn in the mod with one of my own tankers? B:HOW ARE YOU REFUELING UPSIDE-DOWN!? I mean it's hard enough for me to follow the tanker and attempt at getting the probe anywhere near the basket!
@Notaleopard
More like a flying humpback humping the C-130 tanker...
Also it's not an Antonov. I mean it kind of looks like the Myasishchev VM-T, but it's a fictional aircraft derived from Texasfam04's GS-1 Globalstrike bomber. I originally made a hugely improved version used as a mothership/test bed for carrying some of my experimental weapons and air-launched drones. Since its such a great platform, I'm going to expand and make more variations of it such as a firefighter variant, cargo variant, tanker variant, and a "special/over-sized cargo" variant, which is the one your seeing in the picture.
@CptJacobson
Alright so why is the autocredit missing? You couldn't at least credit Texasfam in the description? I don't mind if people use other people's designs and improve them or make a variant of it, but if there is no autocredit to the original design, and there is no manual credit to the original creator, it kind of makes it look like you stole the design and wanted it to look like it was your own original design.
@randomusername
The electric and spaceship tag exists because those are the things/attributes the creators intend their designs to be. The user PlayingSimple intended his STOL 'n Thunder design to be an all-electric aircraft, so he put the electric tag in it because his design involves electric propulsion, even if it's not 100% accurate or realistic.
@randomusername
You LEGIT think people outside of SP are going to get offended by some tagging system that isn't exactly 100% accurate to real life in a game that isn't even that maintstream or significant to the gaming community as a whole and cause an uproar over it? You. Have. Got. To. Be. JOKING.
@randomusername
I think your waaay over-thinking this and making a big deal out of nothing. STOL N' Thunder and the flying iPhone drone use fuel-consuming prop engines and are under the electric tag because the author/creater intends those engines to be electric, but they used the default piston engines since there are no true electric engines in SP other than rotators. And again, electricity IS NOT unlimited! A Tesla Model 3 or a an quadcopter drone are fully electric but don't have an unlimited supply of electricity. You have to charge the batteries back up before they run out. And the electric tag in SP never specifies whether that means unlimited rotator-spinning-wing powered planes or planes that use the standard SP engines but the design is intended to be electric. I know damn well what electric energy and power is and I know for a fact its not unlimited. The only person I see getting offended over nothing is you.
@randomusername
And who made you the moderator?
@randomusername
Fuel for electric vehicles is electricity. Electric vehicles don't run forever unless that are nuclear powered or have solar panels/cells. Every electric vehicle will run out of "fuel" (electricity) if they aren't recharged. And I'm not pretending. This is a hybrid gas/electric hybrid concept and hybrid aircraft concepts have been looked at by both Boeing and Airbus recently (except the electricity drives electric fans/propellers, not plasma jets). I added the electric tag because it incorporates electric propulsion.
@randomusername
Unfortunately no, because the plasma ramjet's electricity is solely dependent on the gas-burning turbine running. Without it, no electricity gets generated and that means no power for the plasma ramjet. So when the gas turbojet runs out of fuel, the plasma ramjet also stops operating.
@randomusername
Its a hybrid, with the fuel-burning jet engine turning a generator that powers a plasma ramjet on the lower second body. Yes I know the original FA-1 Fand and FA-2 Fand II don't incorporate any form of electric propulsion but this isn't a full-on exact replica of the Fand. I just used the unused production drawing/concept for the Fand and incorporated a little bit of my own originality with some design tweaking. And then I gave it the Fand name since it has ties to the original design.
@Brields95
DTG unfortunately no longer supports their flight sims. After their FSW debacle, they've completely moved out of the flight sim business, with the only exception being minor steam-related updates to FSX:SE, and the occasional new payware that joins the steam store for FSX. The Jeppesen databases for MS weather are no longer supported or updated by DTG, so the real-world weather feature no longer works with FSX (I use FSrealWX to substitute default weather engine). Your only shot at VR flight simming is Aerofly FS2, P3D V4, XP11, or the upcoming Deadstick bush flight simulator (it will support VR by default).
@Brields95
FSX Steam Edition still is. There are still around 15-20 online servers still active. With the improvements DTG made to the sim, included SP1, SP2, Deluxe, and Acceleration in this one version of FSX, and drastically lowered its price to $24, I think they made it relevant again. IMHO I think its the best entry-level flight sim for beginners right now as of 2019, and its the biggest bang for the buck.
If I ever move past FSX:SE, I'll probably go with P3D V3 or V4 (depends on what PC I have in the future). I may get XP11 as well, but it won't be my mainline flight sim, and I can't play XP11 on my current PC because my PC can't even launch it (I've tried the demo).
@TheMutePaper
Thorp T-18 (Comparable to the Vans design)
Cessna T206H/U206G Soloy Turbine Mark I & Mark II (Another incredible payware-quality addon like the French-VFR Cessna 150)
Basler BT-67 (Another high-quality payware-level addon that's freeware)
Aero Commander Package by Milton Shupe (An awesome Aero Commander package made by the legendary Milton Shupe!)
LIC Aeronca Champ 7AC Package (A great little freeware gem that gives you the lovely Aeronca Champ!)
Bellanca Super Decathlon Package
Bellanca Scout Package
VirtualCol ATR Series Package (Recently released as freeware)
FSND Aircraft (My favorite is the Beech Bonanza P35 V-tail and the Cessna 177RG Cardinal)
Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey by Maryadi (Another fantastic payware-quality-but-freeware aircraft!)
Eagle Rotocraft Simulations Bell 206, Bell 222, Enstrom, EMB-120, & P.180 Avanti (Another fantastic freeware developer that specializes mainly in helicopters)
That's all the freeware I'll list. If you want more I can give you links to more planes, especially warbirds n' such. FlyAwaySimulations, Rikoooo, Avsim, Flightsim.com, and Simviation all have excellent freeware gems in their libraries!
@TheMutePaper
As far as freeware, I won't list all of my freeware planes because I practically have an air force of freeware planes in my FSX, but some of the best freeware planes I have, and other freeware addons that improved my FSX include:
FSUIPC
FSrealWX (EXCELLENT replacement for the default weather engine since the MS weather/Jeppesen database is no longer supported by Microsoft or DTG
FSX GA-Traffic Generator (Generates general aviation traffic files based on perimeters you set such as which aircraft are used and what continents the traffic appear on
French-VFR Cessna 150L Aerobat (Superb freeware addon that I believe won an award or something, but its truly a gem and one of the finest 150/152's for FSX. Great entry-level trainer
Ant's De Havilland Tigermoth, Tecnam Eaglet on Floats, Drifter Ultralight on Floats, and his North American T-28A Trojan (Excellent aircraft, ESPECIALLY the Tigermoth!!!
Aeroworks Technologies Scenery & Aircraft (They make repaints, scenery, custom aircraft, and have high-quality freeware-variant planes such as an F-15E from IRIS, a B-52G and a B-1B from Virtavia available to download (they aren't cracked, they are old "outdated" versions of those payware planes those developers no longer support
FSrecorder 1.3 (Superb addon for making FSX videos, airshows, or formations on all your own. It's basically a flight-data recorder and you can play it back as yourself or as AI traffic. FSX:SE only takes 1.3 but the boxed version of FSX can take the latest 2.1 version
Airport Design Editor (Superb tool if you want to edit airports and create scenery like I did here)
Rob Richardson's Aircraft (This guy makes incredible jet & prop freeware aircraft! My fav is his Cessna 310B and Cessna 310Q. Those planes have some insane performance!
Wolf-Gang Piper's Gliders (Another amazing freeware developer who specializes in gliders!
Vans RV-7 Package
@TheMutePaper
The vast majority of the other addons I have are freeware, but I do have some payware, mainly from the FSX Steam Store. My payware addons include:
A2A Accu-feel (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Cessna 172N Skyhawk II
Carenado Cessna A185F Skywagon (Highly Recommend)
Carenado Piper PA-28-181 Archer II
Alabeo CSA SportCruiser
Just Flight Beechcraft Duchess 76
Virtavia Rutan Long-EZ
Lionhart Creations Piper Pacer 150/180 Super Pack (Highly Recommend)
Milviz Northrop/McDonnel Douglas YF-23 Black Widow II (Milviz took all there products off of steam so you can't buy this one anymore, which is kind of a good thing as all of Milviz's products on steam were HEAVILY watered-down compared to buying their products directly from them).
Lionhart Creations is probably my favorite addon developer. LHC's products are very high quality but not super-duper expensive.
@TheMutePaper
These are the skybox textures I'm using. Like I said it doesn't look as good with the lighting and time of day the screenshots were taken at, but it's a very good freeware addon (although its highly recommended you back-up your original skybox textures in case you don't like the new ones). My only complaint is I think the day-time sky is a little too dull/grey-ish. I miss the default deep-blue day-time sky textures, but the default dusk and dawn textures never looked that realistic to me (looked a little too purple/red-ish). But either way I highly recommend this addon.
YES! Another major airport for SP! That makes two along with Kaper Town Airport. Thank you so much for making this mod!
@TheMutePaper Oh that XD. Ironically those are my tweaks. It's just after dawn so the sun is still low and everything is rather dim, by the skybox textures I have are actually very good, particularly right a dawn and dusk, but even in the daylight it still looks good.
@CptJacobson
What would FIA wish to partner with Rainier on?
@TheMutePaper
What do you mean? If your talking about the scenery (and how it appears mostly blurred in the distance), that's Moses Lake, WA for ya. Not a whole lot out there besides semi-desert, shrubs, and some crop fields. And stock FSX Grant Co. airport itself doesn't have a whole lot of buildings. I've got my FSX scenery settings nearly at max, with an exception for building/tree/vegetation autogen scenery, where its on low settings.
@cammando205
Thanks!
@cammando205
Thank you, glad you enjoy them!
@FENRIRpapapa
No, Critical Mass was a tricked-out heavily modified Sea Fury
@DestinyAviation
Thanks!
Cool, it looks like Critical Mass, a Hawker Sea Fury Reno air racer.
@Skyler717
Oh ok. Removed the tag.
Lovely livery!
@Nerfenthusiast
Sure I guess.
@Nerfenthusiast
Yes.
@JED
Thanks man!
@xXRaindropXx
Thx!
@Rsouissi
Oh ok. Well tag me your build. Although I might not be able to work on it today because I have a ton of schoolwork I need to do.
@yoshicraze
@SledDriver
Thanks!
@Rsouissi
Ok what do you mean by "rear gear"?
@TheChosenOne
That was the direct inspiration.
@Rsouissi
What do you need help with?
@Strikefighter04
Cool!
@Strikefighter04
Thanks!
@Yte1234567
Yea I guess you could say that lol.
How does one have an engine in his stomach?
@ForeverPie
Flies like a dream! Although my only complaint I have is the engine prop fan blades tend to break if you land a little too hard, even though no part of the fan blade is sticking outside of the nacelle.
Oh snap, it's got a gravel kit too! I think Rainier would like 2 of these for long-distance VIP transport.
@WNP78
Nice! Those new tankers look sweet! Altough I have two questions:
A: Can I change out the tankers that spawn in the mod with one of my own tankers?
B: HOW ARE YOU REFUELING UPSIDE-DOWN!? I mean it's hard enough for me to follow the tanker and attempt at getting the probe anywhere near the basket!
2 and 1
lol wut
@Notaleopard
It's basically kind of like the Airbus Beluga or the Boeing 747 LCF, except this is derived from a B-52-like bomber.
But yea it does kind of look like a jet-powered Lockheed Connie.
@Notaleopard
More like a flying humpback humping the C-130 tanker...
Also it's not an Antonov. I mean it kind of looks like the Myasishchev VM-T, but it's a fictional aircraft derived from Texasfam04's GS-1 Globalstrike bomber. I originally made a hugely improved version used as a mothership/test bed for carrying some of my experimental weapons and air-launched drones. Since its such a great platform, I'm going to expand and make more variations of it such as a firefighter variant, cargo variant, tanker variant, and a "special/over-sized cargo" variant, which is the one your seeing in the picture.
@Notaleopard
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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@CptJacobson
Alright so why is the autocredit missing? You couldn't at least credit Texasfam in the description? I don't mind if people use other people's designs and improve them or make a variant of it, but if there is no autocredit to the original design, and there is no manual credit to the original creator, it kind of makes it look like you stole the design and wanted it to look like it was your own original design.
Congrats bro!
YES
This would be awesome!
This looks awfully familiar