Project Airbus – Talk

Tom Collins

It's hard to believe an airplane built ownly a few short years ago has already ended up as a pile of scrap. It kind of makes you wonder about the early 777's from Boeing and how close are those planes to retirement! (maybe...) MSN 27108 / 27109 are both retired, due to be scrapped. Both ex-Varig, o...

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esg wrote:These photos also show how difficult it is to get the Lufthansa gray right

Indeed - and also how much of the wing (and pylons) are painted grey.

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Yeah.. I paint the files one by one in another folder so I wont overwrite any bmp by mistake. Then I move them to the folder of the aircraft to see how it looks.. BtW.. Does anyone knows what is the correct color for the Qatar Logo and the fuselage paint? I use the color I see in Pics from airliner...

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and by the way here is my repaint, http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8919/unbenanntmg.jpg You're within an inch of getting banned, Aeroflot2685. For the second time, this isn't your paint. In this case you've claimed David Aquino's work as your own. http://feelrealdesigns.blogspot.com/2008/06/um-a...

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DT's great - you'll learn to love him...

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Oh stop complaining, I'd rather have them all released at once. And plus, for work like this, I can wait 'til Christmas! :D Keep up the good work! No but seriously now, even the most patient of people must be getting pretty jacked now. Two years in development, and they're not releasing the package...

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House colours as promised:

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Aeroflot2685 wrote:You can use Denis Minaevs textures, just paint the Engines

Not without permission you can't.

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I may have a go at the house colours...

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Yes I noticed that

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Looks like Denis Minaev's paint to me.

http://www.fsrepaint.ru/index.php?cstar ... ory=airbus

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But Tom.. you might were unlucky with the staff of Emirates thought... A friend of mine flew with them and was amazed! Especially with the color lighting at the cabin.. Doubt it - flown with them 4 times and same issues every time. The mood lighting is nice at first but not really a big deal - I'd ...

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And Emirates is the best airline when it goes abot entertainment and service It really isn't, based on my experience. Very average. The AVOD system was good but the actual entertainment selection (quality-wise) was pretty poor. The service was very bad; no smiles, as well as cramped and hard seats ...

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I may do some "fictionals" for airlines that have ordered the A380 but not yet taken delivery - perhaps BA / Virgin / Korean etc. Not really planned for sure though.

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Nice pics

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Tranceaddict wrote:Maybe Tom knows better but we just didn't see him at all after his initial work on the FDE

Nope, haven't spoken to him since his work here...

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Just been listening to Radio 4 as I do on the way in to work and they were hammering the NATS representative pretty hard on it - they don't seem to have any evidence that the closures are justified based on the ash density. Very frustrating indeed - they pointed out most of continental airspace when...

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Looks like a standard approach based on some of the arrivals I've been on into LHR during morning long-haul rush hour before!

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"They" as in the team? Seemed perfectly decent to me. The forum became a bit of a free-for-all but I quite enjoyed it as an alternative.

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yup they putting the A380 on the route so its not just sitting in Paris for 18hrs after it arrives from FAJS and before it re-departs. That's always the problem on the SA routes - SAA themselves must suffer with the low fleet utilisation. I remember years ago before BA had a franchise in South Afri...

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Hello all, A380 geeks like me will be happy to know that Air France are offering LHR-CDG return flights from £80 incl taxes! Great way to get a flight on her for relatively little money. http://www.airfrance.co.uk/GB/en/local/guidevoyageur/destination/Paris_on_Airbus_A380_from_London_heathrow.htm? J...

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I'm not aware of that model, or is it a repackaged CLS product? If so, they will work.

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Seeing as you're all having to search quite a long way back through this thread... http://savemeextra.co.uk/other/graphics/fs/PA/a380_ek_prev.jpg http://savemeextra.co.uk/other/graphics/fs/PA/a380_sq_prev.jpg http://savemeextra.co.uk/other/graphics/fs/PA/a380_sq_prev_2.jpg The last one - metaphor fo...

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More I look at that old Emirates paint the more crap it looks every time. Nice shots though

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Thankyou kindly folks...

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rFactor's a bit like the driving equivalent of FS - the basic stock software doesn't come with much but there's a large community that produces freeware "mods" for a whole variety of racing types / seasons / cars / tracks - I'll let Sam expand more on that since I've only had the sim since...

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Great shots Sam! I'm becoming a bit of an rFactor nut myself in the last few months...

[youtube]aLoxmVhTNSI[/youtube]

Not really got the hang of getting the most out of the mods though yet.

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Thanks fellas! Aside from it being a day at the office it's been a good one.

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Yeah I believe SKC is the reg (I'm at work and my memory's not the best). Picked it arbitrarily, glad it means something to someone!

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DomSQ wrote:I personally could'nt care a less about the other liveries, SQ is the one I really want, can't wait to do a LHR-SIN flight.

Gave her a good 3 hours of my attention last night (more than my wife got, certainly) so she's getting there...

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Thought this made for some interesting philosophical musing on the subject...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 626927.stm

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Great work so far Andrew (& team)!

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Well if you're only after videos of myself drinking beer and looking pensive then fine - that's about all I can muster this week...

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I don't follow. Take a look at the videos I've posted on Youtube to get a sense of how they operate.

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Thomas wrote:but what happened to the randomly moving ailerons?

They've not gone anywhere. Just no deflection shown in the shots.

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Impressive that something designed/produced in the 60s - 70s is ~70% recyclable. Nevertheless a very sad sight when that tail collapses.

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At the very end of the video when the camera moves around it's just that section you see.

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Oh, that's just MetroAir's "combat-ready" variant

It's not a texture issue - I should know as I painted that one - looks like you may have a hardware issue actually; is your graphics card working particularly hard?

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So far so awesome!

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With the release of Firefox 3.6, you can now add "personas" to your browser...

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/89217

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Ok thank you for your answers I saw emirates airline repaint interior video today and it's pretty well done thanks to the liveries designer(s :?: ) if i knew they were this good i wouldn't ask ;) sorry i couldn't resist http://www.mcphatstudios.net/images/stories/rokdownloads/a380v2/uae.jpg don't f...

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just curious, but since you say that the exterior is done, will you be releasing the version without the VC first or are you releasing them all together? just curious, ive waited the past year and a half, so i can wait longer for the vc to be done which ever you answer Please read the first post in...

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Great work!

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esg wrote:What am I supposed to be looking at?

Was about to ask the same question...

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I don't mean to keep bothering you guys, but I as wondering - what kind of systems will be useable? eg the unique FMS on the A380, and the Onboard Information Terminal (near the pilot's sidestick)? Please remember we're a freeware group - and adjust your expectations accordingly. Not to say it won'...

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LOL @ Tom's up-to-the-minute updating The cabin looks great. Although this may sound like a dumb question, but will there be one where we can opt to simply have the wingviews? I do admire and respect the fact that a considerable amount of effort was made into the cabin, but I honestly don't drool o...

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Julian007 wrote:Have you created the whole cabin or just a part?
I think you should do the whole cabin so you can feel like a passenger on a longrange flight

Most passengers don't see the whole cabin; only the section they're in. Besides - doing the whole cabin isn't possible due to polygon limits.

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Alexis' fantastic work on the virtual cabin: http://www.flightsimpaints.com/data/images/PA/pa_a380_vcabin_qf_1.jpg http://www.flightsimpaints.com/data/images/PA/pa_a380_vcabin_qf_2.jpg ...and a video: Youtube [youtube]je12EjB0D_0[/youtube] Vimeo (with some music to help the time go by) [vimeo]http:/...

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It seems that the centre aileron did most of the work @ sharp turns.. http://www.airliners.net/photo/Airbus-Industrie/Airbus-A380-841/1379237/L/ That's not necessarily the case; the centre aileron actually acts as a dampener and is usually in a reverse position to the other two ailerons; depending ...

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Hi Phillip, You can indeed; if you want to make some quick fixes / edits you can always edit the parameters in the aircraft.cfg file in the aircraft folder (thrust scalars, lift scalars etc). For more advanced (and accurate and consistent) editing, you need to edit the .air file (you can use AirEd t...

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