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Postby ardypilot » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:46 pm

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Today Carenado revealed its next aircraft. It is the popular Mooney M20J.

This aircraft was created separately for FS2004 and FSX and takes advantage of all the effects and new features that FSX allows.

The aircraft will be available for customers in the next days and will be FS2004 and FSX compatible.

As always this aircraft complies with traditional high quality products from Carenado.[/quote]

Screenshots at http://www.carenado.com/ecommerce/incomings.php3
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Postby Naki » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:04 pm

Nice - thanks for the HU!
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Postby Kelburn » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:53 pm

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looks good
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Isn't it evident?? Boeing are my favourite aircraft.

P.S. that's is my real birthday but I wish to keep my real age secret to keep you all pondering.
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Postby Naki » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:24 pm

Thinking about this more - Mooneys are very badly represented (other than the crappy default one) in FS and I have a real soft spot for Mooneys so I am looking forward to this.
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Postby G-HEVN » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:31 pm

First plane to achieve 1:1 power to speed ratio - 200mph top speed from a 200hp engine! cool.gif So they called it the "201" !

It'll certainly be in my hangar biggrin.gif
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Postby Naki » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:40 am

Guys - the Mooney has been released for FS9 (FSX comes later) and is now available over at Carenado
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Postby Charl » Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:12 pm

Download, paint, FLY!
Isn't this a great pastime?



Mooney fills a gap in the hangar. Nice and civilised, no bad habits, relatively fast.
Standard Mooney portrait, pushme-pullyou tailfin:



Model is competent in every way, without improving the state of the art. Has nice shiny bits. Be interested to see what they do with the FSX model to try improving it.
Excellent pilot figure animations, good VC. My test of the quality of a GA model is to look whether the VC prop control changes the pitch of the fan in spot view.
Tick that box. Has great external light modelling too.



Thanks for the HU, was looking for just something like that.
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Postby Naki » Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:08 pm

Wow - nice shots, repaint, model, scenery etc Looks like you are pretty happy with it - shot 2 biggrin.gif . Love shot 4.

I really need to put some time aside to do learn how to do repaints.
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Postby VH-CC1 » Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:02 pm

waste of money if ya ask me. Dunnno why i aint chopped my credit card up yet..

VH-TOM from Voz pretty much sums it up
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So, I'm still kind of wondering why I should spend $23 on the same old Cessna gauges in a different visual model.[/quote]
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Postby Naki » Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:25 pm

Probably because the real Mooney uses gauges similar to the older Cessnas. Why make extra gauges when the same ones are available in an older FS model (provided the older gauges are satisfactory - which they are).

If you want custom gauges for each Carenado that comes out it would probably cost a lot more than $23 and we would have to wait a lot longer for them to produce the model.
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Postby Charl » Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:42 am

Carenado has released a little update for the Mooney.
(Applicable if you bought before Nov 9).
I like the way Carenado is responsive to the flightsim community.
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Postby ardypilot » Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:08 pm

I'm pleased to announce that Carenado will be giving away a copy of their Mooney M20J to the lucky winner of the December Screenshot Competition! (sorry Charl tongue.gif)
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Postby Charl » Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:24 pm

Well done Trolly.
But mate, try as you might, this will not stop me giving it my best shot ths month!
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Postby ardypilot » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:51 pm

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But mate, try as you might, this will not stop me giving it my best shot ths month![/quote]
Dam, I thought that if I set up a prize that you already had, you wouldn't bother entering and give me a chance of getting some votes next month! laugh.gif Just kidding!
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Postby Charl » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:09 pm

Well, on reflection, maybe it won't be worth entering the screenshot competition this month, after all.
Y'see there is something wrong with the Mooney.
Only after many hours of diligent labour have I been able to fix it.
See if you can spot how I mended it, and why it now goes 25kts faster!

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Postby ardypilot » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:44 pm

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See if you can spot how I mended it, and why it now goes 25kts faster![/quote]
Flipped the stripes on the tail fin tongue.gif
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Postby Naki » Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:58 pm

More than flipped the stripes! You flipped all the flying surfaces! Sorry but I like better with the reverse racked fin and wing otherwise it just looks like another Piper etc The reverse racked fin is part of the Mooney trademark/character.
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Postby Charl » Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:19 am

You're right it gives the Mooney its distinctive look.
(And performance edge.)
I bet it didn't "Look Right" though, at the time, when the dictum was:
"If it Looks Right, it'll Fly Right!"
Not the only one to glue the flying surfaces on backward, though:

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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:05 pm

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Superb cool.gif A Russian Grumman X-29 biggrin.gif
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Postby Naki » Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:51 pm

Ha - thats what a fighter would look like if made by Mooney - pity the Ruskies didn't put it into production

Check this out - this is how not to land your Mooney
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