MD-83

[SeanTK]

Just thought I'd make everyone aware of an upcoming FSX-only MD-83 jetliner.













*Note: These are not my images.

The aircraft is made by Alejandro Rojas Lucena from Venezuela.
http://www.simviation.com/fsnd/menu.html



I am proud to say that I am assisting him as a technical advisor, documentation/readme writer, and this weekend, a beta tester. (Will finally have access to the FSX machine this weekend for once. Been doing advising stuff which is working fairly well, but its easier to do if I could actually use the model).
Barring any snags that I discover in beta testing this weekend, you can expect release VERY SOON!

As a sample of what this freeware will include: It will have a functional FMC!

-SeanTK

[Nzeddy]

Awesome!!!

Can't wait.

[Adamski]

QUOTE (SeanTK @ Nov 11 2010, 08:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

As a sample of what this freeware will include: It will have a functional FMC!

Looking good, Sean! Looking forward to it!

Are FMCs hard to code? Or is it that they're potential frame-rate killers?

[SeanTK]

Thanks for the comments.

Keep in mind that all of the modeling and coding done here is Alejandro's work. I'm (along with a few others) simply helping with some technical direction and other minor things.

Regarding the FMC, that is a freeware guage that has been available from Avsim for a while now, and Alejandro (Alex) will be using it in his release. Full credit will be given to the author of that gauge in the documentation. We tried for numerous weeks to contact the author of the FMC, but with zero response, so we are going through with including it will full credit towards him. If he has a problem with it down the road, assuming he'll come back into the FS community, we'll deal with it then.

Expect the plane very soon! Probably not during this upcoming weekend, because I will be doing some final testing then, but it's possible that it'll be available by the end of next week!

[Ian Warren]

Sean , we don,t see many MD-83s or the DC-9 brand at all in the NZ , it would be interesting to do a follow up , with US Navy they operated C9 Nightingales , these cant tell you if they were used at any stage here also , but this looks a great freeware and course maybe one will do a US Navy paint and make a VIP visit

[SeanTK]

Yes, or even a fictional Air New Zealand livery.

Here's an image of an MD-87 at Auckland in 2006. Registration is a VP-C....so it's registered with the Cayman Islands (probably for tax reasons). Not sure where it's actually based out of.
http://www.airliners.net/photo/McDonnell-D...D-87/1014597/M/

[Ian Warren]

Gives someone a base photo , a private jet maybe with a ZK/NZ rego

[SeanTK]

Just a head's up that it is released at Simviation:

http://www.simviation.com/1/search?submit=...amp;x=0&y=0

"FSND FSX MD83 Package"

[Splitpin]

Sean....well done, and just in time! i was about to spend some money i dont have on the CLS release of the same thing,

Re the repaints for it....even the old "blue band airways" RNZAF scheme would look nice on this.....again, well done Sean and team

[AlejandroRojas]

What are you doing here Sean? lol Thanks you for your contribution my friend
and defend this proyect against piracy ..I'll never forget that

Hope you like the model

for support check my website
www.simviation.com/fsnd also there are other models with VC ready for download as freeware , especially a nice Citation X I made it last year

and I just register for one reason ,I think New Zealand is the closest thing to the paradise ,and I wish some day I could escape from the hell and go there .
It the most beautiful place of the Earth and you all must be very proud to be in such of beautiful place ..


Alejandro Rojas Lucena
FSX/FS9 freeware Airplanes designer

[Fozzer]

Welcome to this quiet little corner of the World, Alex... ...!

Lovely to see you aboard!... ...!

Paul.... ...!

[AlejandroRojas]

Pablo?

I got you message ,Unfortunately I can't or couldn't reply you in the same way ,still figuring out:lol:

what are you also doing here so far from Hereford? my good old chap?

LOL

[Fozzer]

QUOTE (AlejandroRojas @ Nov 19 2010, 08:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Pablo?

I got you message ,Unfortunately I can't or couldn't reply you in the same way ,still figuring out:lol:

what are you also doing here so far from Hereford? my good old chap?

LOL

Tee-Hee... ...!

I come here for a spot of peace and quiet, Alex....

....far from the maddening crowd at the; "Other Place"...you know where... ...!

Paul.... ...!

[AlejandroRojas]

QUOTE (Fozzer @ Nov 20 2010, 09:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Tee-Hee... ...!

I come here for a spot of peace and quiet, Alex....

....far from the maddening crowd at the; "Other Place"...you know where... ...!

Paul.... ...!

yeh ,I know what you mean, I think everything In New Zealand brings peace , maybe I should hang around here too and get some of that peace that I really need it


Alex

[IslandBoy77]

Looks like an awesome effort. How does this compare to the default FSX one? I don't fly the MD-83, so am not familiar with the default model.

[Fozzer]

QUOTE (IslandBoy77 @ Nov 19 2010, 09:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looks like an awesome effort. How does this compare to the default FSX one? I don't fly the MD-83, so am not familiar with the default model.

Give it a try, Island...

Dear Alex is letting you have it for FREE!...!!

Paul,,G-BPLF...FS 2004..FS Navigator... ..!

[Nzeddy]

QUOTE (IslandBoy77 @ Nov 20 2010, 10:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looks like an awesome effort. How does this compare to the default FSX one? I don't fly the MD-83, so am not familiar with the default model.

Of you course you don't fly the default FSX MD-83. It's only for the AI traffic and I wouldn't recommended flying it.

Thankyou very much Alejandro for this awesome freeware MD-83 for FSX!! Just downloading it now. Can't wait to fly it!

[AlejandroRojas]

QUOTE (IslandBoy77 @ Nov 20 2010, 09:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looks like an awesome effort. How does this compare to the default FSX one? I don't fly the MD-83, so am not familiar with the default model.

Let's put it this way
a default model like FSX md 83 can be done in TWO hours..a couple hours





While this one took me 4 month ,I can't explain myself in a shot ,but there is Wing flex animation ,bumper maps ,specular maps Virtual Cockpit (that took me 2 month and a half with the making of some of the main gauges) and couple hundreds of things that the default md 83 doesn't has ,Including an FMC "Flight Management Computer"







and its free..., while the other isn't (came with the FSX game we all paid )