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A-20 Havoc FSX Native

On a status note, I have now completed the conversion of the four A-20/P-70 models to native FSX eliminating the Load out sheet and associated issues in FSX/P3Dv4.
I have provided several models of different configurations for each of the variants.

Wellis and I will need to next weekend to finish out the changes. testing and tweaking and to prepare a beta for these packages.
 
Milton Shupe said:
On a status note, I have now completed the conversion of the four A-20/P-70 models to native FSX eliminating the Load out sheet and associated issues in FSX/P3Dv4.
I have provided several models of different configurations for each of the variants.

Wellis and I will need to next weekend to finish out the changes. testing and tweaking and to prepare a beta for these packages.
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Excellent news! waiting for this one with great anticipation!
 
Life Raft - no step

The comment about the color
"It is possible we are looking at the bottom of the life raft, and some of those I have seen/recovered have been black to dark grey on the bottom. The "NO STEP" inscription is probably to stop anyone walking on the stowed dinghy.
 
No Suction

I noticed the suction was a little light so reset the aircraft.cfg entry to 1.

vacuum_type=1 //Type: 0=None, 1=Engine pump (default), 2=Pneumatic, 3=Venturi
 
Seahawk72s said:
I noticed the suction was a little light so reset the aircraft.cfg entry to 1.

vacuum_type=1 //Type: 0=None, 1=Engine pump (default), 2=Pneumatic, 3=Venturi
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Thanks SH72; yes, that was reported some time ago and corrected in all the models. Good catch.
 
A ittle fun

They gave the boys some ammo...I'm looking at getting gun switches that work from the panel, trying anyway...
 
Master battery

Are you thinking about having the master battery in the off position when the aircraft loads..?
Same logic as the fuel switches..:encouragement:
 
Seahawk72s said:
Are you thinking about having the master battery in the off position when the aircraft loads..?
Same logic as the fuel switches..:encouragement:
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If you are asking about the FS9 package, I see no change happening with that logic.

FSX/P3D package will be different.
 
I really cant wait for this plane as its as much a part of the Night fighter history as the P-61 is, in that, without the P-70, there would have been no P-61 crews. The P-70s also took on the brunt of the night fighters war in the Pacific as when the war started, the P-61 was not ready, and the P-70 filled its shoes as best it could and met with the most opposition..
From the wiki.
In October 1940, the USAAC felt a need for long-range fighters more than attack bombers. As a result, sixty of the production run of A-20s were converted to P-70 night fighters, all delivered by September 1942. They were equipped with SCR-540 radar (a copy of the British AI Mk IV), the glazed nose often being painted black to reduce glare and hide the details of the radar set, and had four 20 mm (.79 in) forward-firing cannon, each provided with 120 rounds, in a tray in the lower part of the bomb bay, while the upper part held an additional 250 gal (946 ltr) fuel tank. In 1943, between June and October, 13 A-20Cs and 51 A-20Gs were converted to P-70A. Differences were to be found in the armament, with the 20mm cannon package replaced by an A-20G gun nose with six .50 caliber guns installed, the SCR-540 radar installation being carried in the bomb bay with the vertical-plane, twin-dipole "arrowhead" transceiving antenna protruding between the nose guns. Further P-70 variants were produced from A-20G and J variants. The singular airframe P-70B-1 (converted from an A-20G) and subsequent P-70B-2s (converted from A-20Gs and Js) had American centimetric radar (SCR-720 or SCR-729) fitted. The P-70s and P-70As saw combat only in the Pacific during World War II and only with the USAAF. The P-70B-1 and P-70B-2 aircraft never saw combat but served as night fighter aircrew trainers in the US in Florida and later in California. All P-70s were retired from service by 1945.
 
How close are we to seeing an FSX/P3D A-20? Collecting all these wonderful paints that I cannot use at the moment.
 
AussieMan said:
How close are we to seeing an FSX/P3D A-20? Collecting all these wonderful paints that I cannot use at the moment.
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I feel the same way, but work must be completed before play-time. :)

I hope to have this released in beta by next weekend.
 
Ah, the double conundrum. I am greatly looking forward to this and can't wait. But wait I will, as it's done when it's done and the fact that we haven't had one of these since AS did theirs for FS2002 (I think), means no matter how long until it is released, it's still much shorter than the time we've gone without one to fly. :) I think my first flight will be over PNG.
 
I just released the FS9 beta, and now have completed an assessment of all the FSX native models. Only a few things left to do before I can package up a beta tomorrow.

My one big holdup is getting a nice functional 8 tank gauge readout (2 mains, 2 aux, 3 centers (one optional), and the optional ferry external tank.

Not having a panel/gauge programmer is downer. :)

I am thinking of just getting the beta out for testing while I work on that gauge, and decide what to do about fuel selectors and fuel transfers (currently non-functional).

That would get us some exposure to FSX as well as P3D while the models are still open to changes.
 
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