SAAF Harvard

[Lurch]

[Iroquois]

Nice shots. Where abouts did you take these shots?
Also, where is that plane from? There was a South American designer (Brazil I think) who had made some planes like that. I belive it was Ramsa who posted some pics of his work.

[Lurch]

The airport (air force base actually) is FASK (Swartkops AFB,outside Pretoria,South Africa).Shot 5 is over a national monument here called the Voortrekker Monument,and shot 6 is over the Union Buildings (both in Pretoria)-the scenery is freeware from Aeroworx ( http://www.aeroworx.com/ ).The plane is a repaint of that South American designer you are thinking of (I can't think of his name either.lol) in the South African Air Force trainer colours.

[Rifleman]

This plane looks like the work of the DaSilva brothers...

[Lurch]

This plane looks like the work of the DaSilva brothers...

Thanks Rifleman,I couldn't for the life of me remember who had made it.lol.I knew I'd kick myself when I heard who it was.

[Rifleman]

I only know it, cause I just got it myself and had to fix a mis-alignment of the wing bars on the US Navy texture....even sent an e-mail to them to bring it to their attention.......never heard back......

What do you think of the way it flies ?....anything too sensitive for your liking ?.....I think I did a small mod on the Aircraft.cfg file to get it to fly a bit better also....?

Ah yeh, nice post of a nice plane.....

[Mr. Bones]

nice shots with a great quality there Grant! and it's fun to hear some South African (the Voortrekker Monument)...it's almost the same as Dutch  :D

[Lurch]

[quote]nice shots with a great quality there Grant! and it's fun to hear some South African (the Voortrekker Monument)...it's almost the same as Dutch

[Rifleman]

OK ...thanks for that much....you did good for such a short flight.....

[Johan VIPER Lemmers]

Hi there...

Great pics of the T-6!
My number one favorite aircraft!

About those DaSilva Brothers, I had some e-mail contact with Denis, I delivered him the Dutch Air Force and Dutch Navy paintschemes, but I haven't heard from him for a while. Their FS FAB website is gone too, it's not accessable anymore. Don't know why, I can't read the Spanish messages.

The flight dynamics of the DaSilva T-6 indeed were a little wrong, at first all my T-6 aircraft turned to the left after take-off.
This was due to a wrong fuel tank configuration, the T-6 doesn't have a center and a external tank as is in DaSilva's aircraft.cfg file.
No, it has a 55 gallon left and a 55 gallon right wing tank in the center wingsection, so I edited the cfg file to this configuration and ended up with a perfectly balanced T-6!
I also use my own panel, created with 8 digital pictures of a T-6 cockpit as background bitmaps.
No VC, I don't know how to create on (yet).

My panel and fuel tank configuration are both available at simviation (also on flightsim.com), I think in the FS2002 panels section.

Take care y'all...

[Rifleman]

You can get to the DaSilvas work here..........

http://www.fs98fabmil.hpg.ig.com.br/projeto2/projeto2.html

......and to see the post which Ramsa first showcased this bird you can go back to page 19 of this forum (Freeware Screenshots) " SNJ-6 "....

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=screen;action=display;num=1056249357

..... and on it, you will also see why I thought there was a part of the US Navy textures which needed addressing.........

[Johan VIPER Lemmers]

Hi #9...

Thanks for the link to DaSilva.
I already had it in my favorites, but the toppage is not accessable any more.
Your link brings me directly to the download aerea, but if I want to go one page back by removing the projeto2.html part from the link I get a 404 error.
When I also remove the projeto2 part in the link, I get a page in Spanish that says (I think) that the page is under construction or something like that.

BTW, could you please mail me your edited US Navy textures??
My e-mail is johanlemmers@home.nl

I have some other textures, directly from Denis DaSilva.
Originally he painted the Dutch Air Force Harvard Mk.II  with one National roundel on the upperwings and one on the bottom wings, while the real aircraft has roundels on both upper and lower wings.
He made me a new paintjob with these roundels on both upper and lower wings.
All aircraft of the Dutch Air Force Historical Flight are civil owned aircraft, wearing vintage Air Force paintschemes, so the Historical Flight Harvard, registered B-118, also has a very small civilian registration (PH-IIB) and Denis made a second paintjob for me with that small civil markings on it.
If you would like these textures, please let me know, I'll mail them to you!

I gave the Dutch T-6 files to the members of the Dutch Air Force Historical Flight that fly FS2002 / FS2004 at home for IFR training (they really do this!!!) and they are very happy with the textures of "their" Harvard.
It gave me a "key to open doors", I can visit their flight whenever I want to (after a phonecall to see if they're there, of course)...

See ya...

[Rifleman]

E-Mail is off and on its way to you.....hope it does what it should......just let me know pls so I can try to re-do something if need be......you seem savvy enough to deal with files and stuff, so I can't see you having any trouble with it.........