it almost done!

here some new screenshots of the complited work. not much things left to do :)

forward panel and overhead almost done

almost, because still got to make few things - night textures and two lamps, which work i still don't understend. all other gauges are works - everything is clickable and most identical to real.
future work - central panels, navigator's and radioman's panels and autopilot. the last thing is most difficult, but i've got an examples. Also got some thoughts about braking system and few failures of plane's engines and gears

and now - screenshots:


The last one - is failed test of radioaltimeter :) now i know, that default gauge works in all roll and pitch range - witch is wrong. got to add some codes to this gauge to make limits for it.

russian gauges

few days ago started to make new russian gauges, that i will use in future projects

first video

Made a simple video of my present work on Il14., showing new panels and moving parts of the plane

New liveries for IL14

Yesterday i started to paint a cockpit and close to evening made a few liveries.
Now my IL14 will come in four variants: Grey, Aeroflot, Polar  aviation and USSR AirForce.

Here some new screens:

Work is going on :)

target of creation and first report

First of all i want to excuse for may bad english. It's not my native language, and sometimes i do make misstakes.

A few mounth ago i started to learn of making models for X-Plane flight simulator. I started from ATC tower and then in associate with Alexander Babichev aka Asso i workerd on Yakovlev Yak-40 model. There were made a lot of russian avionics. But now, when i'we got some financial troubles, i started my first payware model - Ilyushin IL-14.

In future i plan to make a lot of russian historic planes, such as: An24, Mi-8, Mi-26, Tu-134, Il-62. An-124, An-225. Maybe Il-2, Il-4, Po-2 (U-2) and other.

I saw a lot of payware models for X-Plane. Some are really good, some - not. So i made a few requirements for my further models:

1 - model must have identical dynamics as a real plane
2 - model must looks as a real plane, including all of moving parts
3 - model must have a fully working 3D cockpit with maximum of identical gauges and systems
4 - model must have some improvements to make it unique

As for my present work on IL-14, i plan to do next:

- full visal model with all animation of all moving parts
- fully functional 3D cockpit with working places of navigator and radioman
- visualisation of separation of wings, engines and gears
- all russian gauges and custom logic, based on open plugin (source codes for gauges will be open too)
- 2D panels like MSFS
- nessesary of preflight check of plane (caps on engines, Pitots, gear blocks)
- menu for calculation and loading of fuel, pax and cargos with moving CG
- variants of panels with russian and english signs
- few liveries (Aeroflot, Aeroflot Polar aviation, USSR Air Force, Interflug)

Now i working on pain of cabin and cockpit and soon start to draw and write gauges, failures, checks, menus and so on.

The present screens can be found here:

Work is going on, and i must say, that during it, i found a lot of new friends. Even an old pilot, who flew this plane in past and was glad to help :)