New typhie... also new flight model for it?

[Krusty]

Seems our old Typhie flight model had many questions about how it was modeled... The graphics shown and the engine performance seemed to be a bit of a frankenstein. There were a couple of threads I read years back about it. With the news on the main page, I thought I'd ask if the model is simply being updated, or if the entire thing is.

See here as an example of previous Typhie engine discussion:
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,151881.0.html

I'd hope HTC is putting as much accuracy into those old, semi-inaccurate models as they update them to newer (better) standards.

[RTSigma]

Hopefully we'll get the right ammo count for those 4 Death Star lasers it carries 

[PanosGR]

i hope they will delete ALL ammo-counters from ALL cockpits

[Die Hard]

i hope they will delete ALL ammo-counters from ALL cockpits

Why? Some planes had them in real life.

[CountD90]

The trim tabs in some of the 109s and 190s were really ammo counters in real life. Don't agree with getting rid of ammo counters thought. You would have to fly a very select group of plane to remember how many seconds of burst any plane has.

[PanosGR]

did not know that but i think most of the wwii era fighters did not have counters. If not can you be more specific?

[Die Hard]

All the German fighters had ammo counters. I'm not sure about Japanese or Italian fighters. The Americans and British used more tracers or different color traces in the last 200 rounds or so to alert the pilot that he was running low.

109 cockpit:



You can see the three vertical bar-type ammo counters to the left of the reflector sight.


From a MS Flight Sim 109 addon:




Focke-Wulf 190 cockpit:

[PanosGR]

thank for your reply  only thing is that these vertical bars in AH cockpits describe trim and flaps settings. don't know which is right

[Infidelz]

LOOKS like no poster wanted talk FM?

[Die Hard]

thank for your reply  only thing is that these vertical bars in AH cockpits describe trim and flaps settings. don't know which is right

I'm not sure I understand your question?

[Spikes]

I'm not sure I understand your question?

He doesn't see the ammo counters in those images...he just sees the trim and flap settings.

[moot]

Panos the authentic instruments are in those pics. Those white vertical bars are ammo counters.  They scroll down as you expend ammo.  AH having separate digital ammo counters, HTC recycled the authentic ammo counters into flap and trim indicators.

[LYNX]

It's going to look right nice but still fly the same....at least that's what I expect.

[Die Hard]

He doesn't see the ammo counters in those images...he just sees the trim and flap settings.

Ah...

PanosGR, the instruments in AH are not historically accurate. They are generalized and standardized across the entire plane set, so that it is easier to switch between different aircraft without having to learn a lot of different instruments and measurements (feet/meters etc.). HTC still try to lay out the instruments and "skin" them in a way that resembles the actual cockpit, so in the German rides the real-life ammo counters are replaced with lookalike trim displays.

As compromises go, that is a good one.

[RTHolmes]

would be nice if the model does get another look, probably worth another 5-10mph