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Tuesday 30 September 2014

The few remaining

Dear people,

Today I came across the message that one of the few remaining pilots of the Dutch D.21 has passed away.
Henk Sitter, at the time of the German invasion in the Netherlands, May 1940, passed away on September 17, 2014. He reached the age of 97.

Henk Sitter was one of the last pilots still alive who has flown on the D.21. The pilots who have fought in May 1940 are being called 'Meivliegers', and Henk Sitter was one of the last.

Our thoughts are with his family.

My D.21 is devoted to all these young, brave men who fought for the freedom of our country.
Package release won't be long from now.

Saturday 27 September 2014

Working on Danish cockpit

Dear followers,

I'm picking up things again, in small portions, so I've been working on the Danish cockpit textures today. I can't yet post any picture of them, but I try to get them as soon as possible to you.

Regards,

Dutchie

Tuesday 16 September 2014

Status this month

Dear people,

Because of the increased workload of my bachelor course, and severe personal problems, I'm not able to work on this project at the moment. I promise I'll continue soon.

Hope you're informed by that.

Regards!

Friday 5 September 2014

The Netherlands 1940

In 1940, the airfields in the Netherlands were a bit different. Some of them are still in use today (like Schiphol, be it in another appearance :D) but some were abandoned during or after WWII. One of them is Bergen Airfield, located in the north-west part of our country (province Noord-Holland :D). Bergen was attacked at the very first beginning of the May War, taken over by the Germans for bombers as far as I know but later abandoned. The concrete is still there by the way. Some time ago I made a screenie while flying over that location in FSX with NL2000. The airfield was surrounded by the creek, and in the upper part of the screen you can still see the concrete.
 
 
Because Bergen doesn't exist anymore, I wanted to have it in FSX. So I couldn't loose the default/NL2k airfield. Mr. Cees Donker made a Bergen for FS2004, so I tried it out, modified the traffic files with the Fokker G.1 of Michel Migaud and my Fokker. It works fine in FSX, though the traffic impact on framerates is -5 frames (really, once there's no traffic in the view, I run 24, locked, but as soon as traffic appears I run 19 or so).
Well, does it look nice?
 
Disclaimer: this Bergen Airfield is not a part of my project, nor my property! I'm just playing around with it and showing you my Fokker in this scene ;)
 
 
 
And here's my baby with some Fokker C.X fighters. This C.X model is made by Wim Regeer as a flyable one for FS9.
 
 
 
 
Hope we'll get an official FSX scenery for this (and other locations of 'NL1940') soon.
 

Update for today

Hi all,
 
My beta test team came with a few remarks and I've been working on it. I've now got different rudder pedals assembly support wood (well what's that?) and non-coloured window glass. It wouldn't have been blue in the WWII days, but clear.
 
 
 
Thanks to the XML-gurus at FSDeveloper.com, and to Douglas Dawson's sound gauge, I was able to enhance the cockpit sounds with a speed-dependent wind sound. Opening 'an' exit, toggles a wind sound which will get louder when you fly faster. Default airframe wind sound is also used by the way.
 
 
Furthermore, I updated the page about the Blender2FSX YouTube tutorials, so please have a look there. If you're working with Blender, think about saving you work time to time, since Blender can quit sometimes without reason. It just came up in my mind now, so I thought it would make sense to state it here ;)
 
Regards, Dutchie