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Tony Vallillo

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    A300 Gear Auto Off Issue

    in General Discussion

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    I have had the same thing you describe happen on occasion, but not always.  Most of the time the Bravo "gear up" movement brings the handle and the gear up.  If the gear handle does not go to "off" on its own, I set it that way with the mouse.  From "off" to "down" the Bravo is used.  When it works, it works!

    Guess the place...

    in Screenshots

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    Way too little to go by, really!  All I can say for sure is that it is NOT Manhattan, London, or Paris.  Looks a bit like that part of San Diego that you fly over after takeoff on 27, where the military cemetery is.   But if this is a sunrise instead of a sunset, all bets are off...

    Is the Thrustmaster TCA throttle quadrant fully supported?

    in General Discussion

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    I can't answer your question directly, but I should point out that the A-300-600 does NOT have the same throttle setup as the A-320 series (or 330 or 340, etc).  Although they don't look exactly like those on the Boeings, they work the same; that is, there are no throttle "notches", and the throttles move freely.  This is not a setup like the 320, where the throttles do not move in full auto - here, they do move when autothrottle is engaged, just like any of the airplanes like the Boeings or the DC-10.

    So in actuality, the TCA may not be the most realistic choice, although I'm sure they would work fine.  I don't know how much there is in the TCA in the way of the detents that the 320 series have, but they would be irrelevant in an A-300 setup. 

    The Bravo throttle quadrant with the add-on for the Airbus might look a bit more like the throttles on the A300 than those little china-doll-size boeing throttles that come with it, and that may be a more visually realistic choice....

    And the Bravo does not have detents, which is also more realistic.

    Passenger Version

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    That looks very good.  Natural metal is difficult to model, at least in any approximation to what it looks like in real life.  The modern capability of these sims to reproduce specular reflections and that "silver surfer" look is interesting, but by and large does not represent what polished aluminum looks like in the real world, at least at the airline level when it only gets polished once a year or so.  Each individual panel often has different appearance.

    It looks like you have done a better job here than merely having it look like something out of a Marvel movie!  The best renditions of AA liveries go back to FS9, when they were cobbled together out of actual photos and did not actually reflect anything.  But your effort shown here is very good indeed and I look forward to it.  I was also assured that there would be a rendition of the original grey painted AA version.  That would be much easier, of course.  We got so used to that scheme back in the day that it was actually somewhat disconcerting when we stripped them and polished them in the mid 90's!

     

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