The airshow

MACC · Post by **MACC** » 03 Jan 2008, 21:29

In your airshow package some of the aircraft fly over, how do you do that?

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 03 Jan 2008, 21:47

MACC wrote:In your airshow package some of the aircraft fly over, how do you do that?

very carefully

bismarck · Post by **bismarck** » 03 Jan 2008, 22:58

KevinJarvis · Post by **KevinJarvis** » 04 Jan 2008, 00:36

Oh c'mon you guys. Give him a break. We can let him in on the secret.

Pssss...they pay the little pilots.

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 04 Jan 2008, 01:00

With carefully planned and timed flighplanning using multiple afcads. There is no "easy" way to do it. It takes quite a bit of trial and error, which seems to be the case with a lot of the stuff we do around here these days.

Mike MacIntyre is sort of the "guru" on this subject. Prior to the MAIW days, he released a demo package in which he demonstrates some of the methods that are used to do formations and flyovers.

If you really want to see how it's done, check out his file on avsim:
http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?Ca ... DLID=81318

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 04 Jan 2008, 03:20

It's hard to believe his thunderbird package is almost 2 years old. Where has the time gone.

MACC · Post by **MACC** » 04 Jan 2008, 08:51

Lol, i think i'll leave that till i get more used to AI(2 weeks ain't enough.)

thanks anyway, Macc

Savage · Post by **Savage** » 04 Jan 2008, 14:04

MACC wrote:Lol, i think i'll leave that till i get more used to AI(2 weeks ain't enough.)

thanks anyway, Macc

A wise move MACC, it's a difficult technique to learn, took me a lot of time to understand.

merlin101 · Post by **merlin101** » 04 Jan 2008, 14:54

Love to know how to do a formation take off & landing to!
Dave

MACC · Post by **MACC** » 04 Jan 2008, 15:54

Ive never done it but ive heard double, slightly off set afcads do the trick, oh yeah and perfect timing.

mikewmac · Post by **mikewmac** » 04 Jan 2008, 16:20

merlin101 wrote:Love to know how to do a formation take off & landing to!
Dave

Both my Thunderbirds Demo and MAIW Airshow packages demonstrate airport flybys and formation takeoffs/landings. If you dig through the AFCADs and FP's you can figure out how to create both. However, as someone mentioned above, it takes patience, as exact timing as FS9 will allow and a lot of testing.

Mike

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