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				The airshow
				Posted: 03 Jan 2008, 21:29
				by MACC
				In your airshow package some of the aircraft fly over, how do you do that?
			 
			
					
				Re: The airshow
				Posted: 03 Jan 2008, 21:47
				by reconmercs
				MACC wrote:In your airshow package some of the aircraft fly over, how do you do that?
very carefully  

 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 03 Jan 2008, 22:58
				by bismarck
				
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 04 Jan 2008, 00:36
				by KevinJarvis
				Oh c'mon you guys. Give him a break. We can let him in on the secret.
Pssss...they pay the little pilots.  

 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 04 Jan 2008, 01:00
				by MIKE JG
				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 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 04 Jan 2008, 03:20
				by Paul
				It's hard to believe his thunderbird package is almost 2 years old. Where has the time gone.
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 04 Jan 2008, 08:51
				by MACC
				Lol, i think i'll leave that till i get more used to AI(2 weeks ain't enough.)
thanks anyway, Macc
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 04 Jan 2008, 14:04
				by Savage
				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.
 
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 04 Jan 2008, 14:54
				by merlin101
				Love to know how to do a formation take off & landing to!
Dave
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 04 Jan 2008, 15:54
				by MACC
				Ive never done it but ive heard double, slightly off set afcads do the trick, oh yeah and perfect timing.
			 
			
					
				
				Posted: 04 Jan 2008, 16:20
				by mikewmac
				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