Hey SU37, in my mind this thing is so different and looks and flies so neat that I could probably describe it in detail for a week...and you'd still go "Holy Crap!" once you grabbed it and fired it up. I think I have managed to not reveal too much detail with my screenies so far. You see the shapes and model stuff if you read the whole thread and view the pics, but to actually get 'er on the tarmac and give the animations a go - spread the wings out for takeoff, with the jets rotating around, the canopy closing, and then the gear-legs retracting once you're ten feet up.....suddenly your in a sci fi show or a really cool effects-laden movie sequence, I hope you're going to love it.
Ha ha...I just realized that this weird stuff comes from me partly because I'm a bit of a simidiot when it comes to flying real world aircraft properly...in other words, when most of you are following procedures and setting autopilot stuff and doing things properly for the glideslope, etc, and all the ATC stuff, or a real ILS approach, I'm sort of lost. (Just lazy on the learning curve.) So I make some of my own crazy aircraft and just sink into a world of visual and situational head rushes...I live in a sim world where every take-off and landing would look spot on in an episode of Battlestar Galactica, or Star Wars, etc. I don't need no steenkin' ATC...my flights are sanctioned by an entity that's more secretive and powerful than any Earth government body or institution. ATC and airport security gets a call from the higher-ups and are told to clear the airways and runways for an 'unconventional' aircraft and approach, and are told not to ask questions...right before they are ordered to accommodate the tarping and tucking away of the aircraft immediately after I deplane for security and secrecy reasons. No one fools around, and I often get a free airport lunch and a limo ride...you're a bit of a celebrity when you show up in a flying wasp!
I only talk to ATC if I feel like it, and I usually don't.
RD and G.S. - thank you so much for undertaking anything to do with my latest project, and I appreciate the feedback greatly.
I was getting fairly anxious as I FINALLY wrapped this thing up (could you tell?

), and I realize that it's no fair to yap about something for months and then expect people to enhance it in their own special way in a week, while trying to make a living and have a real life. I actually do have a real life too, LOL...and I'm tired as hell until I can unwind on the weekends! So take your time....this is supposed to be fun after all....believe me, the whole point of anything like this is fun and entertainment. It would be pretty cool if I could get it out the door by the weekend
after this weekend....how about we shoot for that target and see how it goes. (I can't seem to avoid those anxious moments is all - I keep thinking "Pretty soon no-one is going to be flying FS2004 anymore!")
Wow, I sure feel a bit burnt out on this thing as well....too much time spent in this chair. I'll get the effects folder together ASAP.
Looking forward to your collaboration on the finishing touches here!
And G.S. - no promises, but let me see if I can somehow get you a decent background image from this thing for the panel you may be working on....don't get too far into it until I have success or failure in this endeavor, if I can get a good bitmap for the background the gauge placement will be different.
Thanks again RD and Groundsquirrel for your interest and collaboration, and thanks to the rest of you for any interest in my waspy monster, and thanks for your patience and understanding if this all takes a week longer than I figured!
EDIT: Just checked the date of my first post on this thing...four and a half months on this BUGger!
