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Flight Simulator RV-7..?

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I have heard of but can not find a simulator add on for the RV 7. Can anyone give me advice of where to find one?
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Flight Factory Simulations

There was one made by Flight Factory Simulations, long out of business now.
The RV-7 can be found online if you look hard enough.
 
bruceh said:
I have X Plane version 9 on my mac. It comes with all of the Van's aircraft and you can customize the heck out of it.
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The RV's that come with X-Plane are not very good. Lousy in fact. They pitch up with flap deployment and don't seem much faster than Cessna 172's. Not a very good representation of an RV. The Flight Factory model for MSFS was better, but is a simplistic model compared to what's available these days.

However, after some moaning on an X-Plane forum.........the designer who has done a nice MU2 for X-Plane, decided to take the basic RV in X-Plane and give the grey skin a re-do. He also worked on the flight dynamics. Actually several versions were made, but everything has not been totally perfected yet. A flight instructor also made some modifications to the flight dynamics, but I have not tried them.

This plane looks suspiciously like mine. :) The first version even had the tail number.





L.Adamson --- RV6A
 
L.Adamson said:
the designer who has done a nice MU2 for X-Plane, decided to take the basic RV in X-Plane and give the grey skin a re-do. He also worked on the flight dynamics. Actually several versions were made, but everything has not been totally perfected yet. A flight instructor also made some modifications to the flight dynamics, but I have not tried them.

This plane looks suspiciously like mine. :) The first version even had the tail number.
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Larry:

Wow! Great choice in models!

So who is the designer, and is his airplane available? Where? Cost?

I'll buy a copy of X-plane if your, errr, his plane is available.

Stephen
 
fatherson said:
Larry:

Wow! Great choice in models!

So who is the designer, and is his airplane available? Where? Cost?

I'll buy a copy of X-plane if your, errr, his plane is available.
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This is the designer...

http://www.x-scenery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=6

But the RV6A plane evolved from a few postings at Avsim (X-Plane fourm). I don't believe it's in any library, and not sure the links (Avsim) would still work. As it evolved over a few weeks, some changes would effect others for good or bad. And as mentioned, a flight instructor made a few mods too. They were in the same thread.

BTW-- My preference for "desktop" flight simulation is the RealAir Marchetti SF260 for FSX. Somewhat similar to an RV in regards to side by side & sliding canopy. It has some of the best simulated flight dynamics ever.

L.Adamson --- RV6A
 
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