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Old 04-13-2007, 01:30 PM
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Default RV-8 simulator for flight sim 9 or X

I have found a decent rv-7 add on and a poor rv-8 add on for Microsoft Flight sim 9 and X.

Does anyone know of a really good RV-8 add on? If so a link would be great.

If not, anyone here interested in making one?
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Old 04-13-2007, 01:35 PM
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Were did you find the 7? I saw a pay site but was afraid it wouln't work in FSX
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Old 04-13-2007, 01:49 PM
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Old 04-13-2007, 01:51 PM
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Were did you find the 7? I saw a pay site but was afraid it wouln't work in FSX
I have it. It kind of works. The guages won't display though. I've been planning to fix it but haven't gotten around to it tet.

I think it's $8.00 but the company who makes it is going out of business. Might not be available anymore.
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Old 04-13-2007, 02:52 PM
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I think it's $8.00 but the company who makes it is going out of business. Might not be available anymore.
http://www.flightfactory-simulations.com And the page says that they will close at end of this month. I had already forgotten this one as there was another RV-7 model coming also... but 8 bucks ain't much.
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Old 04-13-2007, 04:06 PM
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Default RV for FS 9 (2004)

I've found an -8 and a -4 on simviation. If you google "flight sim 2004 downloads" it will show up. I've never payed attention to the URL, sorry .
The -8 is probably not that accurate, as it seems a little twitchy and hard to control to me. But the -4 flies really well. They both have VCs but I don't use them on either one of those planes b/c the regular panel looks better. I'd be interested in finding more of the RV series for fs 2004. The -4 and -8 are my favorite but I'd like to have one of every RV model on my sim!! Hmm, wouldn't everyone?
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Old 04-13-2007, 04:16 PM
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I wouldn't mind learning how to make the planes. The only problem would be that I don't have a flying RV-8 so I would have a hard time modeling the flight characteristics.
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Old 04-13-2007, 04:43 PM
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I wouldn't mind learning how to make the planes. The only problem would be that I don't have a flying RV-8 so I would have a hard time modeling the flight characteristics.
I think most of the aircraft that are available for Flight Simulator are accurate. The Dreamfleet/Flight1, and Abacus aircraft come to mind as ones that are probably real close. I'm sure there are other companies that produce good models.

I know people who "correct" the flight characteristics of aircraft then distribute them but have never flown the real aircraft. hard to correct something when you don't know how it flys.
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Old 04-13-2007, 05:28 PM
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I have it. It kind of works. The guages won't display though. I've been planning to fix it but haven't gotten around to it tet.

I think it's $8.00 but the company who makes it is going out of business. Might not be available anymore.
Yep, the gauges won't display on mine either, I just downloaded it. It looks like an awsome plane, and I tried flying it around the patch, but my pc is too slow to run it I guess. I kept getting "hitches" in the screen. I even tried turning down the scenery. If you get the gauges fixed will you please pm me and tell me how or whatever? I wish I knew how to work on these files, build my own airplanes, ect, but sadly, I consider myself lucky to get one out of ten aircraft that I download to even work on my simulator if they don't come with an installer.

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UPDATE: The first time I loaded it up I had the gauges for about 5 seconds and they all dissapeared. The second time I loaded up fs 2004 they were all there but slowly dissapeared 1 by 1 until I had no gauges left. Also, you cannot manupliate any of the toggle switches on the panel, even though the little finger pointing hand comes up there on something you're supposed to be able to change!!!
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Old 04-13-2007, 06:31 PM
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Here is a link to a free RV-8 sim.

Be warned it's a poor job but hey it's free and the install was easy. Just unzip it into your flight sim main root directory and start up the game.

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php...CatID=fs2004ac
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