P3D v3 UFO Flight Model; SimConnect

[lionheart]

Hey all,

I am toying with a fun little anti gravity craft. The vehicle would rise up and down via throttle lever, have a soft zone where it would auto-hover when near a zero climb/decent zone, and then it would fly in the direction of the joystick, and speed according to pressure on the joystick.

I am about 99.999999% sure I'll need SimConnect.

Rob Barendregt did a very cool airfile system for Dino's F35 'VTOL' variant where it has auto-hover and other brilliant features.

Just wondering where one might start on tackling something like this? Is there a tutorial or some posts that are similar to this? I have never worked with SimConnect.

Many thanks for any input and advice...


Bill

 

[Heretic]

Ah, Haunebu. The weapon that almost made us win the war (lol).

You really might want to get in touch with Rob. He made Harriers and other VTOL aircraft like the V-22 fly, so he can just as well make a Reichsflugscheibe (literally: Reich flying disk) fly.

If you want to add a suitable scenery, place it in Neuschwabenland (New Swabia) in the Antarctic.

 

[lionheart]

Roger that.

So you know about them. Did you hear about the Andromeda Gerat?

 

[Heretic]

Just googled it and found an article. As much as I want to have a (more or less serious) talk about it, all it took was this schematic and the pseudo-german terms on it to make me break down with tears of laughter: http://more.greyfalcon.us/pictures/and3.jpg

But please, by all means, don't let that discourage you from bringing these things into FSX! I'd even help you with making up some stories or providing translations to make things more authentic. Nothing better than letting the imagination run hog free.

If you can get some more exotic Luft '46 or other esoteric devices into the sim, you could place them in historically sensible locations, have some Andromedas placed menacingly above the capitals of the world or in remote locations and create missions for the allied (hunt down Haunebus or find Andromedas) or axis (resupply arctic base, recover extraterrestrial advisors from crashed ship, etc...) side.

 

[antaris]

Just googled it and found an article. As much as I want to have a (more or less serious) talk about it, all it took was this schematic and the pseudo-german terms on it to make me break down with tears of laughter: http://more.greyfalcon.us/pictures/and3.jpg

I saw myself in the chamber 16

 

[lionheart]

I did quite a it of research on it and the others. The only thing I wanted was how their engines work. They figured out horizontal propulsion; magnetic horizontal force. The USAF didnt have that with the TR3B. Germany did.

This is some renders of the Andromeda and a couple of photos. They modified the back on the Freya (first one). The second one was captured in Friedrichshaffen, the engines torched out and removed before capture, roughly 50% finished. The Freya was continued to be seen until '46'. All supposedly, lots of witnesses and a few photos.

 

[lionheart]

That Haunebu III was a beauty... This is a 'mini' version I whipped up in Max. This would be like a 5 passenger, maybe 8. Cool hull shape. The actual H-3 was massive, their biggest yet, and fastest. People that talk on the TR3B state also that the bigger they make theirs, the faster they are, which you would think that would not be the case. I find it interesting...

 

[ronh]

Klaatu barada nikto

Just goes to show you the Germans even had a hand in the design of the Starship Enterprise.

 

[kalong]

WOW ... beauty ...

just contacting with Rob for VTOL, you no need to do with Simconnect, unless you made your own VTOL.

 

[lionheart]

WOW ... beauty ...

just contacting with Rob for VTOL, you no need to do with Simconnect, unless you made your own VTOL.

I might with mine. I would be re-tasking the joystick and throttle for a different version of control of the vehicle.