Okay, I'll try and address some of this:
As the C46 was originally given to JF for publishing, there were some issues with the FDE which caused complaints. I was asked to step in and 'make it flyable' with a timescale of about a week (which I managed to stretch to a fortnight). Bear in mind that I normally spend longer than that just researching an aircraft, also that my work for JF is done in my spare time around real-world shifts and a family. I can't remember if I started work on the C46 with SP2 or 3, I suspect the former. I don't like adjusting an already-defined FDE as you don't start with a clean slate, moving one thing could have unexpected repercussions elsewhere, I might inadvertently alter something that people actually like which then leads to further complaints - on top of it all, there is a lack of familiarity with the aircraft and its FDE which cannot be adequately addressed in a week or so.
That's the background. Now to the future:
Firstly, I have been asked to look at this again, and my proposal is as follows: To take the engines from an existing JF product (building an engine being roughly half the work of an FDE). This will likely be the DC6, as the engines are virtually the same. I'll take the tables from the airfile and the sections from the aircraft.cfg file, make a couple of necessary adjustments and see what we have. The engines seem to be the main bone of contention since the initial aerodynamic adjustments.
Secondly, you will have to accept that this is NOT a study-level product at the same level of fidelity as (e.g.) the PA28 series or some of the other projects in the in-house workspace. I'll try and get it as good as I can, but if you go looking for problems you will most likely find them. On the instruments, I don't think that JF coded them.
Thirdly, if there is anything (aside from the engines) you wish to see adjusted in the FDE then feel free to make a little list here - I can't promise, but if I don't know then I definitely can't fix it! If, however, it involves a complete re-write, that is not going to happen.
Lastly, to answer some of the comments directly: Paul, No you cannot have a date for this I'm sorry, but there are currently two in-house aircraft scheduled for release in the very near future which are my priority. I will try to fit the adjustments in between those and settling down to build the Vulcan, the 747, the ******, ************ and *****. That's about all I can promise. Thunderstreak, Bulldog is entirely AH, nothing to do with this forum. Lanc is AH with JF publishing - generally a demo is released of AH/JFpub so pick it up when it comes out and make an informed decision.
Open offer to participants of this thread - drop me a pm with your email address and I'll happily send you the files to try out and see what you think of them when I get a chance to make the adjustments.
Cheers, Paul.
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