Dc 8 manual

The aircraft textures are each 2K, and it must be said that the fuselage is divided into 3 parts. What mentioned before, the paintkit only comes with fuselage texture files and no texture files for the wing and engines. This feels weird since this is something that I miss on the modeled KLM aircraft. Looking to the following real photos it seems to me that the LH bottom wing does have the aircraft registration on it. As can be seen on the lower LH wings, the aircraft registrations.

Photos courtesy of Planespotters. Net and airliners. Another thing I noticed while walking around the engines was the fan in front of the JT3D engines. I had something of ….. Time to investigate …. The JT3 made its first flight on a Boeing aircraft on June 22, While walking around, starting at the nose of the aircraft, I noticed that the wheels have no profile at all.

On the following two photos, you can see that these DC Series have profiles tires, so hopefully this is something that can be implemented in a future update of the modeled DC-8 aircraft. It all looks so far OK. One last item to highlight and that are the decals or text on the fuselage. They are blurry. Different methods are used to add text or decals to an aircraft, but one thing is thru; it is possible to have a better and sharper text or decals.

It seems that the wing shape is well done, but I miss all the static dischargers at the end of the wings, trailing edges of the ailerons and elevators. The rudder has static dischargers mounted at the trailing edge, but I hardly believe all other trailing edges have no static dischargers by default.

Knowing myself, I needed to find it out. And yes, found that for example at the wingtip the pilots need to check the presence of the static dischargers and so on. Overall a nice and good-looking DC although I would appreciate, not only for me, but for all those simmers who bought this aircraft or those who are interested in it, when the developer can try to solve some of the issues I highlighted then I will be even more happy.

That are, by the way, the only doors that are simulated in the , and models. The door stairs are controlled via a separate switch on the FE panel. What other features are implemented? As far as I can see, no other doors or panels are simulated except then the upper deck cargo door of the F model. My first impression is that a lot of time and effort is put into this cockpit. Most of the panels I see are made old with scratches, dents and weathering which is I think as real as it gets.

For those simmers who know the Rotate MD80 Series, they will see a lot of similarities in the sub panels and then I main the way panels are organized. Most of the text on the panels is clearly readable, although some text is slightly fussy, but still readable.

Scanning along the main- and center instrument panels, you can clearly see the 3D effect from the indicators, lights, bulbs, and even from the screws. That the panel looks a mesh, everywhere you find something mounted, not always in a logical order, is all normal.

This is however not applicable for the basic T arrangement of the analog flight instruments on both the captains and co-pilots panel. I did found some cockpit photos with this! It must be said that not all switches, selectors and lights are functional. That said, just keep in mind with this X-Plane 11 DC-8 package not all works.

Ho ho …. In case the panels are simulating mechanical characters, then you should be able to control the frequencies without electrical power. Further on I must say that many tiny things in the cockpit have been modeled like for example the windshield temperature sensors, the old-fashioned oxygen masks with clips, sliding window mechanism although not animated , air outlets etc. Overall satisfied. It will be a test flight that includes more or less everything that can be used in combination with the Auto Pilot and some pieces where I test the manual flight behavior of the modeled DC The manuals folder comes with a check list for a cold and dark situation or one with engine running.

Since this is my first attempt, I decided to have the engines already up and running. Then I need to check what to do before I start taxiing. By the way, this file is also included in the Acrobat document so when you have printed the whole Acrobat manual, you have these RFT contents too.

Moving the mouse from one side to the other side only gives me a small amount of digit changes. Very annoying when knowing that you need to set an altitude change from to feet! Those are easy to adjust with the mouse. Oops, almost forgotten to tell you. The provided manual explains more how to use this in relation to the modeled DC-8 series.

Sorry, no option included that could give you a popup window checklist as you sometimes see with other developers. According to Mike, the flight characteristics have been tested by retired DC-8 pilots so the only thing I can do is to accept that they find it OK. This is done by clicking the two buttons on the small panels on top of the glareshield. For this flight, I stay at this lower altitude, but else you can switch between IAS and Mach with the button next of the speed knob.

While the captain stays in the cockpit, I find myself in the cabin. The overall look is OK, but I find it a bit too dark and the sidewall panels are not white or creamy colored. It could be that this is as it was in real, but looking to a passenger door, which has a white cover, it feels different.

Not that this is so important since there are simmers who have no interest in a virtual cabin at all while some love a virtual cabin. For your convenience, find a couple of cabin screenshots. Not difficult, but worth to highlight. Amazing blog you've got there. I really love those planes :. Post a Comment. Newer Post Older Post Home.

Search This Blog. Hold cursor over link to get URL address or change in address line. IE, old. About Me My name is Ron Downey. I am a retired Aeronautical Engineer who worked for McDonnell Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas Corp for 40 years and collected many photos, info and brochures of their products. The Douglas DC-8 was one of the aircraft that brought long distance air travel to the masses. It made transatlantic air travel possible for a much larger group of people, thus making the world a much smaller place.

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