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I've just tested this: I can confirm that the Dreamfleet 727's original TCAS works perfectly well online with José Oliviera's AIBridge and SB3. I sat on the ground at KLAX on VATSIM and saw other aircraft around me on the taxiways. The main advantage I can see of using the original TCAS is that you don't need to mess up the pedestal! You can get the latest version from José's website: http://jcboliveira.name/index.php?page=programs If you use FSInn instead of SB3, he's made another program (on the same page) called GaugeBridge which apparently enables all his programs to work with FSInn. Coincidentally I used to work for a Portugese woman called José Oliviera but I don't think they're the same person...

Can't you do all of them first? I'd quite like to see the 737-400 again... Actually it's a bit disingenuous of me to comment - I've never used FSX, and at the moment I can't even run Windows let alone FS9.... :) :) :) (Don't mind me, it's 2:30am and I'm waiting for my Windows PC to labouriously finish its in-depth RAM analysis so I can go to bed...)

Hmm, I thought I'd posted here yesterday... Is it possible to use AIBridge to link online traffic to the Dreamfleet 727 transponder? It seems to work with a freeware gauge that's meant to simulate an F-16's radar - that is, I was flying on VATSIM with AIBridge running, and my aircraft used this gauge (as a weather radar!), and it was picking up the other VATSIM pilot's aircraft. I could click on their aircraft as they appeared on the radar and get their callsign and height. (The F-16 gauge was designed to be a radar, not TCAS, so it might work differently to the DF727 TCAS, but I'd be very surprised...) I'd like to have INS in my 727s but not so keen on the duplicate transponders on the console - yes, sorry, I'm being very pedantic... :-D

Great news then! I haven't used FS for months (due to having no time) but when I get back to my PC in the new year, I'll look forward to flying the new version!

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~jsd23/anavsi1.jpg http://www.bath.ac.uk/~jsd23/anavsi2.jpg Hmm, it looks like the panel background must be edited too. Playing with the transponder TCAS knobs offline didn't cause any problems. All that I did was to go to the 727 folder, find out which panel it's aliased to, and edit that panel.cfg (backing it up first, of course) changing it from gaugeXX=DF727NJ4!EVSI,aaa,bbb,cc,dd to gaugeXX=DF727NJ1!VSI,aaa,bbb,cc,dd This must be done in about eight places, captain and FO main and landing, and VC - just look through every block of gauges or search for evsi.

Can we, the end-users, edit the gauges to remove the TCAS sections, and make individual online-compatible versions of the 727? I don't fly online, I don't know how Squawkbox works. I assume the TCAS gauges (the EVSI and the transponder gauge) are making the 727 crash online. So, we could make a new 727 varient - -200 Pax Analogue VC Online, or something, which wouldn't be managed by the config manager. Edit the panel.cfg to use the non-TCAS VSI from the EFIS panel. Remove the transponder gauge entirely, and if necessary add a default one, or some suitable substitute. I would assume that would fix the problem.

Sorry, I meant that all the DF Super-27s that are coming in the servicepack/add-on have winglets (plus the -200(HK)(WL) Pan Am aircraft). Winglets aren't optional for the Greatest Airliners 727 v1.1 Super-27s.

>How about if you get the tables up on the screen and set the >bugs yourself for the speed calls and then during the take-off >roll get calls for "80 knots", "fuel flows normal","V1, >rotate" and "V2"? I think KC-10 was asking for a non-TCAS VSI. The EFIS panel has a plain VSI, and I think it can be swapped into the non-EFIS panel.cfgs - I haven't tried it, and I did ask but someone said it could cause a problem, (perhaps if the TCAS controls on the radio stack are looking for a TCAS gauge which is no longer part of the panel?) But I'm sure I heard of someone doing this successfully. Back up the CFGs first...! Perhaps the 727 would work online if you don't engage TA/RA mode, and don't use any TCAS function, and swap in the non-TCAS VSI from the EFIS panel. Perhaps, given that online-ATC users probably know their way about a panel.cfg already, DF could produce a non-TCAS version of the transponder gauge, so the online users could put it into their panels and have no TCAS but also no crashes? It wouldn't need new graphics even, it could just have the TCAS sections of code removed, or the TCAS selections locked out. I don't know if that's a feasable idea. Sandro, from what I read all the super-27s have winglets. Every varient that DF include will multiply the number of .cfgs required. Right now, we've got the -100 and -200, passenger and freighter, original or (RE,WL), plus the -200 (HK,WL). That's 2*2*2+1 = 9 basic varients. On top of that, each one has the options of no-VC or VC, and EFIS or Analogue, which increases the number of varients by a factor of 4, giving 36 varients in total - if DF were to add non-(WL) super-27s, that would make it (2*2*3+1)*4 = 52 varients, adding 16 more models to produce - the -100 and -200 pax and freight no-VC and VC analogue and EFIS versions of the (RE)(no-WL) aircraft... a lot of work for a small difference, I think? Omykron, as I understand, the number 2 engine is the original engine but with a hushkit, and with the reverser removed. The numbers 1 and 3 engines are MD-80-standard -217s with bucket reversers. Whew, a what a lovely badly-formatted block of text - just what the thread needed!

RE is re-engined, I imagine, and there will be new flight models.

Looks interesting!

Mr. Golding mentioned that the VC yokes will be removable.

>Finishing > >José > >http://jcboliveira.flysplash.org/foruns/tap100.jpg >http://jcboliveira.flysplash.org/foruns/tap200.jpg Excellent! I'm very happy to see this scheme, because there's a picture of a TAP 727 at my local international airport (Bristol) so I can realistically fly the 727 from there now!

Hmm, suddenly I can access Airliners again. How bizzare. Anyway, the photos of the partial Landor scheme are: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/006155/L/ http://www.airliners.net/open.file/003020/L/ And the screenshot of full Landor I referred to is under the 'random screens' thread in the screenshots forum...

Seriously now, is anyone thinking of doing a British Airways Landor paintscheme? I can't connect to Airliners for some reason, but there were two photographs of a Comair/BA 727 in a basic Landor scheme, with the blue section of the fuselage lower down and no red fuselage stripe, and a notably small tail emblem. But the caption said that they were later repainted into full Landor glory - and there's a screenshot of a freeware (I think) 727 in that full Landor livery...

I'd really like to see [link:www.airliners.net/open.file/607528/L/|this livery]. It's quite stunning, I think.