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Tutorial: Winds Aloft Forecasts

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Published on 04-29-2021 11:48 AM Number of Views: 2205

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2021

Understanding weather is an important part of flying. thecorporatepilotdad, a real world corporate pilot, offers a tutorial on winds aloft forecasts, where they can be found, and how to read each type of chart. Even though this is made with the use of official sources, it is meant for use with Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, or any flight simulator.

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Tutorial: Norway Ortho v2

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Published on 08-23-2020 11:22 AM Number of Views: 8378

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X-Plane users can make their own ortho scenery and the basics of doing so are not so hard to learn. In this tutorial, Tom Knudsen walks you through creating ortho scenery of Norway. He shows the steps in order and explains issues that may have to be dealt with along the way.

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An Introduction To Livery Painting With Layers Part III

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Published on 04-15-2020 02:50 PM Number of Views: 5969

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Robin Tannahill completes his three part series on creating liveries for X-Plane, and specifically for use with Traffic Global. Having covered the basics of using GIMP and creating a livery, in this final part he demonstrates how to create the night lighting layer for the lit parts of the aircraft.

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An Introduction To Livery Painting With Layers Part II

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Published on 03-29-2020 11:54 AM Number of Views: 27974

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Robin Tannahill has been busy doing aircraft repaints for X-Plane and in this series of articles he shares his techniques. The first tutorial covered the basic techniques of repainting using GIMP. In this second tutorial the special requirements for doing repaints for Traffic Global are covered.

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An Introduction To Livery Painting With Layers Part 1

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Published on 03-15-2020 09:01 AM Number of Views: 26009

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Robin Tannahill has been busy doing aircraft repaints for X-Plane and in this series of articles he shares his techniques. To be able to repaint you need basic skills in some graphics utility. In this part, he introduces GIMP, a freeware tool with lots of features, most important being layers, as you will learn when you read the tutorial.

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Making 3D Panels For X-Plane

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Published on 11-27-2019 12:47 PM Number of Views: 15391

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Creating a flight simulator aircraft requires a wide variety of skills, not least of which is making the 3D panel. In this tutorial, Gary Miloglav demonstrates his way of making 3D panels for X-Plane, a step by step approach that we hope you will find easy to follow.

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Techniques For Making Wheel Wells And Matching Doors

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Published on 10-21-2019 06:02 PM Number of Views: 6333

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Ray Hill continues his series of tutorials for those who want to create aircraft for X-Plane. This short tutorial demonstrates using a 3D CAD program such as ViaCAD Pro to make wheel wells and matching doors that can open and close.

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Naval Flight Operations - An Evaluation And Critique

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Published on 09-19-2019 10:33 AM Number of Views: 8579

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Naval aviators are considered to be some of the most skilled pilots around, given the challenging conditions in which they operate. Simulated naval flight operations are challenging too. In this article Ray Hill discusses naval flight, what is currently possible with X-Plane 11, and some wishes for how this area of aviation could be improved.

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3D CAD Techniques For Making Aeroplane Canopies

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Published on 09-09-2019 01:40 PM Number of Views: 8005

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Ray Hill has provided us with a number of tutorials on creating 3D aircraft models and today he expands that series with an article on making airplane canopies. Using ViaCAD this actually takes only a few steps and is probably easier than you might imagine.

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Tutorial: Beyond Plane Maker Part 2

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Published on 06-27-2019 09:50 AM Number of Views: 8596

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If you've learned to use Plane Maker, you know how to create and add aircraft of your own design to X-Plane. But Plane Maker's built-in abilities limit the shapes you can use. To create truly realistic aircraft you need to go beyond Plane Maker and use a 3D CAD program like SketchUp to create the parts you need. In this tutorial Ray Hill goes over the basics of how such parts are created and then integrated into Plane Maker aircraft.

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