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/images/notams/notams22/wing0205.jpgOne big issue that had been bugging me for a long time is that ofthe radio equipment. The Boeing 247, and especially that later "D"variant utilized cutting edge technologies, which included somestate-of-the-art radio equipment. The problem is, that by today'sstandard, and thus the standard of Microsoft Flight Simulator, thosetechnologies are hopelessly outdated and simply not used anymore. This bears some issues for us. Since we want to bring you a mostrealistic and historically accurate experience, the lack oflow-frequency radio stations and the modern VHF communication, takesaway from this experience. My original idea was to cheat, by modelling a vintage radio buthave it use the modern frequency range. I even thought you could usethe same equipment to pick up the Morse code of the VOR stations as anadded bonus. Then I met celestial navigation and radio expert Eric van derVeen. He released a stand-alone module for MSFS last year, which addsradio range stations to the sim. We started talking, and he sincewrote a wasm module exclusively for the Wing42 Boeing 247D thatintegrates his work directly into the aircraft. And if you have noidea what "radio range navigation" is, allow me to blow your mind! More...
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/images/notams/notams21/wing0924/wing42-1.jpg If you follow the development, you probably noticed that I haven'tposted many pictures of the cockpit until now. The reason is obvious:it wasn't ready yet. In this blog post I want to share with you why ittook so long and give you further insight on the research anddevelopment process for this aircraft. When researching an aircraft, we need as many drawings, photographsand documents as we can get our greedy hands on. The developmentprocess of any add-on is accompanied with countless hours of diggingthrough archives, communicating with curators of aviation museums,image searching and reading through hundreds of pages ofdocuments. The Boeing 247 is almost 90 years old and considering thatshe didn't operate for a very long time and was only adopted by veryfew airlines, documentation like technical drawings, manuals andequipment lists were hard to come by. /images/notams/notams21/wing0924/wing42-2.jpg /images/notams/notams21/wing0924/wing42-3.jpg /images/notams/notams21/wing0924/wing42-4.jpg Source