Posts Tagged ‘Bobcat’

Ever since it was published a few weeks ago, early users and testers asked for a Bobcat version WITHOUT passengers.

At the time Simon was not able to comply with those wishes, but now he has released an update for existing customers, where the passengers are no longer visible when flying ‘in cockpit’. You can still see them in ’spot plane mode’.

Simon also made a few minor corrections, among other things to the beacon light switch function.

You can download the free upgrade here.

The Bobcat T-50 is now also available on a CD and as a direct download from the FSAddon product page (These are ‘Version 2′ and include the upgrade already!).

Today we released the new T-50 Bobcat from Simon Smeiman. It is Simon’s second aircraft and he has made big strides in terms of techniques used.

The Bobcat is a dedicated FSX aircraft modeled after the 1939 plane, with a wonderful flight model and great textures.
It comes in wheeled and floats versions for both military and civilian use.

Although a tad more expensive than the Super Cub, the price remains pleasant, at only Euro 13,95 for non-EU customers!

We’ll have a boxed version ready in the next weeks, which will be sold on our own website as usual.

For now, get all the info at simMarket here !

T-50 Bobcat Manual : DONE.

First installer build and test: DONE.

Graphics for installer: DONE.

Graphics and text for the product page: WORKING ON IT.

We expect to publish the Bobcat this weekend on simMarket and on our own site, followed by a CD version within two weeks. Stay tuned… !

Simon Smeiman has been working hard at designing and then improving his Cessna T-50 Bobcat, an aircraft designed in the late ’30’s! Helped by an extremely active Beta Team Simon has much improved his technique and added a load of new features and details to the initial model.

So now we’ll be able to offer you a civilian and a military version, in various liveries…… AND a float version of both !!!

Here are some screenshots to wet your appetite…… courtesy of Nick Churchill.

Some good news for the Flightsim Fans is that I am now working on three separate FS projects simultaneously…. and MORE than me the main authors of course. We have a gauge designer for the Lizzie !!! That’s the good news I want to share first and foremost! It is Scott Thomas, whom I know from Milton Shupe’s projects. Needless to say we are VERY happy having things move forward again!

We’re still waiting for news from Rob Young who seems to have private problems and has once again disappeared from our view…. more on that later I hope.

The second project is Simon Smeiman’s nice little Cessna Bobcat T-50, a twin-engine aircraft from way back when. We are hearing rumors that we can’t use the word ‘Cessna’ anymore anywhere without getting invoiced or sued…. oh well, decent people seem to be the ‘last of the Mohicans’ these days. It doesn’t make Simon’s plane any less interesting!

And thirdly we have AJ Weber working on his LHA, Landing Ship, Helicopter, Amphibious. A naval ship aka helicopter carrier, used for amphibious landings. I’ll be putting up screenshots of these new projects soon. We’re now starting the Beta Process for them!

Oh,and last but certainly not least, Bill Womack reckons he needs 2 more weeks to get his part of Tongass ready before we can put that in Beta too….. we may need to expand our beta Team soon if things continue like this ! ;-)