![]() New instruments are lovely, but feel like the new black panel facia in they are now very modern, clean, new and certainly lose that 70 year old wear and tear feel? Everything now has the feeling that the old has been pulled out and a new layout has been installed to up date the aircraft to a more modern version?ĭitto the new clean heel plates on the floor, no wear or tear like the tired older plates. Note the new S-TEC autopilot panel (arrowed), a modern addition, again I would have liked an option on this visual aspect as I really love the original if very misguided Sperry Type A-3A autopilot, I am not sure if that Type 3A still works, I'll test it in flight. switches do, but the wipers don't? but the assembly is a great visual filler of the instrument panel detail. Added is a really nice wiper switch assembly set below the whiskey compass and above the main instrument panel. here is the original panel.įirst are the missing rings of screws that holds the panel together to the bulkhead, and yes you really miss them visually, another work in progress, I do hope so. they may come back in a future update, other changes are that the Standard Six instruments are now yellow boxed which I like a lot, and the landing gear and hydraulic gauges are now a lovely detailed white than black. ![]() First changes are that you lose the lovely "Douglas" logo on the metal rimmed yokes. The instrument panel is laid out the same, but different in details. And that is a major point to note here in v3.0. ![]() Another big change are that the windows lose their dirty ageing banding for black tinted banding, personally I think this is a backward step as the older wear of dirt gave the aircraft this dated appeal, were as the tinted black makes it feel more modern. The main visual change is from the older grey quilt insulation to a more wartime green webbing insulation, I actually like it, but I liked the grey quilting as well, so the cockpit now feels more military than commercial. the changes can be dividing depending on your mood and inclination, I know I am. Version 3 was always about the internal changes, and there has been some significant changes in every internal area. Overall all the earlier liveries will still work, but if you are fanatical about detail then you will need to spend the time to fix them up to the v3 specifications. but now the rivet lines don't match up to the older livery, but you can certainly see the better quality in the detailing and far better rivet detail, and overall I am quite happy about with changes. My beloved Air Atlantique livery needed some significant changes to match the new v3 texture requirements with items moved (propellers and detail), as the mapping has been now totally redone. First the external textures was changed or gone from 2K to 4K textures, now the mapping has been changed as well, and to the better or worse is again debatable. and it isn't as well? Confused, well that will be explained. ![]() It was noted that v3.0 was always going to be a significant overhaul, and it is. This is part of the deal with the developer, and at least he keeps his side of the bargain. That is not a bad as long as it goes forward of which this project always has done, and note the word "Project" as any aircraft by VSkyLabs is an ongoing project and there is more to come as it is developed out more and more. Aircraft Update Review - DC-3/C47 v3.0b1 by VSkyLabs Flying Lab ProjectĬhanges on VSkyLab's DC3/C47 is increment by increment.
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