Aeroplane-Heaven Lancaster Discussion

[Editer]

A mod let me know that they request limiting screenshots to 10 per post (thanks, @SmotheryVase665!) so I edited the original post and moved the extras to this one. Apologies to existing readers for the rerun.

[EnjonUK]

Update out from AH and available from the JF store too, check your order as I haven’t received an email from JF about it, but it is up.

ah_lancaster_V1.1.0 now available. Already at our site and with vendors very soon.

This is the first interim update to address a number of issues raised by customers and also a few improvements.

1. Cockpit lighting intensity reduced for more control with rheostats.

2. Fuel gauges corrected for more accurate U.S.Gallon/British Gallon conversion

3. Prop feathering corrected

4. Missing parachute pack textures replaced

5. VSI needle corrected

6. ADF needle position corrected and textured. (was pink) On RMI

7. Small texture improvements throughout VC

Tailwheel castoring angle changed for better castor

9. Bank indicator on AHI now animated correctly

[hazzer111]

I have wanted a modern flight sim to make a good Lancaster for so long. The last one I remember flying was.. The airplane heaven one for fsx. Which back then was OK but very bare bones and basic (especially when comparing it to the likes of the a2a B17).

I was completely unaware that this was being developed for msfs. When I saw a YouTube video I was happy, till I realised who the dev was.

Unfortunately to me the quality just seems to be lacking, in model and texture.

While I get the price point is low, it seems lacking in animation quality and anything but skin deep systems depth. The model doesn’t look much improved over fsx.

Dissapoitned but not really surprise.

Still siting in hope that a2a will take a break from GA Civ and bring us some accusim warbirds.

[oldpilot54]

Have a look at this video at time stamp 41.50.

First look at the Aeroplane Heaven Avro Lancaster in Flight Simulator 2024

[DDArthur5357]

I simply refuse to buy anything from AH now. Their modelling and texturing is simply sub par when it comes to what this sim is capable of supporting.

[Astronut71]

Dispite all the naysaying, this has been an enjoyable airplane to fly. It’s a great experience in VR, the flight model feels believable, the sounds are excellent overall (as we would expect from Echo19) .

With some of you guys, I feel you expect complete perfection for $35.

It’s pretty awesome in VR with a HF8 haptic seat pad as you push the throttles forward.. the airplane feels alive.

[pby5a]

Feel free to refuse to buy things, your loss. I like it, and I’d rather have a not 100% realistic Lanc (but maybe 90%) than no Lancaster.
I 've painted and uploaded a few more textures:
LE-Y (00006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

JN-M(00005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

ws-l (00007) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

and I’m working on something different:

WU12(00002) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[hazzer111]

Can someone tell me as I haven’t been able to find this anywhere else. Is the steering realistic, or does it have the option to be?
By that I mean using the free castering tailwheel and differential braking.
Or does the aircraft magically turn (as most default aircraft do) with the rudder input?

[ShyMarigold6247]

rudder input

[hazzer111]

Ah that’s a shame, it’s a real killer to any realism for me.
Maybe if the devs could consider altering it or adding the option.

If not I’ll hope someone maybe makes a mod for it

[Daytona1258548]

Unfortunately this release will likely kill any incentive for a decent Lancaster to ever be developed by a decent developer since it’s already been “done”. Too bad, I wish Aeroplane “Heaven” would have left this iconic plane to be done by someone else.

[FlyingsCool5650]

Unfortunately, MSFS does not have realistic castoring tailwheels. They’ve never programmed in the offset of the wheel, and it just spins about the axis. So, any planes that have more realistic castoring tailwheels have custom code for it. It sounds like the Lanc doesn’t have that. And I can’t say I’d blame them. Would probably be tough to do with a plane as large is it is. But, I don’t know. I don’t know what it takes to custom code a castoring tail wheel.

[hazzer111]

Well the freeware upgrade to the beech 18 has it.. So one would assume if people doing it for free can, then the guys who are being paid might..

[hazzer111]

Can someone with the Lancaster have a look at the props as well? From the videos and screenshots the prop shape (specifically the tips) looks completely wrong. They look pointed when as far as I know all the props on the lanc were rounded at the end (and generally quite wide).

[M0ONCALF]

I thought I saw avangel use the left and right engines to steer on the runway in her review, rather than just rudder?

[MucusTech]

If all you have is a joystick, keyboard and mouse, as many users have, then differential braking can be a complete pain.

[hazzer111]

That’s fair enough, but as lots of people don’t just have that.
It’s nice to have the option to have it the correct way or the easier way isn’t it?

[Chudamaru]

That’s just not true. It’s a single number edit in the cfg to make an aircraft free castoring.

[FlyingsCool5650]

I didn’t say MSFS doesn’t model free castoring. I said it doesn’t model it correctly. You can only turn it on or off, you can’t put in the distance from the center of the wheel to the center of the pivot. The axle of the wheel pivots about the pivot. Which is not how a ‘free castoring’ tailwheel works (hence why it’s called “castoring”). Unless I’m wrong and there’s been a recent fix to the SDK to correct the way it’s worked since, well… forever.

[kaha300d]

I’m in the EU. On ORBX it is 25% more than on Justflight.