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Just click the horn cut-out button, front left panel.

Here you go:

It's coming but I won't promise anything close to Mugaben's version, he's way better at weathering than I am :)

Beautiful work, Mugaben! Looks great! :thumbup: IvanK is correct, some Sabre models used a version of the AI without pitch markings, it only had the Climb and Dive and associated 90 degree markings. Here's what one looks like: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2133371&postcount=15 In the cockpit textures the 90 deg. pitch circles are on Texture 1 but I don't think the game uses them. The entire pitch ladder, including circles, is on Texture 2. This is what the game uses. The pitch lines would have to be removed but the 90 deg circles retained. Of course I'll have to check this when I get home, I could be wrong. :music_whistling:

Oil dilution is something you would have to be perform before shutting the engine down, in order to make it easier to start the next time. You can't dilute the oil while (a) the engine is not running, (b) it's already Jell-O ;) I don't know if there's a way to set a mission parameter to "oil diluted" before starting the mission.

Thank you very much! :thumbup:

Ker-bump for another set of gun ports :)

It's still a beta, I can't get rid of the Bort numbers either (yet). Just playing around right now, I don't want to get too far ahead in case things change. It's hard not to keep playing ;)

It's white, same as other markings on the instrument.

Just found a couple more.

Nope. They were painted. Trust me. ;) Both my old man and an uncle on my mom's side flew the camo ones in the RCAF. I've been around pictures and slides of RCAF Sabres for years. Look at the bare metal fuel cap, the interior of the nose wheel well door, the nose wheel, bare metal tanks the tug passenger is sitting on and then look at the gun ports. Bare metal drop tank, painted gun ports. Ready to be made into beer cans in '63. Worn areas on gun blast pane showing bare metal, gun ports are painted dark green. The camo pattern was a standard 4th Allied Tactical Airforce (4ATAF) NATO paint scheme in use by at least four NATO countries' air forces, Canada, UK, Italy, Germany. I have a boat load of Sabre pics on my computer, unfortunately colour pics from the fifties and early sixties are rare, as you can imagine. :)

Had your whiz wheel handy? :)

What's the machmeter say at 250KIAS at 40,000'?

Fuel is a hydrocarbon. One of the byproducts of combustion is water vapour, which freezes at high altitudes. If the engine is somewhat inefficient, like a J-47, the fuel may not burn completely cleanly and another byproduct is excess carbon, in the form of a smoky black trail.

South Africans: Plenty of room to add another set of gun port textures near wing textures ;) HINT ;) Oh, I should also add, after spending some time getting to know where everything is on the DIF and seeing it in the game I have to say this is the most accurate F-86F Sabre model I've ever had the pleasure to play with. Kudos to BST. :thumbup:

Correct. Handle was on left side of main panel, near canopy switch.

I don't mean the exterior of the gun blast panes, but rather the interior "channels" as you say. There is only one texture, the smoky bits top left, above the "red" blast pane in your DIF file. They were painted the same colour as the blast pane itself, and would vary depending on the colour of the surrounding camo pattern: 4ATAF camo pattern as used by both RAF and RCAF during late fifties/early sixties: Ports painted the same colour as the blast pane, Dark Green on port side Extra Dark Sea Grey on starboard side RAF Sabre, same camo pattern Some more: And I almost forgot the Luftwaffe!

I just discovered there is only one set of gun port textures on the DIF file. Please, please, PLEASE change the mapping to include gun port textures for BOTH sides of the nose, not just one texture mapped to both sides as it it right now. I know you probably only had bare metal textures in mind when originally making the model, etc., but some of us may want to make camo skins for the Sabre and if the camo colours are different on L vs R sides the gun ports won't match the blast pane on one side because we have only one texture for both sides right now. :( Please Belsimtek, while we are still in beta, can you find some spare real estate on the DIF texture and add a separate area to map another set of gun ports to so we can have left and right? Please and Thank You :smilewink:

Be great to have an F-86F with slats. And an Orenda 14 inside. Was that out loud?

<cough> pitot tube! <cough> :)

There was an Aft tank pump that automatically transfered fuel into the forward/main tank, but I can't remember the specifics. Presently on the road with work but I'll check the manual I have when I get home tonight.

Agree. If this was the fifties my crew chief would be hearing "a bottle of Wild Turkey says that compass will be to the right of the glare shield by tomorrow morning... Hint" ;)

If it helps, here's some pics of mine, it doesn't have the pitch angle markings on it, just the climb and dive markings and associated 8 balls for 90 deg... These are pics, not video, you'll have to trust me as I flipped this thing around to document how the Climb and Dive markings on the sphere behave at high and low nose attitudes. Type J-8 Attitude Indicator, as manufactured by Bendix. The Climb marking appears from below and is seen first before the 90 deg marking. NOTE - I know it appears you are diving in this pic given the airplane symbol is BELOW the horizon bar but this is due to the instrument being unpowered and the gimbals flopping around inside. I only mean to illustrate the Climb and Dive markings. The Dive marking appears from above. The horizon bar, as stated, is separate from the sphere behind it and only travels the first 27 degrees from the horizontal. More crap from my Man Cave... Most instruments manufactured by Kollsman. Although used in the F-86 they weren't specific to the Sabre, but used by many aircraft of the era. Somewhere in the basment is an EGT and a fuel flow gauge...

I get it at Batumi too, I think I first noticed it with the A-10C release.

@Devrim, oh, things are far from finished, I'm just playing around a bit right now. There's plenty of stuff to add like paint chipping near the odd screw hole and general dirt - look at the forward L and R panels for an example. Maybe not quite so grungy on the main instrument panel however, not as many fingers on it vs the side panels Here's a (crappy) pic of a Canadair main panel: @Basco1 yes, that's definitely possible, I did some fictional Canadian skins for the A-10C a while back and another forum member (Bonedust) wrote a neat little installer for me so you could select pilot skins with appropriate squadron patches to match the skin choice. BTW, when is DCS going to give us a drop down menu for pilot skins - HINT HINT! ;) Here's a pic of the left side of a Canadair 'pit: That mess forward of the bombing caution placard is a legend for the circuit breaker panel.