Good afternoon all;

I've made a texture 'fix' for the incorrect flap handle settings on the Captain Sim 727s for FSX.  You can find it in a zip file here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=ee4d96516fc71160ab1eab3e9fa335ca5484252731ec8...

With these textures installed, the markings on the flap handle pedestal will match up with the flap handle at each setting. Jpgs are enclosed in the zip so you can see what it looks like before you install.

Captain Sim...if you would like to include these textures in the new update (to save you some work)  be my guest  

Matt

Captain Sim 2;

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear about what I was trying to accomplish. I wasn't trying to customize your plane, I just wanted the handle animation to work correctly.

The issue that I corrected was that the movement of the flap handle itself didn't match the flap setting.  If you selected "25 degrees" the gauge on the panel would say 25 but the handle didn't line up with the number 25    I saw that other people had noticed this problem too and figured a simple texture edit was an easy way to fix it.  

The updated file makes it so that when the flap gauge on the panel says 5,15, 25, and 30 degrees the flap handle on the virtual cockpit pedestal will be in line with those numbers. That way you can tell at a glance in the VC what your flap setting is. I'm assuming that must be how it works in a real cockpit, regardless of the cockpit layout.

Based on your picture I will go back and add in the number "20" between 15 and 25 - that way it will have the functionality as well as the original look. When I am done I will post here.

Thanks and have a good day -
Matt

Good evening all;

I have uploaded "Flap handle fix version 2"...it can be found at the same link above.

The only change is that I restored the "20" and included some "before and after" pictures so that it is clear what changed.

Thanks -
Matt

JETPILOT wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2009 at 11:00pm:


Beats me...but I have seen a few on Airliners.net with a "20" marking.  I wonder if only certain customers ordered them that way?!

Came across this kind of by accident when I was searching for something else:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/airports/acaps/727sec3.pdf
On page 15 and 16, charts for the "-200 Standard and Advanced" you can see that on the chart it makes mention of "Flaps 20" with an irregular dashed line. On pages 17-22, charts for "-200 Advanced" you can see that the "Flaps 20" is in a solid line. "Flaps 20" lines do not exist on charts for "-100" or "-200 Standard only" showing that Flaps 20 was a purely 727-200/Adv. option.

Captain Sim 2 wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2009 at 11:15am:


I tracked down the picture that CS posted on Airliners.net, and the aircraft was listed as 727-264/Adv. 64 is the customer code for Mexicana, so it would appear that Mexicana was ordering the 20 degrees of flaps. Makes sense, all those ugly hot & high operations going on.