![]() ![]() The Tomcats also contain custom-built and animated effects such as afterburnersįull compressor-stall engine modelling and coding for the F-14A TF-30 engines The Tomcats make use of the new simulator's features such as effects and sounds, fully reflective glass, native aerodynamic sound structures, the new 'Modern' aerodynamics system with the ability to provoke 'departure spins', and customised visibility controls for wheel chocks, covers, tie-down chains and GPU Thanks to Aires for providing IPMS with the review sample.DC Designs are proud to announce the F-14 A/B Tomcat package for Microsoft Flight Simulator, bringing you two highly detailed MSFS models.Īll models have been coded with Microsoft Flight Simulator native 'Model Behaviors' animations and built to MSFS operational specifications to prevent issues with future simulator upgrades.Īll custom cockpit instruments and screens are coded in HTML for native, high-performance display in MSFS With just a little bit of effort, this will give that tired old cat another set of nine lives. If you have the Academy Tomcat and have been waiting for a good replacement cockpit set to start your build, then wait no more. No doubt some thinning of both the plastic and resin parts will be needed where they butt together. This will have to be sliced off the bottom of the kit part and used separately. Note also that the upper nose wheel bay detail is molded on to the underside of the original Academy cockpit tub. You will also need to sand off the original molded-on sidewall detail (such as it is) on the fuselage interior, which will be replaced with nicely detailed resin cockpit sidewall parts. Replacing the instrument panel housings for the pilot and RIO will require cutting out these sections of the plastic cockpit on the Academy upper fuselage. ![]() To use this set, some minor surgery is required. Also included are films for the instruments. The accompanying photo etch covers various seat parts such as handles, seat belts, ejection pulls, etc, as well as instrument panels, canopy interior rails, mirrors and foot pedals. Some of the smaller resin parts such as the instrument control handles and the foot pedal mounts are quite thin and/or tiny and will require considerable care when removing them from the pouring block. The major components are resin, and these parts are crisply molded and virtually free of flash (I found one small bit around the RIO’s scope). This is a complete, multi-media cockpit set. ![]() ![]() This set goes a very long way towards turning the Academy kit into a first class representation of the real thing. The Academy kit has been around for quite a while, and its interior details, while perhaps adequate for its day, are sorely lacking by today’s standards. That’s exactly the case with this F-14A set. Now they’re providing us with upgrades where they’re really needed – for older models with interior details that have been surpassed by the quality of more modern kits. For years Aires has been keeping us detail freaks supplied with upgrade sets for the latest contemporary state-of-the-art kits from the major manufacturers. ![]()
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