The Jaguar project for X-Plane has been a long time in the making. The overall aim is to realistically simulate the Sepecat Jaguar aircraft in many of its guises and to a high visual quality.

I began developing this model back in 2007, and since then I have spent many hours, and a fair amount of money researching and gathering data to ensure the flight model is accurate as possible within the limitations of X-Plane.

Assistance has been sought from ex Jaguar pilots, and from current Jaguar technicians and museum restoration teams. Some very kind and skilled people have provided me with dimensions, access to a real Jaguar, and documentation to aid systems and flight modelling.

The entire flight model has been rebuilt multiple times, and the 3D model had a few iterations before good progress was made.

This blog will document the build process, and updates will be posted when decent steps are made.

This is a long term project, and it will be available to buy upon its completion.

26/08/2013

Ejection Seat part 1

I am slowly building a Martin Baker Type 9 Mk 3 ejection seat, using dimensions I gathered from the exhibit at the Duxford museum. Lots of detail, as usual, and i do plan on altering some parts to make the Mk 2 version at a later date.

I plan on scripting an accurate ejection simulation with Gizmo in the future to go with the detailed model.

To that end, does anyone have any preference or thoughts regarding a pilot model?

My current plan is to have no pilot model visible when sat in the aircraft, or sat on the seat in X-Plane, but to have a model that is shown only from external views. The one drawback to this is not being able to customise the knee board textures to add data that is relevant to your current flight. If you have any thoughts or comments, please leave a comment, or email me directly. Thanks for following!








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05/08/2013

Revised Twitter Name

Due to some oddities on Twitter, i have altered my Twitter profile name to prevent spam type followers and posts.

Sorry for any inconvenience, should any of you be following me!

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