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.

21/05/2011

Propulsion Progress

As usual, its been a while since i posted an update, so here goes, with lots of pictures!

The main progress is as follows;
  • I have modelled the Yaw Damper and its associated brackets and mounts.
  •  Arrestor Hook, with the wire cup and  pickup hook.  
  •  RR/ Turbomeca Adour Mk 102 exhaust and reheat equipment, including animated petals and tailpipe.

Yaw Damper

Arrestor Hook

Arrestor Hook In Sim

Max Dry

Max Reheat

I have also been using the Gizmo Plugin to make some scripts recently too. Gizmo is an extremely powerful, yet easy to use plugin which allows X-Plane users to make useful scripts very quickly to add functionality to aircraft. The first script i have made controls the Arrestor Hook angle by monitoring the aircraft's height, pitch angle and weight. Here is a quick video i made;



That's all for now!

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