Touching Cloud

Several days ago we got the first military jet for Microsoft Flight Simulator. It’s fun but unfinished. Let’s give it some love and raise the level of quality!

First stage is passed – visual effects added like vortex trails, vapor cone, exhaust and aerobatics smoke.

Next will be working catapult – in cooperation with Photosbykev and 270inc we are making simply looking aircraft carrier with animated crew and complicated operations.

Then turn off the tailhook and arrestors – precise hook-cable collision calculation will make many of you happy (or angry).

And finally, the reason for the project name – AA radar with gun ballistics assistant for combat training simulation. Can you shoot someone? We’ll see.

Even if it’s a freeware project, only stable releases will become public. Development versions will be shared privately with our testers (you know Hornet well enough? Feel free to join!) and Patreon subscribers.

Good news everyone!

We are ready to introduce next update of our DG808S community mod. You will find in new version a lot of visual improvements, better flight model and some useful features. Check this video for details:

Short list of changes:

• animated pilot model (toggleable by click on seat)
• additional liveries
• cockpit reflection for canopy
• custom attitude indicator
• flight track for nav map
• precise aerodynamics
• panel light
• improved textures and materials

Have a great flights, feel free to report issues, and keep an eye on future updates!

With latest MSFS update, our programs started to cause crash to desktop on loading screen. This time ASOBO developers changed initialization process somehow (probably optimized), but forget to add safe check for SimConnect – if some requests sent that moment, game crashing.

We have tried to avoid such issue, leave a comment or contact us on Discord if you still experience any problems with it. You can get latest versions of the apps on Kinetic Assistant and ALBATROSS pages.

After months of the development and adjustments, we are finally close to the end of the process. Most features work smooth, the user interface is simple and logical.

Several things still should be improved – like ghost recording, and maybe new thing will be added soon – it has experimental status right now, if will work well – could be passed to our testing team soon.

New tow option was added in this version – ground crew push. It is really helpful for gliders and navy pilots, so you can park your aircraft, or move to the runway/catapult, by yourself.

In-game panel now included – you can see and control zoom of navigation screen inside of the game (works in VR!). No tutorials on it yet, but it’s enough just enable the “Kinetic Panel” option in settings (scroll down available options first), and click on Install link – drag and drop archive content into Community folder and you will see a new panel option with glider picture.

ALBATROSS updated as well, check out our new gliding competition – Race175 Oloron-Herrere! Don’t forget to get France add-on to have the ultimate level of scenery quality. We are all here for breathtaking sight viewing, right? =)

Another week of hard work and we are getting closer to the next public version. A lot of visual issues fixed – missing polygons, poorly looking textures and materials, VR problem.

Attempt to add water ballast dump visual effect can’t be named successful – current FX system very limited and does not provide much instruments. So it looks a bit weird, but better than nothing.

Next week missing sounds will be added, so cockpit, finally, will get ultimate immersion. Wish to thank everyone who helps us with issues tracking and advice, really glad it became truly community project!