{"id":3807,"date":"2018-02-11T21:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/lockheed-vega-5-now-in-early-access\/"},"modified":"2021-03-04T16:17:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:17:52","slug":"lockheed-vega-5-now-in-early-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/lockheed-vega-5-now-in-early-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Vega 5 now in Early Access!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ladies and Gentlemen,<\/p>\n\n<p>In case you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, <strong>the Lockheed Vega is now available for purchase in Early-Access!<\/strong> As you can imagine, the previous weeks have been crazy for us but I feel very confident that we released a product that is very solid, despite it being Early-Access. My biggest fear going into Early-Access has always been that customers feel like they&#8217;re not getting their moneys worth, which was the main reason for various delays of beforehand. But so far I had zero support requests regarding the aircraft and everybody seem to be happy with it.<\/p>\n\n<p><br\/>Below you&#8217;ll find my current to-do-list as you&#8217;d see it on my whiteboard in the office. These are the things I consider to be the priority for the next Update of the Lockheed Vega 5. I figure it would further the transparency and trust if you&#8217;d be kept in the loop as to what I am working on right now, since all of you have been very generous and forthcoming in your support of this project.<br\/><br\/><strong>TO-DO list for version 0.4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Heat exchange module<\/strong> &#8211; this will be a core-component of the Vega&#8217;s physics simulation and an integral part in the engine&#8217;s wear&amp;tear simulation.<\/li><li><strong>Skinned mesh animations<\/strong> &#8211; there&#8217;s some skinned mesh parts that need a bit of love. I.e. the stick cover, the pilot and the wiring in the fuse-box (there&#8217;s some minor clipping issues)<\/li><li><strong>Clean up lubrication module<\/strong> &#8211; there&#8217;s an issue (that doesn&#8217;t affect the operation right now!) in the guts of the oil system were the pressure can rise to ridiculous levels so that the double variable can&#8217;t hold it anymore and it switches to &#8222;NaN&#8220; (not a number). I need to set some boundary conditions in the pressure calculations to prevent that. In the future this high pressure will cause failures though &#8211; broken seals etc.<\/li><li><strong>Fuel dump valve<\/strong> &#8211; My research (that&#8217;s what I call my &#8222;looking at pictures&#8220;) shows that the early Lockheeds all seem to have had a fuel dump valve installed just under the wobble pump. I&#8217;ll implement that in the next update.<\/li><li><strong>Overhaul vacuum system<\/strong> &#8211; I was called out on YouTube for my inadequate representation of the vacuum system. Specifically my assumption that the prop-wash would generate enough laminar flow to generate enough pressure differential in the venturi tube to operate three instruments. I was wrong and I&#8217;ll correct this. As it turns out, the venturi was only hooked up to the turn &amp; bank indicator as a backup in case the engine-driven vacuum pump failed. The bad news is that this also means I have to change the plumbing diagram in the manuals&#8230; meh.<\/li><li><strong>Handheld radio<\/strong> &#8211; ok, ok. I concede your point. Your posts here in the forum weren&#8217;t the first to point out that a radio would really, really be useful. While I still hate the idea of introducing modern technology into the aircraft, I think I will include the option of installing a little 2d-handheld radio. Are you happy now? <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.wing42.com\/images\/smilies\/icon_lol.gif\" alt=\":lol:\" width=\"15\" height=\"17\"\/><\/li><li><strong>SECRET<\/strong> &#8211; there are some other points on the list that I either don&#8217;t want to disclose, because I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll finish with them on time, or I&#8217;d like to surprise you.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and Gentlemen, In case you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, the Lockheed Vega is now available for purchase in Early-Access! As you can imagine, the previous weeks have been crazy for us but I feel very confident that we released a product that is very solid, despite it being Early-Access. My biggest fear going into Early-Access has always been that customers feel like they&#8217;re not getting their moneys worth, which was the main reason for various delays of beforehand. But so far I had zero support requests regarding the aircraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vega-de"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wing42.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}