jmaverick16/kc-137r

Advanced Air-To-Air Refueling System based on the KC-135

KC-137R family project by J Maverick 16 and Octal450 Hangar.

This repo contains 6 military aircrafts derived from the Boeing 707 and it's variants.

• KC-137R Stratotanker: Advanced Air-To-Air Refueling System, featuring up to date technologies (CFM56-5B7).

• KC-137R-RT Stratotanker: Advanced Air-To-Air Refueling System with ATA refuel ability (CFM56-5B7).

• E-3R Sentry: Advanced AWACS System, featuring glass cockpit (IAE V2528-D5).

• RC-137R Rivet Joint: Advanced Reconnaissance System, featuring glass cockpit (CFM56-5B7).

• E-8R Joint STARS: Advanced ground surveillance, battle management, command and control aircraft (IAE V2528-D5).

• C-137R Stratoliner: Advanced military transport aircraft and VIP clipper, featuring glass cockpit (IAE V2528-D5).

Boeing E-3R Sentry Specifics

The radar only works when airborne

To select a friendly on radar: left mouse-click on screen

To select a boogie/bandit on radar: middle mouse-click on screen

To seperate RWR emitters if they are clumped: use knob in cockpit next to rwr screen

Download state border outlines here, just unpack the ZIP in the aircraft KC-137R folder: Google Drive link to ZIP

AUTHORS:

• MD-GRK (themadgreek): Original KC-137R project idea with CFM LEAP X engines.
• J Maverick 16: Initial contribution and update of original model; current maintainer and developer.
• Josh Davidson (Octal450): Further contribution, introduction of the other variants and reconfiguration of cockpit, systems, FDM, Autopilot, Sounds and many more; current maintainer and developer.
• peter305305: Minor sound update.
• FL2070: Custom sound pack for engines and other.
• onox: Importation of some of his former 707 project with advanced MP refueling system.
• Martien Van Der Plas: Major 3D upgrades and texturing to all variants.
• Nikolai V. Christensen (Leto): Damage model, advanced radar and related help.
• Justin Nicholson (Pinto): Damage code and related suggestions, flight test and evaluation.
• SHM: Minor instrument addition.
• Gabriel Hernandez: Sound fixes and updates.
• D-ECHO: First RC-137R 3D version.
• chad3006: Instrument textures for Block 45 update.
• Jabberwocky (JWOCKY): Technical help and suggestions.
• Gary Brown (N-SCOT): C-137R HD livery package.
• Colin Geniet: Emesary and damage compatibility.
• Some other people helped in the project with minor contributions.

The original 707 work was done by Innis Cunningham and then Mark Kraus from the Lake of Constance Hangar.

kc-137r's Issues

Broken in 2020.4.0

16.39 [ALRT]:io mipmapping: texture size not a power-of-two: D:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\Dev\git\Aircraft\KC-137R\Models\Cockpit\Instruments\EAD\resCFM\Flap.png
16.40 [ALRT]:io mipmapping: texture size not a power-of-two: D:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\Dev\git\Aircraft\KC-137R\Models\Cockpit\Instruments\EAD\resCFM\XX.png
16.41 [ALRT]:io mipmapping: texture size not a power-of-two: D:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\Dev\git\Aircraft\KC-137R\Models\Cockpit\Instruments\EAD\resCFM\EAD.png
16.47 [ALRT]:io mipmapping: texture size not a power-of-two: D:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\Dev\git\Aircraft\KC-137R\Models\Cockpit\Instruments\EAD\resIAE\Flap.png
16.48 [ALRT]:io mipmapping: texture size not a power-of-two: D:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\Dev\git\Aircraft\KC-137R\Models\Cockpit\Instruments\EAD\resIAE\XX.png
16.48 [ALRT]:io mipmapping: texture size not a power-of-two: D:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\Dev\git\Aircraft\KC-137R\Models\Cockpit\Instruments\EAD\resIAE\EAD.png
18.12 [ALRT]:io mipmapping: texture size not a power-of-two: D:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\Dev\git\Aircraft\KC-137R\Models\Cockpit\Instruments\EFB\Displays\Blank_Test.jpg
18.13 [ALRT]:io mipmapping: texture size not a power-of-two: D:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\Dev\git\Aircraft\KC-137R\Models\Cockpit\Instruments\EFB\Displays\Keyboard_1.jpg
18.15 [ALRT]:io mipmapping: texture size not a power-of-two: D:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\Dev\git\Aircraft\KC-137R\Models\Cockpit\Instruments\EFB\manual.jpg

New ground services vehicles

I think this aircraft needs modern ground services vehicles.

Shift-q to reset view in radar view messes up viewpoint

FS-99: I'm experiencing what appears to be a bug in the E-3R Sentry on the view where I am watching the radar screens, that I navigate to by pressing shift-v from the main cockpit view. When on that view, if I press shift-q (to center my view, it's just a habit at this point), the entire screen turns grey for the rest of the flight, on that view. I can cycle through other views, but every time I get back to that one, it'll be grey. I've tried everything I could think of to get it to correct itself, like resetting the range I'm viewing at with ctrl-x, and by reloading every individual item in the debug menu, but nothing helps.

Boost pump switches don't work.

Opening the interconnect valves and switching off the boost pumps for a tank should make fuel come from other thanks towards the tank with the disable boost pump.

At the moment, turning boost pumps do nothing but turn the boost pump light off, no fuel transfer happens. Causing, for example, the fuel in the centre tank to remain unused.

VATSIM integration broke OPRF radar.

@FirstOfficerDelta apparently your commits for VATSIM integration have broken the existing radar.