WWZed Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 http://www.allflightmods.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020/douglas-c-47-skytrain-aircraft/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGriphos Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 (edited) That's worth a try! Manfred Jahn, who did this one, did the C-47s for FSX. I actually helped on that project. I wrote the manual for it (and did the artwork to make it look antique). It was a great plane for that sim! Looks like he might have ported this in a bit of a hurry though. Reports of various game crashes on that site. Here's another good site for addons: https://www.msfsaddons.org/ Edited September 5, 2020 by WWGriphos 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWZed Posted September 5, 2020 Author Share Posted September 5, 2020 Just flew it from Thompson Manitoba to Churchill, No problems what so ever And he has around 15 skins included with it! I hope they all match this level! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 44 minutes ago, WWGriphos said: That's worth a try! Manfred Jahn, who did this one, did the C-47s for FSX. I actually helped on that project. I wrote the manual for it (and did the artwork to make it look antique). It was a great plane for that sim! I had no idea Griph! That was one of my favorite add-on’s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGriphos Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 That team pored a lot of love into that plane. I was one of the alpha and beta testers for it as well. Most of the testers had Dakota or DC-3 stick time, so they knew their stuff. It was fun working with that group. I flew the heck out of the plane, all over Alaska and Canada and Australia and even the Seychelles in FSEconomy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWChunk Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 It’s such an iconic bird, and for them to do a freeware version with that much love was just tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjahn-ww Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 On 9/5/2020 at 10:58 PM, WWGriphos said: Looks like he might have ported this in a bit of a hurry though. Reports of various game crashes on that site. Good morning gents, first post on this site. Took me awful long to find the name of the mascot, but got there in the end with a bit of sleuthing. On a slightly sourer note: (beginning to learn this emoji business, at my age!) my name is Manfred Jahn. I was and still am, responsible for the exterior model of the FSX and P3D C-47 and its many variants, and a lot of other stuff such as the interactive vocal checklist. So I suppose I am the one who should answer the challenge in the quote. The truth is, I was wholly disgusted to see the Dak being offered as an unauthorized, pirated, and dysfunctional download at the site mentioned here. I tried to get it removed from their server, did not even get a reply. I posted on their C-47 thread, they filtered me out. So I made a public complaint about it at fsdeveloper, flightsim, and avsim, and you can read all about it here: https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/583753-msfs-portover-piracy I have now stopped modeling for good, not least because of this affair, but it may be a consolation for MSFSers to know that I and Jan (Visser) have passed the source files on to a developer at Sim Outhouse, so a native MSFS version is still a possibility, in the forseeable future, though sadly it will be without my input. Cheers, and apologies for the rant! -- Manfred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSittingduck Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 ok, this got my attention. At first, I thought the above post was all a quote...assumed it was from Zed, then realized it was from Manfred Jahn. So, am going to assume who ever downloaded his file did so without a VPN, and Manfred is tracking them down???? Not that I blame him. I posted a "find" a while back on IL2 forum, and someone turned into a mod without giving me any credit what so ever, and it took me days to get over it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjahn-ww Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Sorry, to clarify, MSFSAddon took the C-47 down after I complained about it, so they are okay as far as I am concerned. It is the site identified in my avsim link that continues to offer the unauthorized portover and ignores posts or mails. --Manfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWSandMan Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Ah, well that whole situation sucks. I was quite tickled to find M. Jahn's C-47 available for MSFS2020. I had a lot of fun flying that in FSX, especially after getting some input from our own WWWringer who was occasionally flying a Dakota for Canadian Heritage Museum. One of my favorite photos of Ian (Wringer) was him leaning out the cockpit window of a Lancaster, a flight he was extremely proud to make (his father flew Lancs in WW2.) He's since passed, sadly enough. But I still remember his excitement about M. Jahn's C-47 model in FSX. But now seeing it was an unauthorized port-over, I'll be removing it from my system and waiting for Sim Out House to post an authorized version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWGriphos Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Nice to hear from you Manfred. So sad to hear this wasn't an authorized port after all. As I've said to you directly, this original creation was a labor of love, and a significant labor at that, and to see it propagated in a form that only causes problems is quite disturbing for those involved in that labor, I imagine. A real shame. Sorry to have played some role in propagating the idea it was authorized. I won't be using that site listed above for anything, nor will they get any ad revenue from me since I won't visit it again. Nice to hear that your and Jan's work might still see the light of MSFS day at some point. That will be a nice day should it happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjahn-ww Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Guys, many thanks for your moral support, much appreciated! --Manfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWZed Posted September 29, 2020 Author Share Posted September 29, 2020 Have deleted this item, sorry to hear it was pirated..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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