I am hoping for an L-39 for FSX. I work for a company that supports and maintains many of the privately owned L-39s in North America. I have Combat Jet Trainer for CFS2 but that L-39, as great as it is, won't work in FSX.

Hi Brett. Sorry for the slow reply to your post, just noticed it. I've been working on an L-39C/ZA for FSX for several months now. If you're curious to see its progress please visit http://lotus-films.blogspot.com.  There are plenty of screenshots in past posts there to see if you like. You can also see an early preview video of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKNLEJGVRHI&fmt=18.

I'm hoping to have it finished around the end of the year if all things go according to plan. The external model is currently 95% finished and the flight dynamics are nearly done, including the L-39's rather evil engine spool times. The VC still has a fair ways to go but will feature both front and rear fully working cockpits for shared cockpit multi flight. If you'd like any more info please feel free to PM me.

Cheers,

-Mike

Hi Greg, thanks very much for the kind words. You are lucky indeed having been up three times in one. I had my first L-39 flight a couple of weeks ago, including about 45 minutes at the controls myself doing aerobatics and some extremely low level flight, and it was a life changing experience. They aren't the fastest birds ever made but they are agile beyond belief, as you well know. I'm definitely glad I had a G-suit on for the trip.

As for doing an FS9 version I don't think that's going to happen, for a number of reasons, but mostly because a lot of the things I'm doing with the VC just won't translate over well. However, having said that, the main feature I'm striving for is performance. The plane currently uses about the same render resources as most of the default aircraft, and I plan to keep it that way if I can. I'm building it for multiplayer FSX fliers first, and performance matters most of all to them. In singleplayer it just screams.

Cheers,

-Mike