Orbiter Spaceport

VS-40 rocket launch: Launch test of my VS-40 sounding rocket add-on for Orbiter Space Flight Simulator. It features a complete surface base, detailed textures with normal-maps and accurate flight behaviour programmed in LUA, including roll induced by the tail fins. Buran aerotester virtual cockpit:  Working instrument implementation using LUA scripting in Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

The Buran OK-GLI cockpit add-on for Orbiter space simulator is finally released! Get it here: http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5781   Add-on Description: This addon will add a Virtual cockpit to the OK-GLI Buran aerotester. The provided spacecraft3.dll config will also give a more realistic aerodynamic handling (at least in my opinion).It is based on the "Yasishchev VM-T with Shuttle" addon by kev33 (required) and, besides the config file, no other files are changed. Usage: Select the An225 & Myasishchev VM-T » K-Powered-Buran scenario and press F8 to view the Virtual Cockpit. One CRT and one instrument are configured to display MFDs. Credits: kev33 - original addon, configs, meshes and textures 4throck - cockpit mesh, textures and updated config

I'm adding the final touches to the Buran OK-GLI virtual cockpit! This project took me a long time to finish, as source photos were dificult to sort out. The aerotester (OK-GLI) and the orbital vehicles have slightly diferent instrumentation to complicate things. Also, only the aerotester was actually finished, meaning that most of the orbital version's panels displayed are mock-ups or incomplete versions.

Some resources documenting the layout of Buran cockpit instruments and panels. All photos are from the indicated sites: Cockpit mock-up, Central House of Aviation - http://www.flankers-site.co.uk/modl_buran.html Cockpit instruments, Technik Museum Speyer - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BURAN_Cockpit-Instrumente_0,_Gesamtansicht.jpg  Vadim Lukashevich, h ttp://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/rare-photos-of-russian-buran-space.html I'll add more images as I find them and hope to organize them by vehicle, mock-up or simulator.