Hauling freight in northern Canada

[PeteHam]

Whitehorse - Yellowknife in a classic

http://www.vanisleva.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9959

Pete.

[Wild Bill Kelso]

Ahhhh - the Ambassador!

Sure a beauty of a plane with a rather tragic history...

[OBIO]

Pete

Nice shots.....one question...what the heck airplane is that? Have never seen the likes of it before. Freeware? Payware? Where can it be found?

OBIO

EDIT: Wild Bill posted the answer to what it was...Google found it for me!

[Maarten -]

To OBIO and any other interested people: the type is Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador. Made in England during the late 1940s for British European Airways ("Elizabethan" class, hence nickname "Lizzie"). Powered by 2 Bristol Centaurus 661 sleeve-valve radial engines. Its competitor, the turboprop powered Vickers Viscount 700, was favored by BEA so the Lizzie had a short carreer with BEA. However she soldiered on till around 1969 with operators such as Autair, BKS, Dan-Air, Globe Air, Shell Aviation etc.
The Lizzie was also used for testing the Napier Eland, Bristol Proteus and Rolls Royce Tyne turboprop engines.

The FS2004/FS2002 version of the Ambassador is available at www.avsim.com (http://www.avsim.com) and www.flightsim.com (http://www.flightsim.com) .

Cheers,
Maarten

[Wild Bill Kelso]

And here is the tragic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_BKS_Air_Transport_Heathrow_crash

[bpfowler]

hi PeteHam,
where did you acquire the bare metal tex for this lizzie?
I have always loved the plane since fs98, but she looks really good in metal.
got a sound pack you use?

thanks
brady

[Tom Clayton]

Looks like Flightsim only has the t-prop version. AvSim has the piston version too.

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=airspeed+ambassador&CatID=fs2004ac&Go=Search

[Lionheart]

Great pics Pete!

Thanks guys for the heads up on this fantastic looking classic. Looks like a must have for the hanger.



Bill

[Wild Bill Kelso]

At AVSIM, the panel&sound file got lost.

But flightsim has both packs:

FS2002 - FS2002 Aircraft FS2002/FS2004 Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador
[ Download (http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=87107) | View (http://www.flightsim.com/zview.php?cm=list&fid=87107) ]
Name: as57base.zip (http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=87107) Size: 4,954,043 Date: 03-26-2005 Downloads: 2,450
http://www.flightsim.com/k/as57base.gif FS2002/FS2004 Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador. This is the base pack for the Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador / Elizabethan, a 1950s medium range British airliner. Includes visual models and textures for the sole surviving airframe in Dan-Air livery. This is an accurate Gmax rendition for both FS2002 and FS2004. Panel and sounds have been published separately, see AS57PNSD.ZIP (http://www.flightsim.com/file.php?cm=SEARCH1&fsec=0&fname=AS57PNSD.ZIP). Flight dynamics by Jens Kristensen. By D-GHHH simulationware (Georg Hauzenberger and Hans Hermann).
FS2002 - FS2002 Aircraft FS2002/FS2004 Ambassador Panel And Sound
[ Download (http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=87108) | View (http://www.flightsim.com/zview.php?cm=list&fid=87108) ]
Name: as57pnsd.zip (http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=87108) Size: 8,256,480 Date: 03-26-2005 Downloads: 2,161
http://www.flightsim.com/k/as57pnsd.gif FS2002/FS2004 Ambassador Panel And Sound. The Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador was a 1950s medium range British airliner. This file includes panel and sound only. The visual model has been published separately, see AS57BASE.ZIP (http://www.flightsim.com/file.php?cm=SEARCH1&fsec=0&fname=AS57BASE.ZIP). Panel built from scratch. Bristol Centaurus sound files modified from Ralph Pegram's. By D-GHHH simulationware (Georg Hauzenberger and Hans Hermann).

[Wild Bill Kelso]

I just took the Ambassador for a quick hop over Stavanger:

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt112/wildbillkelso_berlin/ambassador1.jpg

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt112/wildbillkelso_berlin/ambassador2.jpg


I'm not too happy with the sounds of this pack, but as the 'Lizzie' was equipped with the Bristol Centaurus, some Hawker Sea Fury sounds and a slightly tweaked sound.cfg will get her roaring...

Cheers,
Markus.

[PeteHam]

Here's the bare metal textures .......

FS2002 - FS2002 Aircraft FS2002/FS2004 AS.57 First Prototype
[ Download (http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=90022) | View (http://www.flightsim.com/zview.php?cm=list&fid=90022) ]
Name: as57t001.zip (http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=90022) Size: 1,214,470 Date: 06-18-2005 Downloads: 385
http://www.flightsim.com/k/as57t001.gif FS2002/FS2004 AS.57 First Prototype. A repaint for the D-GHHH Simulationware Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador. Includes the textures for G-AGUA, the Ambassador prototype in bare metal finish. AS57BASE.ZIP (http://www.flightsim.com/file.php?cm=SEARCH1&fsec=0&fname=AS57BASE.ZIP) is needed to use this repaint. By D-GHHH Simulationware (Georg Hauzenberger and Hans Hermann).



As for the sounds ... I like them loud and grunty .... I aliased them to the Howard 500.

Pete.

[Wild Bill Kelso]

I wonder why this aircraft was famous for its smooth and quiet performance:
Just tweaked OBIO's great Centaurus sound pack (bristol_centaurus_sound_pack.zip) to twin engine and made my subwoofer bounce around... :icon_lol:

[OBIO]

I wonder why this aircraft was famous for its smooth and quiet performance:
Just tweaked OBIO's great Centaurus sound pack (bristol_centaurus_sound_pack.zip) to twin engine and made my subwoofer bounce around... :icon_lol:

That's how you know you have the sound pack dialed in....when the subwoofer bounces, the dogs run and hide, the ferrets roll themselves into the corner...and your wife comes running in and screams at you until you turn the volume down.

OBIO

[bpfowler]

wait wait, about that sound tweak....
What should we do to the cfg?

while I'm at it, anybody got a suggestion for the prop textures?

[PeteHam]

For the props I've used Banana Bobs .....

FFS_Saab340_Replacement_Prop_Texture

Pete.

[OBIO]

For those who want a twin engine config to use with the Ambassador with the Centaurus engines....I am attaching a tweaked sound config file. Go to the download library, look under my username and down load the Centaurus sound pack. Make a copy of it and drop in the attached sound config...after removing the .txt from the end.

OBIO

[OBIO]

Too bad this plane doesn't have a VC. Not having a VC pretty much gets gets plane dumped from my hangars.

OBIO

[HighGround22]

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Pete, Obio, Markus: Many thanks for the good steers.
.

[bpfowler]

thanks OBIO for the twin config.

About the prop textures, did banana bob do a 4-blade prop blur set ?

cheerio
brady

[Tom Clayton]

For the props I've used Banana Bobs .....

FFS_Saab340_Replacement_Prop_Texture

Pete.
Got a link to that one Pete?

[PeteHam]

Tom .... sorry I'm not sure where Banana Bobs Props are now.

Hopefully someone will point us to the new site.

Pete.

[Terry]

Tom .... sorry I'm not sure where Banana Bobs Props are now.

Hopefully someone will point us to the new site.

Pete.

Their here, just search bananabob.

[Tom Clayton]

Bob has 54 files here, but not that one.
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=downloads&FileUploadName=BananaBob&pap=1&ammm=100

[bpfowler]

sorry I missed PeteHam's clear ref to the propset, just dozin' in the morning sludge, I reckon.

B-Bob is now at http://forum.siminsider.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=18 , but the saab prop isnt there.
He appears to have lost his own collection and is restoring it with help from friends. A good opp if you have lots of his files?

[PeteHam]

I better drop Bob a line ....... I've got about 80 of his props stored safely in a folder.

Pete.

[OBIO]

I have grabbed some of BananaBob's props off of Screenshotworld.com. Just went there to make sure his uploads are still there...they are...and grabbed a bunch of his props to use on various planes in my hangars. I thnk there was a Saab prop there. Yep, Saab 340.

OBIO

[PeteHam]

OBIO, could you please post a link to the Screenshotworld.com site for the props.

I've searched but can't find them.

Thanks,

Pete.

[bpfowler]

same here, logged in and they tole me no access?

[OBIO]

The link to BananaBob's props, as supplied on the left half of the screen, seems to be broken. What I did to get in is to click on the link to his AN-2 (listed on the right side of the screen under Latest Submission). That will take you to the AN-2 prop...then down in the Operations box in the lower right corner, I clicked on Find All Files By This Member line....and that took me to all of BananaBob's files.

Here's a link to the first page of BananaBob's files (you will need to be logged in to Screenshotworld before clicking this supplied link):

http://www.screenshotworld.com/forum/index.php?autocom=downloads&req=search&code=all_author&id=39

OBIO

[srgalahad]

I guess we Canucks are going to be blessed... for those of you elsewhere, cross your fingers!

http://www.history.ca/ontv/titledetails.aspx?titleid=247921

I posted more here:
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=25479

Rob

[CG_1976]

HaHa:icon_lol: us in Yellowknife got a Sneeky Peeky lol. I'll ask around YZF tomorrow and see if anyone knows on Telecast for US. At current only Ice Road Truckers is telecast into US.

[bpfowler]

thanks OBIO for the site link, gonna make sure I got me rotors and props in line.
Thanks to Bob for the great textures!