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    Part #038

    The first Aircraft 12, breakable parts
    Now we make the “fuselage_aft” part breakable. First, select “fuselage_aft” and make it the current part! Now go to “Edit” and select “Part Properties”, than go to the “Pre-Process” window (Picture143) and press “Add”, a new popup menu opens called “Add Predraw Process”, select “Condition” (Picture144), at the next popup menu press “Load preset” a dropdown menu appeared called “Variable Display Presets”, scroll down until you find the entry “Tail Visible” and select it and press “OK” (Picture145). You will see that the entries in the “Display Condition” Window had changed (Picture146). Now close all popup menus.



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    Part #039

    The first Aircraft 13, assigning a part
    To assign the “Ruder” to the “Fuselage_aft”, make the ruder the current part, than go to “Edit” and “Part Properties”, in the Window “Part Parent” is a dropdown Menu at the right, click on it and you will see all parts without the ruder, select “Fuselage_aft” and Click on it (Picture147), press OK


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    Part #40




    The first Aircraft 13, Elevator
    The proceedings for the elevator are similar to the ruder, so I will not explain it in details just with a short description.

    I joined the left and right elevator wing together, than moved the axis to the elevator turning point. I split the elevator from the elevator wing and closed all gaps of the elevator. The elevator wing was joined with the “Fuselage_aft” part, than the “elevator” was parented to the fuselage aft. Finally I smoothed the polygons of the “fuselage_aft” but let the elevator polys unsmoothed. (Picture148, Picture149)






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    Unfortunately all zip files and pictures are gone; nevertheless, I will proceed with a new tutorial aircraft model soon.

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    Part #41

    The first Aircraft 14, wingtip and aileron 1

    I will start with the right wing only because the proceedings for the left wing are similar.
    Because we will make the aircraft breakable we will define the wing tip. Go to “poly mode” and select the poly’s as shown in picture 150 than split the part from the wing (part; split Part), center on part, than select the poly’s of the aileron (picture 151) and split the aileron poly’s from the wing tip. The next proceeding is to close the gaps of the aileron.
    To keep the next steps easy, go back to the wingtip part, got to “Part properties” go down to “Rotation” and “Z” there is a number inside that describe the angle of the axis (6.5) (picture 152) we have to keep this number in mind and set the number to “0”. We will notice the part moved down, now do the same with the “aileron”. To have a correct aileron animation we have to move the aileron axis outside (Move Mode) than press shift and move the axis into position as shown in picture 153 (it doesn’t matter if you move the axis more or less outside). Next we have to align the axis with the aileron as shown in picture 154.
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    Part #42

    The first Aircraft 14, wingtip and aileron 2
    Going back to the wingtip part, this should be breakable (CFS2 only) and it should be foldable also. Again we had to move the axis only, so press “Move Mode” and select “X” and “Y” axis only, than press shift and move the axis of the part to the upper left corner of the part as shown in picture 155.
    Now we have to name the part and make it breakable, go to “part properties” look at “part Name” than press the “Browse” button at the right, there is another window called “Category” use the dropdown menu and select “Aircraft Keyframe Animation”, in the following menu select “r_wingfold”, press “OK” (picture 156), now we look again into the “Pre-Process” window, press “Add” than press “Load Preset”, scroll down until you find “Right Wing Tip Visible” and select it (picture 157) close all Windows.
    Back to the aileron, select the aileron part and go to part properties, click the browse button, “aircraft stock animation” and select “r_aileron”, press “OK” (picture 158), now parent the aileron to the “r_wingfold” part (picture 159) and close all windows.
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    Part #43

    The first Aircraft 15, wing and flap 1
    To make the wings will follow nearly the same proceedings like the wingtip. Like the wingtip we go to “Part Properties” and set the “Z” Rotation of the wing from 6.5 to “0” (remember, we keep the 6.5 in mind), instead the aileron we make the right flap, again that will follow the same proceedings as with the aileron. So select the “Flap” polygons and split them off the wing (picture 160), now move the axis to the lover frontline of the new “Flap” part. For this aircraft, the angle of the Flap follows the same angle as the aileron, so make the aileron the current part and look into Part Properties, we need the “Y” rotation number, (picture 161), and it’s 6.5, keep it in mind and go back to the flap part.
    To apply the Rotation to the Flap, go to “Transform” select “Rotate” select at the options menu “Axis Only” and write the 6.5 into the “Y” box (picture 162) than press “OK” we have to adjust the “Z” Axis also a bit, to keep it short the setting is 1.5 (it’s a bit try and error to find the right setting). Now close all gaps of the flap.
    Back to the right main wing, select the part go to “Part Properties” press the browse button, go down to “aircraft damage” and select “r_wing”, press “OK”, than go to “Pre-Process” under load preset select “Right Wing Visible” (picture 164) press “OK” until all windows are closed.
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    Part #44

    The first Aircraft 15, wing and flap 2
    …select the flap part again; there are two options to animate the flaps, stock animation and key frame animation, to keep it simple we will use the stock animation. So go to “Part properties”, press browse, go to “aircraft Stock animation” and select “r_flap” (picture 165) close the window with “OK”, then go to “part Parent” and select “r_wing” (picture 166) press “OK”. Now make the “r_wingfold” current and parent it also to the “r_wing” (picture 167). Finally go back to the “r_wing” again to “Part properties” than under “Rotation”, “Z” Axis and rewrite the 6.5 into the box (picture 168) than press “OK”.
    As I said it before the proceedings for the left wing are similar J
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    Part #45

    The first Aircraft 16, r_wingfold animation
    The first Animation will be the wing fold animation; it’s a key frame animation, usable key frames are the frames between “0” to “100”.
    To start with the animation we go to “Animate” at the main toolbar and then click on animation mode. In the dropdown menu you see “set Keyframe”, below the “right view” you can see the actual key frame, it should be “0” (picture 169). To set the initial key frame press “set Key frame” after setting you will see there is a “*” at the right side of the “0” (0*) that means this frame is set and the movement of the “r_wingfold” will start at frame “0”, now we select frame 80, use the left or the right arrow at the main toolbar or at your Keyboard to move forward (or backwards) (picture 170). Frame “80” should be the end of the movement. So select rotate at the main toolbar and move the part into the final position (use the Front view Window), than open the animate menu and click on “set key frame” (picture 171). Now move to frame “100” and click again on “set Key frame” move again forward until frame 200 and set key frame again. The next frame after “200” is frame “0”.
    Before you go to the next animated part you have to close the “animation” mode.
    Unfortunately FSDS2 didn’t show the animation, the part will stay on its starting position until you reach frame 80 then it will flip into the end position. Within the game the movement will be slow steady.
    I added to the zip file below two source files one with an animated r_wingfold and one file with a right and left wing fold animated.
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    About Fsds2.24 and Windows 8

    After more than 10 hours I'm happy to restore a hard drive which I had accidentally formatted yesterday, all files -special for this tutorial, are back and usable again.
    Don't ask how I can format a wrong hard drive; it simply happens because of some kind of stupidity for one moment.
    The program I used to restore the files was the "Renee Undeleter" (it’s not freeware) which fortunately worked fine, I was surprised how much of long time ago deleted files are still there.

    Back to the Tutorial:

    About Fsds2.24 and Windows 8

    Before I made this mistake yesterday, I noticed that Windows 8 didn't work for all animations when compiling FSDS2.24 models, the standard animations like Ailerons, Ruder, Elevator, Wing fold and Flaps are working, but not the wheels and Prop animations for some reason. Fortunately I have an "old" windows 7" installation on a second hard drive, so I installed FSDS 2.24 on it and it works properly with all animations!

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    Part #46

    The first Aircraft 17, landing gear part 1
    To make a landing gear we use a tube with 8 points and two sections, move the tube into position and size the tube to the drawing as shown in picture (picture 172). Now split both sections into a lower and upper section (picture 173), size the lower part again to the drawing but keep the “Y” length (press “constrain Y”)(picture 174),move the “X,Y,Z” down to the part (press constrain “X” and “Z” before) (picture 174). Now copy and paste the lower part one time, the second lower part will be the wheel axis, so we have to turn the part around the “Z” axis, so go to “Transform” and press “Rotate” write “90” behind the “Z” and make sure, you select “Vertices” at the right side (picture 175) than press OK. Now move the new part down to the wheel center, and size the part to the drawing as shown in Picture 176
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    Part #47

    The first Aircraft 17, landing gear part 2
    Next step will be to join both lower parts together, for attaching the tire it’s easier to take the axis part as main part, so select both parts and join them together (picture 177). For a later animation (Shock absorber) effect I lengthen the vertical part a bit into the upper part. Finally I smoothed the polys. No we go to the upper part, for the later animation we have to shift the X, Y, Z, axis upwards to a imagine turning point inside the wing (for a better handling make sure that you move only along the “Y” axis) smooth the poly’s also(picture 178). For the landing gear cover we will use a simple box that we size to the drawing (picture 179) if you like you can close all visible gaps of the tubes.
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    Part #48

    The first Aircraft 17, landing gear part 3
    Forming a tire: We will use a tube with 12 points and four sections, size the tube to the side view, than close the gap at the right side (select all right points in the back view window, than go to polygon and press “Make Poly from selected points”) (picture 180). Because a picture can show this process better than to explain it in words, please look at (picture 181) and into the source file. Finally I textured all new parts. I like to remark, that I smoothed only the outer polygons of the tires so select the outer polys first (poly Mode, -select Polys, go to edit press “polygon properties” and write “1” into the smoothing Group window and select “set” before you press “OK”) another remark: since windows 7 it will cause a failure message after pressing OK if in one of the “surface Normal” windows is only a “-0” in words “minus Zero”, just search for a poly where no “-0” is in one of the three windows, it doesn’t matter if it’s one of the selected polys or not, only the selected polys will be smoothed.
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    Part #49

    The first Aircraft 17, landing gear part 4
    Unfortunately I posted always a source file with final named parts, so please start with “Aircraft_01_L18”; it’s in the Zip below. The zip contains always textured parts.
    Before we are parenting the parts we have to create the left landing gear and the center gear by copy and paste, first copy each part of the landing gear and paste it, now it’s a routine job after copy the part, go to edit / Part Properties, look for Axis location “X” axis, you will see a number: 2.093, to switch it over to the left side, place a “-“in words minus before the number so it should be -2.093, than press OK, the part will move to the left side (picture 182), than go to “Transform” go down to “Flip” and press at the menu “Flip X” (picture 183). Do it with all 4 right landing gear parts. You will see that the left landing gear doesn’t fit the drawing, well, it’s my fault! The drawing is not as accurate as I thought. By the way if you ever made your own project you will find out that 3 view drawings even from good books are not as accurate as you think, often the top view doesn’t fit the side view.
    For the center gear we copy only the lower gear part and a wheel than move both parts into position and fit them to the side view drawing, just use the “scale” button at the toolbar, make sure that constrain “X,Y,Z” are unlocked. The “X” Axis position should be “0” (Zero), in the second source file “Aircraft_01_L19” you will find all parts at the correct place. The center gear with adjusted “axis” (picture 184)
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    Part #50

    The first Aircraft 17, landing gear part 5
    For animations all landing gear parts needs their own correct name and parent part. The main Landing gear parts are those parts that are fitted to the wing, or to the fuselage (center gear). We start with the right main landing gear. Go to “Edit”, “Part Properties”, “Part Name” box and click on “Browse” select in category “aircraft keyframe animation” than select “r_gear” and press OK until all menus are closed (picture 185), now make the lower landing gear part current and repeat the action as before select “r_gear” (it will later appear as “r_gear.1”), for this part we need the right main landing gear as parent, so go to the “Part parent” box and select the at the drop down menu “r_gear” (picture 186) close all windows with “OK”. Next make the right tire the current part, again go to “Part Properties” this time use for the part name “aircraft stock animation” and select “r_tire” (picture 187), press “OK”. The r_tire needs also a parent part logical we select the lower landing gear part “r_gear.1” as parent (picture 188) close the menu with “OK” at last we have to rename and parent the Landing Gear cover, make it current, because it’s not an animated part itself, we can name the part as we like. I prefer Part names that are similar to the parent parts name with an extension to clarify where the part belongs in the part list. So name the part “r_gear_cover” and parent it to the “r_gear” (picture 189). The same proceedings are working for the left landing gear, but with different names (use: l_gear, l_gear.1, l_tire, l_gear_cover). The center gear an tire are following the same procedure but use for the landing gear “c_gear” (keyframe) and for the Center tire “c_tire” (stock animation) and the center gear as parent. To look at the Part Hierarchy, go to “Model” and select “View Hierarchy” (picture 190).
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    Part #51

    The first Aircraft 17, landing gear animations
    Now we are going to animate the landing gears, in the last part #50 we gave the landing gear parts the correct names and parented them together. But we didn’t parent the main landing gear parts to the wing or the center gear to the fuselage.
    If we look at the “part properties” of the “r_gear” we will see below “rotation” X: 0; Y: 0; Z: 0; (picture 191) (same with the “l_gear”), keep this in mind, than select for the “r_gear” the “r_wing” as parent part and press “OK”, you will recognize that the whole part turns outside, to fix this we have to make the “r_wing” the current part, go again to “part properties” and look under “rotation”, you will see next to Z: 6.5 (picture 192) keep the 6.5 in mind (or write it on a paper) close the part properties menu and go back to the “r_gear”, open again the “part properties” menu, go to rotation select the box behind “Z” and write -6.5 (in words minus 6.5) press “OK” (picture 193) this Number (-6.5) will be the number in the final animation frame for the right gear so keep it in mind or on paper. The proceedings for the “l_gear” are similar but the number must be (6.5) in “Z” rotation and the gear should be to the “l_wing” parented. The parent for the center gear “c_gear” is the “fuselage_aft” part. Because the “fuselage_aft” part hasn’t any rotation no other proceedings are required, you will see that the part has always a rotation at the “X” axis, this rotation will stay.
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    Part #52

    The first Aircraft 17, landing gear animations
    I will start again with the right landing gear part (r_gear) the proceedings for the left gear (l_gear) are the same but the “Z” axis angle is inverted, that means if the right gear angle is positive the left gear angle is negative or vice versa.
    The landing gear animation starts with the retracted position so what we have is the extracted gear, or the animation end position. As we know from part#51 the “Z” axis has always a rotation of -6.5 (Part Properties) keep this position (-6.5) in mind. Select at the main toolbar “Rotate”, set constrain “X” and “Y”, go to the back view window and turn the gear in until the landing gear cover part isn’t visible go to part Properties, an look at the “Z” axis Rotation it’s now -90.5 that’s the starting point of the animation (picture 194). Do the same with the left landing gear, to keep it easy, select the (l_gear) and open part properties write into the “Z” axis rotation 90.5
    Animation start right gear (r_gear) -90.5, end -6.5; Animation start left gear (l_gear) 90.5, end 6.5
    Make the r_gear current select “Animate” and “Animation Mode” at the main Toolbar make sure the frame is “Frame 0” than click on “Set Key Frame” (picture 195)Frame 0 appears now with a little star (Frame 0*). Now go to Frame 100 press left or right arrow at your keyboard or at the main Toolbar, open “Part Properties” and write into “Z” rotation (-6.5) and click on OK (picture 196) the gear is now in the extracted end position, now go again to “Animate” and “Set Key Frame” (Frame 100*) now go to Frame 200 and “Set Key Frame” again (Frame 200*) finally go to Frame 0* and leave the animation Mode, the moves up into the retracted position, the proceedings for the left gear are the same make the l_gear current part, animation mode use inverted settings for the “Z” axis.
    It’s on your own to animate the center gear.
    In #53 we will look at the shock absorber animation
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    Part #53

    The first Aircraft 17, landing gear animations
    For the shock absorber effect we will use keyframe 100 to 200, we start with the right landing gear part “r_gear.1”. Because we will animate this part only alongside the “Y” axis, press constrain “X” and “Z”.
    Set “Animate / Animation Mode” look if the keyframe counter is “Frame 0” if yes press “Set Key Frame” now go forward to “Frame 100” than move the part slightly a bit down and press “Set key Frame” again (At the “Part properties” menu “Y” axis location – 1.189 before moving, after moving -1.259, keep this last number in mind for the l_gear.1) (picture 197).Now go to “Frame 200” and move the part back to the original position (-1.189) and “Set Key Frame” go to “Frame 0” and leave the Animation Mode. Select “l_gear.1” and repeat the steps from the r_gear.1. Contrary to the upper gear part “l_gear” the (-/+) settings are not inverted. The center gear is slightly different to the main gear because its only one animated part. Because we always animated “Frame 0” to “Frame 100” we have just to add the shock absorber effect in this case only “Frame 200”, therefore we turn the center gear just a bit upwards alongside the “X” axis, than press “set Key Frame” (picture 198)
    The landing gear animations are finished
    Next part will be the engine and prop
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    Part #54

    The first Aircraft 18, Engine and Prop
    Before I start with the engine, I separated the cowl part from the fuselage copied it, inverted the polygons and textured the now internal part, you will find the new texture File in the texture folder, I also made an engine firewall, so you can’t look through the aircraft anymore. The Cowl part has its own name “Cowl0” and if you look at the “Part Properties” I added to the pre process window “Engine 1 Visible”.
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    Part #55

    The first Aircraft 18, Engine and Prop
    I don’t want to explain how to build the engine itself, I think the Picture 199 will show it much better than (my) words can describe it. About the picture, we can give the polygons different materials as you see in the picture I gave all parts its own color.
    To add Material (Picture 200), go to “Part Properties” Click on “Material” than a new menu opens called “Material List” Click on “Add” the next menu opens, called “Material Editor” here you can give the new Material its name, now click on the upper “Select” button, a last menu opens where you can select the color you want. The “diffuse color” is the Material itself, if you edit the number below “Alpha” you can make the Material transparent if you want. With the “Specular Color” you can edit the gloss effect color; the “Emissive Color” makes the object glowing (for lights), the last line is for “Specular Power” here can you edit how glossy the part appears in the game.
    You can add different Materials to one object for example: red and blue polys; but if you add a transparent material to one poly of the object the whole object will be transparent.
    To make the cylinder’s; Before you make the other cylinders texture the main cylinder then copy the main (top) cylinder, go to “Transform” at the main Toolbar, select “Rotate” and write 51.428 (360/7=51.428; (7) because of 7 cylinders) make sure that “Vertices” are selected than press “OK”, only the vertices had rotated now copy the new cylinder rotate the vertices again, now follow up until you have 7 cylinder (Picture 201). (In the Zip is only the engine itself)
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    Part #56

    The first Aircraft 18, Engine and Prop
    Like the engine I also made a picture of the “Prop building” process, so please look into the source file (Picture 202)
    For the Prop animation we need the Prop itself and two copies of the prop. The first prop is named “prop_still”, as the name always said it’s the still standing prop, the next “prop” is the “prop_slow” for a slow moving Prop, and the last prop is a bit special, the fast moving prop, “prop_blurred“, is build out of 3 parts, the prop axis without prop blades and two disks with a blurred prop texture one disk for the front side and one disk for the back side. Don’t join the disks together! Parent the disks to the prop blurred axis. Both disks are transparent parts, for the transparent material please look into the material list.
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    Part #57

    The first Aircraft 19, Virtual Cockpit 1
    For a better looking aircraft I made a cutout for the Cockpit
    For the virtual cockpit we need some inner structures, with the current model we have only outer polys, so we copy and paste the “fuselage” part and name it “Fuselage_inside” than go to “poly mode” select all polys, go to “Polygon” and press “Flip all selected” finally parent the new part to the “fuselage” (Picture 203)
    Next remove the unused polys from the bottom than create 2 new polys for the cockpit floor and two polys for the front and rear wall as shown in (Picture 204). Finally we should have a 5 side closed cockpit compartment.
    At last we make the cockpit “Fuselage_inside” part a bit shorter and texture the new part. (Picture 205)
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    Part #58

    The first Aircraft 19, Virtual Cockpit 2
    There are two steps to insert the virtual Cockpit: first, click on “Model” at the main toolbar, and then click on “Add Model”, a new popup menu “Model Properties” appears. Write Virtual Cockpit or simple VC into the box behind “Name”. Go down to “Model Type” and select “Aircraft Virtual Cockpit” click on OK (Picture 206), you will be transferred into the Virtual Cockpit model which is empty.
    Second, go back to the main model by clicking on “Model” at the main toolbar, than select “Manage Models” and select “FSDS Model” (Picture 207) you are back to the main model. Now go to “Edit” press “Select All” (all parts are yellow one green) press on “Copy” (Picture 208) now go to the virtual cockpit model (Model/Manage Models/Virtual Cockpit) and past the copied parts into the virtual cockpit model. Go to Edit and “Unselect All” parts, than go back to the main Model and unselect all parts also. Now we are ready for a first test flight.
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    Part #59

    Intersection, converting to CFS2 #1
    Before we convert the new aircraft, we have to set up the aircraft in CFS2, so go into your CFS2 aircraft folder select the “F4F4_WILDCAT” and make a copy of this folder into the aircraft folder Rename the copied folder into whatever you like, I use “FSDS_First_Aircraft”, open the folder and then open the “Model” folder, open the “model.cfg” file with “Editor” or “WordPad”, there is a line “normal=F4F4_Wildcat” change it into “normal= FSDS_First_Aircraft”, there is a MDL file rename this file to “FSDS_First_Aircraft” also(Picture 209). It’s important that the “MDL” file has the same name as written in the “cfg” file. Leave the “model” folder and open the “aircraft.cfg” file
    Right at the top of the file you find [fltsim.0] below this line “title=FSDS First Aircraft” in this line you can give the aircraft the name you like, below the “title” line you find “sim=FSDS_First_Aircraft” (remark, I changed always the names to the new one), the “sim” line defines which Damage profile (.DP) file and which Air file (.Air) the aircraft should use. So rename the DP file and the air file into “FSDS_First_Aircraft” (Picture 210). Before you close all folders open the “Texture” folder and delete all files.
    Extract the content of the zip and past the Aircraft folder into your CFS2 Folder. (The MDL in the zip is a simple box to keep space)
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    Part #60

    Intersection, converting to CFS2 #2
    Back to FSDS2.24 open your actual aircraft “Aircraft_01_L27” file, then click on the little Aircraft sign (aircraft File (.mdl)) at the main toolbar, a menu “Flight Model selection” opens, and search for “FSDS First Aircraft” click on it, check the little box before copy textures and finally press “OK” (Picture 211). , now your aircraft source file will be converted into a MDL file and the textures will be moved into your aircraft Texture folder.
    Before you start the aircraft in CFS2 you have to convert the textures into a format that CFS2 can read therefore you need a program that can convert bmp in to DXTbmp. Or simple drop the always converted textures in the zip below into your Aircraft texture folder.
    Finally you have to adjust the “Virtual cockpit” view point, and the contact points for the landing gear.
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