Convair

[Cag40Navy]

Blah.






There's still some bugs around. *Sigh*

Still cant thank you enough! Thank you, Thank you!

[stansdds]

It's looking really good. I'll be happy just to get a standard CV580 with the cargo door.

[Bjoern]

Still cant thank you enough! Thank you, Thank you!

LoL, no problem.

I'll be happy just to get a standard CV580 with the cargo door.

And a LD7 in the cargo bay.

[pbearsailor]

Thanks, Bjoern. This is really nice.

Brings back memories for me. Early 80's I was flying a King Air out of Fort Smith, AR, and we often flew from there to Dallas, usually KDFW. Frontier did the same run in Convairs and usually flew similar times and altitudes to what we did, 17K to FL200 or so. We never varied, but when thunderstorms were around, they'd fly the route at 5000--always seemed weird to us. Couple of years later during a simulator session, the instructor happened to be a former Frontier pilot and I asked him why. He said they really wanted to be up higher with us, but their radars were so bad that they couldn't paint any weather, so they figured they were safer just bumbling along down low. Sometimes it was better being a corporate pilot.

Thanks again for bringing this one to us.

cheers,
steve

[SADT]

Thanks, Bjoern. This is really nice.

Brings back memories for me. Early 80's I was flying a King Air out of Fort Smith, AR, and we often flew from there to Dallas, usually KDFW. Frontier did the same run in Convairs and usually flew similar times and altitudes to what we did, 17K to FL200 or so. We never varied, but when thunderstorms were around, they'd fly the route at 5000--always seemed weird to us. Couple of years later during a simulator session, the instructor happened to be a former Frontier pilot and I asked him why. He said they really wanted to be up higher with us, but their radars were so bad that they couldn't paint any weather, so they figured they were safer just bumbling along down low. Sometimes it was better being a corporate pilot.

Thanks again for bringing this one to us.

cheers,
steve

Eeek! Yikes hey..... makes you think

[Bjoern]

He said they really wanted to be up higher with us, but their radars were so bad that they couldn't paint any weather, so they figured they were safer just bumbling along down low.

Well, in that regard...the radar gauge in the virtual 580's cockpit is just a generic stand-in and just as useful as the real one then.


Btw:

Check Avsim, Flightsim or the library here. Happy Frontier runs!

[Z-AZ1USN]

I enjoy this plane although I had to make thumbnail for the Sierra Pacific.
Interested to know if any of the Cal Classic/Classic Propliners 580's will
work with the basic addon? If not then what do you recommend as a source
for additional liveries besides making my own. Interested in a US Navy version.
I use to fly in them from NAS Alameda to NAS Miramar back in the 60's.

[Bjoern]

...

I've included a thumbnail vor the Sierra Pacific paint...

Old repaints still work, but I don't know of any USN repaints for the 580.

Repaints for the 440 might probably work, as long as you just copy over the fuselage textures. Absolutely no guarantees though.

[Shane Strong CYHZ]

i was looking for the wiper switch and can not seem to find it

[Navy Chief]

Very, VERY nice, Bjoern!

As for the Wiper switch.....go to Copilot view...look up. You have to turn switch to get it to work.

[CG_1976]

Well Markus Hellwig's RCAF Paint works

[Navy Chief]

I enjoy this plane although I had to make thumbnail for the Sierra Pacific.
Interested to know if any of the Cal Classic/Classic Propliners 580's will
work with the basic addon? If not then what do you recommend as a source
for additional liveries besides making my own. Interested in a US Navy version.
I use to fly in them from NAS Alameda to NAS Miramar back in the 60's.

Would be interested in that, myself. Never flew in a USN Convair. Closest thing to it that I was on was a C-118.

[HenryW]

Would be interested in that, myself. Never flew in a USN Convair. Closest thing to it that I was on was a C-118.

I got one in the works:







BTW, thanks Bjoern!

[Bjoern]

i was looking for the wiper switch and can not seem to find it

Read the readme.

I don't write all that just for fun. :|

BTW, thanks Bjoern!

No thanks needed; tons of repaints will suffice.

[Navy Chief]

Henryw,

Thanks in advance for the USN repaint!!!

NC