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Hey all,
It has come time again to release another creation into the world. This time, I have recreated the Piper Pacer 180 series.
At first, I was only going to make the classic tail dragger, but one thing lead to another. What about the other panel design? What about the Tri-Pacer? What about landing on lakes? Are you going to make a Bush plane version with tundra tires???
So, in the end, we ended up creating a massive package, with 4 versions of planes (tail dragger, Bush, Floats, and Tri-Pacer), and then created 3 panel versions; (classic and basic, then the Tri-Pacer version classic, then the modernized Bush high tech carbon fiber version with modern gauges). Then, came the painting. Versions of originals (thanks to Wayne Tudor's background knowledge and brush work) as well as modern Bush paint schemes, and then restoration famed simulated versions of more modern, restored Piper Pacers. Some paint schemes feature polished, babied, cared for birds that have nice reflections in them. Others like Blue Stripe have mud, dirt, bugs, scratches, chips, you name it. It even has faded paint where the N-numbers are literally fading to white.
The Bush model had to be able to land hard in the back woods of Alaska and Canada, so the landing gear was reinforced to land hard on short drop-ins.
Then some cool little innovations were added. Things like 'Clean Your Plexi!', and click to add Cargo, and Skirt Selector. With 'Clean your Plexi!', you can click on a pink bottle of Plexiglass Cleaner on the right side of the cabin floor to change your plexiglass cleaned state from normal to dirty to ultra clean. The dirty version has bugs and streaks and things. This carries into the gauges, so when you clean the Plexi, your gauges are more readable also. The Skirt Selector is a switch by the Mixture on planes that have skirts. The Float and Bush birds are exempt. The Skirts rotate from Vintage (default) to New (streamlined new more modern looking wheel skirts) to 'none' for those that like grass strip landings alot. Lastly, if you click on the wallet object on the passenger seat, you get a back seat of cargo, from mail parcels to Land Rover parts to foods and Missionary bibles. Click the front seat box parcel again to unload.
It was a large endeavor. It was only meant to be one model, one panel, perhaps 3 paint schemes. Now its 4 planes, 3 panels, 33 variants. 8-0))))) ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, I have always loved the Piper Pacer since I was a kid, have always wanted to make this for FS, and I really like the company Piper (great people, great planes) so I had to do this.
Then............................ (yes.. I torture myself). I wanted some cool airports around Alaska. Something that isnt heavy on frame rates, some cool little cabins hidden with places to land around them. Some airport updates with tons of objects (cars and planes and hangers and buildings and other what nots). I added lake docks, cabins with docks, cabins with planes next to them, resorts, tons of boats from shipping to freight to luxury to fishing. I added 30 points of landing... This must be 'activated' in the addon scenery library of Prepar3D or FSX by the way.
So, if you are curious more about it, you might check out the website here, and download the PDF manual, and see if its something you want.
Note that this is not yet in SimMarket, PCAviator, JustFlight, FlightSimStore or Flight1 yet. The guys are all probably sleeping still. The release will take a couple of days, I would imagine. It is available at PayLoadz presently.
Anyhow, if you are looking for a small 4 seat plane for hopping around in, want something slow but not too slow (this is the 180, by the way, 140 knots), then this might be for you. This is a multi pack, so if you want a bush plane, it has it. If you want a float plane, it has it. If you want a classic restored, polished, waxed, clean classic, it has it. If you want something that has flown so hard, has been through EVERYTHING, has mud, dirt, bugs and is suffering from fading paint, this had that too!
More here; www.lionheartcreations.com/Piper_Pacer
Originally Posted by warchild
I thought that was kind of neat. The old cruising shirts, sort of the bowling alley look.
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