Classic British Flight Sim

A rework of an old FS2004 model, now at 'all nodes'
FS2004/FSX Fairey Flycatcher Update

Name: flyupd.zip Size: 4,770,029 Date: 01-06-2008
FS2004/FSX Fairey Flycatcher Update. "The bent bodied, blue note, Navy bird" the Flycatcher, produced in 1922, gave to the British Fleet Air Arm a fighter which was as good as the best of the land based aircraft. A wolf in sheeps clothing when it came to aerobatics. By Frank Elton.

Trev - et al

Its also up at The Pond - as a complete aircraft plus the sound aliased to the FS9 Vega rather than C182

Get em while theyre hot

Leif

Hi Leif, you posted this text with the model, I guess this is incorrect?

INSTALLATION :-After unzipping drag & drop the Flycatcher folder into FS2002/aircraft. NOTE:- This model is only compatible with FS2002 at the moment. This Aircraft has been produced by Frank Elton,of Pegasus Aviation Design,using FS Design Studio V2,a programme by Abacus,available at http://www.abacuspub.com Any comments can be addressed to Frank Elton, [email protected]

Good news, and thanks for the pointers guys.

Actually, doubly good news, as it means Mr Elton is still beavering away! :prayer: :prayer:

Andy

Thanks for the HU Calypsos

I took my old Flycatcher file and updated Franks files and then zipped it up and published it

my bad

Leif

I really like Frank Elton's planes although their VCs look
dated by FSX standards.

The Flycatcher has an interesting bugs, at least the copy
I downloaded did.

Although the undercarriage doesn't retract the
"G" key fires an audible circuit and the plane
will bury itself into the ground on landing in
the way that a plane with its undercarriage retraced
will if landing is attempted with the undercarriage up.

To correct this Contact Points 1, 2 and 3 can be ammended
to:

point.0= 1, -15.304, 0.000, -2.890, 1575, 0, 0.238, 60.000, 0.300, 2.500, 0.200,
0.000, 0.000, 0
point.1= 1, 1.545, -3.753, -7.650, 1575, 1, 0.520, 0.000, 0.543, 2.500, 0.626, 0.000,
5.000, 0
point.2= 1, 1.544, 3.823, -7.650, 1575, 2, 0.520, 0.000, 0.543, 2.500, 0.626, 0.000,
5.000, 0

These points will also correct the tendency for the aircraft to
have flat tires when taxiing.

Rather than aliasing the sound to the default Vega I
recommend downloading A.F. Scrub'bs Grebe and
substituting the sound file. The Grebe used the same
Armstong Siddely Jaguar twin radial and Scrubb's
Grebe has a dedicated sound file that's mean't to
replicate its tone.

This plane is certainly fun to fly, and the weathered
textures are superb. Indeed Frank Elton's paint
schmes are all wonderful in their ability to present
aircraft that look used, rather than pristine models
straight from the factory/

Stephen

Thanks for that Stephen and a warm welcome to our humble abode

ATB

DaveB