FSX Douglas DC-4 and C-54 Version 3.0. Models, textures and documentation by Jens B. Kristensen For FSX only, FS2004 users should download DC4_V30.zip instead. This base package includes 24 aircraft, dating from 1942 until today: You can fly planes from Pan American, USAAF, Delta, SAS, South African Airways, Air France, Qantas, Avianca, Canadian Pacific, Loftleidir, Royal Danish Air Force, and Buffalo Airways - one of a few companies still flying DC-4's in 2006! For more details and flying instructions, please see the pdf document installed in the JBK DC-4 Panel and Docs V3\Manual folder. ---- New in this version 3.0: Improved flight dynamics (no trimming needed for takeoff, and other improvements). The air-file is new, re-using only the engine sections of the previous version made by FSAviator. Many improvements to the virtual cockpit and the panel, several improvements to the exterior model. 10 more paint jobs added. Additional autopilot features in the virtual cockpit. Textures in *.dds format for faster loading and better framerates. The model is made for FSX SP2. It will work in earlier versions, but the spinning propellers wil be invisible. ---- Repaint compatibility: You can download and use older repaints from the internet, provided - *They were made for Version 2.x of this model. *All four virtual cockpit - textures are deleted from the texture folder(s) of the repaint(s). *Delete the file prop_blurred.bmp as well, unless you are using a version of FSX older than SP2. *Open one of the other texture folders, find the texture.cfg file there, and copy it to your new texture folder(s). You will get better load times and higher framerates on older computers if the repaint-textures are converted to *.dds format using Microsoft's Imagetool program, but *.bmp textures seem to work OK, at least on my own PC. ---- *To install for Flight Simulator X: Just run the included setup program. If you already have an older version of my Douglas DC-4 model, you can keep it. The new version will be installed in different folders. To avoid duplication, you can edit the old aircraft.cfg files to eliminate the duplicate aircraft while you migrate any repaints from the old version to the new one. ---- A note to repainters: Two sets of Flight Dynamics are included - one for the earlier versions (C-54B, representing the C-54A to E) and another for the final C-54G and the postwar production DC-4-1009. New paint jobs should be installed in the correct folder. ---- Sounds: The standard DC-3 sounds are used, but we recommend installing some more exciting propliner sounds for this aircraft. A good choice is the propsounds that can be downloaded from www.calclassic.com. ---- The gauges are to some extent default gauges of Flight Simulator FSX or FS2004, some of them modified by me for four engines. Other gauges are by myself. The ILS indicator is based on xml code by Saviero Maurri (Vickers Varsity panel), bitmaps by me. A number of gauges (mostly switches) are, with permission from Tom Gibson, www.calclassic.com, based on work by Tom himself, Kevin Trinkle, Ernie Kennedy and Ken 'Mitch' Mitchell. I have used complete gauges from them (cowl flap switches), or used the bitmaps from their c-style gauges and made xml-versions of them. In some cases I have modified the bitmaps from information in the DC-6 flight manual. Many thanks to Tom &Co. for this, and to Tom for his support for this project as a whole. Finally, a big 'thank you' to Hans-Joerg Naegele, who gave me permission to use gauges from his Lockheed 049 Constellation panel (VNConnie049.cab), directly or modified. ---- Textures The textures broadly follow the layout of Tom Gibson's paintkit for Greg Peppers DC-6 model, but they have been almost completely remade by me. Repainters beware: The model is different from the first version I released for FS2004, so the paint kit I released earlier does not fit completely. If you want to repaint this model, use one of the the almost-bare-metal planes as your starting point, or email me for more information. ---- This plane was originally made with FSDS 2.24, this version with FSDS 3.51, the textures with Paint Shop Pro and DxtBmp. It is freeware and must stay that way. I hope you like this new model of the DC-4! Jens B. Kristensen, december 2010 Jens.B.Kristensen@mail.tele.dk