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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jul 15, 2007 15:44:05 GMT -5
I've started on the 727 repaint for Paul's 1970 AL flight plans, and will be releasing concurrently with the 727 and the FPs, the CV-580 in both the mid-1970's block titles and the late-1960's italic titles. On top of those, I have done three Allegheny Commuters from 1973 so far - Henson, Ransome, and Fischer Brothers. The latter's Heron repaint has already been done by someone else, and is on Avsim. I am doing the Henson Beech 99 and a Ransome Queen Air. The latter is a bit of fantasy - the schedules say only "Beech TP" and it probably means the Beech/Volpar Turboliner, which Ransome flew in the early 1970's. Since there is no model of this plane available, I substituted a Queen Air because it seats about the same, and there are photos of the Queen Air in AC colors, but it belongs to GCS Airlines, not Ransome. It's a compromise...I still don't know what to do about the Nords, though. I may use an F-27 instead, the one Nord model out there is kind of a FPS killer, especially when it shows up at crowded airports like Philadelphia and New York.
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Post by chrisP on Jul 16, 2007 11:57:11 GMT -5
Great! No more Mohawk-Allegheny overlaps!  |
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jul 17, 2007 11:18:40 GMT -5
I'm having a little trouble determining three of the Allegheny Commuters - one that flew from Pittsburgh to points in West Virginia Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It's not Crown Airways, which flew to Franklin and DuBois, PA, nor is it Air East, which flew to Johnstown, Altoona, and Harrisburg/Middletown, PA. I can't figure out who flew Columbus-Lima-Toledo, either. And, lastly - who operated from Chicago to points in Illinois and Indiana. It's not Air Kentucky, they didn't join AC until 1980.
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Post by jetstar on Jul 17, 2007 12:31:30 GMT -5
Hi Chris.
No help in the 1970 schedule but this is from the 1979 schedules.
PIT - AOO Not listed
PIT - CKB Not listed
PIT - DUJ Crown Airways
PIT - EKN Aero-Mech Aviation
PIT - FKL Crown Airways
PIT - JHW Chautauqua
PIT - JST Pennsylvania Commuter
PIT - MGW Not listed
PIT - PSB Pennsylvania Commuter
PIT - UNV Pennsylvania Commuter
CMH - AOH - TOL No C lights listed for 1970 or 1979
ORD - BMG Not listed
ORD - DNV Britt Airlines
ORD - MIE Britt Airlines
ORD - HUF Britt Airlines
Hope that helps a bit.
Paul
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jul 17, 2007 13:58:25 GMT -5
Aero-Mech fits the route pattern perfectly, but I can find no record of them being affiliated with Allegheny until 1978. They flew for two years independently before Allegheny. Johnstown and Altoona were Air East in 1973. Britt Makes sense, and the same site that lists Aero-Mech as an AC partner beginning in 1978 (airtimes.com), doesn't list Britt as ever being an AC partner, which is incorrect. So the site could be wrong about Aero-Mech as well. Since I'm doing more or less a "representative" set of schedules, I'll go ahead and use Briit and Aero-Mech, which now just leaves that CMH-AOH-TOL route to figure out. Wright makes sense, but I can't find any record of them flying for AC in the 1970's.
On another related note - has anyone been able to get rid of the green cast on the Beech 99 model? and has anyone else encountered it all of a sudden sinking into the ground?
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Post by chrisP on Jul 17, 2007 14:16:27 GMT -5
On another related note - has anyone been able to get rid of the green cast on the Beech 99 model? and has anyone else encountered it all of a sudden sinking into the ground? I've done a repaint of the B99: library.avsim.net/sendfile.php?Location=AVSIM&Proto=file&ImageID=156451What do you mean by "green cast"? It sinks? I had always figured it was used by the Royal Navy for their "rubber deck" experiments! |
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jul 17, 2007 14:56:42 GMT -5
On another related note - has anyone been able to get rid of the green cast on the Beech 99 model? and has anyone else encountered it all of a sudden sinking into the ground? I've done a repaint of the B99: library.avsim.net/sendfile.php?Location=AVSIM&Proto=file&ImageID=156451What do you mean by "green cast"? It sinks? I had always figured it was used by the Royal Navy for their "rubber deck" experiments! It could be a video card issue, but I get a green cast around the control surfaces on both the Beech 99 and the Twotter. I also had the problem on the Metro, but think I cured that by redoing the surrounding paint on the bitmap in another color so it wouldn't pick up an Alpha Channel. I saved the repaint as a DXT1 without an Alpha, and it still happens, which makes me think it might be card-related. |
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Post by chrisP on Jul 17, 2007 15:16:29 GMT -5
Checking the surrounding bitmap color is a good idea. Sometimes the "blank" texture is set too tight around the model.
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Post by tgibson on Jul 17, 2007 16:22:28 GMT -5
Hi,
Once you've made sure that the background color is not intruding, the other thing you can do is select the white areas and reduce the color saturation to zero (i.e. make it gray). This limits the artifacts created when doing the DXT conversion.
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Post by Chrisjake on Jul 17, 2007 19:11:27 GMT -5
Kris...
Apollo Aviation is who flew a Beech 99 betwen Lima and Columbus/Toledo for AC. They only lasted a year, from March 73 to Feb 74.
they were called Apollo 'cuz they were operated by Col. Benjamin Moore who was associated with the Apollo Space program.
chris
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jul 17, 2007 23:26:58 GMT -5
Kris... Apollo Aviation is who flew a Beech 99 betwen Lima and Columbus/Toledo for AC. They only lasted a year, from March 73 to Feb 74. they were called Apollo 'cuz they were operated by Col. Benjamin Moore who was associated with the Apollo Space program. chris Thank you very much - I can now finish up the AC dchedules. |
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Post by Christian Page, RAI on Jul 17, 2007 23:30:58 GMT -5
And, BTW, these FPs will be released with voicepack mods. The AC aircraft flew under their own callsigns.
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