Summer 1998 Project flightplans

[chasensfo]

//Bahrain Royal Flight 1998

Bahrain Royal Flight (1981 - Present)
IATA: NONE
ICAO: BAH (also use VIP for parking)
CALLSIGN: BAHRAIN

Bahrain Royal Flight is the VIP transport agency for the Royal Family of Bahrain and their associates, based in BAH. The agency was founded in 1981 first flying an ex-Hughes Air West Boeing 727-200. By the mid 1980s, a pair of 747SPs had joined the fleet, along with a Gulfstream III. In 1998, Bahrain's Royal fleet consisted of these same aircraft, but the 727 had been upgraded to a "Super 27" with MD-80 engines and winglets and 1 747SP had left the fleet. All of the aircraft traveled around the Middle East, but the 747 flies to Geneva(GVA)and London(LHR), the Gulfstream to London City(LCY) and Amsterdam(AMS), and the 727 visits London(LHR) in addition to making a 3-day BAH-DEL-HKG-BOM-BAH flight. Almost all flights are based on actual trips taken around this time period, though some flights are representative. Today, the agency has a larger fleet, flying aircraft such as the 767-400 and 747-400 alongside smaller bizjets and 737s.

Make sure you assign these aircraft "ATC_parking_types=RAMP" as they did not park at gates normally.

Michael Pearson has done all the paints on Avsim:

FAIB 747SP: "faib_747sp-21_bah.zip"

AIA 727-200 (use Super 27 winglet model): "aia_727-200_bah.zip"

HTAI Gulfstream III: "htai_gulfstream_iii_bah.zip"

747SP:


727-200:


Gulfstream GIII:


Download Bahrain Royal Flight 1998 Flightplans Here

[sierraair]

I hope you don't mind but I couldn't help doing my hometown airline. Same time period.

//Big Sky Airlines 1998
GQ/BSY
"BIG SKY"

Big Sky was slowly rebounding from bankruptcy in the late 80s and began a bit of a renaissance in 1998. The airline introduced the first service out of Montana in almost a decade with flights to Spokane. The Cessnas has been fully retired and they just began replacing the old Metro IIs with newly leased Metro IIIs. Within a couple years, the airline also picked up EAS routes in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, but that, of course, is another story.

Download Big Sky Airlines 1998 Flightplans Here

[chasensfo]

Jun 30, 2019 21:15:38 GMT -5 sierraair said:

I hope you don't mind but I couldn't help doing my hometown airline. Same time period.

//Big Sky Airlines 1998
GQ/BSY
"BIG SKY"

Big Sky was slowly rebounding from bankruptcy in the late 80s and began a bit of a renaissance in 1998. The airline introduced the first service out of Montana in almost a decade with flights to Spokane. The Cessnas has been fully retired and they just began replacing the old Metro IIs with newly leased Metro IIIs. Within a couple years, the airline also picked up EAS routes in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, but that, of course, is another story.

Download Big Sky Airlines 1998 Flightplans Here

Thanks! I did mid 1990s plans for Big Sky, if I haven't released them I'll try and upload them soon.

[cgold]

Jul 1, 2019 15:28:16 GMT -5 chasensfo said:

Jun 30, 2019 21:15:38 GMT -5 sierraair said:

I hope you don't mind but I couldn't help doing my hometown airline. Same time period.

//Big Sky Airlines 1998
GQ/BSY
"BIG SKY"

Big Sky was slowly rebounding from bankruptcy in the late 80s and began a bit of a renaissance in 1998. The airline introduced the first service out of Montana in almost a decade with flights to Spokane. The Cessnas has been fully retired and they just began replacing the old Metro IIs with newly leased Metro IIIs. Within a couple years, the airline also picked up EAS routes in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, but that, of course, is another story.

Download Big Sky Airlines 1998 Flightplans Here

Thanks! I did mid 1990s plans for Big Sky, if I haven't released them I'll try and upload them soon.

Thank you for these! We just need a Metro III paint now!

[chasensfo]

//Zimbabwe Express Airlines 1998

Zimbabwe Express Airlines (1994-1999)
IATA: Z7
ICAO: EZX
CALLSIGN: ZIM EXPRESS

Zimbabwe Express was a short lived airline Harare(HRE) based airline that was founded in 1994 when Air Zimbabwe had drastically scaled back domestic flights and filled in the gap. In 1998, the carrier was operating a 727-100(the 15th such aircraft off the production line) and a DC-9-30 that wore "Business Express" titles on one side and Zimbabwe Express titles on the other. The 727 was actually based in JNB and spends most of it's ground time there, while the DC-9 sits around HRE when it isn't flying. Around this time, Air Zimbabwe's Bae-146 was leased to Zimbabwe Express, though in my copy of the OAG, the Bae-146 was flying for Air Zimbabwe so it will not be included here and will be int Air Zimbabwe flightplans. The airline had partnered with South African airline Sun Air, and offered a codeshare agreement offering onward connections for Sun Air flights from JNB and Zimbabwe Express flights from VFA. With the 1999 collapse of Sun Air, Zimbabwe Express fell deep into debt from resulting complications and ended all operations that same year.

I have painted the fleet:

AIA 727-100: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rJ43xEXH5H7QrybZKbGtkhuQK2zYZDAL?usp=sharing

AIG DC-9-30: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b0MXwHdnZ9zklA4_NncdYSgWqchEY__M?usp=sharing


727-100\DC-9-30:



Download Zimbabwe Express Airlines 1998 Flightplans Here

[chasensfo]

//Royal Swazi National Airlines 1998

Royal Swazi National Airlines (1978-1999)
IATA: ZC
ICAO: RSN
CALLSIGN: SWAZI NATIONAL

Royal Swazi National Airways was the national airline of the Kingdom of Swaziland, a small and very impoverished country in Africa. Based in Manzini(MTS), the airline offered regional services across Northeastern Africa, first using props like the DC-3 and turboprops like the Vickers Viscount, and later jets like the 737-200. After leasing a Fokker 100 from LAM of Mozambique for a few years in the mid 1990s in Royal Swazi colors, Royal Swazi replaced that aircraft by 1998, flying it's own smaller Fokker 28-3000. The Fokker visits a few nearby major African cities while a lone Let 410 does several domestic roundtrips. I could not find any photos of the Let 410 nor information on it, so I have given it the registration of a Fokker 27 that had recently been retired for now. Any info on the Let 410 is appreciated! The airline failed the following year in 1999, leaving Swaziland without an airline for several years.

The Let 410 is needed, but I have painted the FMAI Fokker 28-3000 here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/10g5OJze_nCDFDdzwHY-cF7cbLN27CNnc?usp=sharing


Let-410\Fokker 28-3000:



Download Royal Swazi National Airlines 1998 Flightplans Here

[chasensfo]

//Expedition Airways 1998

Expedition Airways (1997-1999)
IATA: FO
ICAO: XPD
CALLSIGN: EXPEDITION

Expedition Airways was a Harare(HRE)-based airline started in 1997 with a lone B1900C in a bold livery to compete in the Zimbabwe domestic market that Air Zimbabwe had mostly abandoned. In 1998, a second B1900C was added for 3x weekly service to a new resort in Mozambique. I have found photos of the aircraft, but none show the registration and the airline isn't listed on the usual fleet sites. Any help is appreciated! By 1999, the airline had failed, and the B1900Cs were quickly sold off.

Repaint needed, but it is a cool looking plane so I hope someone is interested.

B1900C:



Download Expedition Airways 1998 Flightplans Here

[chasensfo]

//Air Tanzania 1998

Air Tanzania (1977 - Present)
IATA: TC
ICAO: ATC
CALLSIGN: TANZANIA

Air Tanzania is the national airline of Tanzania, world famous for it's safari tours, and is based in Dar es Salaam(DAR). The airline was founded after East African Airways collapsed, and South African Airways had a 49% financial stake and ownership of the carrier when it was launched, but the Tanzanian government bought back these shares and took full control of the carrier in 1981. Though the airline had used aircraft like the 707s for long haul flights in the past, the airline was recouping from major losses in the 1980s still, and had a small fleet focused on regional flights. That said, in 1998, Air Tanzania was basically serving it's entire geographical region of operation, stretching all the way to Yemen and Saudi Arabia! Impressive, especially given the fact that the airline was only operating a single Fokker 27 and 2 737-200s at the time! The Fokker stays close while the 737s do the longer flights. JRO and DAR are the best places to spot these aircraft, though they are usually not on the ground long at all! The conservative small fleet paid off, and Air Tanzania is alive today with modern aircraft like the Airbus A220 and the Boeing 787. Quite the success story for this tiny carrier.

The FAIB 737-200 and DWAI Fokker 27 by RAI user Alex\Funk and APG Designs may be downloaded here: app.box.com/v/7funk/folder/8753288197


Fokker 27\737-200:



Download Air Tanzania 1998 Flightplans Here

[chasensfo]

//Uganda Airlines 1998

Uganda Airlines (1976 - Present)
IATA: QU
ICAO: UGA
CALLSIGN: Uganda

Uganda Airlines is the Entebbe(EBB)-based national airline of Uganda, in Northeast Africa. At one point, the airline was operating 707s on long haul flights, but the airline has since focused on regional flying with smaller aircraft like the 737. In 1998, Uganda Airlines was operating with 3 aircraft; a 737-200 leased from Air Zimbabwe, a 737-500 used for longer routes, and a Let-410 used for domestic routes and flights to Rwanda and the Congo. Due to the civil war\genocide that had just finished in neighboring Rwanda, Uganda Airlines had taken on the role of serving most of the flights to and from Rwanda, all focused on Kigali(KGL). The Let 410 only had 1 scheduled flight, a trip to the Congo on Saturdays. So the keep the aircraft flying, as obviously it must have been doing ad-hoc flights, I had it fly once weekly to the 3 airports in Uganda that had no airline other service other than to EBB and also twice weekly to Rwanda's other commercial airport, HRZA. Uganda Airlines is around today, still tiny with just a few CRJ-900s.

I have painted the 737s, but I have been unable to find a single photo of the Let-410, I only found photos of a Fokker 27 operated earlier in the 1990s which wore the same registration as the Let-410. I will go back and paint it if someone finds a photo.

FAIB 737-500: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tc7rbQ5h3n5DmlTK_63j0N_nsM2Z_Nbe

FAIB 737-200: drive.google.com/drive/folders/15ig73bNDPIUQsUUeJDYHxqld_jbdZyeo


737-500:



737-200:



Let 410:



Let 410 Charters:



Download Uganda Airlines 1998 Flightplans Here

[chasensfo]

//Alliance Air (Uganda) 1998

Alliance Air (1995-2000)
IATA: Y2
ICAO: AFJ
CALLSIGN: JAMBO

Alliance Air was a multi-national company belonging to several countries, including Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Zambia(who was gone from the company by 1998) with the intent of providing these nations with better service to Europe. The airline flew a 747SP in a very bold livery to LHR 3x weekly via a few points in Africa and down to JNB 2x weekly. Meanwhile, majority owner South African Airways had just started operating flights under the banner of "SA Alliance Express", basing a Fokker 27 in Uganda and loaning a 737-200 to the operation on Saturdays. I can not find registration or photo information of the Fokker 27, and I just chose a random 737 registration from SAA for this aircraft. A special logo was developed for the SA Alliance Express project, but I read that the livery was never actually adopted to an aircraft, so I suppose just use the standard SAA livery. Another author had once completed 1998 plans for this carrier, but some flights/routes differed in my OAG(such as JNB service) for the 747SP and the "Express" flights weren't included in the other plans, so these plans are different. In the summer of 1998, the 747SP actually spent much of its downtime in LHR, perhaps for maintenance. The carrier did not grow beyond this 747SP, and failed in 2000 after falling deep into debt.

Micheal Pearson has painted the FAIB 747SP here: library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=faib_747sp-44_afj.zip&CatID=root&Go=Search

Alliance Air 747SP:


SA Alliance Express Fokker 27/737-200:



Download Alliance Air 1998 Flightplans Here

[sunking]

Thanks for the KAC plans. Just a small note, the 1990/91 war was the 2nd Gulf War the first being the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. But I see they dumped KUL, SIN, and CGK compared to 1994/5. Interesting, because I flew with the to KUL in 2007, so the route must've been temporarily suspended during 1998.

Kind regards.

[chasensfo]

Jul 27, 2019 6:58:12 GMT -5 sunking said:

Thanks for the KAC plans. Just a small note, the 1990/91 war was the 2nd Gulf War the first being the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. But I see they dumped KUL, SIN, and CGK compared to 1994/5. Interesting, because I flew with the to KUL in 2007, so the route must've been temporarily suspended during 1998.

Kind regards.

They did indeed fly KWI-SIN-CGK but I forgot to include it in the route map and just added it, but it looks like KUL was not served. Here in America, we consider 1990-1991 the first Gulf War and 2001-2003 the 2nd Gulf War, interesting that other nations consider that there were 3 Gulf Wars. I think in America the 1980-1988 conflict is not considered a "Gulf War", but rather simply the Iraq-Iran war.

[chasensfo]

//Air Seychelles 1998

Air Seychelles (1978 - Present)
IATA: HM
ICAO: SEY
CALLSIGN: SEYCHELLES

Air Seychelles is the national airline of The Seychelles(SEY), an island republic in the Indian Ocean near Africa. The airline started doing interisland flights in 1978, but used Boeing 707s to quickly expand across Europe by the mid 1980s, as The Seychelles is a popular tourist destination. By 1998, Air Seychelles was flying a 767-200, 767-300, and 3 DHC-6 Twin Otters in 1998 across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The 757-200 had recently been disposed of in favor of the larger 767-300, so the 757 is not included. The Twin Otters do many daily 15 minute flights to FSPP, turning back around 15 minutes later. The result is an aircraft that is so busy all week that AI Flight Planner (AIFP) warns that 100+ legs in a flightplan may cause errors. Seeing as 2 of these 3 Twin Otters do 135 legs per flightplan, I am not certain that the simulator will generate all of them. Any advice appreciated on that, as the only fix seems to be creating 2 extra aircraft. The fleet keeps rather busy, and is hard to spot even in SEY! But on Wednesdays, the 767-200 spends the entire day in Singapore for crew rest(oddly, as it wasn't one of the longest flights), making it a rare chance to see the 767s abroad for more than a quick turn. Good luck catching the 767 in DXB, it is on the ground for an hour in the middle of the night once per week in each direction! As is common with airlines from nations geographically distant from most of the world, tag-on routes are very common and several intra-European flights are operated. While the airline lives on today, it operates smaller A320s and does not have the expansive international network of the late 1990s.

The DHC-6 flights are not in the 1994 plans, so you may supplement those plans with those in this file and substitute them with Shorts 360s to make an early 1990s version as stand-in for now.

The fleet is on Avsim:

FAIB 767-300: faib_767-300_sey.zip

FAIB 767-200: faib_767-200_sey.zip

DHC-6: gwai_air_seychelles_dhc_6_nc.zip


767-300:



767-200:



DHC-6:




Download Air Seychelles 1998 Flightplans Here

[chasensfo]

//Air Marshall Islands 1998

Air Marshall Islands (1980 - Present)
IATA: CW
ICAO: MRS
CALLSIGN: MARSHALL ISLANDS

Air Marshall Islands is the national airline of the Marshall Islands, based in Majuro(MAJ). This small niche carrier has survived for many decades while barley changing their route structure, and to this day maintains a small fleet flying the same routes more or less. The DC-8, which was used for flights to HNL(Which I have flightplans for in my Google Drive) had been disposed of in 1996 and the airline was exclusively island hopping with turboprops in 1998. A pair of Do-228s and a HS-748 did most of the work, while a shiny new Saab 2000 was only scheduled to make one round-trip per week flying from NAN-FUN-NAN on Fridays. I could find no evidence of the Saab flying charters, and all photographic evidence that I came across shows the aircraft in NAN or FUN except for a trip to Australia and New Zealand to demonstrate the Saab 2000 to other carriers. So, I have included the demo flight to keep the aircraft a little busy and it will spend a day in both BNE and CHC on tour with fuel stops on the way, but you will usually find the Saab sitting in NAN. These plans will bring life to island hopping in the Coronado Do-228 if you own it. Please note that most of these airports are small beach airstrips, some of which have now been reclaimed by the sea and sand since the 1990s. I had to manually enter just about every airport, and give them fake 4-letter ICAO codes using the "X" prefix as they only have 3 letter IATA codes, otherwise the plans would not compile. I am not 100% sure all these airports are represented and/or AI capable in Flight Simulator/P3D. The Saab 2000 was the only example ever operated in this part of the world.

Repaints are needed.

Scheduled Flights:


Saab 2000 sales tour:



Download Air Marshall Islands 1998 Flightplans Here

[chasensfo]

//Palestinian Airlines 1998

Palestinian Airlines (1996 - Present)
IATA: PF
ICAO: PNW
CALLSIGN: PALESTINIAN

Palestinian Airlines was the short-lived(well, for independent flights anyway) hopeful airline of Palestine, a nation unrecognized by much of the world due to contested borders with Israel. The airline first started with a Fokker 50, serving a few scheduled routes and offering charter flights. Another Fokker 50 was added soon after, and a 727-200 in 1998. Until the opening of the Yasser Arafat International Airport on the Gaza Strip(GZA\LVGZ) in November 1998, all flights were based out of the Al Arish Airport(AAC\HEAR) in Egypt. As I find GZA more interesting, I have made a version of these plans that use GZA and a version that use AAC, as in the September OAG, all flights were using AAC. Scheduled flights were flown by a lone Fokker 50, with 3x weekly to AMM and 2x weekly to JED. The 727-200 was doing charters to cities in the region, so I made representative plans for it using photo data and some other information I was able to find out about the routes and even general timings. The 727-200 departs GZA/AAC at 0830 daily and spends the night upon arrival, so you can often catch it at the home base while still seeing it abroad. The airline would later add a DHC-8-300 and a CRJ-200, but GZA would be destroyed by Israeli forces in February 2000, less than 2 years after the airport opened, because Israel received intelligence that Palestinian Airlines was supporting the shipping and transportation needs of Palestinian terrorists. Despite this, the airline continued to staff it's ticket counter, which operates as a travel agency today. Flights were moved back to AAC, and occasionally other airports, with passengers being bused to\from GZA to the location of the aircraft. While Palestinian Airlines does still exist, they are more or less a "virtual" airline, operating as a travel agency with with own remaining Fokker 50s leased out to other carriers for the past several years.

Christian Gold has had the paints done for the AIA 727-200 and NAAI Fokker 50, and they are on Avsim along with the flightplans here: library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=palestinian_airlines_1998.zip&CatID=root&Go=Search

Fokker 50 Scheduled Flights:


727-200 Charter Flights:


Download Palestinian Airlines 1998 Flightplans Here