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Post by chasensfo on Feb 17, 2018 0:43:53 GMT -5
//Great China Airlines 1998 v2 (09AUG22; changed aircraft order for better AI parking, changed cruise speeds to AIG standard, added variations for Michael Pearson's repaints) Great China Airlines (1997-1998) IATA: IF ICAO: GCA CALLSIGN: GREAT CHINA Great China was probably one of the shortest-lived modern carriers in Taiwan. Founded in 1997, Great China Airlines operated for only about 1 year until merging with rival Taiwanese domestic carriers Makung Airways and Taiwan Airways to form Uni Air. Great China was operationally based in Chiayi (CYI) with hubs in Taipei (TSA), Magong (MZG), and Kinmen (KNH) flying a mixed fleet of Dash-8-200s and Dash-8-300s, as well as a few MD-90s recently delivered new straight from LGB just before the merger. After the creation of Uni Air, the aircraft were quickly painted, but several aircraft remained flying for Uni Air in full Great China colors until late 1999. Like most Taiwanese carriers, the number "4" is widely considered bad luck and excluded from most flight numbers and tail numbers. Uni Air itself became the domestic subsidiary of EVA Air, taking on their 2 short-lived MD-90s, and is alive in that role today. Fleet repaints by Michael Pearson may be found here: mpai4fs.com/category/repaints/airlines/great-china-airlines/DHC-8-200\300:  MD-90:  Great China Airlines 1998 v2 Flightplans here |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 21, 2018 15:18:11 GMT -5
\\Korean Air 1998 v2 (changed aircraft order for better parking, removed 727, added A330-200) Korean Air (1962 - Present) IATA: KE ICAO: KAL CALLSIGN: KOREAN AIR Korean Air is the national carrier of South Korea, based in Seoul Gimpo(GMP) which was the only commercial airport in Seoul until the Incheon(ICN) airport opened in 2001. It was one of only 2 airlines doing domestic Korean flights in 1998, with Korean Air having a much larger market share than Asiana and extensively flying the A300s on many domestic routes. By 1998, Korean Air had converted(to a freighter) or retired most of the 747-200s, 747-300s, MD-11s and A300B4s, but they were still in the fleet in very small numbers. The A330-300 and 777-200 were also starting to join the fleet very slowly with a few examples of each while a lone A330-200 had joined the fleet on the GMP-SHE route. The MD-80s and Fokker 100s were being used in decent numbers on both domestic flights and flights to Japan and China. The 747SPs were active but only picked up flying as spare airplanes, so they mostly sit in GMP but during the week do GMP-SFO-DEN, GMP-NRT-LAX-GMP, and GMP-HKG flights taken from 747-400s. As is the case with some of these plans, to upkeep 100% of the OAG flight schedule using the limitations of AI in flight simulator, there are a few extra planes(4x MD-80 and 1x Fokker 100) in these plans with fake registration numbers. Extra aircraft are segregated so that the user may decided if they'd rather see all real life flights or the real amount of aircraft. Ranmori has painted a 727(included as a bounus), and I gave these extra 4 MD-80s registration numbers from 727s and segregated them from the flightplans in case you wish to use the 727, but in real life it was retired in late 1996. Fleet repaints for Korean Air by Ranmori Scythe may be found here(except the A330-200, ignore the old flightplans): library.avsim.net/search.php?SearchTerm=korean_air_1998.zip&CatID=root&Go=SearchTFS A330-200 (paint over Skyteam logo): On flightsim.com as "ai332kal.zip" A backdated 1998 version of a freeware Gimpo Airport has been released by me and may be found in my scenery thread. Fokker 100:  MD-80:  A300-600R\B:  A330-200:  A330-300:  777-200:  747-200:  747-300 Combi:  747-400:  MD-11:  Download Korean Air 1998 v2 Flightplans Here |
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Post by sierraair on Feb 23, 2018 11:38:48 GMT -5
//Korean Air 1998 KE/KAL "KOREAN" Korean Air was one of only 2 airlines doing domestic Korean flights in 1998, with Korean Air having a much larger market share than Asiana and extensively flying the A300s on many domestic routes. By 1998, Korean Air had converted(to a freighter) or retired most of the 747-200s, 747-300s, MD-11s and A300B4s, but they were still in the fleet in very small numbers. The A330-200/300 and 777-200 were also starting to join the fleet very slowly with a few examples of each. The MD-80s and Fokker 100s were being used in decent numbers on both domestic flights and flights to Japan and China. The 747SP had already been retired and is not included in these plans. As is the case with some of these plans, to upkeep 100% of the OAG flight schedule using the limitations of AI in flight simulator, there are a few extra planes(5x MD-80 and 2x Fokker 100) in these plans with fake registration numbers. This project will be released with a list of all "extra" aircraft so the user may decided if they'd rather see all real life flights or the real amount of aircraft. Outstanding work on these. If you'd like, I can take a look at your raw data and see if I can find any problems that would leave you with extra aircraft. I've found for my stuff, I tend to end up with extra aircraft when a time zone is wrong, I have a typo that results in something like a 14 hour flight time, rather than 2 hours, or the turn time is just a hair too short but otherwise the flight would fit. Just a quick glance at the Korean plans, #1530 KPO-GMP is blocked at 10:55, instead of 1:00, so just fixing that should help reduce your F100s |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 24, 2018 4:04:37 GMT -5
//Korean Air 1998 KE/KAL "KOREAN" Korean Air was one of only 2 airlines doing domestic Korean flights in 1998, with Korean Air having a much larger market share than Asiana and extensively flying the A300s on many domestic routes. By 1998, Korean Air had converted(to a freighter) or retired most of the 747-200s, 747-300s, MD-11s and A300B4s, but they were still in the fleet in very small numbers. The A330-200/300 and 777-200 were also starting to join the fleet very slowly with a few examples of each. The MD-80s and Fokker 100s were being used in decent numbers on both domestic flights and flights to Japan and China. The 747SP had already been retired and is not included in these plans. As is the case with some of these plans, to upkeep 100% of the OAG flight schedule using the limitations of AI in flight simulator, there are a few extra planes(5x MD-80 and 2x Fokker 100) in these plans with fake registration numbers. This project will be released with a list of all "extra" aircraft so the user may decided if they'd rather see all real life flights or the real amount of aircraft. Outstanding work on these. If you'd like, I can take a look at your raw data and see if I can find any problems that would leave you with extra aircraft. I've found for my stuff, I tend to end up with extra aircraft when a time zone is wrong, I have a typo that results in something like a 14 hour flight time, rather than 2 hours, or the turn time is just a hair too short but otherwise the flight would fit. Just a quick glance at the Korean plans, #1530 KPO-GMP is blocked at 10:55, instead of 1:00, so just fixing that should help reduce your F100s Thank you for the offer! I PM'd you a link to the KE plans in MRAI format.  |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 26, 2018 19:23:39 GMT -5
\\Air Hong Kong 1998 v2 (removes old colors) Air Hong Kong (1985 - Present) IATA: LD ICAO AHK CALLSIGN: AIR HONG KONG Air Hong Kong started operations in 1988 as a Hong Kong(VHHX) based Cargo airline. In 1998, Air Hong Kong had just 3 747-200Fs flying all in the new livery, with the old livery having disappeared in 1996. These plans are based off info from an early 2000s flight schedule excluding routes that were known not to be operated in the late 1990s. Air Hong Kong did not operate Monday and Saturday so you can find all 3 sitting idle in Kai Tak twice per week, destinations are 4x weekly TPE/NRT, 3x weekly NGO/GMP, and SIN on Sundays. In bad weather, Macau(MFM) was the diversion airport and the aircraft visited fairly often, so I included a flight routed via MFM. The airline would go on to begin flying for DHL and grew substantially after moving to the new airport in Hong Kong with a larger cargo apron. In 2017, Cathay Pacific bought DHL's share in the carrier. Ranmori Scythe has painted the fleet, but I have since updated the flightplans since the Avsim upload. You may download them here: redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=2383086&u=https%3A//library.avsim.net/search.php%3FSearchTerm%3Dairlines_of_hong_kong_1998.zip%26CatID%3Droot%26Go%3DSearch747-200:  Air Hong Kong 1998 Version 2 Flightplans Here |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 27, 2018 13:00:30 GMT -5
///Asiana Cargo 1998 v2 Asiana Cargo (1997 - Present) IATA: OZ ICAO: AARC CALLSIGN: ASIANA Asiana Cargo is the freight division of Asiana, which was started in 1997. Asiana Cargo in 1998 was very new and still very small, with 3 747-400Fs and a single 767-300F. The 767 visits Kai Tak(VHHX) and the old Guangzhou airport(ZGGX) otherwise mostly serving China and Southeast Asia while the 747s mostly visit Europe and the United States along with some major Asian cities. Like most of these cargo plans, these are also representative and based off referencing flightplans from the early/mid 2000s for schedules and adding representative flights where needed. Ranmori Scythe has painted the cargo fleet on the FAIB models: 767-300F: drive.google.com/open?id=1E6-A-fWlfn2jMPmYb6dHfdeR9gTdCGss747-400F: drive.google.com/open?id=1ZO-aGrta7fguw2gJFch1DXHQ9oRmE_dI767-300F:  747-400F:  Asiana Cargo 1998 Version 2 Flightplans here |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 27, 2018 13:12:20 GMT -5
///Cathay Pacific Cargo 1998 Cathay Pacific Cargo (1982 - Present) IATA: CX ICAO: CPAC CALLSIGN: CATHAY Cathay Pacific Cargo is the Air Cargo division of Cathay Pacific, flying dedicated freighters. In 1998, Cathay Pacific Cargo had a single 747-400 flying in the old colors green colors(which was the only one painted in those colors), and the rest of the fleet were 747-200s with a good mix of the old and new livery. Cathay Pacific Cargo was a scheduled cargo carrier at the time, but as we could not find a schedule, these are representative flightplans based on an early 2000s schedule and a 1980s schedule eliminating routes known not to be flown at the time and using the old airports(Like VHHX, GMP, RJNA, ect). These hard working birds were not just fly-by-night and will be in and out of Kai Tak all day. Cathay Pacific Cargo is still active today, flying 747-400s and 747-8i freighters. The first 747-400F in the new colors did not join the fleet until 2000, but Ranmori has painted it as a bonus. Representative flightplans by Ranmori Scythe and the paints may be downloaded on Avsim here. 747-200F:  747-400F:  Cathay Pacific Cargo 1998 flightplans here
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Post by sunking on Feb 27, 2018 13:28:18 GMT -5
Are these awesome Cargo flights based on real OAG schedules? Thanks so much for these great one.  Kind regards. |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 27, 2018 15:05:43 GMT -5
Are these awesome Cargo flights based on real OAG schedules? Thanks so much for these great one. Kind regards. For some airlines yes, but from the early 2000s, or in a few cases the early 90s as we have no 1998 cargo data. Some of them are representative but realistic based on the info I could find from the internet and people who remember the carriers operations. |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 27, 2018 15:56:16 GMT -5
\\RAC 1998 v2 Ryukyu Air Commuter RAC (1985 - Present) IATA: NONE LISTED ICAO: RAC CALLSIGN: RYUKYU AIR Ryukyu Air Commuter is a small Japanese commuter airline based in Naha(OKA) on the Southern Island of Okinawa near Taiwan. The airline has long connected Okinawa with the many neighboring islands. Initially, the airline was the regional affiliate of Southwest Air Lines, which was the predecessor to Japan Transocean Air(JTA). In 1998, RAC was flying regional routes with a small fleet of BN-2s and DHC-6s and a DHC-8 on behalf of JTA. The DHC-6's were still flying in the former colors of Southwest Air Lines, while the BN-2 wore a white and blue livery and the DHC-8 wore an interesting vivid yellow and blue livery with a cat on it. These plans use the old Ishigaki airport(dubbed ROIX in flight simulator), which was a congested and complicated airport to operate at. A future scenery will be released for this old airport which currently does not exist in Flight Simulator. JTA and RAC are both still part of JAL, and the airline would go on to operate DHC-8-300s and Q400s as a JAL commuter carrier. Ranmori Scythe has done the paints: TFS DHC-8-100: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w82KsKi7-eSLP6-_mz3SSD4erxAbBqN6?usp=sharingHTAI DHC-6: drive.google.com/drive/folders/19dWABiXRD4Cwz76I4Mebh0FBZ0usZ80g?usp=sharingHTAI BN-2 (use new colors): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SEEe3aCHsvnY0qbZcU27Vz346Q_IwBNp?usp=sharingBN-2:  DHC-6:  DHC-8-100:  YS-11A:  Ryukyu Air Commuter (RAC) 1998 Version 2 Flightplans Here |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 27, 2018 18:03:49 GMT -5
//JAZ 1999 v2 (re-done from scratch) Japan Air Charter JAZ (1991-2010) IATA: JZ ICAO: JAZ CALLSIGN: JAPAN CHARTER Japan Air Charter, better known as JAZ, was a wholly owned subsidiary of JAL that was dedicated to high density leisure routes where JAL's premium cabins and standard level of service were not needed. When JAL was established, the Japanese economy was troubled and there was need for a low cost, long haul service to draw demand for leisure travel. Through most of the 1990s, the airline flew charters with aircraft wet-leased from JAL as needed, with as many as about 10 747s and DC-10s in the fleet at times. Some aircraft wore a dedicated JAZ livery, but many wore the standard JAL livery when wet-leased by JAZ. However, in 1999, JAZ received the authority to operate scheduled services on on a codeshare with JAL, and flights began from several secondary Japanese cities to Hawaii, along with flights to Honolulu(HNL) from Tokyo Narita(NRT) and Osaka Kansai(KIX) which continued on to Kona(KOA) before returning to Japan. All other Hawaii flights were operated by mainline JAL. The JAZ fleet underwent a livery change for this new operation, and the fleet appeared in Purple and Yellow variations of the famous "Super Resort Express" colors with flowers and birds across the fuselage. As I am fascinated by these aircraft and I had the flight schedule, I elected to represent this 1999 version of JAZ instead of the 1998 charter division. The aircraft mostly leave Japan on red-eye flights and arrive in the early to late morning in Hawaii before departing back to Japan in the early afternoon, with several of these colorful planes often on the ground in HNL at once. A few weekly flights were also operated between NRT and KIX, which seemed to be mostly for repositioning. The 1999 fleet consisted of a single 747-100 and several 747-200s and DC-10-40s. Soon afterwards, the airline changed it's name and callsign both to "JALways", and would retain this name for the rest of it's history. In 2005, the DC-10s were retired, and the airline joined OneWorld in 2007. JALs 747-300s would be transferred to JALways and finish their life there, with the last one retiring in October of 2009 and JAL absorbing the JALways brand soon afterwards in early 2010. As there were long ground times with some aircraft, there are a few weekly training flights to Shimojishima(SHI\RORS) where they practice approaches as they occasionally did in real life at the time. The fleet is completed: FAIB 747-100 by Ranmori Scythe: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oOL7CbOyCN0Wf2JhV0xmOynv0Cjqhs5d?usp=sharingFAIB 747-200: On Avsim as "faib_747-200_jaz.zip" EVAI DC-10-40: On Avsim as "jal_1993.zip" 747-100\200:  DC-10-40:  Training flights:  Japan Air Charter(JAZ) 1998 Flightplans Here |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 28, 2018 13:39:52 GMT -5
\\JAL Cargo 1998 (Representative) v2 Japan Air Lines Cargo - JAL Cargo (1975-2010) IATA: JL ICAO: JALC CALLSIGN: JAPAN AIR Japan Air Lines Cargo, better known as JAL Cargo, was the dedicated freight division of JAL that was active for 35 years. Initially, before JAL formally had a cargo division, some convertible DC-7s, and perhaps DC-6s, were used in cargo roles, some on long haul routes. But it was not until 1975 that JAL had a dedicated cargo fleet, with DC-8s retired in the mid to late 1970s from passenger service were converted to a cargo role as the initial fleet of JAL Cargo, serving many cities along JAL's global network early on. The program was successful, and JAL began receiving dedicated cargo 747-200Fs in the very early 1980s which gradually replaced the converted DC-8s. Even in the 1970s and 1980s, JAL had several variations of it's cargo livery across the fleet, and when the aircraft were repainted in the 1990s with JAL receiving a new livery and losing the cheat-lines, this trend continued. By 1998, the airline had close to 10 livery variations across it's cargo fleet, including one aircraft still being flown in the full colors of Japan Universal Air Transport(JUST), a small Chitose(CTS)-based cargo airline with a lone 747-200F that JAL acquired int he mid 1990s which had a cartoon whale on the tail nicknamed "Yu-Chan". The 1998 network served major cities in Asia and Australia from Tokyo-Narita(NRT) while an Anchorage(ANC) hub was used for flights across the United States and Europe, with SFO-ANC being the only longhaul transpacific route to bypass ANC(though the return flight did stop there). Most of the fleet was 747-200Fs, though 1 747-100SF and 1 747-200SF were also active. JAL Cargo would start adding 747-400Fs to the fleet soon afterwards, and later 767-300s. However, by the mid 2000s, JAL was running into serious trouble and began major cutbacks with their freight division. Many routes were cut, such as all routes to the USA including SFO which had been a cargo destination since the DC-7 days. JAL re-introduced a baremetal livery as a cost saving measure, but it was short lived. By 2010, JAL Cargo was ended and remained only in name, with freight only being carried in the cargo hold on JAL passenger flights from that point forward. As we do not have an elusive Cargo OAG, these flightplans are representative based on early 2000s and late 1980s schedules. However, great care was taken in removing routes known to have ended or not started by 1998, and these are very accurate in most regards. Flightplans are by Ranmori Scythe, but they vary from the flightplans on his website(these use RJBB instead of RJOO and WMSA instead of WMKK), so please download these plans instead for use with 1998. Ranmori has also painted the entire 1990s JAL Cargo fleet: FAIB 747-100SF: ranmori.mixh.jp/wp/blog/2018/08/04/japan-airlines-cargo-boeing-747-100sf/FAIB 747-200SF: ranmori.mixh.jp/wp/blog/2018/08/04/japan-airlines-cargo-boeing-747-200sf/FAIB 747-200: ranmori.mixh.jp/wp/blog/2018/08/04/japan-airlines-cargo-boeing-747-200f/747-100\200:  JAL Cargo 1998 Version 2 Flightplans Here |
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 28, 2018 16:29:10 GMT -5
//Philippine Airlines 1998 v2 Philippine Airlines (1935 - Present) IATA: PR ICAO: PAL CALLSIGN: PHILIPPINE Philippine Airlines is the national airline of the Philippines. The airline was turmoil in 1998, after a 1997 Asian recession and a several week long pilot strike. There had been huge cuts to the fleet, with many aircraft being repossessed, and service was sparse compared to years prior. A330-300s had come on board and taken over most of the international flying within Asia while having the largest fleet within the airline as a result of the downsizing. A320s also arrived early in the 1990s and began to work along side 737-300s on the domestic routes. There was a twice weekly A340-200 flight that interestingly routed MNL-DHA-CAI-RUH-MNL, likely because many Filipinos work abroad from the Middle East and send money home. Several 747-200s were sitting around, but they only flew to HKG about once per week each. The 3 747-400s only flew to LAX and a weekly flight to SFO, and the A340-300s were down to a 6x weekly MNL-SFO-HNL-MNL route. These were dire times for the airline, and it barely survived. Most domestic routes were served just once daily. Most of the fleet was operating in small numbers, and most aircraft were inactive and barley flying sitting idle in Manila. The Fokker 50 fleet operated just 2 daily routes, and the 737-300s and A320s didn't operate many more. A good portion of these planes ended up being sold between late 1998 and 2000. As a result, I have split up the flightplans so that proper number of aircraft are sitting around Manila cluttering the hangar ramp as was the case in 1998 without creating fake flights. It was an exciting time in terms of fleet variety(A300/A320/A333/A342/A343/733/742/744/MD11/Fokker 50), but the planes didn't fly much so won't be seen abroad in many places. Philippine Airlines would survive, and is a major global airline today with new aircraft like the A350-900 and A321 NEO. Note that these plans use the old Bacolod(BCD) airport, RPVX instead of RPVB, and this same year, an A320 had a terrible landing over-run almost identical to the TAM crash in CGH with an INOP thrust reverser left in idle and producing too much thrust to slow down, breaking through the airport perimeter and killing several people in their homes near the airport. This accident lead to the eventual closure of the airport with the new one located away from the city. The MD-11 leased from World Airways did a MNL-YVR-EWR route as well as some HKG flights, but was retired in late 1997(though there is photo evidence of it sitting around MNL in early 1998 waiting for World Airways to take it back). I chose to include it in these plans. Remove it if you wish to stay true to 1998/1999. The basic livery has not changed much since introduced in 1988, so using more modern paints for the aircraft which do not have true retro paints is fine. There is a repaint of the TFS A300B4 and FAIB 737-300 but I am not sure where I got it from, any help appreciated. Here are the paints I know of: FAIB 747-400 by Ranmori Scythe: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hU37SOkVisGc7bW0p9RFiK8heeLsEbzm?usp=sharingFAIB 747-200: On Avsim as "faib_747-200_pal.zip" FSXP MD-11: On Avsim as "fspxai_md-11_woa_leases.zip" TFS A330-300: On Flightsim.com as "ai333pal_1.zip" TFS A300B4 by Ranmori Scythe: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sFj5V8HaIVmDPeb--DR76eYYntD90IKP?usp=sharingFAIB A320: On Avsim as "pal_faib_a320.zip" FAIB 737-300 by Ranmori Scythe: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rky2qJ0Nqwopnd391raIN4v8Zrxise0M?usp=sharingNAAI Fokker 50: drive.google.com/open?id=1O45GFscgF2AnalRTZlIXJ5z3NNn0lhClFokker 50:  737-300:  A320:  A300B4:  A330-300:  A340-200:  A340-300:  MD-11:  747-200:  747-400:  Philippine Airlines 1998 Version 2 Flightplans Here |
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Post by chasensfo on Mar 5, 2018 7:35:30 GMT -5
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Post by chasensfo on Mar 6, 2018 14:33:56 GMT -5
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