Pasped Skylark
This 1930s two-seat sports aircraft features a radial engine, giant landing gear designed for landing on rough grass airstrips, and is clad in sleek Duraluminum fairings,. This was an aircraft so bold that it even made its way into the Hollywood movies! With almost STOL-like landing ability, huge belly-mounted air brake flap, doors and a sliding canopy, this is an awesome aerial Hot Rod!
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Highly detailed exterior model
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Seven high definition period liveries
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Fully animated components and flight control surfaces throughout the aircraft
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Custom engineered flight dynamics
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Bump mapping on rivets and panels, as well as some light sheet metal fatiguing for extra realism
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Electric-powered air brake, belly-mounted under the fuselage between the landing gear. This massive air brake panel can slow the Skylark down well for those short field approaches
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Scanning pilot animation; high detail pilot mesh structure with easily changeable clothing textures
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Custom instrumentation based on actual photographs
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Opening front nose compartment just behind the engine
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Opening map box door – map box contains period items including an antique AM radio
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Wheel chocks and canopy cover appear when engaging 'Tie-Down-mode' switch in the left hand switch cubby box
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Kneeboard features checklists, runway visualiser, specs and performance data as well as a handwritten set of Range and Fuel Left read-outs
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Nine interior camera views and eleven exterior camera views
Fairchild 24R and 24W Variants with float plane versions, radial and inline Ranger engines
Born in 1932, the 'Model 24' was a radical move by Fairchild to gain a stronghold on the Private Pilot sector. With an interior designed by the famous American industrial and automobile designer Raymond Loewy, the 24 featured items such as roll-down windows, automotive door knobs and cranks, comfortable seats, and many other automotive-style features, making the 24 one of the classiest and most comfortable planes of the era.
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High resolution 2048 textures
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37 variants
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Three versions of landing gear models - Classic Skirt Fairings and Skirtless for Bush landings and Floats
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Float variants come in both Ranger and Warner editions
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Four Bush planes with loads of mud and wear and tear, and fading and chipped paint. As rugged as it gets!
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Several paint scheme versions of instrument panels, including rough, military gray, and fine wood veneer
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Vintage instrumentation including the Mark12 Narco Com/Nav Radio
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Many versions of interiors, too numerous to note here
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Glass over gauges
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Roll-down windows with sound effects
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Clickable air vents with sound effects
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High detail 1940s-style manual booklet 'in' the virtual cockpit (pop-up feature)
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Cool 1940s-style checklist also in 'pop-up mode' which includes a traffic angle calculator
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Extreme number of interior and exterior cam shot viewpoints
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Rugged main landing gear for rough field landings
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Animated male pilot with different vintage clothes for some of the paint scheme variants
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Hinging, animated hand straps that can be hidden
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Opening map box with GPS inside
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Overhead hand crank elevator trim
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Features 'one' black crinkle 2D panel for those that like to fly in 2D panel mode, (no throttle or special controls in the 2D panel mode. Instrumentation only)
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Garmin GPS system with NAV2 / COM2 systems
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VOR Homing gauge linked to the Narco Mark12 radio (NAV1)
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Brilliant custom sound packs of both a radial Super Scarab and inline aircraft engine
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Canoe that can be hidden on the Float Plane only
Piper Super Pacer Four Pack featuring Taildragger original, Bush, Float and Tri-Pacer variants
Following their success with the Piper J-3 Cub, the company announced the elegant Pacer series born in the 1950s, featuring several variations including a conventional tail tragger and the Tri-Pacer with a nose-gear configuration.
Four models:
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Classic tail dragger (with three wheel fairing options)
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Tri-Pacer (with two wheel fairing options)
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Modern bush plane (featuring Tundra large diameter tires)
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Float plane
Three instrument panel configurations:
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Classic early era with optional radio stacks
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Tri-Pacer era with dual panel sides
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Modern bush version with carbon fibre and modernised avionics
Features
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33 high resolution (2048x2048) liveries
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Very detailed models with 3D raised ribbing on the fuselage and wings, switchable skirts, metal fatigue around fuse tank covers and even 3D screws!
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Removable magnetic whisky compass on older panel configurations
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'Clean your Plexi!' system allows you to toggle how dirty your cockpit windows are
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Ability to hide yokes for improved view of cockpit panel
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Garmin GNS 430 available in modern cockpit variant
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Sliding side windows and option to show cargo load
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Animated pilots
Wittman Tailwind Mini Home-built in three versions; WT-8, WT-10, and Tri-Cycle WT-10 variants
This world famous speedster of the American home-built sector could reach speeds of 200MPH. Originally designed in the 1950s by the air racer Steven Wittman, it graced the skies internationally with radical high speed performance. Thanks to its extremely inexpensive construction and wooden wings, it provided regular people with a fun, enjoyable way of flying.
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Custom high detail instrumentation
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Avionics featuring an MX12 NAV-COM, transponder, and autopilot in the W-10
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Full night lighting with soft glow gauge instrumentation for night flights without the dome light needing to be on
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Eight different paint schemes with several versions of interiors
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One aircraft called 'Retro' features an early 1960s paint scheme and wood panel interior from the Tailwind era
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Fully animated control surfaces and various controls within the Tailwind Collection
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Front diagonal crossbrace bars in front of the pilot are hideable with a switch for ease of flying in VC mode
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High detail 2D panels by the legendary Bill Leaming
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Optional Wide Screen panels can be linked to Registry blocks in the aircraft config file for widescreen users
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Ice box in rear cargo shelf opens and features animated bottled water and sandwich
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Custom sounds throughout the aircraft
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Hideable top sun cover for the W-8, which features a fully transparent roof
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Hideable front instrument panel cover made of an old air chart map
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Features a functioning virtual smartphone with:
- Sleep mode
- Lockout mode
- Apps window
- Eight song tracks and you can use your own music converted to WAV format
- Features on photo page
- One ringtone
- Functioning Compass app with GPS coordinates read-out and heading in digital format
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Pilot auto-hides when engine stops running
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Basic cargo displays outside plane when engine stops running
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Comes in full, complete FSX format with DDS files, all in high performance DXT5 DDS format
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Custom sound package
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Custom flight model that feature a unique feel for the aircraft
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Tailwind Operations Manual in PDF format
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Checklist in pop-up view, does not use Kneeboard program
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Optional Wide Screen 2D panels
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Custom exterior 3D high realism lighting effects