DORNIER Do X Flying Boat, version 3.0 for FS2002 , February 2002
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Revised model from 1996 FS5 issue. More, see DoX documentation (word97 style)
This airplane requires Microsoft Flight Simulator FS2002 pro (not checked with other).
No up to date features, no singing and dancing chicken, but frame rate friendly.
Engines: 12 X 600 hp Curtiss Conqueror
T/O Weight: 55 tons max. 46 nominal, 30 tons empty
Length: 40.05 m
Wing span: 48 m (140.8 feet)
Cruise speed: 230 Km/h max. , cruise 185 Km/h (100 kts)
Range: 12 hours endurance at cruise, about 1280 NM nominal
Crew: 14 and 69 passengers (record with 170)
History:
First flown in July 1929 from Lake Constance, the Do X was the first all
metal large flying boat, built only 3 units, 2 of delivered to Italy.
Famous transatlantic flight via Africa, crossing south Atlantic to Rio de Janeiro
and up to North America visiting Miami and New York in 1932, back crossing North Atlantic
to Berlin. For the route flown see the enclosed map "KarteDoX.jpg".
The Do X 1 was destroyed by a bomb raid in the last days of WW2, already
settled to a museum in Berlin. Do X2 and Do X3 were scrapped in late 30`s.
Features: No flaps, since there were none at the original.
I did implement visible and rotating props rather symbolic.
Aircraft has simple position lights at wingtip and vertical stabilizer.
The painting is only in draft quality and shows principle scheme.
No accurate panel included and planned, this plane is too difficult for a
decent panel, all the 12 engines were controlled from a special compartment.
The cockpit instrumentation was sparse and wide spread around the large
command deck. Autopilot with autothrottle can be activated for the convenience of
long distance cruise or very low cruise over ocean waters with support of FSNav4.X, (altitude lower limit is 100 feet with autopilot).
No moving parts except props.
Panel: The included panel is an artist impression from an old b/w photograph.
The bitmaps used were created by Russ McCaffrey in 1999.
The gauges are selected to give a rough idea what was used, mainly metric gauges were used. Some are backups in US system for your convenience only. The radio panel can be switched on/off by a switch located in the main panel upper right. The radios and autopilot are symbolic (the original did NOT have autopilot) and the radio room was behind the cockpit (here rather called command deck). The RPM gauge will show prop RPM which is 1/2 of engine RPM due to the reduction gear.
As FS2002 does (presently) not provide support for more than 2 piston engines, the gauges, the starter and rpm gauges are for engine 1 active only.
A large steering wheel (almost original) can be activatet by pressing "Shift+2". With "Shift+4" you get an incomplete engine control panel.
For some of the gauges I do not know the authors neither the source, if anybody will claim a copyright then please drop me a note. Some gauges (metric speed, compass and VSI are made by Max Roodveld (visit his homepage at http://www.flightsimmers.net/fszwever/, if you are interestet in gliders for the Flightsim you will find lots of stuff) for gliders, they fit nicely for the need of the DoX.
Sound: The default is linked to the C182, not a good choice, optional I have linked to the F4U Corsair and if you have installed the Beaver Float from Fred Banting you could link there too. The Beaver sound fits pretty to the large engines of the DoX. Additionaly see the readme included in the sound folder, look for some work provided by Mike Hambly, he very likely has some good sounds issued at www.SurClaro.
Operation: Take-off with full throttle at 95 to 100 kts, pull back stick
gently and adjust climb to some 500 feet/min, trim for level and
reduce throttle accordingly. Perform only moderate banking.
Landing approach with throttle cut to 50%, in final
cut throttle to about 25% and flare out at 85 to
80 kts. (I set the stall speed to 72 kts, I did not find a clear
specification on that).
Always remeber it is an old lady and the power plant is not
generous as nowadays. Usual flight level was far below 1000 feet AGL
(100 m to 250 m) and oversea cruise there was only 3 m to 8 m above the
waves !! using the ground effect for higher speed and less fuel
consumption, I do not recommend this procedure with crash detect
switched on, though FS2002 seems to handle this effect too. Try it with very
sensitive trim and throttle adjustment, you can go as low as 14 feet. Somehow an early EKRANOPLAN
Autopilot handles a bit sluggish, beware!
The aircaft will require elevator trim due to power changes, the engines are located well above the CoG.
Note: This aircraft is quite challenging to design with accurate details
so you may encounter some shortcomings and imperfections.
This is a simple upgrade from FS5 only by use of AF99.
I am still struggling with some bleedthrough.
The flight model should be OK for a big and heavy flying boat,
it`s to you to change it as you like !
Installation:
Unzip all stuff and move the folder "DOX1" to your FS2002 \Aircraft folder.
Gauges must go to the FS2002\Gauges folder.
Copy "Altenrhein revisited.flt" and "Altenrhein revisitet.WX" to your \Flights\Myflts folder if you like. This will place the plane in the air, passing over the Lake of Constance near Altenrhein (the birthplace of the DoX).
Start FS2002 and look for DORNIER DoX1 or the start situation.
If not, go ahead on any large lake or sea shore.
Legal stuff:
___ C O P Y R I G H T & D I S T R I B U T I O N ________________
This files are released as Freeware. Copyright (C) Wolfram Beckert 2002.
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respected.
All data are from the book "Do X 1929" ,issued by DORNIER GmbH PR dept,
Friedrichshafen (now Fairchild-Dornier, Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria , Germany)
Anchors away and Have fun!
February ,2002
Wolfram Beckert
Immenstaad, Lake Constance, Germany
