Dornier DO-328 Air Engiadina
Original desing byGrupo IFDG - Robert Versluys, Aviel Nahoem, Kristiaan Duivesteijn, Karl Klatt.
Some repainting by Team Lufthansa and Misha Kovacevic
And this repaint by Alejandro Hurtado
History of Air Engiadina / Swisswings:
1987 Air Engiadina was founded in St. Moritz on April 22.
1988 First scheduled flights from Zurich to St. Moritz/Samedan.
1992 The route Berne-Munich was opened using Fairchild-Dornier Do.228 aircraft.
1993 Air Engiadina is the launch customer of Fairchild-Dornier Do.328-100. It adds the Berne-Vienna route.
1994 New homebase is Berne. After the delivery of its second Do.328, new route to Amsterdam is added.
1995 Delivery of two more Do328s. New route to London City.
1996 One of the aircraft delivered in 1995 was based in Geneva for flights to Dublin.
1997 Budapest is now served from Geneva.
1998 KLM and Air Engiadina sign an cooperation agreement, but without financial participations. In September they welcome the 500.000th passenger. Air Engiadina is rebranded KLMalps/Air Engiadina. The aircraft are repainted to the KLM livery. KLMalps/Air Engiadina buys 49% of KLMalps/Air Alps Aviation which is operating flights from Austria to the KLM hub in Amsterdam.
1999 New codeshare agreement with Northwest Airlines.
2000 Venice, Marseilles and Toulouse are new destinations (codeshared with Crossair) flown from Geneva. In autumn Stuttgart and Brussels (from Berne) and Stuttgart and Florence (from Geneva) are added to the route network. Flights from Berne to Geneva are now operated.
2001 The routes from Berne to Brussels and Stuttgart and from Geneva to Budapest and Dublin are cancelled in March. The cooperation with KLM is limited to the Berne-Amsterdam route. Swisswings Airlines is the new name of the carrier.
2002 April 08th, Swisswings ceases operations and files for bankruptcy.
Source: http://www.8ung.at/ch-aviation/
The fleet of Swisswings in 2001:
HB-AEE Fairchild Dornier 328-110 Y31 City of Berne
HB-AEF Fairchild Dornier 328-110 Y31 City of Thun
HB-AEG Fairchild Dornier 328-110 Y31 Ville de Fribourg
HB-AEI Fairchild Dornier 328-110 Y31 Ville de Biel/Bienne
HB-AEJ Fairchild Dornier 328-120 Y31
Source: JP Airline Fleets 2001/2002
Also: www.ruudleeuw.com/remember (Airlines Remembered)
History of the painting:
Months ago, I saw a picture of this plane in a magazine, and selected do328jgh.zip as the model base to repaint. When I was very advanced, I looked for the turboprop engines... and found that do328jgh.zip was a do-328 JET! So I made the Do-328J of Welcome Air.
Later, and having a Do-328 prop model with the proper permission, I searched in the web to be sure that there is no another download of this plane, because I think that there are so many wonderfull planes in the real world to repeat one. I made an exception to the rule: when the paintings are FS98 or olders. I found this one made for FS5 and FS98, but none newer than this. I found too that HB-AEE, the launch model of the Do-328, was sold to a venezuelan company in March 1998, so maybe my next and last Do-328 repaint will be the recoded D-CHIC.
Air Engiadina had four liverys: this one, and another three that you will found in www.ruudleeuw.com/remember (Airlines Remembered).
But, enougt chat, select this plane and... enjoy!
Dornier Do-328
Performance at max. Take-off weight, to FAR Pt 25, ISA:
max. operating speed (Vmo): 270 knots CAS
max. operating Mach number (Mmo): 0,59
max. speed at FL 250: 356 KTAS
max. cruising speed at FL 200: 335 KTAS
max. rate of climb at S/L: 2430 ft/min
design cruising altitude (normal): 25000 ft
(optional): 31000 ft
required take-off field length: 1100m (3610 ft)
take-off speed (Vr): 114 kts
landing field length: 1010m (3315 ft)
range at max. cruising speed with 30 passengers,
with allowance for 100nm diversion and 45 min hold:
at 25000 ft: 900 nm (1666 km)
at 31000 ft: 1000 nm (1852 km)
In the personal, I think that this plane is a streamlined ATR-42.
My previous repaints are:
Ju52mlka: Ju-52 owned by Milka chocolats company, in flying state
b727ah1: Green and yellow Braniff's 727
b727ah2: 727 flow by Viasa when was bought by Iberia
b727ah3: Braniff 727 painted by Alexander Calder
b727ah4: One of the first 727 flow by Kulula.com
md11ah5: MD-11F from Eva Air Cargo
b190ah6: Beech 1900D from Us Air Express
b190ah7: Beech 1900D from the canarian island's Air Atlantic
b737ah8: American Airlines Astrojet, a 2001 plane painted like the 60´s
l1011ah9: Two L1011 leased by Iberia
tornah10: Tornado in 2001 Tiger Meet painting
b727ah11: Alaska Airlines 727 leased to the Seattle NFL Team Seahawks
b737ah12: A BWIA 737-800 in caribean decoration.
c235ah13: The CN-235 was used by the spanish line Binter Mediterraneo
d328ah14: The only Do-328JET of Welcome Air
d328ah15: The another two Do-328 (prop) of Welcome Air
Warranty:
I love the warranty wrote by Andrew W. Hall:
"None. Zip. Nada. Use at your own risk. I dont think
this will harm your computer in any way, but if it does, I
dont even want to hear about it."
A last remark: Why don't become a repainter? There are a lot of planes with special markings. I'm tired of the usual F-16 low-vis scheme, or the usual 757 in Delta markings. Why don't a "Bat's outa Hell's" B-25 or a serie of Qantas 737s? The plane modelers like IFDG are very important, but they can't make all the painting schemes by himselfs. So why don't help they?
Installation:
Just unzip d328ah16.zip in your "Aircraft" folder of FS2002, install your desired panel and that's all. If you don't know how to install a panel, just let the default Beech King Air 350.
If you like this, or any observation, send me a mail to dracosist@cantv.net
