Lockheed 1049G Super Constellation Iberia EC-AMP "Santa Maria"
When I was investigating to make my Super Constellation in the livery of Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, I founded that nobody had made a Iberia's Super Connie since FS98, and even this was converted from a FS5 model. That's inusual, because the EC-AMP was so famous that it is one of the few planes in the world with a postal stamp series dedicated to it. You can see one of this in sello.jpg, together with the "Santa Maria" nao.
EC_AMP had three liverys that I know, one in 1959, one in 1960 and the third in 1962. There are very few pictures of this plane in internet, and the painting of the FS98's plane, for example, dosn't match with any. So even there was another livery (very likely), or the FS98 model is wrong. In the postal stamp, the artist changed slighty the Connie structure and colors, but it seems to correspond to the 1959 livery.
Back to the facts, this is a original model by Mike Stone, repainted by Alejandro Hurtado
History
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The 'Constellation' and 'Super Constellation' were among the last of the great prop-driven airliners just before the jet age began in civil aviation. In 1939 Lockheed began with the development of the L-49 as a large four-engined civil aircraft. When the USA entered WWII, the concept was changed to the military transporter C-69, which first flew in January 1943. After the war the design was converted back to its original role, and the first L049 Constellations were put into service with Pan American Airways in 1946. The characteristic long slender fuselage and the triple tailfin of the Constellation could soon be seen at all major airports of the world. The long range and the pressurized cabin made the Constellation superior to most of her rivals.
In 1951 the improved version, the L-1049 Super Constellation, saw service with Eastern Airlines. The L-1049, which had a longer fuselage and more power, went through many different versions, the last of which were the L-1049G and the passenger/freight version L-1049H. More than 600 Super Constellations were built.
The last of the Constellation series was the L-1649A Starliner in 1957. In spite of excellent performance, only 43 Starliners entered service.
At last, the age of the jetliners had begun.
IBERIA, the spanish national airline, since August,1954 start to flew its schedulled service Madrid-New York, as well as other transatlantic routes with Lockheed L1049G Super Constellation. Seven of them joined Iberia, being retired of service in March, 1966.
My previus repaints are:
For Fs2002 only:
b737ah8: American Airlines Astrojet, a 2001 plane painted like the 60´s
b737ah12: A BWIA 737-800 in caribean decoration.
d328ah15: The two Do-328 (prop) of Welcome Air
d328ah16: Air Engiadina was the launching client of the DO-328
For FS2002, in Fs2004 the night cockpit lightning doesnt looks well from outside:
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
b727ah11: Alaska Airlines 727 leased to the Seattle NFL Team Seahawks
I Dont know how it works in Fs2004:
Ju52mlka: Ju-52 owned by Milka chocolats company, in flying state
md11ah5: MD-11F from Eva Air Cargo
tornah10: Tornado in 2001 Tiger Meet painting
c235ah13: The CN-235 was used by the spanish line Binter Mediterraneo
For FS2004 and FS2002:
b190ah6: Beech 1900D from Us Air Express
b190ah7: Beech 1900D from the canarian island's Air Atlantic
l1011ah9: Two L1011 leased by Iberia
d328ah14: The only Do-328JET of Welcome Air
atr4ah17: Two of the ATR-42 owneds by Lai, a venezuelan company
pby5ah18: A water bomber PBY Catalina, the Canso 71 was used in Spain
pby5ah19: A water bomber PBY Catalina, in red painting from Spain.
b727ah20: 727 flow by Singapore Airlines
d328ah21: DO-328 (prop) Welcome Air, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah22: Alaska Airlines 727, upgraded for FS2004
1049ah23: Super Constellation belonging to Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
b727ah24: Green and yellow Braniff's 727, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah25: Blue Braniff 727
Flying the Super Constellation (From the FS98 model by Joe & Doe, repaint by Sigfrid Roig)
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The Connie is not difficult to fly if you remember that it is much faster, larger and heavier than your average Cessna.
Take off with one or two notches of flaps and full throttle. Rotate at 110 knots, and take off at 120 knots. Reduce throttle.
Try to hold a cruising speed of about 260 to 270 knots (as the original).
Don't try steep turns, you will probably loose a lot of altitude (and also your passengers stomachs won't appreciate this). If you use the autopilot, use also the 'wing leveler' option to hold course.
Prepare for a rather fast landing approach, even with flaps full down. Approach speed on final will be about 130 knots. Try to touch down with 100 to 110 knots. Taxiing works best with ground speeds below 10 kts.
It is recommended that you fly the Constellation with rudder pedals. The plane reacts well on rudder input and corrections on final are easy.
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I personally recommend to use the very good manual manconn.zip from Werner Schott to fly this beautifull plane. About the Connies, the mechanics used to tell about them: "The best tri-engine of the world", because its turbochargers damaged very frecuently, and many transatlantic flights ended with tree engines. So, if you want to be real, just program a engine failure sometimes in 10 hour.
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 Mike Stone are very important, but they can't make all the painting schemes by himselfs. So why don't help him and his friends?
INSTALLATION:
Just unzip 1049ah26.zip in your "Aircraft" folder of FS2002, FS2004 or FS9 (make sure "use folder names" is checked), copy the gauges folder content in the correspondent one, install your desired panel and that's all. If you don't know how to install a panel, just let the one who comes instaled, but I don't like it.
FS2002 users: you'll hear no sound, because it is alliased to the FS9's DC-3. To correct this, go to the "sound" folder, rename "sound.cfg" like anithing else, and rename "sound2002.cfg" like "sound.cfg"
