DC2 Uiver Package for FS2000
Also read the HTML document in the "Aircraf\Douglas DC-2 KLM 'Uiver'\DC2-docs" map, in your FS2000 directory

In 3 days from London to Melbourne

The Australian state Victoria celebrates her centenial celebrations with an airrace from Londen to Melbourne in 1934.
Sixtyfour teams subscribe for the race, only 20 reach the starting line. One of these planes is the revolutionairy Douglas DC-2 Uiver, entered by the KLM; The Royal Dutch Airlines. Albert Plesman, founder of the KLM, doesn't aim at winning the race; he wants to show that the Dutch are capabel to sustain the longest airline service on earth.
The KLM crew: Parmentier, Moll, Prins and Van Brugge, have to compete with racing devils in speedmonsters. Only the KLM can fly an 'ordinary' airline service, with passengers and mail.
The racing devils exceed the boundaries of human endurance. The KLM passengers and crew arrive in top shape, they haven't missed a meal! Aided by trained groundcrews along the route, the KLM team acheaves a second place in the speedrace, and a first place in the handicaprace. And all of this inspite of an succesfull emergency landing at the Albury racetrack in the dark, lit by the headlights of motor cars , just 250 km from the finish line. The whole world kept it's breath.
The enthousiasm for the Uiver's succes is not yet over. The Dutch Air Museum Aviodome tried everything to change the last airworthy DC2 into a real Uiver, and succeeded to bring her to Holland.
With a sponsorflight past Dutch airfields, the Uiver attracted a lot of attention. The Uiver never left the hearts of the Dutch People.

The DC2 Package

In an attempt to convert this enthousiasm for FS2000, a group of people from three continents came together to make a DC2 Uiver Package, consisting of a fotoreal panel with custom gauges and 8 side views, a visual model with 3 liveries, and a new and well functioning air.file.

NOTAM : Just in case you expect a fully up to date FS2K/FSDS visual model with all bells and whistles featured, like a 3D cockpit and cabin,transparent windows,turning wheels,working landing light beams, a fully functional stewardess who'll bring you coffee at the push of a button, etc,ect, well.....please DON'T !!
This is just a humble AF5/AF99 model which in fact stems from the days we thought that, with FS5, there was not much improvement to look out for anymore, but (over the years) we've got Rob and Ed to produce some excellent additions to Don's original model, Jan to take that further plus produce the photorealistic textures, Steve willing to produce an excellent flightmodel and Rob to produce an equally excellent original DC-2 panel with Fred and Dai chipping in to do some great gauge programming.So we thought, what the heck, we would be crazy to NOT release it after so much work has been put in, wouldn't we ! So, after this many years, here she is, please take good care of her, she comes in from a loooong final approach path ! ( rumour has it that work on a true FSDS DC-2 visual model will commence shortly, when it will take off for it's FS2002 inauguration flight you'll be the first to know! )

Credits

Visual Model Design: Don Incoll, Rob Bosman/Ed Nolte, Jan Visser.
Flightdynamics: Steve Small.
Panel Design: Photography, Lay-out and bitmaps: Rob Cappers.
Gauge Programming : Fred Banting, Dai Griffiths.
Gauge Bitmaps : Rob Cappers, also modified the soundpack from Trev Morson
Spotlight Gauge : Andreas Jaros.

Without the help of the Aviodome (www.aviodome.nl), who gave permission to take the nessecery pictures in the cockpit, the panel would never have left the ground.
A special thanks to Jan Cocheret. He is one of the two pilots, who flew the DC2 Uiver from America to Holland. He also flew the tour past the Dutch Airfields. He provided the information concerning the startprocedure for the DC2, an extensive checklist, and data about the flight behaviour, in order to accuralely reproduce the flightmodel.

How to fly the DC2 in FS2000

First, open the Uiver situation. It puts you on the startgrid of the London-Melbourne race at Mildenhall Airport. You must walk through the startprocedure, and flightreality is as it should be, high!

Above you can see the panel hotspots (look for the little hand ;-))
1. Yoke toggle.
2. Spotlight toggle.
3. GPS toggle (Flying the DC2 from America to Holland was done by GPS (see www.dc2.nl).
4. This white spot coincidently ;-) lines you up with the runway.

By pressing F10 you can pop up a Checklist. In here you find everything you need to know, especially on starting the plane.

Here's a picture of the overhead panel, in case you sit too far from your screen ;-)

Note this!!!!!! NEVER EXCEED MAXIMUM SPEED. It will cause structural damage, and you will CRASH! Bring back your throttle and RPM as noted in the checklist, and no harm will come to you ;-) Also switch you fueltank selector regulary, otherwise your fuelweigt isn't balanced.

For any comments, you can contact: r.cappers@hccnet.nl

Copyright and Distribution (same old stuff)

Concerning the TWA livery, we have to include the next line:

"Not for commercial sale. Not affiliated with or endorsed by American Airlines."

This DC2-package is released as Freeware. Copyright (C) Rob Cappers and the above mentioned. Thanks for the great wav file and pictures I found on the web. I hope I can use them, since I don't know who made them. As freeware you are permitted to distribute this archive subject to the following conditions, - The archive must be distributed without modification to the contents of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files added, removed or modified is prohibited. - The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another archive without the prior permission of the author is prohibited. - No charge may be made for this archive other than that to cover the cost of its distribution. If a fee is charged it must be made clear to the purchaser that the archive is freeware and that the fee is to cover the distributor's costs of providing the archive. - The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be respected.