Released for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and 2004
Project Opensky Boeing 747-400 passenger version model in Gmax
AIR PACIFIC Boeing 747-412
DQ-FJL special colorscheme
Released 8 November, 2003
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- about this livery -
This aircraft is Air Pacific's second Boeing 747-400, named The Island of Viti Levu - delivered on Thursday 26th June at its Nadi, Fiji base. Leased from Singapore Airlines for a five year period and fitted with 28 business class and 430 economy seats with a luxurious seat pitch of 57 inches in business and 32 inches in the economy cabin. Every seat is fitted with an individual in-seat video system offering up to 22 channels of movies, video games and audio entertainment.This aircraft also served with Ansett Australia before their bankruptcy.
This aircraft has been adorned with huge photographic decals of two of Fiji's holiday resorts, Beachcomber and Castaway Islands. The MD&CEO of Air Pacific, John Campbell, said - we wanted to expose the beauty of Fiji in a strong visual manner to as large an audience as possible, so we took advantage of the delivery of this aircraft to create a giant holiday theme. The designs bring to life the Air Pacific advertising slogan "Your Island in the Sky". and provide great exposure of Fiji's tourism appeal as the aircraft will regularly be seen in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland and Los Angeles.
The photography was undertaken by Peter Hennings and the preparation of the decals by Admark of New Zealand who applied the design in Singapore following painting of the aircraft in Air Pacific's livery. Cost of the project was around FJD200,000 and the design will remain with the aircraft for at least two years.
The aircraft was welcomed to Fiji with a traditional Fijian ceremony of welcome and dedication under the patronage of the Chief Guest, Ratu Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda, CF, MBE, JP, the President of Fiji. It joins the "Island of Vanua Levu", delivered in April 2003, to initially operate daily services to Sydney, four weekly services to Los Angeles and weekly to Auckland.
(sourced from Air Pacific's website) www.airpacific.com
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Repaint details (....just for your interest):
Handpainted
- all of fuselage except for decals, doors)
- rear fuselage's APU area textures by John
- 100% accurate-looking engine pylons (after comparing with the photos i took)
- wing textures
Photorealistic parts
- thrust reverser
- exhaust cone and 3D looking engine fans.
- inner spoiler textures
- special coloursscheme decals of Islands
- lower deck cargo hold, main deck cargo section
- some landing gear textures
- tail texture
-All main (and important) textures with reflections in 32bit.
-accurate level of reflection (shine alpha)
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- Author's comments -
This repaint is a product of around 30 hours of repainting through 3 weeks. Originally, the main focus was to incorporate as much detail into the special colourscheme decals from photos. However as these were done, the other focus went to painting 3D engine fans on a 2D surface, and focusing on the details on the engine pylons and the colours of the wingsets.
As a result, the engine pylons are almost 100% correct compared to the real world PW pylon. The wing colours were also sourced from photos of Air Pacific 747-400 wings.
I'd also like to thank my long time friend, John Tavendale, for giving his kindest permission in letting me use his DQ-FJK original and changing it into DQ-FJL, even though most textures have been changed, such things such as the Air Pacific fonts, the tail alignments and the underwing textures (as well as MANY others) would be made much harder if not for his original paint of the air pacific.
Suprisingly, this is only my SECOND publicly released posky 744 gmax repaint and there will be plenty more in the future! Most 744 operators will be painted (asian, european, US based carriers). As well as other models.
Thankyou for downloading this repaint and i hope you enjoy her, as much as I did painting her.
Hope you enjoy, Your Island in the Sky!
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Air Pacific VA may use this aircraft for VA operations
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Typical destinations of this aircraft:
Sydney Kingsford Smith YSSY
Fiji Nadi International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport KLAX
INSTALLATION:
If you know the process, simply unzip and you can find the aircraft under:-
Manufacturer: Boeing
Aircraft: 747-412
Variation: Air Pacific DQ-FJL special colourscheme
If you don't know the process, simply unzip this file to the FS2002 or FS2004/Aircraft folder
and make sure all files are unzipped there, and that there is ***no subfolder*** within the directory your unzipped files are going to.
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Panel and Sound:
This aircraft uses DEFAULT sounds and panels - this can be changed if the panel.cfg or sound.cfg is altered.
