This panel is an accurate rendition of a real Trident airliner as in service with BEA / British Airways.
Most of the photography was done at the de Havilland Heritage museum, London Colney, with some also done at Cosford.
Every effort has been made to make it authentic in look and function, while still remaining useable in FS.
The real aircraft panel has quite a wide spread, so the main view has been set to make all the vital instruments visible for the 'single crew' FS pilot. A cut down 'pilot view' panel is also included on the 2D version and you can toggle between the two.
The Virtual Cockpit (VC) is fully functional and the model can be operated completely from VC mode. There are some helpful viewing options built into the VC that can eliminate the problems of panning around the 3D environment.
The panel is good for both the Trident 2 & 3. When used with a Trident 3 model, additional gauges for the booster engine are displayed.
The model is intended as a piloting simulation only. The engineer's position is not covered in any detail except for a simple fuel panel.
The gauges were researched using detailed BEA manuals. Written in the days when manuals were both informative and correct. :-)
The final development and testing phase was completed with the help of two ex Trident pilots. Their input over several weeks certainly put the gloss of accuracy on a fine model.
Latest versions of models can be downloaded from my website.
www.dmflightsim.co.uk
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Install
Copy the 'DMFS Shared Files' folder into your 'Flight Simulator 9\Aircraft\' folder.
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Copyright
This aircraft is Freeware.
It may not be sold for profit or charged for in any way.
David Maltby always retains full copyright of the model.
Dave Booker holds the copyright of most of the photographs used in this panel.
None of the bitmaps may be used in any other project without the permission of Dave Booker.
David Maltby allows unrestricted use of the gauges and XML code in the cab file for any other freeware project.
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Credits
Panel design & gauges : David Maltby & Saverio Maurri
VC model : David Maltby
Photography, research material : Dave Booker
Special thanks to Peter McLeland, Jon Goldwater & Brian Withers for their enthusiastic testing and expert advice. All have a huge amount of piloting experience in a wide variety of aircraft with Peter & Jon also flying Tridents for a number of years.
