Hi and welcome to my first FS a/c. This is sort of a different direction for me in the FS world but one that I wanted to give a shot as the scenery world is fun but I needed a bit of break from it. So here I am with a Canadair CL-65 (officially named CL-600-2B19) in Air Canada's lasted paint scheme. Well when I say last scheme I have actually noticed that there are some minor variations in the paint scheme from a/c to a/c so I have attempted to represent them all by painting up for different a/c. Before I get to far into this I have to thank Barry Blaisdell for his flight model and for giving permission to repaint his Comair CL-65. I'd also like to thank all the people at Airliners.net where I downloaded most of my photos (as the real a/c are constantly flying over me out of CYYZ but it's kind of hard to see that fine detail from 5000' :) of the CL-65 so that I could paint these a/c.
Now for people who are not too familiar with the CL-65, it is built in Montreal by Canadiar (owned by Bombardier Canada) at what was formerly Cartierville airport (plants 1,2,& 4) and at Dorval airport (plant 3). The CL-65 is essentially a stretched version of Canadiar's CL-600 Challenger Business Jet. The fuselage was lengthed and a extra middle section was added to the wing. Of course new engines were added along with a new landing gear developed my Messier-Dowty. The other main spotting difference is the addition of wipers to the cockpit windows. If your asking why is because the Challenger has a plastic windshield will the CL-65 has a glass one.
The life of a CL-65 starts in plant 1 at Cartierville as a pile of raw materials. Throughout the plant these materials are cut, molded, shaped, and acid dipped into there final ready to be used parts. It's actually quite impressive and very large as I have taken two tours of this plant. Also at plant 1, other parts are being made to be shipped to Boeing and Airbus. Over in plant 4 the avionics systems are being put together. All of the parts and systems are then moved over to plant 3 located just down the road at Dorval International (the plant is located just to the right of 24L). This is where everything is put together on an assembly line next to an identical assembly line for the smaller Chanllenger. At the opposite end of the plant the company's famous waterbomber the CL-415 is having it's empennage installed after being moved from plant 2 as the roof at plant 2 isn't high enough. Once the CL-65 reaches the end of the line (there are about 8 a/c in various stages of construction along the assembly line), the a/c is then flown up to Canadiars other plant located at Mirabel Interntional. Here the a/c is painted and the interior installed (the painting initially was done by Canadair's sister company De Havilland here in Toronto). The a/c is then flown back to Dorval for finally checks before delivery to the respective airlines.
Now on with the AC a/c. I have included a listing of all of AC's CL-65's in cl65-aca.txt. The first a/c I painted was fin 152 as this was the first CL-65 I had ever flown on. Next up was fin 109 which was lost in Fredriction in December of 1997 (tree not included). After looking at a bunch of a/c I noticed the minor variations and decided to cover these variations in FS. So fin 103 and 151 were born. I'm currently working on a version of fin 120 when it wore the Go Canada Go paint scheme back in 1996 for the Olympics in Atlanta. I'll not describe the variations here but will let you discover them yourself. Well guess that is about all so happy landings.
Files Included:
readme.txt -I think you've already found it Crj-com2.txt -Barry's original readme file (Please read)
cl65-aca.txt -Listing of all of AC's CL-65's
cl65-aca.jpg -A screenshot of 152
****** -A bunch of a/c files that I'm not going to cover here
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INSTALLATION:
To install this a/c:
1.) Unzip this file into your Flight Simulator directory. All necessary directories will be created in your Aircraft directory.
2.) Happy flying.
I highly recommend Nick Deak's CL-65 panel (RJPNL982.zip) to compliment this a/c.
Acknowledgements:
I'd like to thank:
-Barry Blaisdell
-the people at Airliners.net
-Digital Dreams for there Texture Converter.exe program
Copyright and Distribution:
This aircraft is Freeware and may be distributed freely. No one is permitted to charge for this aircraft or include this in any commerical products.
AF99 Design, FD & Original Artwork: Barry Blaisdell (c)1999
Email :barrywb@snet.net
Air Canada Artwork Copyright (C) Kyle Duncan.
The Future:
Well that's my first a/c done. I have a couple more on the go including another great a/c from Barry a DHC8-101 in the former norOntair's colours. I'm also planning on doing a couple of airlines that fly in and out of TBay (CYQT) to compliment my TBay scenery. I have also completed an update to my Canadian NavDash Database with STARs added for Montreal CYUL.
-Sault Ste. Marie (cyam) -Version 1.2 done, possible TL version
-Thunder Bay (cyqt) -Version 1.0 done, future version in the works
-Regina (cyqr)
-Saskatoon (cyxe)
-Calgary (cyyc) -Version 1.0 done
-Ottawa (cyow) -STAR files done
-Version 2.2 done
-NavDash Database -Update done with CYUL, CYTZ STARs, and CYWG SIDs
-CYVR STARs added
Vote:
For users of SurClaro here is where I'm suppose to plead with you to vote for my aircraft. Well I think I'll not take up too much space and let you decided. Either way I hope you enjoy these a/c's.
Comments:
Comments, suggestions, questions, problems, and anything else is always appreciated. Happy landings
