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FS2002 British Aerospace Palmair Flightline BAe146-300 [Bae146k2.zip]

Adaptation & Rework Development by B. Semmens (Capt. Sem)
(c) Copyright 4 February, 2002
[Email: barrie.semmens@ukgateway.net]

Downloaded Files:

If you are reading this article then you have already successfully downloaded and unzipped into a temporary folder the compressed file 'Bae146k2.zip'. The following zip and uncompressed files should be present in the Bae146-300 aircraft folder:

File_id.diz Compressed Zip Identification text file.
Bae146-300.doc Microsoft Word 7-format readme document file. [This file]
Bae146-300.txt Microsoft Word Pad Text format version of Bae146-300.doc file.
Bae1462k2.jpg Picture of the Bae146-300 aircraft in jpeg format.
Bae146panel.jpg Picture of the Bae146-300 aircraft panel in jpeg format.
Thumbnail.jpg Thumbnail picture of Bae146-300 aircraft.
Gauges.txt A 'readme' Microsoft Word Pad format relating to the gauges.
EngineGAU.txt Original document relating to the 146 gauges.
Gauge2k2.zip Additional BAe146 gauge files in zip format for FS2002 aircraft.
Airlines.cfg FS2002 modified airliner configuration file.
Aircraft.cfg Bae146-300 aircraft configuration file.
Bae146p2.air Original Bae146-300 Palmair aircraft .AIR file.


How To Install your Aircraft & Panel:

1. Assuming that your FS2002 Flight Simulator software has been installed into the default directory, simply 'cut & paste' or 'copy' the 'BAe146-300' folder into the FS2002 'aircraft' folder.

i.e. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2002\aircraft

2. Next, backup your original 'gauge' files to a duplicate sub-folder

e.g. gauges_orig'

and 'copy' all gauge files to this folder (good practice when ever you are installing 3rd party software) and then 'cut & paste' or 'copy' the uncompressed *.GAU files into the main 'Gauges' folder of FS2002.

i.e. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2002\Gauges

3. The files 'File_id.diz', 'Bae146-300.doc', 'EngineGAU.txt', 'Gauges.txt' and 'Bae146-300.txt' should be left in the Bae1462k2 folder. The files 'Bae1462k2.jpg', 'Bae146panel.jpg', and 'Thumbnail.jpg' may be left, placed into a folder of your own choice for future reference or simply deleted.

Note: FS98 Users will not be able to use these files! You will need to
download the original compressed zip files: Bae14621.zip, 146v100.zip
and 146v101.zip if you wish to fly this aircraft in FS98. Zip files can
be downloaded from http://www.SurClaro.

4. Overwrite (cut & paste) the 'airlines.cfg' file with the new 'airline.cfg' file in order to update the airline call signs. This file can be found in the default FS2002 aircraft folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2002\aircraft.) This will enable you to hear the 'Palmair' callsign.

5. Execute FS2002 and from the Aircraft Features window select Aircraft. Next scroll down the Aircraft Manufacturer window and click on British Aerospace. Select the Bae146-300 model, ATC name 'G-BPNT', then click on the 'OK' button. Your aircraft will be parked at the runway/airport of your choice and ready to Fly.


What's New in the Flight Model & Panels:

The original Bae146-300 Palmair Flightline STOL aircraft model has been utilized here as it has good flight characteristics, all credit to its designer Marcel Ritzema - as has the Palmair corrected visual model re-paint by Iain Murray (FS98 Version 2.1). Similarly, the Bae146 FS98 panel originally designed by Scott Macmillan was one of the very few panels available for this type of aircraft and offered 1024 x 768 resolution and 3-D mode facilities.

Consequently, both the original FS98 aircraft and FS98 panel formed the design platform for modifying the Bae146-300 aircraft for Microsoft's FS2002 - after all, why re-invent the wheel!!! Where possible default FS2002 gauges have been used (good frame rates). However, a number of original gauges used in the FS98 model are required to be placed in the 'gauges' folder of FS2002. These files and are contained within the 'Gauge2k2.zip' compressed file.

Modifications include:

- clickable Kneeboard panel iconic button to activate the 'Kneeboard'. This
will display Key Commands, Checklists, References and Notes.

- clickable ATC panel iconic button to fully activate the transparent ATC menu.

- clickable Map panel iconic button to activate the Flight Map.

- clickble GPS iconic button to activate the GPS system.

- clock/stopwatch dial window which can be switched on via a panel clock switch
or via the 'views/instruments' window menu. (Press key to display
menus if in full screen mode.)

- panel aircraft ID recognition plaques.

- improved front cockpit forward view.

- new redesigned Bae146-200/300 Checklist & Reference Specifications.

Note: As in the original aircraft model and in real life, the reverse thrust is
not available and is therefore inactive in this model.


The Airline Operator:

Palmair is the Tour Operating Division of R.E Bath Travel Service (Palmair) Limited
(Email : http://www.bathtravel.com) operating its fleet of aircraft, including Palmair European Boeing 737, Monarch Airlines B757, A-320 Airbus and BAC 1-11, from Bournemouth International Airport (UK) (http://www.flybournemouth.com).

Over the years Palmair has expanded not only its aircraft fleet but also its flight operations to new destination airports. Destinations include, The Channel Islands, Spain (Costa Del Sol & Costa Blanca), Portugal (Algarve), Canary Islands (Madeira), Balearic Islands, Egypt and mainland Europe (including Croatia, Prague and Berlin) to name but a few. Regular holiday flight are supplemented by day trip flights to all of the pre-mentioned resorts as well as others, including Iceland.

The supersonic liner BAe Concorde has also been listed in earlier additions of the Companies brochures for its special transatlantic flight from Bournemouth to New York's JFK airport. Neither Concorde or the short field landing BAe146 'Whisper Jet' have apparently operated from Bournemouth from the late 1990's, even although the aircraft had been a regular flyer to Jersey and Guernsey. Fortunately, the Bae146 in all its disguises and liveries still operates from numerous airports throughout the World. For example, Jersey European operates the BAe146-200/300 on a lot of routes from Jersey and Guernsey to Southampton and Birmingham (UK) International Airports. The aircraft also plays an important role in transporting military personal, VIP and Royalty to different world locations.


General Aircraft Details:

The BAe146-300 is a United Kingdom, short-to-medium-range, short field takeoff and landing (STOL), four engine jet airliner with a range of about 1500 nm when loaded with maximum fuel. The aircraft entered service (Air Wisconsin) early in 1988 (following the success of the earlier BAe146-100/200 models) and had some 48 orders from ten operators.

The aircraft is driven by either four 6,970 lb st (31.0 kN) Textron Lycoming ALF502R-5 power plants or four 7,000 lb st (31.1 kN) LF 507 turbofan power plant engines. Aircraft accommodation consists of a flightdeck crew of two (excluding cabin crew) with 103 passengers seating five-abreast - maximum seating is for 112 - 122 passengers depending on seat-pitch dimensions.


Historical Development:

Palmair Flightline BAe146-300 aircraft for FS2002 is a rework from an original aircraft model by Marcel Ritzema for MS Flight Simulator for Windows 98 requiring MS FS98 Converter to run and from a Palmair repaint by Iain Murray Version 2.1 (May 1998) - FS98 version with a new corrected visual model (Bae14621.zip).

Similarly, the FS2002 BAe146 panel incorporated was modified from an original panel zip file created by Scott Macmillan (146V100.zip) in February 1998. The original panel was designed to run in 1024 x 768 resolution and worked in 3D mode. A panel zip patch file (146V101.zip) was brought out in March 1998 in order to cure a problem with 3D mode on Monster 3D video cards; it also included a bitmap Autopilot annunciator panel.


Copyright Issues:

These computer software programs are FREEWARE and are for NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY.

Permission is given to individuals to freely use this program for their own use and to modify source codes as long as I and the original authors are given due credit.

Selling and/or adapting and selling these programs is strictly prohibited. All rights and trademarks reserved and remain the sole property & copyright of the original authors and publishers.

You cannot distribute, sell or produce CD-versions "for profit" of the FS2002 Bae146-300 aircraft and/or Bae146 panel (or modified forms or any of its components) without my express permission. Copyright remains with the author. (See Copyright relating to Original Aircraft & Panels below.)

No modification for distribution without express permission of author - please ask if you want to use any components of this zip file to avoid copyright infringement!


Copyright relating to Original Aircraft & Panels:

Please note that copyright still remains valid with all of the following original authors and contributors and must be respected as such:

a) The adapted FS98 Palmair Flightline BAe146-300 for MS Flight Simulator for Windows 98 requiring MS FS98 Converter (Version 2.1 May 1998 - FS98 version with new corrected visual model) was due to Marcel Ritzema (Email : mgritz@wxs.nl) and to Iain Murray (Email irmurray@computing.dundee.ac.uk) for the Palmair model repaint. No AFX file was available for this aircraft.

b) The first Bae146 panel was based on a panel for FSFW95 and was designed by Konstantin Prokopiu.

c) The British Aerospace 146 cockpit panel for FS98 (146v100.zip) and bitmap patch (146v101.zip) was designed for 1024 x 768 and 3D modes by Scott Macmillan (Email: scott@golfmike.demon.co.uk).

d) The engine EGT gauges and radio altimeter where designed by HGHB Virtual Instruments (Analogue EGT Gauges for Jets.V 1.0) by Harald Geier & Helmut Busch , Hof , Germany (Email : H.GEIER@hof.baynet.de) - idea and Graphics by David Durst. The gauges should not be modified or uploaded in any other panel without their permission. HGHB gauges are either freeware, or payware. Please read EngineGAU.txt for further information or check their web page at www.hof.baynet.de/~ho3080.


Acknowledgements:

I would like to express my thanks to the following designers and authors without which this development would not have been possible:-

a) Marcel Ritzema (Email : mgritz@wxs.nl) for the adapted BAe146-300 Palmair Flightline for MS Flight Simulator for Windows 98 and Iain Murray (Email: irmurray@computing.dundee.ac.uk) for his corrected visual Palmair model repaint.

b) Konstantin Prokopiu for the early panel innovations and Benjamin Chen, Hiroyuki Toyohara and Eric Ernst for supplying the original gauges for this early panel.

c) W. Armando for fixing the bitmap and testing the original panel with the Monster 3D card, and to Ernie Kennedy for the new Autopilot annunciator gauge.

d) Harald Geier & Helmut Busch (HGHB Virtual Instruments) for the original additional panel gauges and to David Durst for ideas and Graphics relating to the Autopilot panel.

e) The Microsoft Corporation for Flight Simulator FS2002, FS2000, FSFW and FS98 as well as earlier versions of the simulator.


Disclaimer:

I give NO warranty or guarantee of any kind, expressed or implied, or accept responsibility for any problems arising from using this software. This includes any hardware crashes or faults that might occur during the execution and/or modifications of these computer software programs. I do not accept any liabilities resulting from such crashes or faults - use of all or any part of this software is at the users own risk!

That said, enjoy your virtual flights with the new Palmair Flightline Bae146-300 aircraft.

B.Semmens (Capt.Sem) (c) Copyright 4 February 2002