Original desing by Robert Versluys. Repaint by Alejandro Hurtado
Welcome Air is an Austrian Airline based at Innsbruck (LOWI). It has one Do-328 Jet (OE-LJR) and two Do-328 turboprop (OE-LIR, OE-GBB). It has a web page too, but I only speak spanish and english. Welcome Air flies between Rotterdam, Göteborg, Antwerpen, Olbia, Hannover, Graz, Neapel and Innsbruck.
My d328ah14 repaint was the OE-LJR (Jet), and my d328ah15 included the another two. But I was told that the props don't displayed well in FS9, so I decided to make this upgrade. If someone wants to make a Welcome Air virtual airline, just let me know.
What means the nosepaint of the OE-GBB? Well, in Austria, planes that are owned by an airline, get the letter 'L' behind the 'OE'. The OE-GBB is owned by Tyrolean Jetservice, a division of Tyrolean Airways. It's for private air-travel and (originally) medical flights. There is a card that allows you to be flown back home from a foreign country with Tyrolean Jetservice if you get ill in holidays for example.
And the red nosepaint on OE-GBB is the logo of Jetservice. Probably, because they all are located at Innsbruck Airport, they just talked about it and Welcome Air could have leased OE-GBB. (Thanks to Stefan Pruner for the info)
This model was made by Robert Versluys, who was part of the IFDG team but made this one by himself.
By the way, if you upload my repaint in another site, let me know, so I'll can follow the number of downloads and your feedback.
Dornier Do-328
Performance at max. Take-off weight, to FAR Pt 25, ISA:
max. operating speed (Vmo): 270 knots CAS
max. operating Mach number (Mmo): 0,59
max. speed at FL 250: 356 KTAS
max. cruising speed at FL 200: 335 KTAS
max. rate of climb at S/L: 2430 ft/min
design cruising altitude (normal): 25000 ft
(optional): 31000 ft
required take-off field length: 1100m (3610 ft)
take-off speed (Vr): 114 kts
landing field length: 1010m (3315 ft)
range at max. cruising speed with 30 passengers,
with allowance for 100nm diversion and 45 min hold:
at 25000 ft: 900 nm (1666 km)
at 31000 ft: 1000 nm (1852 km)
In the personal, I think that this plane is a streamlined ATR-42.
My previous repaints are:
For Fs2002 only:
b737ah8: American Airlines Astrojet, a 2001 plane painted like the 60´s
b737ah12: A BWIA 737-800 in caribean decoration.
d328ah15: Two Do-328 (prop) of Welcome Air
d328ah16: Air Engiadina was the launching client of the DO-328
For FS2002, in Fs2004 the night cockpit lightning dont looks well from outside:
b727ah1: Green and yellow Braniff's 727
b727ah2: 727 flow by Viasa when was bought by Iberia
b727ah3: Braniff 727 painted by Alexander Calder
b727ah4: One of the first 727 flow by Kulula.com
b727ah11: Alaska Airlines 727 leased to the Seattle NFL Team Seahawks
I Dont know how it works in Fs2004:
Ju52mlka: Ju-52 owned by Milka chocolats company, in flying state
md11ah5: MD-11F from Eva Air Cargo
tornah10: Tornado in 2001 Tiger Meet painting
c235ah13: The CN-235 was used by the spanish line Binter Mediterraneo
For FS2002 and FS2004:
b190ah6: Beech 1900D from Us Air Express
b190ah7: Beech 1900D from the canarian island's Air Atlantic
l1011ah9: Two L1011 leased by Iberia
d328ah14: The only Do-328JET of Welcome Air
atr4ah17: Two of the ATR-42 owneds by Lai, a venezuelan company
pby5ah18: A water bomber PBY Catalina, the Canso 71 was used in Spain
pby5ah19: A water bomber PBY Catalina, in red painting from Spain.
b727ah20: 727 flow by Singapore Airlines
Warranty:
I love the warranty wrote by Andrew W. Hall:
"None. Zip. Nada. Use at your own risk. I dont think
this will harm your computer in any way, but if it does, I
dont even want to hear about it."
A last remark: Why don't become a repainter? There are a lot of planes with special markings. I'm tired of the usual F-16 low-vis scheme, or the usual 757 in Delta markings. Why don't a "Bat's outa Hell's" B-25 or a serie of Qantas 737s? The plane modelers like Robert Versluys are very important, but they can't make all the painting schemes by himselfs. So why don't help they?
Installation:
If you already have d328ah15 installed, please delete first. Then, just unzip d328ah21.zip in your "Aircraft" folder of FS9 or FS2002, install your desired panel and that's all. If you don't know how to install a panel, just let the default Beech King Air 350.
If you like this, or any observation, send me a mail to dracosist@cantv.net
