FS2002 De Havilland Tiger Moth - DH82 K4242 and DH82a DE208. Royal Air Force

Model, panel & Animation by John Woodside.
bones@mcb.net
Sounds by Mike Hambly.

Created with GMax.

This aircraft is Freeware.
It may not be sold for any reason or in any form.
You may repaint this model and upload it to any free internet site
as long as John Woodside is credited for the original model.
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Installation for FS2002
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Unzip & copy the extracted Tiger Moth folder into your 'FS2002\Aircraft' folder.
Copy the gauge files 'DHasi_kts.gau and DHasi_mph.gau' into your 'FS2002\Gauges folder'
These gauges provide the option of an ASI in knots or mph via a simple edit of the panel.cfg file.
The panel makes use of the FS2000 Hurricane and Spitfire gauges which Microsoft unfortunately did not ship with FS2002. These files are too big for me to include here.

After installing the aircraft you can choose whether to use the ASI calibrated in knots or mph. Open the panel.cfg file and scroll down to the lines that read:

gauge01=DHasi_mph, 200,508,123,123
//gauge01=DHasi_kts, 200,508,123,123

In the case above the mph gauge is enabled in FS2002. To swap this for the ASI in knots simply remove the // characters and add them to the line you wish FS to ignore. You cannot have both active - one MUST include the // characters.
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Flying the Tiger Moth
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Details on flying the Tiger Moth are available from the aircraft checklists.

The aircraft does not have a visible throttle or mixture in the cockpit but both work correctly. It also has no magneto switches as these were mounted on the outside of the aircraft! To start the engine either use CTRL + E or switch on the magnetos with M + + and hold down until the engine fires. I am not a panel builder and the quality of the panel bitmap shows this . However, the layout of the panel is accurate and true to life.

This aircraft is not fitted with brakes or flaps. It has ample rudder control for steering on the ground but I would advise against taxying too close to buildings or other aircraft!

Like the real aircraft this Tiger model has a very sensitive rudder. If you dislike having to maintain continued rudder input I would suggest you enable the Auto-rudder feature of FS2002.

Airframe drag is almost correctly modelled, although biplane dynamics are hard to emulate in FS2002. The aircraft does not increase speed rapidly in a dive - but it loses speed rapidly when you close the throttle!

Credits
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My thanks to Mike Hambly for his new Gipsy Major sounds for FS2002. Mike has produced an overwhelming number of sounds for FS98/FS2000 and FS20002 and we would all be the poorer without his incredible contribution to our hobby.

My thanks also to Frank Elton for his superb FS2000 DH Leopard Moth - the inspiration behind this venture. I have used Frank's Leopard Moth ASI as the model for the Tiger ASI gauges. I have also used his DH emblem for the wheel hubs - not historically accurate but too nice to exclude. Manufactureres emblems were allowed on RAF aircraft until just before WW2 but DH only put these on the interplane struts.

All other gauges used are default Microsoft gauges that come with FS2000 or FS2002.

My thanks also to Gerry Winskill who persuaded me to include the all yellow variant of the aircraft. It would be a much poorer offering without this.

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