Thanks for downloading the AI-AARDVARK LOT Polish Airlines 737-300
Model & Original Paint by: David Rawlins
FDE by David Carter
LOT Polish Airlines Repaint by: Daniel DiBacco (dinx1@pacbell.net)
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INSTALLATION:
Just drop the "AIA_737_300_LOT" folder into your FS2k aircraft folder.
If you are using any of the other AI Aardvark 737-300's that use the "aia_737_300.mdl" you can use this texture with it in the same folder, after making the needed changes to the aircraft.cfg file.
If you choose to do this, copy and paste the follwing into the existing aircraft.cfg file:
==================BEGIN COPY=========================
[fltsim.X] // BE SURE TO PROPERLY INCREMENT "X"
title=AIA 737-300 LOT
sim=aia_737_300
model=
panel=
sound=
texture=LOT
atc_id=SP-LMD
atc_airline=LOT
atc_flight_number=344
ui_manufacturer=Aardvark
ui_type=Boeing 737-300
ui_variation=LOT Polish Airlines
description=AI Aardvark 737-300
atc_id_color=0000000000
visual_damage=0
===================END COPY==========================
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NOTES
This aircraft was designed specifically for use as an AI aircraft. As such, the primary design criteria were that it look good sitting at the gate, or as seen when landing from an aircraft waiting to take off.
This plane also uses 4 different LOD (levels of detail) models, which means that as the plane gets visually smaller, the model displayed becomes simpler and simpler, thus reducing the drag on your computer.
If you download a GMAX aircraft that is just gorgeous, but really chews up your frame rates when used as AI if several of them appear on the screen at once, the designer probably did not use the LOD feature, so the model is always 20,000 polygons no matter how far away from you it is.
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AI FLIGHT DYNAMICS
FDE's for AI aircraft are somewhat of a compromise. Dynamics that allow beautiful takeoffs often result in planes that will not land or land very badly. AIA fde's are also designed with traffic flow in mind. This means an AIA aircraft is going to touch down very near the end of the runway and quickly exit to make room for the next aircraft. If you want more "float" on landing, you can adjust the cruise lift, parasite drag and induced drag parameters in the aircraft.cfg file.
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REPAINTS
Ai Aardvark hopes that you will want to repaint our planes and we have blank paintkit versions of our aircraft available. The paintkit includes uncompressed .bmps of both the texture and light maps. It also comes with a layered photoshop file that includes windows, doors, details, panel lines, shadows and weathering. For non-photoshop user, Aardvark is planning to offer a service, where a painter can email their uncompressed basic texture to us, we will apply the photoshop layers to it, and send it back. Look for details in the paint section of our website: www.ai-aardvark.com
We place no restrictions on where repaints are uploaded to, but we would like this readme to be included with all repaints. If you would like your repaint listed on our website, please email us and let us know the name of the repaint and where it may be downloaded. Email: ai_aardvark@earthlink.net
