The Firefly - which in its prototype form first flew on 22 December 1941 - was produced until the mid-1950s although most of the earlier operational versions remained in use with the Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy. Reconditioned Firefly Is were also supplied to the air forces of Ethiopia and Siam during this period; while Firefly target tugs served in Sweden and Denmark.
The Firefly 1 was powered by a 1,483kW Rolls-Royce Griffon 2 or 12 engine driving a Rotol three-bladed propeller. The Firefly T.1 was basically an F.1 converted for use as a deck-landing conversion and instrument-flying trainer. The raised rear cockpit was occupied by the instructor. They were usually unarmed, although a few carried two 20mm cannon.
The Canadian Navy operated two types of Firefly trainers: The T Mk 1 and the T Mk 2. The T Mk 1 being a two-seat dual control, unarmed, deck landing conversion trainer which differed from the F Mk 1 in having a rear cockpit for the instructor being raised by 12 inches above the normal position. This was to improve the vision by its occupant in landing. The T Mk 2 was the tactical weapons trainer having two 20mm cannons and a synchronised Gyro gun sight in each cockpit. The trainers were fitted with a VHF (TR5043, SCR522) radar and AN/APN-1 radio altimeter, and AN/ARR-2 homer and AN/ARL-5 radio range, and AN/APX-2 IFF.
On 24th May 1948 four T1s were transported on Magnificent prior to departure for Canada for the first time. These were added to the RCN aircraft complement among other types as the Firefly Mk IV and Sea Fury. Of these four dual trainers two were sent at the end of March 1949 to Fairey Aviation of Canada at Shearwater for conversion to T Mk 2 and by the end of February 1950 both conversions were completed. From that point onwards until their retirement, complete overhaul and non-service repair work was conducted at Fairey Aviation.
Effects
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-On startup there is automatic engine smoke.
-Then follow the exhaust flames with smoke.
-Wing vortex effect appears by default at 2.5g or quick roll rate.
-Continuous blue flames with smoke if engine is running .
-War Emergency Power is controlled by the WEP.gau (Tick 1 or 0)
-Wing cannon with flash, smoke and falling cartridges can be triggered with the standard Strobe key (O).
It is much nicer however if you put the FS2004/FSX standard Strobe key (O) to the trigger from your joystick. You can change this in the Key menu.
It is a good idea if you replace the standard (L) key for lights by the L+CTRL, (normaly activating the landing lights only). This avoids you having to have all lights on when pulling the trigger.
-Combinations of Flaps/spoilers extensions are triggered by the flaps and spoiler keys.
Installation:
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-Unzip " Firefly_T Mk2" into a temporary file and move the "Firefly_T Mk2" folder into the main Aircraft directory.
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-Read instructions carefully when installing the gauges , say YES...when asked if the gauges sources should be trusted. If you say no....most of the gauges are not going to work !
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-Leave the fighters.cab in your panel folder.
-Paste the WEP.gau into your flightsim\gauges folder.
-Copy the effects into the Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator X\effects folder.
-Add the 20can.wav in your Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator X\sound folder.
ATTENTION :
-For FS2004, change the FS9_Wing_Guns.fx into FX_Wing_Guns.fx
-For FSX change the FSX_Wing_Guns.fx into FX_Wing_Guns.fx
If having trouble with the cockpit transparencies in FSX acceleration, copy the glass.bmp from the Acceleration.texture into the plane's texture folder.
CREDITS
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Special thanks to :
-GMAX for the drawing program and Microsoft for their makmdls.mdk.
-Morten who did these magnificent textures.
LEGAL:
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The project is released as freeware. You may modify it and repaint it. You may upload this file to another website as long as it is not for profit.
You need the written permission of the original authors to use any of these files for commercial purposes, otherwise a simple credit would be nice. Non commercial repaints-remakes are welcome but I would appreciate very much receiving a copy of your model.
This file should not cause any problems with your computer, but I accept no responsibility if you think it does. Remarks and hints are welcome and are being considered.
Happy Landings!
A.F.Scrub
September 2009
Email: af_scrubbypc@hotmail.com
