Made with Abacus Flight Sim Design Studio
July 17, 2010
This is a redone model of David Eckert's FS2004 Sopwith Camel for FSX Acceleration. It is a native FSX-A model and will only work in FSX-A. It will not work in earlier versions of MS Flight Sim.
Model includes virtual cockpit, rotary type engine, smoking engine and 4 texture choices. Original model by David Eckert, update to native FSX-A by W. E. Stephens using FSDS 3.5, FDE by Jerry Beckwith. Additional textures by John Terrell and W. E. Stephens. Panel, gauges and sound by Microsoft.
This aircraft is freeware.
Selling this package or part of it is not permitted. Putting this package or part of it on CD-ROM for sale or distribution is not allowed without the written permission of the authors.
Permission to repaint and repost is granted as long as original readme is posted and authors are acknowledged.
To install
Unzip the files in "aircraft.zip" to the SimObjects/Airplanes folder of your FSX-A flight sim
Put the effects files in effects.zip in your EFFECTS folder
Put the gauges files in Sopwith Gauges.zip in your GAUGES folder
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OPTIONAL INSTALL NOT NECESSARY TO FLY AND ENJOY THE CAMEL
A great effect of firing the lewis guns when airborne can be easily added. The they are "stubbed Out" with a "//" in
the panel.cfg file in the panel folder.
***** BACKUP ALL FILES BEFORE STARTING THIS PROCEDURE. *****
To get this effect, download Stuart Green's Pfalz DIIIA "SG_Pfalz_DIIIA" at
For the gun sound effects, put the file "dsd_xml_sound3.gau" in your GAUGES folder and then put the two files "dsd_wwi_guns.wav" and "dsd.ini" in your flight sim SOUND folder
The accompanying files should not harm your computer in any way but, if you believe they have, I accept no liability.
The files are released as "freeware" and are not to be re-distributed in exchange for any payment, fee or other value.
The original of this aircraft was created by David Eckert and the Flight Dynamics were credited by Jerry Beckwith,. W. E. Stephens updated the model to FSX-A standards and added the 185 Aero texture.
Upgraded model, copyright W. E. Stephens and David Eckert (c) 2010
David Ecker, Jeffry Beckwith and John Terrell have kindly given me permission to repost the entire model to appropriate sites.
Original Readme
Sopwith Camel for FS2004
Credits:
Aircraft by David Eckert
Flight Dynamics by Jerry Beckwith
USAF Museum and Old Reinbeck Aerodrome textures and smoking engine idea by John Terrell
Gauges and sound by Microsoft
Stephen Attaway for the tweaks
Smoking engine effect scavenged, recycled, tweaked and compiled from various sources.
Special thanks to:
All the gang at www.theoldhandgar.com for support and beta testing
Louis Sinclair for FS Design Studio
All the crew (even the Gmax users) over at www.freeflightdesign.com
Arnie and Adam at Abacus
Note: If you enjoy this model please vote for it on the www.SurClaro monthly Developers Contest.
Legal stuff:
This aircraft model is released as Freeware. Copyright (C) David Eckert, Jerry Beckwith, John Terrell and others where noted. As freeware you are permitted to distribute this archive subject to the following conditions:
Absolutely no charge may be made for this archive - period. Either via web site or eBay. If you sell this archive, I will hunt you down and make your life miserable.
ALL authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be respected.
Please ask permission before using any part of this archive.
Please let us know if you do post it to your site. We're not trying to keep tabs, just curious where this file ends up.
A Note About Repaints
Feel free to produce as many repaints for this model as you desire. However please do NOT redistribute the entire model as I have worked hard and spent my own money to build an installer package to hopefully make the installation process easy. I do not like getting angry emails because a simmer is having trouble installing "my" airplane package only to find it's a repainted version with files missing. Thanks!
Questions and comments and donations are always welcome
Email me at: webmaster@daviator.com
A note about email: I honestly try to answer all emails that come my way. If I do not respond don't take it personally. I'm a busy guy so please try again if you need an answer. I will always do my best to answer questions.
