FSX and FS2004 Avro 688 Tudor 1 and 4
By Jens B. Kristensen, november 2008.

Version 1.0

The Avro Tudor was a British airliner from 1947, used mainly by British South American Airways, and later by independent companies like Air Charter. The Tudor was a promising design, but did not live up to expectations.

Three variants are included:

Tudor 1 G-AGRF 'Elizabeth of England' delivered to BOAC 21/01/47. It was never put into regular service by that airline. Later converted to a Tudor 4B for BSAA.
Tudor 4 G-AHNK ‘Star Lion’ of BSAA. Delivered 20/09/47.
Tudor 4B Super Trader G-AGRH ‘Zephyr’ of Air Charter, London, ca 1958.

For more information, see the pdf document installed in the \Docs folder.

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*To install for Flight Simulator X:

Run the included setup_fsx program.

If you have FSX Gold, FSX Service Pack 2, or the Acceleration expansion pack, remember to enable "FSX SP2 support" in the "Custom setup" dialog.

If you install SP2 later, locate the JBK Avro Tudor folder using Windows Explorer. Inside, you will find a folder called FSX_SP2. Copy the prop_blurred.bmp file to the texture folder.

The model should work with all versions of FSX.


*To install for Flight Simulator 2004 - A Century of Flight:

Run the included setup_FS2004 program.

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Model, panel, virtual cockpit and textures by Jens B. Kristensen, made with FSDS 3.5.1, FS Panel Studio, Paint Shop Pro and DXTbmp.

Sounds:

The standard DC-3 sounds are used, but we recommend installing
some genuine Rolls-Royce Merlin sounds for this aircraft.

An excellent choice is the Lancaster sounds by
Doug Smith and Des Braban. Search for lancsnds.zip at www.SurClaro

Gauges:

The gauges are to some extent default gauges of Flight Simulator, some of them modified by me for four engines. Other gauges are by me but with much inspiration from standard FS gauges by Microsoft.

The ILS indicator is based on xml code by Saviero Maurri (Vickers Varsity panel), bitmaps by me.

A number of gauges (mostly switches) are, with permission from Tom Gibson, www.calclassic.com, based on work by Tom himself, Kevin Trinkle, Ernie Kennedy and Ken 'Mitch' Mitchell. I have used complete gauges from them (cowl flap switches), or used the bitmaps from their c-style gauges and made xml-versions of them.

Finally, a big 'thank you' to Hans-Joerg Naegele, who gave me permission to use gauges from his Lockheed 049 Constellation panel (VNConnie049.cab), directly or modified.

Magneto switches and starter buttons are based on public domain gauges by Mike 'Moparmike' Wagner, converted to xml by me.


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Good luck flying the Avro Tudor!

Jens B. Kristensen, 22. november 2008
Jens.B.Kristensen@mail.tele.dk