The Aero Commander 680 Super for FS2002 Standard or Professional Editions
See http://www.flightsimonline.com/commander for Current Details, FAQ's, Known Problems, Repaint Information, and more.
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This repaint includes textures by Andre Folkers furnished with the paintkit and external livery and weathering effects textures by Michel Theriault.
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This is a texture repaint of an Aero Commander 680 Super in Honda Racing Team scheme, carrying registration ...N - zero to sixty. The textures used were the ones that come with the paint kit. Weathering effects were added for realism.
HOW TO INSTALL:
In order to view this livery you will need to have installed the complete package by Milton Shupe and his team. Just extract the (texture.valiant) folder to the proper aircraft folder (the one you will be using these textures with). Now, open the aircraft cfg file and add the following text;
cut and paste.........start at next line (do not include replace x with.. etc)
[fltsim.x] *** (replace x with the next number in the string ie. 3 or 4 )
title=AC680S Racing
sim=AC680S
model=pegasus
panel=pegasus
sound=
texture=racing
description=Textures by André Folkers. Additional textures to display this model by Michel Theriault. Beginning in 1955, Aero Design & Engineering Company rolled out the first model 680 Super. There were 254 units built between 1955 & 1958. The AC680 Power : Lycoming GSO-480-A1A6 - 340 Supercharged HP each at 3400 RPM.
The new livery should now appear when you boot FS2002.
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Copyrights:
This FS2002 flight sim aircraft is designed by Milton Shupe, panel by Scott Thomas and textures by Andre Folkers with alpha and beta testing, feedback, and input by
Team Commander Members. (see the Commander website URL below for details)
Model Designer : Milton Shupe
Flight Dynamics : Milton Shupe
Technical Advisors : Barry Collman, Chris Haag, Jim Metzer, Keith Cloudcraft, Milt Concannon, and others from the Twin Commander Flight Group
Tested : Team Commander Members and great flight simmers everywhere
UVW Mapping : Milton Shupe
Panel : Copyright by Scott Thomas of Sierra Tango Panels
XML Gauges : Scott Thomas; thanks to Nick Pike for assistance
HJPGauges : Herbert Pralle
Gear Wind Gauge : FPDA (See FPDA Readme)
RWYINFO : See (RWYINFO Readme)
Master templates : Copyright by Milton Shupe
Textures : Copyright by Andre Folkers
Sounds : Copyright Skysong Soundworks by Aaron Swindle with minor .cfg modifications for this release
Special Effects : Copyright by Microsoft
Pilot Head Textures : Copyright by Microsoft
GMAX Built
Fully animated control surfaces, lights, passenger door
Fully animated suspension parts
Rolling wheels and tires
"Feel Real" flight dynamics (Tested by real world pilots)
Detailed, multilayered, Glossy, reflective PSP textures with Specular Highlites
Night lighting and light map textures
Specular Lighting Effects (Dynamic Shine) (Thank you Chris File for Middleman)
Landing lights illuminate runways
De-Icers
Outside wing, engine, prop left rear views in 2D Views
Transparent, reflective 3D passenger and cockpit windows
Transparent Navigation and landing light lens
All new Aero Commander 680 Panels with technical advice from Commander owners/Pilots
Cockpit 2D side views use 3D VC views
Virtual Cockpit with Gauge Backlighting (Thanks to Bill Leaming for his tutorials)
Excellent Lycoming sounds developed by Aaron Swindle specifically for the Aero Commander series
Authentic Radios-Option to use external radio frequency updates too
This aircraft, panel, and textures are released as LIMITED DISTRIBUTION FREEWARE to AVSIM, Flightsim, Simviation, FSV (fsgateway) and SimFlight
Copyright (C) Milton Shupe, Scott Thomas, and André Folkers. All rights reserved.
**** MODELS, FDE's, PANELS, and TEXTURES CANNOT BE MODIFIED, RECOMPILED or REDISTRIBUTED ****
-Re-painters, please see the Aero Commander webpage for instructions. http://www.flightsimonline.com/commander
-You can NOT use the Official André Folkers copyright textures without his permission
-For any other changes you must ask permission of the respective Author.
-No monetary charge may be solicited or required for this package
-This Aircraft may not be bundled with any other package ( freeware or payware ).
-The use of this aircraft package is at your own risk, the authors cannot be held responsible.
********** USE OF DECOMPILERS OR OTHER COPYRIGHT PROTECTION BREAKERS ***********
From the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Section 1201(b)(1) provides that: No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that:
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or portion thereof;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof; or
(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof.
Germany has similar laws under the WIPO.
********* PLEASE RESPECT THE MANY HOURS OF FREEWARE DEVELOPMENT HERE **********
Milton Shupe
ifrfun@flightsimonline.com
The Aero Commander Project
Team Commander
May 2003
