README.TXT
FSX panel and cameras for pilotable french Navy carriers "Mistral" and "Tonnerre" from Jean Pierre Baril. This 2 versions of flightsimulation ai-ships for amphibious attacks are animated with moving elevators with helicopters (Mistral) or with docking and undocking hovercrafts (Tonnerre). Download required at mirage4fs.com (veh_mistral__AI_V2.zip).
Features: The Panel has a bridge and for a flightdeck view a Bell UH helicopter cockpit.
7 camera views let you explore the ship: Watch the animated LCAC hovercraft or the helicopter on the elevator, have an external view, see the flight deck or stand as airboss at the bridge.
Bitmaps and configuration by Erwin Welker

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INSTALLATION:


1. Install my folder "Mistral&Tonnerre" with my panel, sound, aircraft.cfg and airfile first.

2. Copy the Gauges into the mainfolder of FSX

3. Download and install the ai-version (Be aware, that this is a RAR and not a ZIP-archive!!!)
Here is the link:

http://www.mirage4fs.com/RFN_ships.html
File-ID: veh_mistral__AI_V2.zip

4. Copy from the zipped download file the 2 Models and the textures into the folder
Do not copy the sim.cfg! It is only for ai-ships

If you want also to have this carriers as ai-ships, than install it as requested in the downloaded file from mirage4fs.com

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How to get the views?
1. toggle with S-key to aircraft-views
2. then toggle with A-key until you read in the upper right corner:
"Helideck_Bell Uh-panel Shift 4_Rotate to Mistral elevator to 180 deg"
- do that, and you will see the helit deck from the cockpit of a Bell UH helicopter
That panel you can insert at all deck views
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SOUNDS

Remember: Some sounds are only in the panel view mode available or they are very low in the aircraft views

F8-F5 (Flaps): Helicopter sound
ZZ: (Autopilot disengage): Horn
Shift E (Exit open/close): Alarm
G (Gear): Hovercraft sound for Tonnerre
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CREDITS
Many thanks to Jean Pierre Baril, who made the 2 ships.
Many thanks to all of the creative persons, who do such a great work.
I am sorry, but I do not know from whom all the gauges, effects and sounds are. I have to many.

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This file is FREEWARE. It should not harm your computer, but you install it on your own risk.
Feel free to copy or to distribute it, but don't make any money with it. It is not permitted to use it for commercial-purpose.

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More Files with my work at SurClaro or .com (Searchkey: WELKER)

Any comments to: er_welker@web.de

Happy landings

Erwin Welker

28 March 2010