Few years ago, Avior, a regional venezuelan airline, started to use its first medium-size passenger planes, two B737-200.
In April 29, 2005 I traveled in this planes from Caracas to Barcelona and back. The first flight (in the YV-917C) started one hour later, and the pilot seemed not to be usual to the 737. The back travel (in the YC-643C) was late but not too much, and the pilot was very good. I'm including the two planes like they were this day and the tickes of my travel.
There are two repaints of the 737-200 in the colors of Avior, but both are previous to the slogan "Muévete por Venezuela" (Move yourself by Venezuela)
This is my 50th repaint, and I wanted to do it about a venezuelan plane. I want to thank to the people who sends me emails and pictures to make repaints. Some of them I can do, anothers I can't by one or another reason. I have received emails too from people who wants to learn to make repaints. It's easy, you just have to carry the scanner to the airport and aply it to the real plane. I want to thank too to people like the FFX group, Mike Stone, Andrew W. Haigh, Robert Versluys and anothers for make the models over whom I make the repaint, and many more thanks for let us make the repaints. I want to ask them for some models of the second world war: Mosquitos, He-219, P-61, Ki-61, Mig-3. I have no seen free repaint models of this kind for FS2002 ó FS2004. Or more recent ones: CN-235, Beluga, Tornado. But even with this, thanks for the long cuantity of models that you have suplied us and that is giving so much work to the people like me that likes to make repaints.
And, of course, thanks to the airlines, thanks to the militars and thanks to the private owners who suplies us with so wonderfull planes to copy.
About the Boeing 737, everybody knows about it. It was supossed to be a short range, self-depending plane with a quantity of common parts with the 707 and 727. At the beginnig was a selling failure, but bit to bit started to improve the cash flow of Boeing, and now it is one of the five commercial planes with more than 1000 units sold. When the airlines requested Boeing to improve and enhance the plane, the underwing position of the engines made this so difficult that Boeing was almost ready to close the production line and start with another plane. So good they had second thougs.
Model by FFX-SGA, repaint by Alejandro Hurtado
My previus repaints are:
For Fs2002 only:
b737ah8: American Airlines Astrojet, a 2001 plane painted like the 60´s
b737ah12: A BWIA 737-800 in caribean decoration.
d328ah15: The two Do-328 (prop) of Welcome Air
d328ah16: Air Engiadina was the launching client of the DO-328
For FS2002, in Fs2004 the night cockpit lightning doesnt looks well from outside:
b727ah1: Green and yellow Braniff's 727
b727ah2: 727 flow by Viasa when was bought by Iberia
b727ah3: Braniff 727 painted by Alexander Calder
b727ah4: One of the first 727 flow by Kulula.com
b727ah11: Alaska Airlines 727 leased to the Seattle NFL Team Seahawks
I Dont know how it works in Fs2004:
Ju52mlka: Ju-52 owned by Milka chocolats company, in flying state
md11ah5: MD-11F from Eva Air Cargo
tornah10: Tornado in 2001 Tiger Meet painting
c235ah13: The CN-235 was used by the spanish line Binter Mediterraneo
For FS2004 and FS2002:
b190ah6: Beech 1900D from Us Air Express
b190ah7: Beech 1900D from the canarian island's Air Atlantic
l1011ah9: Two L1011 leased by Iberia
d328ah14: The only Do-328JET of Welcome Air
atr4ah17: Two of the ATR-42 owneds by Lai, a venezuelan company
pby5ah18: A water bomber PBY Catalina, the Canso 71 was used in Spain
pby5ah19: A water bomber PBY Catalina, in red painting from Spain.
b727ah20: 727 flow by Singapore Airlines
d328ah21: DO-328 (prop) Welcome Air, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah22: Alaska Airlines 727, upgraded for FS2004
1049ah23: Super Constellation belonging to Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
b727ah24: Green and yellow Braniff's 727, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah25: Blue Braniff's 727.
1049ah26: Super Constellation from Iberia
d328ah27: Do-328 prop of Air Engiadina, upgraded for FS2004
p51dah28: P-51D Cripes a'Mighty 3rd, a beautifull warbird
b757ah29: Three liverys of the same B757 from LTE to Volar Airlines
b727ah30: Viasa's 727 with Iberia-like colors, upgraded for FS2004
d328ah31: Do 328 flow by VIP Airlines.
b737ah32: Rutaca's 737 in the colors of the Vinotinto Football Club
p51dah33: The only venezuelan P-51D
b727ah34: Red Braniff 727
a320ah35: A320 when LTE was renamed as Volar Airlines
b737ah36: American Airlines Astrojet, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah37: 727 charter flow by Amerijet
b757ah38: 757 Prestige, the biggest spanish private plane
p51dah39: Two P-51D Taiwan Air Force
p51dah40: Another P-51D Taiwan Air Force
p51dah41: P-51D Popular Liberation Army Air Force
p51dah42: Another P-51D Popular Liberation Army Air Force
d328ah43: Do 328-110 from Swisswings
met3ah44: Metro 3 Air Catalunya, a spanish charter company
met3ah45: Three Metro 3 operateds by Key Lime Air
b737ah46: The famous spanish 737 from Air Europa with Martini stickers
carvah47: Two Caravelle operated by Finnair
Fixes:
fix01ah: Fixes the bottom color of b727ah24
fix02ah: Improves the flight dinamics of b757ah29 and b757ah38
Warranty:
I love the warranty wrote by Andrew W. Hall:
"None. Zip. Nada. Use at your own risk. I dont think
this will harm your computer in any way, but if it does, I
dont even want to hear about it."
A last remark: Why don't become a repainter? There are a lot of planes with special markings. I'm tired of the usual F-16 low-vis scheme, or the usual 757 in Delta markings. Why don't a "Bat's outa Hell's" B-25 or a serie of Qantas 737s? The plane modelers like FFX-SGA are very important, but they can't make all the painting schemes by himselfs. So why don't help him and his friends?
INSTALLATION:
Just unzip b737ah49.zip in your "Aircraft" folder of FS2002, FS2004 or FS9 (make sure "use folder names" is checked), copy the file SMOKE_JT8D.fx to the "effects" folder and that's all.
