The Fiat C.R.42 was a single-seat fighter biplane which served primarily in Italy's Regia Aeronautica just before and during World War II. The aircraft was produced by the Turin firm, and also served, in smaller numbers, with the air forces of Belgium, Sweden and Hungary. With more than 1,800 built, it was the most widely produced Italian aircraft to take part in World War II. The Fiat C.R.42 was the last of the Fiat biplane fighters to see combat and represented the epitome of the type. RAF Intelligence praised its exceptional manoeuvrability, further noting that the plane was immensely strong.The Fiat C.R.42 made its combat debut with the Belgian Air Force, over Belgium on 10th May 1940. Complete aircraft, features the usual moving parts, such as all flight controls. Many different liveries (Regia Aeronautica/Belgian Air Force/Swedish Air Force/Hungarian Air Force). VC only. GMax Models and Skins by Manuele Villa & Italianwings, Flight dynamics, Handling notes and Tutorials by FSAviator, It also works (Tested) subject to some limitations within in FSX (NOT Acceleration). By Manuele Villa/MVG3D, January 2011.
For development history, appropriate bases to fly from, campaigns fought, appropriate seasonal weather to employ, target locations and mission profiles, see the supplied C.R.42 history.txt in the 'FALCO_COMMON' folder.
This release provides six different MDLs each of which is defined as a different 'aircraft model' within MSFS. Each MDL also has an appropriate highly detailed VC, each featuring many moving and fully operable parts, with differing weapon systems activation, navigation systems and combat mission capability. After installation you will have six different models of FIAT C.R.42;
1) C.R.42 Falco (Falcon) - original air superiority fighter with no radio and no artifical horizon.
2) C.R.42 Egeo (Aegean) - with internal auxiliary fuel tank and VHF radio for extended radius CAP.
3) C.R.42 Africa Settentrionale (N. Africa) with external sand filter, radio and aerial, artifical horizon, and under wing pylons to permit high angle precision bombing missions. Provides bombs present / dropped animation and drag.
4) C.R.42 Caccia Notturna (Night Fighter) as (1) above, but with flame damper exhausts, artificial horizon, VHF and MF radios and aerials.
5) C.R.42 Caccia Notturna SL (Night Fighter w/searchlights) as (4) above, but with experimental searchlights and windmill generator (on upper wing).
6) C.R.42 LW (Luftwaffe) with external sand filter, flame damper exhausts, radio and aerial, artifical horizon, and under wing pylons to permit high angle precision bombing missions. Provides bombs present / dropped animation and drag.
Inside MSFS each of the six 'Aircraft_models' then has 'Variations' which are different camouflage and markings appropriate to a given location and date.You will have many choices, but first you must select the model of C.R.42 needed to fly the type of mission you intend to undertake, and only then choose a suitable variation whose markings match your chosen theatre of war, the terrain challenge, and seasonal weather challenge, you intend to simulate.
WARNING - Only the C.R.42AS (Afrika Settentrionale) and LW (LuftWaffe) have underwing bomb pylons and you must load and drop the underwing bombs (and their associated profile drag) using the MSFS spoiler key.
This highly detailed simulation package is VC only to maximise realism and to promote the acquisition of realistic combat and non combat VFR parallax compliance skills explained and fully illustrated within 'How to enjoy flying the CR42.htm' within the 'FALCO COMMON' folder. This pure 3D simulation will work at any chosen zoom factor, providing any desired field of view, within windows of any aspect ratio.
1) Unzip the file 'cr42_v01.ZIP' to a temporary folder. Unzip it to reveal two zipped parts 1 and 2.
2) Unzip part 1.zip. MOVE all seven folders called 'FIAT CR-42 FALCO MVG','FIAT CR-42 FALCO AS MVG','FIAT CR-42 FALCO CN MVG','FIAT CR-42 FALCO EGEO MVG','FIAT CR-42 FALCO CN SL MVG','FIAT CR-42 FALCO LW MVG'and 'FIAT CR-42 FALCO_COMMON' into your FS9 "Aircraft" (or 'Microsoft Flight SimulatorX\SimObjects\Airplanes') folder.
3) In the 'FIAT CR42_COMMON' folder LOCATE the folder named 'common_textures_to copy_to_all_txts_folders'.
Now COPY the *contents* into each and every texture folder, in each of the six models, WITHOUT OVERWRITING IF REQUESTED. This may take some time and patience, but if you fail to do it now you will have missing textures later.
Do NOT move or discard the common textures. If you download skins in the future you will need to add the same bitmaps to those later texture folders.
Note that this seventh (FALCO_COMMON) folder also contains the panels (with or without VHF or MF radio and AH versions), and the Fiat C.R.42 and Fiat A.74 engine sounds that will be used by all six models of C.R.42. You do not need to copy the sounds or panels to anywhere. Each model will autolocate these shared panels and sounds.
The FALCO_COMMON folder also contains the'Read before flight' folder with illustrations for the supplied tutorial, the 'How to enjoy flying the CR42.htm' tutorial, the C.R.42 history needed to locate relevant bases and destinations, and a layered PSD (PHOTOSHOP) file, needed only by repainters, (in the PAINTKIT folder). Do NOT move, delete or rename any of these components.
Make sure you have copied the common textures to each of the many texture folders in the six different CR42 models, before moving to step 4.
4) Unzip Part 2.zip. MOVE the contents of the 'Gauges' folder to the FS9/FSX "Gauges" folder.
5) MOVE the contents of the 'Effects' folder to the FS9/FSX "Effects" folder.
6) MOVE the contents of the 'Sound' folder to the FS9/FSX "Sound" folder.
We wish you many months of pleasure investigating the capabilities and limitations of the FIAT C.R.42 while you learn about and experience the real world head up flying skills of 'pilotage' within a highly detailed and realistically functional virtual environment.
1 - This is an FS9 release. FSX use will not be 'supported'. You must fix any issues arising from differing FSX service pack update status. However in general terms this release 'seems to work without significant problems' in 'appropriatly updated versions of FSX' under both Windows XP and Windows Vista.NOT TESTED WITH FSX ACCELERATION or WINDOWS 7.
2 - As in all Italian aircraft of the time full throttle is full aft and ground idle is full forward. The mixture lever also has opposed motion to U.S. aircraft. Read 'How to enjoy flying the FIAT CR42.htm' in the 'FALCO_COMMON' folder' for a full explanation of all the gauges, controls, systems, Italian language legends and operating procedures.
3 - On screen handling notes which abbreviate and sequence the skills and operating targets explained and illustrated in the tutorial are available by pressing F10, (or the kneeboard VC icon), and selecting the lowest icon in the kneeboard.
4 - A 2D pop up GPS cheat mode window has been made available, but we strongly encourage you to use the FIAT C.R.42 to learn the real world head up flying skills of 'pilotage' explained and illustrated in the tutorial 'How to enjoy flying the FIAT C.R.42.htm' in the FALCO_COMMON folder. The real FIAT C.R.42 had no navigation equipment of any kind and none is needed in MSFS either once the skill of pilotage has been learned. If you make the effort to incorporate all of the realism options explained and illustrated in the tutorials this release may change the whole way you use your flight simulator!
5 - In the 'FIAT CR-42 FALCO CN SL MVG' the lights will be the lights supplied with the package. Within the aircraft.cfg if you have the payware Shockwawe/A2A 3Dlights Redux, delete the original 'light.6' and 'light.7' strings and 'uncomment' the optional Shockwave driver code.
Original CFS3 GMAX model by Pietro Zazzetta (Italianwings).
CFS3/FS9 conversion, upgrades and models modifications by Manuele Villa.
VC rebuild (where necessary) and animations by Manuele Villa.
Original textures by Alessandro Biagi (Italianwings) & Manuele Villa.
Paints by Alessandro Biagi (Italianwings) & Manuele Villa.
Paintkit by Manuele Villa (based on Alessandro Biagi's original texture)
Prop textures by Bob Rivera.
Flight dynamics by FSAviator.
Sounds by Tim Dement (OBIO), modified by Stefano Meneghini (PCMENEG) and Manuele Villa (MVG3D).
Gauges: many of the Italian gauges in this panel were created from scratch or radically modified from freeware items by Manuele Villa, other gauges are from Stefano Meneghini (PCMENEG), Hauke Keitel (KeDI) and Doug Dawson (dsd_xml_sound3.gau), Bitmaps for some gauges by Alessandro Biagi (ItalianWings).
Handling notes and tutorial by FSAviator.
Aircraft descriptions and history by FSAviator and Manuele Villa.
Prayer's Translation by Umberto Sciacchetano.
SPECIAL THANKS To
Mr. Pietro Zazzetta & Mr. Alessandro Biagi (Italianwings), FSAviator, Mr.S.Meneghini, Mr.U.Sciacchetano, Mr.M.Noriega, Mr.C.Carra and to my Greek friend Mr.N.Daskalakis for their precious help. A Very special thanks to ALL the Sim-Outhouse members for their support and suggestions.
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