The C.202 Folgore was a World War II fighter aircraft built by Macchi Aeronautica and operated by the Regia Aeronautica (Royal Italian Air Force). Considered one of the most beautiful fighters to fly with wartime Axis forces,the C.202 was a development of the earlier C.200 Saetta,with a more powerful German Daimler-Benz DB 601 engine and with an extremely streamlined fuselage.Undoubtedly the best wartime fighter to serve in large numbers with the Regia Aeronautica,the Folgore operated on all fronts in which Italy was involved.
ATTENTION,this is only an upgrade/fixing package,so you must have already installed the main package 'c202_v01.zip'.
Contains 2 FIXED/UPGRADED and 4 NEW Hi-Res GMax models (4 different versions) feature the usual moving parts,such as all flight controls,props pitch and leading edge flaps.Eight (8) different liveries.VC only.GMax Models and Skins by Manuele Villa,Huub Vink & Italianwings,Flight dynamics by Manuele Villa & Kikko Zanaboni,It also works (Tested) subject to some limitations within in FSX.By Manuele Villa/MVG3D,May 2012.
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C.202 EXPANSION PACK 1 FEATURES
In this 'EXPANSION PACK 1' You will find:
A) - AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE (Mid-Production) 2W/4W NEW GMax models,with COMPLETELY NEW external canopy,now with armored windscreen,animated side windows (from VC) and 'FIXED'glass transparency.
B) - NEW Eastern Front livery for AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE (Mid-Production) 2W.
C) - AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE (Early Production),Four (4) COMPLETELY NEW GMax models,with SEVEN (7) different liveries.
3_1 - A/C without AS Filter,with short antenna mast,without armored windscreen.
3AS_1 - A/C with AS Filter,with short antenna mast,without armored windscreen.
3AS_2 - A/C with AS Filter,with standard antenna mast,without armored windscreen.
3AS2_Late - A/C with AS Filter,standard antenna mast,with cockpit cooling intakes and without armored windscreen.
D) - New Exhaust Flame effects (By Reno Racing) and other special effects.
FOLLOW CAREFULLY THE FOLLOWING INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
1) - You MUST have installed the basic C.202 package.
2) - Unzip the file 'c202_EP1.ZIP' to a temporary folder.
3) - MOVE all the four folders called 'AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE 2W MVG','AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE 4W MVG','AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE EARLY MVG' and 'AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE MVG_COMMON FILES' into your FS9 "Aircraft" (or 'Microsoft Flight SimulatorX\SimObjects\Airplanes') folder,ALLOWING OVERWRITING WHEN REQUESTED.
ATTENTION
The old aircraft.cfg files will be overwritten,therefore liveries you added will not longer appear,COMPLETELY DELETE ALL THE ADDITIONAL LIVERIES texture folders You added.
4) - In the 'AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE MVG_COMMON FILES' folder LOCATE the folder named 'C.202 common_textures_to copy_to_all_txts_folders'.
Now COPY the *contents* into each and every texture folder,in each of the models,WITHOUT OVERWRITING WHEN 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 folder.If you download skins in the future you will need to add the same bitmaps to those later texture folders.
5) - Reinstall,if You want,the additional liveries You removed repeating the above procedure.
Make sure you have copied the common textures to each of the many texture folders in the three different C.202 models,before moving to step 6.
6) - MOVE the contents of the 'Effects' folder to the FS9/FSX "Effects" folder,ALLOWING OVERWRITING WHEN REQUESTED.
7) - DONE !!!
We wish you many months of pleasure investigating the capabilities and limitations of the AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE 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 WINDOWS 7.
3) - This highly detailed simulation package is VC only to maximise realism.This pure 3D simulation will work at any chosen zoom factor,providing any desired field of view, within windows of any aspect ratio.
4) - As in all Italian aircraft of the time full throttle is full aft and ground idle is full forward.
5) - A 2D pop up GPS cheat mode window has been made available,but we strongly encourage you to use the AerMacchi C.202 FOLGORE to learn the real world head up flying skills of 'pilotage'.The real AerMacchi C.202 had no modern navigation equipment(except a radiogoniometer in some of the Mid-Production versions) and none is needed in MSFS either once the skill of pilotage has been learned.
Original CFS3 GMAX model by Pietro Zazzetta (Italianwings).
CFS3/FS9 conversion, upgrades and models modifications by Manuele Villa.
VC rebuild (where necessary) and all animations by Manuele Villa.
Original External textures (Skins) by Manuele Villa.
Original VC textures by Alessandro Biagi (Italianwings) & Manuele Villa.
Paints by Manuele Villa & Huub Vink (SOH).
Paintkit by Manuele Villa.
Prop textures by Bob Rivera.
Flight dynamics by Manuele Villa & Kikko Zanaboni
Sounds by Tim Dement (OBIO),Stefano Meneghini (PCMENEG) and Manuele Villa (MVG3D).
Gauges: many of the Italian gauges in the panels were created from scratch or radically modified from freeware items by Manuele Villa and Stefano Meneghini (PCMENEG,really FANTASTIC His bullet counters!!!),other are MS default gauges and from Doug Dawson (dsd_xml_sound3.gau).Bitmaps for some gauges by A.Biagi(ItalianWings).
Aircraft descriptions and history (in the base package) by Wikipedia,revised & updated by Umberto Sciacchetano and Manuele Villa.
Translations by Umberto Sciacchetano.
Color Profiles (in the base package/paintkit use guide) by Angelo Brioschi.
SPECIAL THANKS To
Mr.Pietro Zazzetta & Mr.Alessandro Biagi (Italianwings),Mr.Huub Vink,Mr.Kikko Zanaboni,Mr.S.Meneghini,Mr.Tim Dement, Mr.U.Sciacchetano,Mr.A.Brioschi 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.
Repaints are allowed without further permission,but please contact me before uploading.
HOWEVER, IF YOU REPAINT THE PLANE YOU MUST CREDIT ALL OF THE ORIGINAL AUTHORS IN YOUR TEXT FILE AND INCLUDE THIS TEXT FILE.
This archive MUST REMAIN INTACT.
YOU MAY NOT REMOVE,RECOMPILE OR UPLOAD PARTS OF THIS ARCHIVE.
THIS ENTIRE TEXT FILE MUST BE INCLUDED IN ANY DISTRIBUTION.
This archive is STRICLY FREEWARE ONLY.
NO COMMERCIAL GAIN BY ANYONE IS ACCEPTABLE.
This archive CANNOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BE AVAILABLE on any website offering this archive in return for money.
These files are to be used on the understanding that they are at the risk of the user and we take no responsibility for any loss of existing files or any other damage that may occur to your computer by the use of these files.
Normally I upload my files ONLY on these 5 (FIVE) FS Sites :
AVSIM
FLIGHTSIM
SIMVIATION
SIM-OUTHOUSE
PLEASE DON'T UPLOAD THEM ANYWHERE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION !!!!!!!!!!
Frequently I find my files on another servers/libraries/sites, You MUST KNOW that it is WITHOUT my permission and I don't accept any responsibility.
By Manuele Villa,May 2012.For any suggestions or comments,email me at manuele@diodos.gr
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