Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Fleet Installer Update

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | Fleet Installer Update

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
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"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on January 25 2004 17:51 ET by Luke Kolin

The web site will get a little slow tonight starting at midnight Eastern US Time. I will be pushing out a new set of Fleet Intallers to the mirrors, and that's going to be around 420MB of content. That's about as much as I push out every day, so it'll be a bit slow between 12 and 6am. To give you an overview, the following changes are going to be made to the installers:

1. Minor technical wording, license changes, as well as better LZMA compression. This means around 300K less on a 14MB installer. Not a lot of difference, unless you are on dial-up.
2. New MD-88 using SGA's MD-83/87/88 model in OC, NC, NNC, Aeromexico and Alitalia colors.
3. Working ATR-72 panel in FS2004, as well as new Air France and Alitalia ATR-72 liveries.
4. Czeskoslovenske Aerolinke DC-3, along with improve fuel management, mixture gauge and SMOKING engine starts. (I love to smoke).
5. FFX/SGA DC-10 Series 10/30 in Delta OC, NNC, Air France and Alitalia liveries.
6. Updated FSFrance FS2002/2004 Concrode with a real flight model that can hit Mach 2.07+ instead of 1.92 like the old one.
7. Delta 1971 "White Nose" Boeing 727-200 livery.
8. Updated Airbus A330 panel that doesn't blow up in the year 2004.
9. Czech Air Lines, Air Jamaica and South African Airbus A320 liveries.
10. South African Airways A330-200
11. Working Boeing 747SP analog panel.
12. Delta 1963 "White Wings" Convair CV-880 livery.

Every installer has been rebuilt. Hopefully you'll have a more enjoyable flight sim experience as a result.

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA1427
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on December 14 2003
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"Livin' in the Dog Pound!"
Kannapolis, NC

558 legs, 1,984.3 hours
250 legs, 611.8 hours online
384 legs, 1,530.5 hours ACARS
38 legs, 82.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 25 2004 18:09 ET by Lewis Gregory

Good grief, and you found time to actually FLY tonight?!?

Wow, that's great. I'll be installing a bunch of those guys tomorrow while I'm waiting for the ice outside to melt! (1/16" of ice + South Carolina = the world is ending and I don't have to go to work until 10:00 tomorrow.)

We can just re-download the installer files and install over top of what we already have without breaking anything, can we? Or do we have to delete old files first?

Lewis Gregory

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on January 25 2004 18:10 ET by Luke Kolin

If you attempt to install over an existing Fleet Installer aircraft, the results are "undefined". Which means I don't know what will happen. In theory, nothing bad, but don't quote me. Much of what I am about to release was all queued up anyways, just needed a dedicated weekend of attack.

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA1322
Senior Captain, B767-300

Joined on September 10 2003
Double Century Club

Fairbanks, AK USA

220 legs, 544.2 hours
30 legs, 59.3 hours online
1 legs, 2.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 25 2004 18:19 ET by Mark Mestre

Thanks for all the hard work Luke! I'll be busy tomorrow adding a few off that list! Thanks again!

DVA1492
First Officer, B737-800

Joined on January 10 2004

Southeastern United States

61 legs, 103.8 hours
42 legs, 75.1 hours online
32 legs, 54.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 26 2004 08:24 ET by Jared Stanley

My plane's paint job is terrible on the crj200 and The virtual cockpit is blacked out. Is there something wrong with the file? It is no big deal because I can see the panel ok, but I would like to have a nice looking plane.

Posted onPost created on January 26 2004 11:34 ET by Luke Kolin

Which scheme are you using, and which version of FS do you have?

Cheers!

Luke

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

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