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Speedbird083 · Post by **Speedbird083** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:51 pm

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DL ... D=fs2004ac

cua193 · Post by **cua193** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:24 pm

Sends you to a log-in screen.

What am I meant to be seeing?

Richard

Speedbird083 · Post by **Speedbird083** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:47 pm

Ahh hell, yes, I'd forgotten about the AVSIM library having a log in nowadays.

A new Shorts Skyvan 'skyvan.zip'. Panel, sounds and 4 liveries included.
Nice.

Post by **martinhodgson** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:34 pm

The flying shoebox. Excellent!

philbozz · Post by **philbozz** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:47 pm

Post by **martinhodgson** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:56 pm

Argh, for FS2004 only

philbozz · Post by **philbozz** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:05 pm

Speedbird083 · Post by **Speedbird083** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:58 am

It may work.
I've not read the documentation yet but on the site it just states that it hasn't been tested in 2002.
It's FSDS2 so it should show up. The .air and/or .cfg may be all to hell though.

markw · Post by **markw** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:45 am

Don't worry, Martin, it works on Town Gas - sorry FS2002, I'm still using it and it flies fine on both VFR manual control and IFR, although it did nose dive when I tried to do a go-around when on an ILS approach after Southampton ATC let some stupid little Cessna on the runway when I was on finals. That I expect was pilot error as I have yet to execute a half decent ILS go-around, and some autopilots do seem to react badly to go-around. In any case it's not as if anyone will miss Eastleigh.

The author is doing the passenger version, the Skyliner (you have to admire the Belfast sense of humour giving it a name like that) which will be released in a natty, authentic but never used in service "Interstol"* livery of pink, white and grey, which makes it look like a flying block of Neopolitan ice cream.

*For those that don't know, "Interstol" was something BEA dreamt up in the 1970's which would have seen a fleet of Skyvan passenger planes flying across Britain from exisitng airports and new STOL airports. Services would have included places not on the regular air network like Leicester, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Carlisle, Stoke on Trent, many of which would have had new STOL airports constructed close to the city centre, a bit like Docklands and eventually the new Sheffield-Don Valley which did get built, as well as regular locations like Cardiff, Bristol and Birmingham. The whole idea would have been run by British Air Services, in the pink white and grey livery. It was killed off by a combination of the mid-70's fuel crisis, economic slowdown and the creation of British Airways which effectively wiped out BAS. However, it's interesting to think what might have happened if it had been introduced, and what would have happened to BR Cross Country trains the network would have competed with.

ArrivaTrains · Post by **ArrivaTrains** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:51 am

This

A Shorts Skyvan Cargo Aircraft

Thanks

Lee

Providing Intercity Services across the North

Post by **martinhodgson** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:08 pm

Me downloading later

markw · Post by **markw** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:15 pm

More on the Neapolitan Icecream flavoured "Interstol" Skyvan....over on the Classic British Flightsim forum, Tony Madge and I got talking about the interstol livery as both of us had started one. Tony had a number of repaints backing up, and as I had a free window we've sort of cut'n'shut our textures and produced this:

Hopefully, if the model author gives his final blessing it will be uploaded soon, although he may wish to keep the textures for now to release with a passenger version he was talking about doing.

And yes, the aircraft really did fly a series of demonstration flights from a number of regional airports around the country in that very 70's ice-cream livery.