Flying Carpet's Flight Sim repaints...
Aeroflot
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Aeroflot was founded in 1932 from the merger of three previous airlines. In Soviet times, it was the largest airline in the world and was organised in various directorates covering all aspects of civilian air operations in the Soviet Union.
It was the first airline in the world to operate regular passenger jet services with the introduction of the Tupolev Tu-104 and later became one of the only three airlines to operate supersonic transports, with the ill-fated Tu-144.
After 1991, the airline was vastly restructured and downsized, and party privatized, the government retaining a majority shareholding. Most soviet era aircraft have been retired and replaced with newer Airbus and Boeing liners, but the airline recently became the launch customer of the Sukhoi SSJ-100 Superjet, which has just entered service.
Nowadays, Aeroflot remains the largest airline in the Russian Federation, and is defacto considered as the national flag carrier.
Recent flightplans available from RATS
Airbus A319
Aeroflot currently operates 16 Airbus A319s on its domestic and regional network, all of which are included in this package.
To be used with the DJC Airbus A319 CFM base model
Airbus A320
The Airbus A320 is Aeroflot's main medium haul aircraft, with 33 units currently operational. All are included in this package
To be used with the DJC Airbus A320 CFM base model
Airbus A320-200 VP-BZP is currently featuring the Sochi 2014 winter olympics mascots, promoting the upcoming event for which Aeroflot is an official partner
To be used with the DJC Airbus A320 CFM base model
Airbus A321
Aeroflot also operates the larger A321. All 16 aircraft currently in the fleet are included in this package
To be used withe the DJC Airbus A321 base model
Airbus A330-200
This package includes all 5 aircraft currently operated by Aeroflot
To be used with the Fruit Stand Airbus A330-200 base model
Airbus A330-300
This package includes all 5 A330-300s operated by Aeroflot, including VP-BCQ in full Skyteam colors
To be used with the Fruit Stand Airbus A330-300 base model
McDonnell Douglas MD-11F
The cargo division of Aeroflot currently operates a fleet of 3 converted MD-11Fs. All three are included in this package.
To be used with the FS Painter MD-11 base model
Donate!
Each repaint means long hours of research and hard work to make it look as close as possible to the real world original.
Although it is all available here for free, I will appreciate any contribution to keep me going maintaining this website and bringing you more flightsimming goodies!
You can use Paypal from wherever you are to send me any amount you feel like giving -hint: the more the merrier! ;-)
About my repaints
These textures are intended for use as AI traffic in Microsoft's Flight Simulator versions 9 and 10.
They have been thoroughly researched and painted based on actual pictures of the real aircraft, so that each individual aircraft is an exact replica of the real thing at the time of painting, down to the precise windows configuration and the stencils colours and locations.
To view them in your simulator, you need first to download and install the base aircraft models/packages available separately . Most of these models are available from the usual avsim and/or flightsim libraries, but I have provided a link to these base packages on this site for your easy reference. Check the links section.
You will also need adequate flightplans to take these birds into your virtual skies. Running a search on avsim and flightsim libraries will get you up to date flightplans for most of the world's airlines
About bitmap formats
Most of my repaints are provided in three textures formats: 32bits, dxt3 and dxt3 with mipmaps.
AI traffic can draw heavily on your computer resources and significantly reduce your sim's framerate. Using the right set of textures can improve your framerate and ensure smooth and
lifelike movements.
Basically, 32bits texture are larger and therefore having more pixels, will have sharper details and will look better in your sim, particularly at close range. Downside is they take up more HD
space and use more resources.
Mipped textures are supposed to be what fs is really looking for, and will ensure the best framerate and movement smoothness. However, if your graphic processor is an older or a lower end one,
with less than 1GB dedicated memory, mipped textures will look awfully blurred.
To keep things simple, if you run your sim on a new, powerful, high end computer, go for the 32bits or mipped textures, or use the 32bits only for intricate liveries where the quality of finer
details will make a difference.
On the other hand, if you are using an older less powerful machine, or if you are not sure or don't know what all this means, go for the non-mipped dxt3 format.