Flying Carpet's Flight Sim repaints...
JAT Airways
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IATA CODE |
ICAO CODE |
CALLSIGN |
| JU | JAT | JAT |
JAT was established in 1927 as Aeroput. Services were obviously suspended during WWII but were resumed in 1946 under the new title of JAT Jugoslvenski Aero Transport, the airline becoming the national airline of the Federation of Yugoslavia.
JAT introduced jet equipment in its fleet in 1963 with the Caravelle, later replaced with DC-9s, while Boeing 707s and McDD Douglas DC-10s operated the long haul flights to North America and Australia. In 1985, it became the first airline in Europe to operate the Boeing 707-300.
But in 1991, following the collapse of the Yugoslav federation and the ensuing wars that lasted over the next decade, JAT's operation again came to an almost complete halt.
It was only in 2003 that the airline could resume normal operations, adopting a new name of JAT Airways in the process. Although still being the Serbian flag carrier, JAT is only a shadow of its former self, its ageing fleet of Boeing 737s serving European and Middle East destinations from its main hub at Belgrade Nikola Tesla airport, and ATR 72s serving thinner regional routes.
Several attempts at privatisation have proved fruitless.
Up to date flightplans are available from Alpha India Group
Fleet package: Boeing 737-400, Boeing 737-300, ATR 72
This package includes all fleet variations as of February 2010. The 737-400 was leased in and has since been returned.
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Boeing 737-400 V2 (normal model), Ai Ardvark Boeing 737-300 V2 (logolight model) and OSP ATR 72-200 base models
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Each repaint means long hours of research and hard work to make it look as close as possible to the real world original.
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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.