Flying Carpet's Flight Sim repaints...
Thai Airways
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Thai Airways International, the national flag carrier of Thailand, was founded in 1960 as a joint venture between Thai Airways, the state owned domestic airline of Thailand, and Scandinavian Airlines System, in order to provide international air services to and from the country.
Operations started in 1960 to several destinations in Asia, later extended to Australia and Europe, using Caravelle and DC-8 equipment leased from SAS in a livery directly derived from the 'drakkar' one then used by the Scandinavian consortium.
In 1976, the Thai government bought the SAS shares becoming the airline sole shareholder, and in 1988, merged both domestic and international operations in one carrier renamed Thai Airways International.
In 1997, Thai became a founding member of the Star Alliance.
In 2010, Thai celebrated 50 years of continued success and growth.
The airline is currently one of the largest in Asia with a fleet in excess of 90 aircraft, with 56 more on order.
Up to date flightplans are available from Alpha India Group
Boeing 747-400
As part of its 50th anniversary commemorations, Thai painted one of its Boeing 747-400s HS-TGP in a 'retro' livery similar to that worn by its early jets back in the 60s.
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Boeing 747-400 (PW model) base model
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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.
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!
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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.