Colombian operators

Juan Sebastian Gonzalez has released several repaints covering executive and general aviation operators from his native Colombia, which are listed here

Aerotaca

Aerotaca was a regional Colombian carrier whose eventful life stretched over 40 years of operation before finally being terminated in 2006

Two Saab 340s were leased in 1997, later replaced with Beech 1900s

To be used with the Fruit Stand SAAB 340 base model

 

Repaint by Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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Aerotaxi del Upia

Aerotaxi del Upia is a small air taxi operator based in Villavicencio, Colombia, offering air ambulance, passenger and small parcels charter services throughout the country.

 

This package includes the complete AerUpia fleet, as well as callsigns and representative flightplans

 

Base models needed in conjunction with these repaints include the HTAI Britten Norman Islander, as well as the Cessna 182 Skylane, Cessna 206 Stationair and Cessna 210 Centurion available in Henri Tomkiewicz's Cessna single engine payware bundle.

 

Repaints and flightplans by Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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Aexpa

Aexpa is a small air taxi operator based in Pereira, Colombia, mainly operating Cessna 402s

Representative flightplans included

To be used with the HTAI Cessna 402 base model

 

Repaint by Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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Colombina

Colombina is the largest sweets manufacturer in South America. 

This package includes their corporate Beechjet and representative flightplans

To be used with the HTAI Beechjet 400A base model

 

Repaint and flightplan by Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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Ingenio del Cauca

Ingenio del Cauca is a large sugar producer from Colombia 

This package includes their corporate Westwind and representative flightplans

To be used with the HTAI IAI 1124 Westwind II base model

 

Repaint and flightplan by Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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Sadelca

Sociedad Aerea del Caqueta, or Sadelca is an air cargo company headquartered in Villavicencio, Colombia, with main operations center at Bogota Eldorado Airport.

 

This package includes their complete fleet and representative flightplans

 

To be used with the CIS Team Antonov An-26 and An-32 base models, and Jake Burrus Douglas DC-3

 

Repaints and flightplan by Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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Searca

Searca is a cargo and passenger charter airline based in Medellin, Colombia

 

This package includes their complete fleet and representative flightplans

 

To be used with the HTAI Beechcraft Beechjet 400A, Beech King Air 200, Beech 1900C and D, as well as the Viktor Schlacht Let 410 base models

 

Repaints and flightplan by Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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Selva Colombia

Servicios Aereos del Vaupes, or Selva in short, is a cargo and passenger charter airline based in Villavicencio, Colombia

 

This package includes their complete fleet

 

To be used with the CIS Team Antonov An-26 and An-32 base models

 

Repaints by Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

download it from avsim

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.