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Aerosim Lockheed L-1011 TriStar PAYWARE

The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar is a medium to long range, wide body commercial passenger jet aircraft. In response to an American Airlines requirement for a medium range airliner smaller than the Boeing 747 that can operate on smaller airports, the development of the TriStar was launched in 1968. Initially, Lockheed studied a twin engine layout, but decided to develop a tri-engine layout instead to ensure it could takeoff at max weights from smaller runways. Despite the interest of American Airlines, they opted for the Douglas DC-10. Instead, Eastern Airliners became the launch customer with the first TriStar delivered to them on April 26, 1972. When the production of the TriStar ended in 1983, a total of 250 TriStar variants were built. Aerosim is a Japanese developer of various MS Flight Simulator products. Many classic aircraft are available in special packages. The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar is part of the Classic Liners Vol. 2 package. The package contains the L-1011 and L-1011-500 with a few liveries: Lockheed house livery, Trans World Airlines, Delta Airlines, Air Canada, Pan American and British Airways. Unfortunately, there are not many 3rd party liveries available on websites like AVSIM. Besides the TriStar, the package contains more classic aircraft: Douglas DC-8 and DC-10. Like many aircraft developed by Aerosim, the virtual cockpit is quite simple. Not all buttons are clickable, 2d textures are used instead. On the other hand, a simple virtual cockpit is good news for your frame rate. The flight dynamics are ok, although the climb performance seems to be rather high for a classic aircraft. All usual animations are present and everything works as it should. The main landing gear however, is not realistic, because it is not flexible. The rear set of wheels make first contact with the runway, then the forward set of wheels should come down too, which is not happening until the nose wheel comes down. Also, the stabilizer trim movement is not animated. NOTE FOR FSX USERS: This aircraft is fully compatible with FSX (only the strobe lights may not work correctly). However, because a few original FS2004 gauges are used by the aircraft in the Classic Liners Vol. 2 package, FS2004 must be installed on your computer. If you don't have FS2004, some panel functions may not work because of a few missing gauges. Please follow the instructions below if you want to use this aircraft in FSX: 1. First, find the original installer. Unzip the archive to a temporary folder. The folder that contains the file 'install.exe' should also contain a sub-folder called 'CL2'. Go in that folder and you'll see these sub-folders: aircraft, Effects, Flights, fonts and gauges. 2. Move or Copy the contents of the 'aircraft' folder to the SimObjects\Airplanes folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\ ). 3. Move or Copy the contents of the 'Effects' folder to the main effects folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Effects\ ). 4. Move or copy the contents of the 'fonts' folder to the main fonts folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Fonts\ ). 5. Move or copy the contents of the "gauges" folder to the main gauges folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Gauges\ ). NOTE: The instructions above are for the whole package, so you don't have to do this again for the other aircraft in the package. However, the instructions below are valid for the Lockheed TriStar models only. 6. Copy the files "737-400.gau" and "magnetic_compass.gau" from the main gauges folder of FS2004 (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Gauges\) to the main gauges folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Gauges\). 7. OPTIONAL: Thumbnail image for the aircraft selection list. Right-click on the images below and choose "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As...", browse to the folder \Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\AS_L1011_CL2\ and choose between the texture folders. The text below the image shows you the right texture folder to save the thumbnail image in. (e.g. \AS_L1011_CL2\texture\ ). save to AS_L1011_CL2\texture\ save to AS_L1011_CL2\texture.1\ save to AS_L1011_CL2\texture.2\ Right-click on the images below and choose "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As...", browse to the folder \Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\AS_L1011_500_CL2\ and choose between the texture folders. The text below the image shows you the right texture folder to save the thumbnail image in. (e.g. \AS_L1011_500_CL2\texture\ ). save to AS_L1011_500_CL2\texture\ save to AS_L1011_500_CL2\texture.1\ save to AS_L1011_500_CL2\texture.2\ Next time when you start FSX, the aircraft should be visible in the aircraft selection list and work fine. If you download additional liveries, you can make thumbnail images yourself: you need to make a screenshot of each livery of the aircraft and resize it to 256x128 pixels (use an image editor like photoshop, paintshop or whatever you prefer). Make sure the image format is JPG and name each of them "thumbnail.jpg". Then copy the image to each texture folder inside the aircraft folder.

Panel [?] : Yes Compatibility [?] : FS2004 & FSX Virtual Cockpit [?] : Yes Wingflex [?] : No Wingview [?] : No Landing gear behaviour [?] : Unrealistic, not flexible Sound [?] : Yes Rudder effectiveness [?] : Realistic Pros : - Frame rate friendly Cons : - Not many liveries available - Simple panel and virtual cockpit - The stabilizer trim movement is not animated - Unrealistic main landing gear, not flexible Product location : Aerosim website <- The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar is part of the Classic Liners Vol. 2 package. You need to purchase the whole package. Liveries : -

COMMENTS

It is not as bad as I have thought, infact it is one of the best classic aircraft add on, I relized it has a weather radar makes it different. #1 - Andy Wu - 11/29/2007 - 09:33 Name Comment -(" title=">-(" border="0"/> To prevent automated Bots from spamming, please enter the text you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly. Powered by Comment Script