RAF Swinderby

[delbydoo]

Courtesy of Brian Clarke - RAF Swinderby will be available shortly, along with flightplans and repaints for the Chipmunks of the Elementary Flying Training School

[DaleRFU]

Nice, which chippy is that?

[Chrisb]

That looks great Brian. Looking forward to installing it.

Chris

[delbydoo]

Nice, which chippy is that?

It's by Mike Cronin, available at avsim.

[delbydoo]

Now available

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1rw39wicoaxw97h

[Dinga69]

Thanks guys - memories of my 6 weeks basic in 1983 come flooding back

[RKE]

Thanks for the release guys!

But, erh, anyone else having some dodgy terrain issues around runway 6 treshold? I suspect it's due to Ultimate Terrain placing a lake there and dragging the terrain down

[delbydoo]

Thanks for the release guys!

But, erh, anyone else having some dodgy terrain issues around runway 6 treshold? I suspect it's due to Ultimate Terrain placing a lake there and dragging the terrain down

More than likely I'm afraid - I don't have UT, don't know about Brian but I haven't had any terrain issues.

[RKE]

Here's how it looks to me:


Looking at Google Earth, I think the reason is that the airbase has either been shifted east - or the landclass data is shifted too far to the west, because on Google Earth the runway runs more or less parallel with the A46 road, whereas in FS there is a bit of a distance. As a result, the lake that is normally south of the airfield now sits underneath the treshold of runway 6 But no worries, I can fix a flatten myself

[Chrisb]

RKE

I have something very similar but always put it down to the effects of FSGenesis.

Chris

[delbydoo]

RKE - yes the A46 does run alongside the airfield, however we also noticed that Brians co-ordinates are within minutes of the actual location; the river to the south of the airfield is more-or-less in the correct position but it looks like Microsoft have misplaced the A46 (not surprising). We went for the option of accuracy in position rather than what it looks like in the sim.

[delbydoo]

Just a quick fix for Swinderby - essentially to replace some of the vehicles and make them a little more contemporary to the time.....unfortunately the British Military Vehicles Library only contains an Army Landrover ambulance and not an R.A.F. one, and the Carmichael is probably bigger than the one that would have been used; it's the problem of making scenery with "pre-built" parts - easy to do but sometimes you have to compromise.



EDIT: REMOVED WRONG FILE

[campbeme]

Daryl,

We have these ones, are they any use to you. There by John "Vulcandriver"

We have Green and Yellow.

[delbydoo]

I believe they are the same ones in the BMV library - if not, then very similar. The RAF vehicles during the 70s and 80s had a yellow stripe down most sides with the words ROYAL AIR FORCE written in blue on it. May have to sweet talk Mr. Burtenshaw

[andrea81]

a very nice scenery, thanks

[delbydoo]

Thanks Andrea.

Sorry guys - I posted the wrong file; I needed to post the OBJ file and not the one I did - so if you put that one in, you wouldn't have seen any changes

Here is the correct one (this is the whole thing just to make sure)

[wildcat]

The army type ambulance would be the correct type for the period when Swinditz was open for chippy flying just needs the yellow stripe,the fire cover was probably a TACR ie 6 wheeled range rover as that's what we had when we reopened Wyton. However I could be wrong on that one,may have been a MK9,but the fire vehicles would be green with the stripe also.As for the landrover,most air traffics used the SWB rovers,both hard and soft top.These would be that sexy IR green with stripes until the mid 90's when they went to hired vehicles and you could get any colour.The Wyton one in 99 was a LWB grey one.
The yellow stripe was supposed to be 2 inch wide,but when first applied,it depended on the size of brush the painters had.Got standardised early 80's when they went to the sticky lables.
That's the history lesson for today
Mick

[delbydoo]

Hi Mick, thanks for the info, very useful. Unfortunately there is no TACR available to use at the moment; I've put LWB yellow perils in there for the mo, probably won't change anything else for the time being, but we'll certainly take your comments on board for the next project - which will be wet, windy, cold, isolated and hilly