New RATS Il-78 model available

[MIKE JG]

Originally posted to the MAIW Facebook page, the boys over at RATS have something new for all of our Il-78 fans.

Check out their new model: http://unitedtrafficteam.com/index.php/ ... base-model

[shaggy22]

Sweet

[Firebird]

The Midas and Mainstay have been rumoured for quite a while but I was beginning to think that these were models that were just destined not to see the light of day. Very nice, indeed.

[dworjan]

That's some great news. I've had N78GF painted on that model sitting on my harddrive for quite some time now. She's the Il-78 that was brought to the US with the intention of becoming a contract air tanker, but last I heard she's been at Sawyer, Michigan for the past several years when the owners ran out of money.

Chris

[fishlips]

Nice model, much needed.

[shaggy22]

Some A50 paints have just been released on Avsimrus

[RKE]

Nice! There's some flightplans in the file 32914-Traffic-XUDI.zip and there's scenery for Ivanovo Severny in 45018-Project-Ivanovo-04-06-2012, both also at AVSIMRUS.

Edit: Just be aware that the installation docs for the sceney is entirely in russian (the folder priority can be gleaned from it however) and the flightplans are utterly useless. I'll see if I can brew something up in the morning, unless someone beats me to it .

[Joseph29]

A few more paints can be found here http://www.flyingcarpet75.com/index.php ... shin-il-76

[Firebird]

That package on flyingcarpets also includes some Midas schemes.

[miljan]

Might update Algeria package

[RKE]

Homecooked flightplans for the entire Midas fleet. They'll be visiting a variety of air bases around Russia for training flights with the various units, doing TNG's at Dyagilevo, and doing refueling runs in the Barents Sea (with a backup AC parked at Olenya for the duration). As finding proper airport codes is a nightmare, make sure your installed scenery matches what I'm using or change it accordingly. There should be scenery available for all but 2, with Kansk and Malshevo missing in action so far.

Air bases visited:
Dyagilevo UYWT <- Note that I've seen 3 different codes for this
Ukrainka Airbase UHBU
Belaya UIIB
Kansk Airbase XNKG
Borisovsky Khotilovo XUEN
Chelyabinsk Shagol Airport Z25T
Voronezh Malshevo Airbase UUOW
Petrozavodsk Airport ULPB
Kursk Vostochny UUOK
Monchegorsk Airbase XLMH
Kant Air Base UAFW
Engels-2 Z25A
Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport UHKK
Vladivostok International Airport UHWW
Morozovsk XRRM
Olenya XLMO

A tip of the cap to Russian language wikipedia for having a full list of every Il-78 airframe, which allowed me to find the 3 regs/serials I was missing. CCCP-78822 was spotted in 2011 still with its Soviet registration, so I guess they're not in a hurry to re-register it