FSX Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat Mods by Milton Shupe and Ed Wells
*** This package is an FS9 PortOver ***
Modified Bearcat F8F-2 by Milton Shupe and Ed Wells (textures) with Permissions from Oldliner52
January 22, 2014
Original Designed by Oldliner52 with Gmax
Gauges by Jean Pierre Langer
Flight Dynamics: Jean Pierre Bourgeois, Benoit Dubé
Original "Ray Dieckman" Textures by John Terrell
That excellent original package was modified by permission in January 2014 as shown below from the aircraft.cfg.
// Grumman F8F Bearcat
// version 2b
// ALPHA BLEU CIEL
// 2006 feb 03
// Milton Shupe/Ed Wells changes January 2014
Summary of changes
Main and Tail gear animations to lengthen oleos for better ground ops
Changed tail gear to castoring
Changed braking strength to compensate for differential braking
Made blurred prop more transparent
Decreased P-Factor and Torque effect on roll out
Decreased yaw moments due to rudder
Added exterior cockpit night lighting
Decreased "glossiness" of main exterior body parts
Redid main VC panel gauge display for higher resolution
Added VC gauge night lighting to all vc gauges to eliminate the VClight Light effects on night time cockpit windows and display anomalies in FSX
Corrected elevator trim wheel animation to be clickable
Retextured VC interior
Added landing light and switch
Modified Mag switch to add pointer
Modified Fuel selector switch base texture
Other miscellaneous VC adjustments
Added a second panel/virtual cockpit panel folder for Olive Drab interior
NOTE: No changes were made to gauges, aircraft performance or fuel consumption. Only changes made to .air file were for yaw moments.
Thanks to Oldkiner52 for permissions to modify. That's all! Have fun!
Milton Shupe,
The Bearcat Modification Project.
March 2014
