P3DV4+ S-2F3AT Turbo Tracker Cal Fire Pack 2026-05-02

This is a significant update package for Milton Shupe's S-2T Turbo Tracker. Done with Milton's permission, this pack takes his and crew's original work and updates it for the newer sims with updated 4k textures, PBR, and several other lighting, flight dynamic, sound, and contact point modifications. The package includes all 23 aircraft of Cal Fire's current firefighting fleet of S-2F3ATs, commonly referred to as an "S-2T" or S-2 Turbo Tracker. Unlike the Conair Turbo Firecat, based on the S-2F1, the Marsh manufactured S-2F3AT is based upon the larger S-2F3 airframe. The Turbo Firecats are powered by a PT-6 variant turboprop rated at 1,220 SHP each. While the Marsh Turbo Trackers are powered by a more powerful pair of Garrett TPE-331-14GR turboprops. This also yields not only a much higher top speed than the Turbo Firecats, but also an increased fire retardant capacity of 1,200 US Gallons versus the Turbo Firecat's 897 US Gallons. But at a loss of endurance compared to the Turbo Firecat's slightly more than 5 hours, the S-2F3ATs falls down to 4.5 hours. Visually the two aircraft look very similar. But things that ID them over the Turbo Firecat are the S-2F3AT's longer fuselage, longer and rounded wings, lack of exterior fuel tanks, and a slightly pointed aerodynamic noise. The S-2F3AT is an exclusively modified airframe for the California Department of Forestry and Land Protection (Cal Fire). No other agency or country flies the S-2F3ATs. Cal Fire operates 23 S-2F3ATs in total. 22 are based across 13 air attack bases strategically positioned throughout the state of California with a single spare kept at Cal Fire's HQ in Sacramento for relief and additional resource stacking, if needed. Cal Fire uses the S-2T in it's fast initial attack program to keep fires small by being able to dispatch S-2Ts anywhere in the entire state in 20 minutes or less. And with S-2Ts capable of flying near or at 300 mph, reinforcements can be on scene very fast from other bases. The S-2F3AT arguably is one of the best Initial Attack aircraft used in aerial firefighting in the United States. No other aircraft in it's category can compete with it's speed, agility, and load capacity. It's closest comparable platform in the industry is the much larger, slower, and more expensive Viking CL-415/215T. Original aircraft by Milton Shupe, updates by Nicholas Mitchell "Scorch00."