Tiger Class Cruisers for FSX
As someone who is interested not only in aviation, but also in matters maritime, I naturally gravitated towards carrier aircraft. There are a number of aircraft carriers readily available, both freeware and payware, but a dearth of escort vessels. Aircraft carriers rarely sail alone, if at all. I therefore decided to make some escort vessels for my own use. My first effort was Leander Class Frigates, followed by County Class Cruisers.
What follows here are Royal Navy Tiger Class Cruisers.
They are not intended to be super accurate models, but rather to be used together with an aircraft carrier as a group of vessels.
Included here are all three Tiger Class Cruisers for FSX, two of which are helicopter landable. They are provided in both static and AI form. Please see the installation instruction in the relevant folder for information on how to use them in FSX.
They were produced using FSDS 3.5.1, and compiled using the FSX Acceleration/SP2 SDK. They have been tested using FSX with Acceleration/SP2 only, and Windows XP Home edition.
The three ships are:-
HMS Lion (C34) –Shown as originally produced with two twin 6in. Turrets and three twin 3in turrets. No helicopters and no missile armament.
HMS Tiger (C20) –Shown as converted with the aft 6in. turret replaced by a helicopter deck and hanger, and the two aft 3in. turrets replaced with Sea Cat Launchers. The Type 960 radar on the aft mast replaced with a single Type 965 AKE-1.
HMS Blake (C99) –Shown as converted with the aft 6in. turret replaced by a helicopter deck and hanger, and the two aft 3in. turrets replaced with Sea Cat Launchers. The Type 960 radar on the aft mast replaced with a single Type 965 AKE-1.
All vessels come in two versions, one with wake effect and one without. You can choose whichever you prefer. They also have navigation lights which only show at dawn, night and dusk. These are the standard aircraft navigation fx effects, and as such cannot be seen from the distances prescribed in the International Regulations for Prevention of Collision at Sea (IRPCS). I tried with larger effects, but the bloom and reflection was too great, and they could clearly be seen from a horizontal angle at which they should not! I therefore reverted to the aircraft lights.
These vessels as depicted are probably not historically accurate. I have used information and photographs readily available on the net as a guide. If some of you who have a more detailed knowledge, or even served on them, are concerned at the inaccuracies, then I am sorry, but to me they adequately achieve what I set out to produce.
