Heads up... Fokker Mk500

It is a very nice plane.

I found that liveries done for the FSX version will work on this one, with a little tweaking.

If you want English cockpit labels even on the French marked aircraft, either copy the texture.cfg file from the texture.white folder into the texture.it68 and texture it.80 folders, or edit the texture.cfg in those folders to change the first fallback from texture.vcit to texture.vcen.

August
 

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Brian_Gladden said:
What tweaks are needed because I just found an Air New England livery on AVSIM I want to adapt
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Can you post a link to that skin? I can't find it. Here are a couple I did find:

Nordair and Northwest Airlink, https://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=fokker+nordair&x=0&y=0
Royal Netherlands AF, https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/threads/fokker-f27-friendship-rnaf-vip-flight-zip.151554/

These repaints already have the texture files in DXT3 DDS format, so the tweaking is pretty easy. The steps are:

- In your Community/bgt-f27500-v2/SimObjects/Airplanes/Bgt_F27500v2 folder, create a new folder for each livery, such as texture.nordair
- Into that folder, copy the files f275bgt_T2,dds, f27bgt_T3.dds, f27bgt_T4.dds, f27bgt_T5.dds, f27bgt_T6.dds, f27bgt_T7.dds, and thumbnail.jpg from the FSX skin's texture folder. You won't need any other files from the FSX package.
- Load each of those dds files into an editor that can handle dds files, such as paint.net, and flip them vertically (in paint.net the command is Image/Flip Vertical).
- Save the flipped file as f275bgt_T2_ALBD.PNG.DDS and so on - in other words, insert .ABLD.PNG before the .DDS extension in each file name. Use DXT3 or DXT5 format, it doesn't matter.
- Copy the files F275BGT_T2_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, F275BGT_T3_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, F275BGT_T4_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, F275BGT_T5_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, F275BGT_T6_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, and F275BGT_T7_ALBD.PNG.DDS.json, from the texture.white folder to your new texture folder.
- Create a texture.cfg folder in your new texture's folder with the following lines:
[fltsim]
fallback.1=..\texture
fallback.2=..\texture.vcen
fallback.3=..\texture.common
- Edit your aircraft.cfg to create a new [FLTSIM.x] block for the new skin. You can copy the FLTSIM.2 block for the white aircraft and just change a few of the entries, most importantly set texture = "texture.nordair" or whatever your new skin's folder is, and change the description, ui_variation, atc_id, and whatever other entries you want as appropriate.
- Back out to your Community/bgt-f27500-v2/SimObjects/Airplanes/Bgt_F27500v2 and rebuild the layout.json file using any of the tools available for that purpose.

The new skins should show up in your livery picker, with thumbnails, the next time you load the sim.

August
 
This Fokker-27 is a real treat for old school flyers. Very well done and nicely modeled. Lot of systems depicted to improve immersion. Excellent manual is included and after stumbling around with the default livery trying to decipher the French labels in the cockpit, I discovered that the plain white livery has the cockpit depicted in English. 🤗 There are several liveries at fs.to that are impressive. I'm enjoying the experience, but am having a couple of difficulties that are probably User Error. I can start the first engine without issue, but the second one is a bugger for me. I can start on the rwy without issue. Since it's old school, it'll only track VOR signals, but once intercepting the localizer, it tracks it very well, however, it doesn't seem to track the GS very well. Otherwise, it brings back great memories of a bygones past of an era when pilots had to pilot and not just "drive". Highly recommend, the developers have done an excellent, credible homage to the beloved Fokker Friendship. As an aside, the start and shutdown prop animations are some of the best I've seen. More turboprops could benefit from this application.
 
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simtech said:
This Fokker-27 is a real treat for old school flyers. Very well done and nicely modeled. Lot of systems depicted to improve immersion. Excellent manual is included and after stumbling around with the default livery trying to decipher the French labels in the cockpit, I discovered that the plain white livery has the cockpit depicted in English. 🤗 There are several liveries at fs.to that are impressive. I'm enjoying the experience, but am having a couple of difficulties that are probably User Error. I can start the first engine without issue, but the second one is a bugger for me. I can start on the rwy without issue. Since it's old school, it'll only track VOR signals, but once intercepting the localizer, it tracks it very well, however, it doesn't seem to track the GS very well. Otherwise, it brings back great memories of a bygones past of an era when pilots had to pilot and not just "drive". Highly recommend, the developers have done an excellent, credible homage to the beloved Fokker Friendship. As an aside, the start and shutdown prop animations are some of the best I've seen. More turboprops could benefit from this application.
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Agreed on all points. I noticed the same phenomenon on the second engine start stubbornness. It might also be user error on my end but I didn’t experience the problem with Benoit’s FSX version, upon which this model is based. I noticed that if I keep the starter pressed for a few seconds (via holding the mouse click), the second engine eventually starts. This is in contrast to first engine which starts with just a single mouse tap & release on the starter.
 
Both engines start pretty quick for me. Are you using ground power or the onboard battery? I keep ground power on until I have two good starts.

August
 
Hello,
For anyone who wants to have crisp English textures in the cockpit, I suggest you give this excellent mod a try:

Bgaurant | Fokker F27-mk500 | Texture improvement | 4K for Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS

✓ Bgaurant | Fokker F27-mk500 | Texture improvement | 4K is a Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 mod created by Carlos_Peroni. This add-on provides a texture upgrade for Bgaurants Fokker F27-MK500, enhancing all essential textures to 4K resolution. The improvement notably enhances detail...
flightsim.to flightsim.to
Let's see if the creator of this mod is keen on making the same for the French ones...
Cheers,

Stéph.
 
I've found that using GPU to start the first engine ensures a secure start on the second engine..K5083, thank you for the tip. Gribouil, excellent tip. I d/l a couple days ago and it really makes a difference. Didn't realize how fuzzy the original was until you enable this addon. I'm sure the creator will update the French panel as well.
 
If you want to change the panel text, you should alter the texture.CFG file that comes with the livery
Skjermbilde-2024-11-28-kl-22-50-47.jpg


Working on a livery for Braathens SAFE right now. Body textures are upscaled to 4K
Screenshot-6645.jpg
 
Skyhawk18 said:
If you want to change the panel text, you should alter the texture.CFG file that comes with the livery
Skjermbilde-2024-11-28-kl-22-50-47.jpg


Working on a livery for Braathens SAFE right now. Body textures are upscaled to 4K
Screenshot-6645.jpg
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Looks gorgeous, @Skyhawk18!

I look forward to trying this livery because it is lovely in its own right - but I will also be visiting your fair country for business in a few weeks, in Oslo, Bergen, Horten, and Stavanger, so doing a reconnaissance of sorts in a Norwegian livery -500 would be most apropos.

Speaking of Norwegian liveries, the 80s SAS schemes were really smart, even though there were for -600 models, I think....

www.airliners.net

Aviation Photo #0225805: Fokker F-27-600 Friendship - Scandinavian Airlines - SAS Eurolink

"Vemund Viking", climbing after take-off Rwy 22R. - Photo taken at Copenhagen - Kastrup (CPH / EKCH) in Denmark on August 3, 1986.
www.airliners.net www.airliners.net
 
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