Mick
SOH-CM-2025
I'm working on recreating my post-WW2 sim "FS1954 - A Half Century of Flight" which is meant to depict the FS world of the late 1940s and early 1950s. I want to add a touch that I neglected in my original version, a set of General Aviation AI planes to populate the British Isles as substitutes for the American aircraft that appear worldwide in the stock FS9 AI scheme.
I did this in Golden Wings, and while it was very tedious to separate and extract all the UK flight plans to make a new set of Traffic Tools files, the result was well worth the effort. Selecting the aircraft to use was easy, since we have such a plethora of Golden Age British light aircraft. I simply made AI versions of appropriate planes and substituted them in all the UK flight plans.
Selecting aircraft for the post-WW2 era is more challenging because I just don't know what GA planes were plentiful (if any) in the UK in those years. I can think of a number of possibilities, but I'm guessing. Were there still a lot of DH Moths and other Thirties types around, or where they all requisitioned int o the RAF and used up as liaison and utility types during the war? Were a lot of wartime trainers, like Tiger Moths and Magisters sold onto the civilian market? How about imported American types?
I'd like to do pretty much a one for one replacement of the stock AI aircraft (Cessna 172, Piper Cub and Cherokee, Beech Baron, DC-3, etc.) - excluding, of course, the exclusively pre-war types like the Vimy, Comet, Spirit of St. Louis and such.
I'm only concerned with General Aviation types. I can manage the airliners easily enough by using the worldwide California Classics airline AI with the more modern types, like the turboprops, replaced by planes like DC-3s, DC-4s, Vikings and Yorks.
I would welcome any informed suggestions for my post-WW2 UK GA AI fleet.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I did this in Golden Wings, and while it was very tedious to separate and extract all the UK flight plans to make a new set of Traffic Tools files, the result was well worth the effort. Selecting the aircraft to use was easy, since we have such a plethora of Golden Age British light aircraft. I simply made AI versions of appropriate planes and substituted them in all the UK flight plans.
Selecting aircraft for the post-WW2 era is more challenging because I just don't know what GA planes were plentiful (if any) in the UK in those years. I can think of a number of possibilities, but I'm guessing. Were there still a lot of DH Moths and other Thirties types around, or where they all requisitioned int o the RAF and used up as liaison and utility types during the war? Were a lot of wartime trainers, like Tiger Moths and Magisters sold onto the civilian market? How about imported American types?
I'd like to do pretty much a one for one replacement of the stock AI aircraft (Cessna 172, Piper Cub and Cherokee, Beech Baron, DC-3, etc.) - excluding, of course, the exclusively pre-war types like the Vimy, Comet, Spirit of St. Louis and such.
I'm only concerned with General Aviation types. I can manage the airliners easily enough by using the worldwide California Classics airline AI with the more modern types, like the turboprops, replaced by planes like DC-3s, DC-4s, Vikings and Yorks.
I would welcome any informed suggestions for my post-WW2 UK GA AI fleet.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
