Posted tonight - the Updated Pearl Harbor American Missions Dec. 7th, 1941
When I first started this I thought all I would need to do would be to replace the LW P-40. Silly me. It turned out to be a lot more involved and besides which, I got carried away and produced 4 more missions.
This is an updated (January 2016) add‐on collection of the American missions flown on Dec 7th for the PHP2 scenery set and PHP ships by the Pearl Harbor Project and the Pearl Missions and PHP aircraft packages by Talon.
Crashaz posted an updated PHP2 scenery package recently. The PHP2 Scenery updates have necessitated this Pearl Harbor American Missions upgrade in order for the missions to continue to work because most of the airfields were renamed and renumbered in the upgraded scenery.
Dombral also released an add-on scenery layout with additional details and static use aircraft. A separate missions package is included in this package that uses his layouts by request of EisnerMarkus. It includes its own Readme instructions document.
The majority of Talon’s missions are from the Japanese side and only a couple of them are from the American side. That gave me the opportunity in my original American Missions release to create 6 more historical missions that were flown by American pilots during the December 7th attack.
Since I was updating my old missions I decided to add 3 new additional missions covering one Army, one Navy and one civilian experience on December 7[SUP]th[/SUP]. Yes, civilians were flying private planes over Oahu that day and 5 of them were shot down.
As a bonus there is also a sightseeing tour around the island in a Hawaiian Airlines DC-3 to see all of the PHP2 scenery So, now there are 10 total missions in this set.
In my original release, the Lindsey Watt P-40 model was used but it is no longer available. Bearcat241 and RobH gave me permission to package the Thorsen P-40B and Rob’s Pearl Harbor skins together and include them in this package. They have a modified airfile to closer match the performance of the real aircraft.
UncleTgt and Blood_Hawk23 gave me permission to include their Piper L4 Grasshopper in this package. I have repainted it as a J-3 Cub and modified the cfg and dp file to match.
I have added a new fire effect, new dp’s for the USN battleships so they burn dramatically when hit, a tweaked SBD skin, a silver Hawaiian Airlines livery FDG2 DC-3 skin, and some adjusted aircraft flight files.
I had to rebuild the Bellows Airfield scenery because the original runway and blended texture floated some 400 feet above the ground. It looks OK from high up but it doesn’t work when you are close to the ground.
The Honolulu civil airport – John Rodgers Airfield - was not part of in the PHP scenery so I have created it and included it here. It was right next to Hickam Airfield.
When I first started this I thought all I would need to do would be to replace the LW P-40. Silly me. It turned out to be a lot more involved and besides which, I got carried away and produced 4 more missions.
This is an updated (January 2016) add‐on collection of the American missions flown on Dec 7th for the PHP2 scenery set and PHP ships by the Pearl Harbor Project and the Pearl Missions and PHP aircraft packages by Talon.
Crashaz posted an updated PHP2 scenery package recently. The PHP2 Scenery updates have necessitated this Pearl Harbor American Missions upgrade in order for the missions to continue to work because most of the airfields were renamed and renumbered in the upgraded scenery.
Dombral also released an add-on scenery layout with additional details and static use aircraft. A separate missions package is included in this package that uses his layouts by request of EisnerMarkus. It includes its own Readme instructions document.
The majority of Talon’s missions are from the Japanese side and only a couple of them are from the American side. That gave me the opportunity in my original American Missions release to create 6 more historical missions that were flown by American pilots during the December 7th attack.
Since I was updating my old missions I decided to add 3 new additional missions covering one Army, one Navy and one civilian experience on December 7[SUP]th[/SUP]. Yes, civilians were flying private planes over Oahu that day and 5 of them were shot down.
As a bonus there is also a sightseeing tour around the island in a Hawaiian Airlines DC-3 to see all of the PHP2 scenery So, now there are 10 total missions in this set.
In my original release, the Lindsey Watt P-40 model was used but it is no longer available. Bearcat241 and RobH gave me permission to package the Thorsen P-40B and Rob’s Pearl Harbor skins together and include them in this package. They have a modified airfile to closer match the performance of the real aircraft.
UncleTgt and Blood_Hawk23 gave me permission to include their Piper L4 Grasshopper in this package. I have repainted it as a J-3 Cub and modified the cfg and dp file to match.
I have added a new fire effect, new dp’s for the USN battleships so they burn dramatically when hit, a tweaked SBD skin, a silver Hawaiian Airlines livery FDG2 DC-3 skin, and some adjusted aircraft flight files.
I had to rebuild the Bellows Airfield scenery because the original runway and blended texture floated some 400 feet above the ground. It looks OK from high up but it doesn’t work when you are close to the ground.
The Honolulu civil airport – John Rodgers Airfield - was not part of in the PHP scenery so I have created it and included it here. It was right next to Hickam Airfield.
