Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Original Aircraft
Fokker F27 Friendship (Mk500) for AI

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Fokker F27 Friendship (Mk500) for AI The Dutch government provided funding to assist with constructing the Fokker F27, which first first flew in 1955, and Fairchild were licenced to build the Friendship in the United States in 1958. The Mk500 could carry 52 passengers. This model is designed specifically to enhance the AI aircraft population . It is basically too heavy (at 45000lbs all up) to use with the marvellous GA-Traffic programme by Marcus Brunner, but I am using it happily with my general AI traffic on normal routes. I had found that the numerous F27s that have been built were very frame-rate heavy, and as this aircraft has sentimental meaning to me from childhood days, I decided to make a frame-rate friendly version. It is also quite fun to fly as a normal aircraft so I have left a link to a testing panel (Baron 58), but I would suggest you substitute a more suitable replacement. This model incorporates animated rudder, elevator, flaps and ailerons and landing gear.The main model contains only 1671 polygons with a single texture file to ensure the absolute minimum impact on your framerates. It also has night lighting. There are three other models incorporated to give a total of 4 LOD models. There are three textures included (Air New Zealand, Fed Ex and Uniair), plus a paintkit, in this zip file. Designed with FSDS v2.24 Aircraft and textures by Mike Cronin