NZFF

Hi guys!

Great news for those vintage fans out there who didn't sell their copies of FS: the Percival Proctor, follow-on to the glamorous Gull Six and Vega Gull series, is now available as freeware for FS9 and FSX!

At Flightsim.com, filename "proctori.zip ".


Surely its only a matter of time til some NZ repaints surface? Like the SVAS example at Masterton? Or a generic repaint as Jean Batten's Gull G-ADPR (on display at Auckland International), or Guy Clapshaw's airworthy Vega ZK-DPP?





And yes, I am VERY p*ss*d off I no longer have FS9. Grrr..........

you do know trademe's always an option Zac......

Just bumping this old post as I recently installed Keith Paine's very nice Percival Proctor series. Built for FS9, they were updated again just over a year ago and now include a dedicated aircraft.cfg for FSX with camera views and an optimised flight model. While they are port-overs, they fly very well in FSX. One reason for the update was apparently to make them easier to repaint and there's now a paintkit and lots of repaints available. Gary Jones also made an excellent sound pack to use with them. Everything's downloadable from BritSim.com (freeware).



I post in the hope that there might be some Kiwi repaints available for this as so far I haven't found any! I'm about to start reading Jean Batten's autobiography and would love to have a repaint as G-ADPR. I think this is the closest we'll get to a Gull Six in flightsim. Also another vote for Guy Clapshaw's ZK-DPP. Hope if there isn't a repaint already this might tempt some of our talented painters to have a go!

Thanks,


Ade

NZ listings off the type or ones found , In the day also it was not ZK always but with ZL or ZM , fleet listing from 1972

AHQ Percival P30 Proctor II ... Construction/No. H.216
AHV Percival P34 Proctor III .......................No. H.43
AJY Percival P28 Proctor I ..........................No. H.1
AKP Percival P28 Proctor I ..........................No. H.13
AKQ Percival P28 Proctor I ..........................No. K.294
ANZ Percival P34 Proctor III ........................No. H.550
AOA Percival P34 Proctor III ........................No. H.15

APG Percival P34 Proctor 3 ..........................No. H.524
APH Percival P44 Proctor 5 ..........................No. Ae.126
AQJ Percival P44 Proctor 5 ..........................No. Ae.50
AQK Percival P44 Proctor 5 .........................No. Ae.79
AQZ Percival P44 Proctor 5 .........................No. Ae.143
ARA Percival P44 Proctor 5 .........................No. Ae.23
ARP Percival P44 Proctor 5 .........................No. Ae.97

Oh that brings back memories . Last century one of my brothers and I would pushbike to the airport (chc) and in the old mount cook hanger, there was a proctor (cream and red i think)If the owner? was there he let us sit in it. I can still see the Mt Cook DC-3's parked near the old aero club building, and the occasional TAT Widgeon.

Back then, you could roam around anywhere....the crash fire guys were always great with airside fire engine rides. We even managed to get in and look at the 737 sim that was based there then, just by walking in and asking. Same with the engineers , we were looking at an F-27, when this guy asked if we wanted to sit in on an engine run....as if he needed to ask ....that was an hour of heaven.

Can you imagine any thing like that happening (like that) these days. Its seems the generations that followed mine are hell bent on destroying good old honest fun....pity.


Got a bit off track there sorry, but that proctor is a time machine .......

Splitpin wrote:

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Jan 4 2012,1:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Oh that brings back memories . Last century one of my brothers and I would pushbike to the airport (chc) and in the old mount cook hanger, there was a proctor (cream and red i think)If the owner? was there he let us sit in it. I can still see the Mt Cook DC-3's parked near the old aero club building, and the occasional TAT Widgeon.

And just under that bike shed , the old MC hanger with Airwork across the top a DC-3 was trying to coax his engine in life .. heaven indeed , that very 737 simulator , i have an hour on that one , hells that was 30 years ago

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 4 2012,1:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And just under that bike shed , the old MC hanger with Airwork across the top a DC-3 was trying to coax his engine in life .. heaven indeed , that very 737 simulator , i have an hour on that one , hells that was 30 years ago

Thats it.... times have changed .