FS2004 American Trans Air 757-300 Fleet
American Trans Air Boeing 757-300s from AI Aardvark designed especially for AI traffic. Includes two variations of the current livery, one standard and one featuring the "Pleasant Holidays" fuselage titles. Features 16 LOD models and moving parts. Very detailed, includes animated gear, flaps &...
- Type
- Complete with Base Model
- Download hits
- 192
- Compatibility
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
- Filename
- ai753ata.zip
- File size
- 527.52 KB
- Virus Scan
- Scanned 23 days ago (clean)
- Access to file
- Free (Freeware)
- Content Rating
- Everyone
American Trans Air Boeing 757-300s from AI Aardvark designed especially for AI traffic. Includes two variations of the current livery, one standard and one featuring the "Pleasant Holidays" fuselage titles. Features 16 LOD models and moving parts. Very detailed, includes animated gear, flaps & spoilers, antennas, flap canoes and simulated gear bays and specular highlights. Extremely frame rate friendly. Model by Craig Crawley. Paint by Daniel DiBacco.
Screenshots of American Trans Air 757-300 in flight.
INSTALLATION:
Just drop the "AIA_757_300_ATA" folder into your Flight Simulator AIRCRAFT folder. Then assign the aircraft to some flightplans and you're on your way.
If you are using any of the other AI Aardvark B757-300's that use the "aia_757_300_rr.mdl" you can use this texture with it in the same folder, after making the needed changes to the aircraft.cfg file.
NOTES:
This aircraft was designed specifically for use as an AI aircraft. As such, the primary design criteria were that it look good sitting at the gate, or as seen when landing from an aircraft waiting to take off.
This plane also uses 5 different LOD (levels of detail) models, which means that as the plane gets visually smaller, the model displayed becomes simpler and simpler, thus reducing the drag on your computer.
If you download a GMAX aircraft that is just gorgeous, but really chews up your frame rates when used as AI if several of them appear on the screen at once, the designer probably did not use the LOD feature, so the model is always 20,000 polygons no matter how far away from you it is.
AI FLIGHT DYNAMICS:
FDE's for AI aircraft are somewhat of a compromise. Dynamics that allow beautiful takeoffs often result in planes that will not land or land very badly. AIA fde's are also designed with traffic flow in mind. This means an AIA aircraft is going to touch down very near the end of the runway and quickly exit to make room for the next aircraft. If you want more "float" on landing, you can adjust the cruise lift, parasite drag and induced drag parameters in the aircraft.cfg file.
Images & Screenshots
The archive ai753ata.zip has 17 files and directories contained within it.
File Contents
This list displays the first 500 files in the package. If the package has more, you will need to download it to view them.
| Filename/Directory | File Date | File Size |
|---|---|---|
| ai753ata.jpg | 03.20.04 | 80.60 kB |
| AIA_753_ATA_README.txt | 03.20.04 | 3.50 kB |
| aia_757_300_rr.air | 03.20.04 | 8.90 kB |
| Aircraft.cfg | 03.20.04 | 14.44 kB |
| FILE_ID.diz | 03.20.04 | 516 B |
| aia_757_200_rr.mdl | 03.20.04 | 265.25 kB |
| model.cfg | 03.20.04 | 33 B |
| model | 03.21.04 | 0 B |
| aia_757_300_rr_l.bmp | 03.20.04 | 256.07 kB |
| aia_757_300_rr_t.bmp | 03.20.04 | 1.00 MB |
| texture.ATA | 03.21.04 | 0 B |
| aia_757_300_rr_l.bmp | 03.20.04 | 256.07 kB |
| aia_757_300_rr_t.bmp | 03.20.04 | 1.00 MB |
| texture.ATA Pleasant Holidays | 03.21.04 | 0 B |
| ai753ata.gif | 03.20.04 | 5.90 kB |
| flyawaysimulation.txt | 10.29.13 | 959 B |
| Go to Fly Away Simulation.url | 01.22.16 | 52 B |
Installation Instructions
Most of the freeware add-on aircraft and scenery packages in our file library come with easy installation instructions which you can read above in the file description. For further installation help, please see our Flight School for our full range of tutorials or view the README file contained within the download. If in doubt, you may also ask a question or view existing answers in our dedicated Q&A forum.
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