FS2004 Mandarin Airlines Boeing 747-400

Model by AI Aardvark. Livery by Pantee Farhangi.

This is a repaint of AIA Boeing 747-400 GE in the Taiwanese based Mandarin AIrlines livery with the registration B-16801. This aircraft is especially designed to be used as AI one and you cannot fly it yourself for very unfortunately it doesn't appear in the aircraft selection window of the FS at all 8:(

INSTALLATION: Just drop the "aia_747_400_ge_mandarin_airlines" folder into your FS2k/4k aircraft folder. Then assign the ircraft to some flightplans (using Lee Swordy's great Ttools for example) and you're on your way.

If you're not sure how to assign an aircraft to a flightplan, please visit our website and look in the FAQ/ Help section.

FS2002: By default the fde for this aircraft is for use in fs2004/fs9. If you are using it in FS2002, replace the "aia_747_400_ge.air" & "aircraft.cfg" with the one contained in the "fs2002fde" folder.

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 16 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.