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FSX Australian Air Express Metro 3

This aircraft is designed to fly in FSX, although it is a reworked FS2004 model. There is no virtual cockpit but it comes with a new 2D panel using standard FSX gauges. By Tony Lonsdale.

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  • Type:Complete with Base Model
  • File: aaemetro.zip
  • Size:13.41 MB
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  • Access:Freeware
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This aircraft is designed to fly in FSX, although it is a reworked FS2004 model. There is no virtual cockpit but it comes with a new 2D panel using standard FSX gauges. By Tony Lonsdale.

Screenshot of Australian Air Express Metro in flight.

Screenshot of Australian Air Express Metro in flight.

This aircraft is a patchwork quilt made from various sources to provide an FSX version of the popular Metro, especially crafted for QVA.

To start, I went looking online for an FSX version of the Metro that I could paint in AaE colours. Nothing found! As I have neither the skill nor the experience to build one from scratch, I decided to start with something similar and tweak it to fly like a Metro.

Fly like a Metro:

It was a Beechcraft B1900 that gave me the initial start, so I tweaked one of those to adjust performance and fuel consumption to something more like a Metro. This is the part that is most likely to need more work.

Look like a Metro:

Next I had to make it look like a Metro. And not just any Metro but I wanted an AaE Metro. The easy way to do this was to borrow from the original FS2004 Metro I painted for QVA a few years ago. So, copying the FS2004 model and textures, it now looks like an AaE Metro. Actually I was not entirely satisfied with the textures so I tidied them up a little while working on this one.

Metro Panel:

But the original FS2004 panel was not happy in FSX. The easy way out was to use the standard King Air panel. But I thought it would be nice to have a new Metro panel so I started again. Looking through my archives, I found an old panel and hacked that bitmap a bit and then installed FSX gauges. The gauges used are mainly King Air and Beech Baron gauges so everyone with a standard FSX installation should not have any problems with the gauges.

You will find there are TWO Metros offered here. Actually there is just one, but there are two panels available. One is the standard King Air panel, for those who feel more comfortable flying with a familiar panel. The other has my new Metro panel. Your choice.

So, now we have an aircraft that flies like a Metro, looks like a Metro and has a new Metro panel. No excuses now! Go enjoy flying the new FSX version of the AaE Metro.

Images & Screenshots

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A twin-engine aircraft cockpit displays analog flight instruments, a GPS navigation screen, and radio panels while parked near a hangar and trees.A twin-engine Australian air Express aircraft banks sharply above a sprawling cityscape with scattered buildings and distant mountains.A twin-engine propeller aircraft with a white fuselage and colored stripes banks over a sprawling cityscape under scattered clouds.A twin-jet aircraft with Australian air Express livery and extended landing gear is just above a runway over dry grass terrain.A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with Australian Air Express livery is parked on an apron with its passenger stairs extended.A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with Australian air Express livery stands on a taxiway with its cargo doors open.A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with spinning propellers taxis on a runway, with trees and scattered clouds in the background.A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with green accents is positioned on a taxiway with yellow centerlines and visible cockpit crew.A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with Australian air Express livery is parked on a taxiway with a pilot visible in the cockpit.A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with green and blue stripes is parked on the tarmac with its propellers and doors open.A twin-engine cargo aircraft with Australian air Express livery is parked on a taxiway beside a sandy terrain area.A twin-engine Australian air Express aircraft climbs over a green rural landscape with scattered trees and distant hills under a partly cloudy sky.A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with Australasian Express livery is parked on a tarmac under a partly cloudy sky.A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with green accents is parked on an apron, casting distinct shadows across the taxiway lines.A propeller cargo aircraft with Australian air Express livery descends with landing gear extended above a landscape of hills and scattered clouds.A twin-engine turboprop aircraft with green and blue stripes banks left above scattered clouds in a mostly clear sky.A four-engine propeller aircraft with extended landing gear climbs through scattered clouds, displaying a white fuselage with green and blue stripes.A twin-engine propeller aircraft with Australian air Express livery descends with landing gear extended against a partly cloudy sky.A twin-engine jet with green tail surfaces banks upward against a partly cloudy blue sky, viewed from below and behind.A white Australian air Express cargo aircraft with green and blue stripes climbs through scattered clouds against a pale blue sky.A twin-engine propeller aircraft with Australian air Express livery climbs against a blue sky with scattered white clouds.

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ghhhhhhhhTue, 07 Oct 2025 21:50:02 GMT

Can you just put the windows in the cockpit?

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