FS2004 Air Rhodesia Vickers Viscount 748D VP-YTE
This freeware package provides a fresh texture set for Rick Piper’s celebrated FSDS Vickers Viscount 700 series, allowing pilots still committed to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 to operate the classic turboprop in authentic late?seventies Air Rhodesia markings. The repaint, produced by ...
- Type
- Repaint
- Download hits
- 47
- Compatibility
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
- Filename
- viscar70.zip
- File size
- 619.28 KB
- Virus Scan
- Scanned 24 days ago (clean)
- Access to file
- Free (Freeware)
- Content Rating
- Everyone
This freeware package provides a fresh texture set for Rick Piper’s celebrated FSDS Vickers Viscount 700 series, allowing pilots still committed to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 to operate the classic turboprop in authentic late?seventies Air Rhodesia markings. The repaint, produced by Norman Davies, reproduces airframe VP?YTE as it appeared during the final years of the carrier’s independent operations.
Context: The Real?World VP?YTE and Her Operator
Air Rhodesia maintained a modest fleet of Vickers Viscounts to serve the Salisbury–Bulawayo–Victoria Falls triangle and several regional hops into South?Central Africa. VP?YTE, a Viscount “748D”, became well known among enthusiasts for its revised cheatline and stylised fin motif introduced in 1977. The repaint recreates those details, including the tri?colour fin flash and the discreet Rhodesia
titles applied beneath the flight?deck windows.
Included Items Inside the ZIP
- Texture folder
- High?resolution 32?bit BMP files prepared for the Rick Piper model.
- Read?me document
- Quick?reference notes by Norman Davies outlining basic insertion steps.
No models, sounds, panels, or flight?dynamics files are bundled—the original freeware Viscount available in the Fly Away Simulation library remains a prerequisite.
VP?YTE cruising above a cloud deck in FS2004.
Visual Specifics Crafted by the Painter
- Accurate fuselage line weight with subtle metallic panels around the cabin door hinges.
- Correct 1979?era registration block letters and matching under?wing codes.
- Refined bare?metal leading?edge effect on the Rolls?Royce Dart nacelles using layered alpha channels for better specular response.
- Weathered wing root area to reflect the aircraft’s heavy utilisation on short?sector schedules.
Installation Workflow for FS2004 Users
Integrating the livery requires less than five minutes if the base aircraft is already present:
- Create (or confirm) a sub?folder within your Viscount called \texture.rhodesia2.
- Drop every
.bmp
file from this archive into that newly created directory. - Open
aircraft.cfg
in a plain?text editor and append the next sequential[fltsim.x]
entry. Increment the x value to avoid duplicates.
[fltsim.x] title = Vickers Viscount 700 VP?YTE sim = FSDS Vickers Viscount 700 – Late 1970s model = 700d panel = sound = texture = rhodesia2 description = Air Rhodesia VP?YTE – Viscount “748D” repaint by Norman Davies ui_manufacturer = Vickers ui_type = Viscount 748D ui_variation = Air Rhodesia (1977?79) atc_id = VP?YTE atc_airline = RHODESIA atc_flight_number = 348 visual_damage = 1 atc_heavy = 0
- Save the file, launch Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, and select the repaint from the selection menu.
Performance Considerations
The repaint employs the same mip?mapping strategy used by Rick Piper’s original liveries; therefore, no measurable hit on frame?rate should be noticed. Users employing enhanced shader tools or third?party lighting additions may wish to experiment with DX9 specular tweaks for additional realism.
Credits
Primary model, flight dynamics, and panel: Rick Piper.
Livery recreation and packaging: Norman Davies.
Additional research assistance: various contributors to the Viscount historical mailing list.
This texture set is released as freeware for the flight?simulation community and may be redistributed unaltered. Commercial sale is strictly prohibited.
The archive viscar70.zip has 24 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 |
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Wing-R_LM.bmp | 04.26.05 | 257.05 kB |
Eng.bmp | 04.26.05 | 256.07 kB |
Eng_LM.bmp | 04.26.05 | 257.05 kB |
Fin.bmp | 04.27.05 | 256.07 kB |
Fin_LM.bmp | 04.26.05 | 257.05 kB |
FSDS 2 Vickers Viscount 700 Readme.txt | 12.07.02 | 2.66 kB |
Fuse1.bmp | 04.26.05 | 256.07 kB |
Fuse1_LM.bmp | 04.26.05 | 257.05 kB |
Fuse2.bmp | 04.26.05 | 256.07 kB |
Fuse2_LM.bmp | 04.26.05 | 257.05 kB |
Fuse3.bmp | 04.26.05 | 256.07 kB |
Fuse3_LM.bmp | 04.26.05 | 257.05 kB |
prop.bmp | 04.26.05 | 64.07 kB |
prop_LM.bmp | 04.26.05 | 65.05 kB |
read me.txt | 04.28.05 | 1.54 kB |
viscountnew.jpg | 04.26.05 | 90.11 kB |
viscountnew1.jpg | 04.26.05 | 97.41 kB |
Wing-L.bmp | 04.26.05 | 256.07 kB |
Wing-L_LM.bmp | 04.26.05 | 257.05 kB |
Wing-R.bmp | 04.26.05 | 256.07 kB |
4blade1.bmp | 04.26.05 | 65.05 kB |
File_id.diz | 04.28.05 | 213 B |
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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