FSX GOL Boeing 737-800 PR-GIT

Enhance your virtual airline operations with this detailed recreation of GOL Linhas Aereas' Boeing 737-809, showcasing the notable Smiles livery and authentic registration PR-GIT. Developed through a collaboration between repaint artist Mathieu Vos (APSS) and the Project Open Sky team, it offers remarkable visual fidelity alongside a carefully tailored flight envelope.

Key Visual Highlights

Technical Attributes and Functional Animations

• All primary and secondary surfaces feature real-time movement, ensuring seamless aileron, rudder, and elevator motions.
• Full suspension articulation allows gear struts and wheels to behave realistically, including pivoting nose gear.
• Full range of trim animation for sensitive pitch control.
• Operable doors for passenger boarding simulations.
• Flexing wings modeled to respond dynamically to air loads.
• Tilting bogies enhance the authenticity of extended gear configurations.
• Rolling wheels with credible friction effects.
• Animatable thrust reversers offering accurate reverse thrust visuals.
• Reflective exterior textures, designed to vary shine across distinct material layers.
• Meticulously refined flight dynamics (FDE) validated through real operator feedback, covering engine behavior, surface deflections, and aerodynamic responses.
• Dedicated outboard and inboard spoilers animated for speed and roll augmentation.
• Complete texture detailing for panel lines, rivets, and fuselage nuances.
• Enhanced illumination across all nighttime operations.
• Interior positioning of landing lights for authentic cockpit perspective.
• Glass reflections for cockpit windows, adding life to external aeronavigation views.
• Crash effects coded for simulated emergency scenarios.
• Transparent navigation light covers for enhanced lighting visuals.

About the Airframe and Airline

This aircraft represents Boeing’s popular 737-800 platform, a favored short- to medium-haul narrow-body. GOL, a Brazilian carrier, frequently employs this series for extensive domestic and regional routes. The Smiles paint scheme, applied here, symbolizes GOL’s loyalty program and adds a distinctive finish to the simulator’s fleet lineup.

Installation Procedure

• Extract the compressed file to retrieve the “Texture” folder.
• Place the “Texture” directory inside the appropriate Project Open Sky Boeing 737-800 aircraft folder.
• Open the aircraft configuration (.cfg) and insert the included text entry to register this new livery.

Both the repaint by Mathieu Vos (APSS) and the base model from Project Open Sky are provided as freeware, fully integrable into Microsoft Flight Simulator X. This combined package delivers a highly immersive rendition of GOL’s Boeing 737-809 in the Smiles livery, all set for immediate use within your virtual hangar on Fly Away Simulation.

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