
Bahamasair - ATL98 Carvair (1960's)

Here is another Carvair repainted from David Henderson's great model of N98FA, the Custom Air Services aircraft based at Clayton County, Georgia.

OK - so Bahamasair never had one, but would'nt it have been fun on the streets of Nassau if they had! In the Bahamas they drive on the left, but since most of the cars have left hand drive, they also sometimes OVERTAKE on the left.(Everyone drives in the outside lane) At least, I think thats why they overtake on the left...
The scenario is that this aircraft is on lease from Channel Air Bridge, a British company. The aircraft has small CAB titles towards the rear on the port side. Its registration is C6-BBM, 'Big Bahama Mama' which was originally painted on the nose. But I felt it looked a bit 'over the top', so I changed the name to 'Paradise Island Bridge'. All the Channel Air Bridge (and BUAF) aircraft were named after bridges - 'Golden Gate Bridge', 'Pont d'Avignon', 'Menai Bridge' etc. The real Paradise Island Bridge is visible on your starboard side as you approach Paradise Island Airport's runway 09. If you do try to land on this runway, you'll probably run off the end, since its quite short. Normally DHC7s use this airport, as well as Grumman Mallards
of the airline which used to be called Chalk's. (The Mallards actually land on the water, then taxi up a ramp - its a great flight from Miami - if its still available.

The original model was made by David Henderson and the designer was Tom Johnson. Since it was made from a DC4, it has a complicated pedigree, involving Kevin Trinkle, Tom Gibson, Rich Boehinger and Les Penridge as well, but I only painted it. Thanks to all the clever people who were responsible for making this great model and permitting me to repaint it - and to Chuck Dome, whose TEXBMP utility allowed me to carry out the work. 
This is an FS98 aircraft. It doesn't need conversion.

INSTALLATION
Unzip the ZIP file into a temp file. If the aircraft files are in their folders then move
the folder(and contents)into the Flight Simulator98\AIRCRAFT folder. The path should be:
FS98\AICRAFT\Carvair(or whatever you name it) That's it!

***IN CASE FILES ARE SEPERATE AND NOT IN THEIR FOLDERS:***
you should have the following folders:
MODEL
PANEL
SOUND
TEXTURE

If this is not the case, then you need to put the .MDL file in MODEL, .af files in TEXTURE, panel.cfg in PANEL, and sound.cfg in SOUND. That should do it.

On my FS I used DC-4 sounds and Christian Conesa's generic propliner panel.
 
This is freeware. Upload it, download it, but don't sell it !!! If you alter or improve please give your predecessors credit.


PLEASE VISIT THE FLYING COLORS WEBSITE!!!
http://pages.prodigy.net/davidstacy/zeusfs/home.htm

SOME OTHER FS98 PLANES DAVID HENDERSON HAS PAINTED:

DC-3 : Eastern Express
       Air Atlantique ( 3 variations of their 3-stripe livery)
       Air Sunshine
       Monroe County Mosquito Control District
       Orange Hat Tour Plane (very colorful with a big smiley face)

M-404: Air South/Florida Airlines
       Marco Island Airways
       Ocean Airways
       
DH-114 Heron: PRINAIR (5 versions:blue,green,yellow,orange,biege)

YS-11: Provincetown-Boston Airline (PBA)

SOME OTHERS I HAVE PAINTED

ATL98 British United Air Ferries - (BUAFCARV.ZIP)
ATL98 Aer Lingus - (AERLCARV.ZIP)
NC121K Constellation 'Paisano Dos' (cant remember the file name, but if you type 'Gerry McLaughlin' in WWW.Flightsim.com's search facility, you'll find it, and some nice DC6s.


Happy flying,

Gerry McLaughlin
25 May 2000

gmcl122@aol.com
