Blu Sky Mine Productions Saab 2000 v1.1
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The Saab 2000 is a twin-engined turboprop airliner. The Saab 2000 is a stretched development of the Saab 340 and with jet-like performance up to 370 knots cruise speed, it is one of the fastest turboprops in existence. The Saab 2000 can fit up to 50 passengers at a comfortable 32-inch seat pitch or up to 58 passengers at a 30-inch seat pitch. Due to poor sales, production of the Saab 2000 was stopped in 1999.
Blu Sky Mine Productions is a freeware developer of various turboprop aircraft for FS2004. Their Saab 2000 is a nice model with average quality liveries. The package contains a few liveries, panel and engine sounds. All animations seem to be accurate although the main landing gear is floating a bit on takeoff/landing. Some special animations are moving pilot heads, pushback truck and maintenance mode (see screenshot 1). The panel looks nice, but the functionality is limited. Only a few systems are simulated and the weather radar is actually not working, just a moving picture. An interesting bug is the pushback truck to appears to be stuck to the aircraft in the virtual cockpit mode. Only the "wingview" model seem to have that problem.
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License |
: | Freeware |
Panel |
: | Yes |
Virtual Cockpit |
: | No |
Wingview |
: | Yes |
Sound |
: | Yes |
Developed for |
: | FS2004 |
Compatibility |
: | FS2004 FSX |
Wingflex |
: | Yes, gear compression based |
Landing gear |
: | Realistic, but floating a bit at takeoff/landing |
Rudder effect |
: | Realistic |
FS2004 |
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FSX |
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Installation instructions for FSX users
1. Download the package (bsmps2k11.zip) from the BSMP website and unzip to a temporary folder. Then, run the installer and choose another folder than the default FS2004 folder and allow the installer to create that new folder. For example, install to: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 8\
2. Copy the folder "BSMPS2KV1.1" that is inside the aircraft folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 8\Aircraft\ ) to the aircraft folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\ ).
3. Go to the panel folder which is inside the folder "BSMPS2KV1.1" (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\BSMPS2KV1.1\panel\ ) and open the file panel.cfg with notepad or another text editor. Select all text and replace it with this:
[fltsim]
alias=Beech_King_Air_350\panel
Save and close the file.
4. OPTIONAL: Thumbnail image for the aircraft selection list.
Right-click on the images below and choose "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As...", browse to the folder \Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\BSMPS2KV1.1\ and choose between the texture folders. The text below the image tells you which texture folder you need to save the thumbnail image in. (e.g. \BSMPS2KV1.1\texture.airfrance\ ).
Next time when you start FSX, the aircraft should be visible in the aircraft selection list and work fine. If you download additional liveries, you can make thumbnail images yourself: you need to make a screenshot of each livery of the aircraft and resize it to 256x128 pixels (use an image editor like photoshop, paintshop or whatever you prefer). Make sure the image format is JPG and name each of them "thumbnail.jpg". Then copy the image to each texture folder inside the aircraft folder
on 06/18/2009 at 6:56:18
I have made a proper FSX compatibility upgrade and the original panel works now. This aircraft has nothing in common with the King Air so using the King Air panel is more or less pointless.on 10/12/2009 at 20:59:38
AxelB9, I want the original panel badly! I'm using the CRJ-700 panel and Dash 8 propeller textures from another addon.... could I please have that panel??Add a Comment
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