Description:
With the v1.1 release of their Electra, Aeroplane Heaven have also provided a long range "Special" version that matches the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her around the world record attempt.
I plan on recreating her flight with this plane but wanted to have the option to have modern avionics so I could leave some of the longer legs flying unattended overnight. The Aeroplane Heaven Special Electra does not have the option to switch out the Sperry autogryo with a more modern Garmin GX3 like their standard range Electra model so I created this mod.
This mod simply replaces the Sperry in the Amelia Earhart Special with the Garmin GX3.
As an addition, I found a couple autopilot settings related to the max bank angle and bank acceleration that have improved the autopilot performance so I have added those changes to v1.1 of this mod:
max_bank_acceleration = 5
max_bank_velocity =10
v1.1 also sets the following value to turn off automatic mixture, so keep your eyes on your mixture when climbing. You'll likely need to lean it out at higher elevation:
fuel_air_auto_mixture=0
Installation:
Extract the folder from the downloaded zip file and drop it in your Community folder. Next time you start the sim you will see that the "Special" has been renamed to "Special Modern" in the list of airplanes.
Showtime
Sadly, the interior of the plane is invisible, which makes it look very bad through the cockpit door. This is keeping me from trying to recreate this ill-fated but historic flight.
rogerb
Hi. Good improvement, can you make it for the Electra 10a basic as there are more textures to choose from? Thanks
acidbath
Works great for me! Thank you for your great work and efforts!
rng
I cannot find the installed plane in the MSFS list of aircraft. Where does it show up?
02DropTopM3 author
It actually replaces the Electra "Special" plane. You can tell if the mod is installed correctly by looking at the Range for the Electra Special. I changed that range from 700 miles to 4500 miles. I believe that one of my screenshots shows what the plane will look like in the list of available planes in the sim.
3 years ago
CaptJohnCoPPickles
I hope this doesn't end up like Poor, Poor, Amelia did! Thank-You! 😀
dudulimavasc
alaingau
tous ces avions sont pas fini fonctionne pas comme la gazelle et tous les autres que du bidon
The_Fly
When i have this addon installed, my sim allways crashes when i want to open the worldmap right after starting the sim so it is totally unusable for me.
02DropTopM3 author
Do you have the latest v1.1 of the Electra from Aeroplane Heaven installed? This modifies the Amelia Earthart Special version of the Electra that they released, but that plane is only in the v1.1 of their release.
You can check to see if you have that version by looking for this folder in your community folder:
Community\ah-electra-10a\SimObjects\Airplanes\ah-electra-10a-special
If that folder doesn't exist, then this mod would try to modify a plane that isn't there. Wonder if that could be causing the crash you see.
3 years ago