2006.12.10 New Fleet released

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Dear pilots,

the long awaited new fleet was born and we are proud to present you it in the Main Division Fleet.

Common facts and features:

- As we presented earlier, some changes were made among the types: ATR42 was replaced by ATR72, and because of that Saab 2000 was stepped down to Class 2; Airbus 340-600 was replaced by 340-500.
- All the number of passengers were revised, and modified where it was necessary. Please check the Fleet download pages before you may experienced problems reporting PIREPs.
- Each aircraft installer have an Information window, please read through the attached information as tha will tell you some options, and known bugs, important things about the aircraft.
- When you install the aircrafts, you need to point to your main FS2004 directory, and all the included add-ons will be installed to the needed folders.
- All packages includes a panel, that we felt is the best on the market, and all the aircraft are configured and optimized for the attached panels.
- All aircrafts, panels and flight dynamics are optimized for FS2004. They were not tested in FS2002. It is possible that many aircraft will work nice in FS2002 but this is not guaranteed.
- Each aircraft are equipped with a standard payload model: crew, hostesses, galleys, passengers, etc...
- By default, the aircraft is filled with the maximum available amount of payloads, which means an overload according to the MTOW. Therefore, always the pilot decides how much fuel and how much payload he flies with, which of course determines the range of the aircraft.
- Airplanes are matched with datas on their download pages. It means you can be sure that needed runway length, ranges, climbing capacity, range with max payload, etc... are programmed into the flight dynamics.
- You will find all airplanes in the "EuroHarmony v4" category inside FS2004. This means your previously installed airplanes remain there without modifications.
- You can see that the previously available aircraft versions stepped down to FS2002 category on the download pages, even though the file names may have ".2k4" extensions. From next year these old download packages will be completely removed from the site. Until that time you can enjoy together the new and the old livery.

The management longly tested the new products in the past 3 weeks. Although it is possible that some bugs still remained. These can be known or unknown ones. Please, post your comments, any bug reports in the following thread:

http://www.fly-euroharmony.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=3451&page=1#pid27560

Thank you for cooperation, and happy flying with the new fleet !

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Dear pilots,

in the last week, due to your cooperation we found a lot of small bugs that was easy to fix. Also you had found some bugs that was already said in the attached information, that is impossible to fix without the modeler person. Half of the planes have changed here and there. Here is the complete list of planes (updated regularly) with the latest release dates.

B1900:  2nd jan.
Su80 :  10th dec. ORIG
Do328: 10th dec. ORIG
S2000: 15th dec.
ATR72: 10th dec. ORIG
Dash8: 19th dec.
Fok70: 10th dec. ORIG
Em170: 12th dec.
Ab320: 13th dec.
Bo737: 10th dec. ORIG
Ab330: 19th dec.
Bo767: 19th dec.
Ab430: 10th dec. ORIG
Bo747: 15th dec.

10th December was the original release. If you see your airplane have changed since, then it is advised to download and re-install the latest version. During re-install everything will be overwritten, so you do not need to delete anything before it.

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Dear pilots,

I started to revise the fuel consumption values and possible flight ranges of our v4 aircrafts. I found that at most aircrafts adjustments are necessary. It means if you want to use the maximal capabilities of the aircrafts -which we do not often do on EHM flights- then you may find yourself out there without enough fuel. On the regular flights the current consumption is just enough. Except some unusual long flights.

So far I finished with the turboprop aircrafts. I found that except the Saab each aircraft used more fuel than it should.

I made a list of the correct consumptions:

B1900: 0,5
Su80: 0,55
Do328: 0,45
ATR72: 0,6
DHC8: 0,85

How to change to the correct values ?
Solution 1: download and reinstall the aircraft.
Solution 2: Edit the Aircraft.cfg file, and insert the above numbers to each aircrafts. You should change the line below to do that:

[GeneralEngineData]
fuel_flow_scalar= xxx - as above.

I also modified the Range data on the aircraft download pages. There you can see 2 ranges: Maximum Payload range and Maximum Fuel range, each from MTOW takeoff. The problem was I setted the consumptions for the Max Fuel range, which should not be the efficient way of flying. I continue with the revision of jet consumptions, and will soon report the results.

Thank you.