The Dromader is a popular AG plane, developed in middle 70's in Polland, wich are capable to make crop dusting and firefighting, carrying chemicals or water in a big frontal hopper.
Aircraft current features:
- - Detailed 3D model & textures
- Near-complete cockpit (Instruments operational at 90%; switches, valves & handles, operational almost 50%) new!
- Custom instruments (with some little exceptions, just temporal), based on real ones new!
- Exterior and interior animations
- Custom sounds, most taken from real Dromaders new!
- More realistic FDM
- Basic weight & load control new!
- 3 HQ liveries
- Totally new bottom door, more realistic
- Cockpit & instrument lights new!
- Immatriculation
- Help menu
- Advisor of VNE and G limits exceed
- Shaders for GIT: NormalMap & Reflect (*)
- "Starter" particle systems: water drop, pesticide & motor smoke
- In-built cropdusting pipes (basic model, hidden for now, but editable in xml)
(*) Shaders are disabled for FlightGear 1.9 and 2.0. On ViveFg! are two separeted links, for each version.
All people are invited to download and test the aircraft, and write their opinion. We are avid for some feedback and suggestions.
The current version is oriented to test aircraft behavior carrying hard water loads, and it's have a basic water-oriented particle system for now. However, users who wants to try their cropdusting may edit the M18B_Dromader.xml file to get it. All instruments, sounds, fuselage texts and more details have been taken from a CONAF (National Forest Corporation, Chile) firefigther Dromader (CC-PZJ).
You can find the model at "Vive FlightGear", the Spain-Latinamerica FlightGear community site. The site is in spanish, but the download button is easy to recognize.
Download Link (January 31, 2011)
FlightGear's Wiki Dromader page.
Here are somescreenshots of the current plane. Click on each one to enlarge them.
Older pics:
To do:
- - Fix some engine Tº issues
- Nasal-based fuel, hydraulic and electrical systems
- Nasal-based instrumentation, where default property-tree has no items
- More realistic startup
- Realistic cropdusting and firefighting systems, nasal-based
Credits:
Pavel "El Flauta" Cueto: 3D model, instruments, textures, sounds, particles and systems.
Fernando Espinosa: FDM, animations and systems
Note: In our documentation, we have official certification sheets, dossiers and brochures, but we don't have the pilot's flight manual of the aircraft. If someone have some info (better if someone have the manual in pdf) please, tell to us. Thanks.