Piper Tripacer for Flight Sim 2002 and 2004 A Century of Flight.


The Piper Tripacer is a 4 seat tube and fabric aircraft. based on the earlier Piper Clipper and Vagabond it was Piper's major step away from the Cub into a larger General Avation aircraft that could compete in the market place with the 4 seat Cessna's.


This model of the Tripacer is made with FSDS 2.24 and is fully compatible with Flight Sim versions 8 and 9 (2002 and 2004 A Century of Flight)

I have tried to make the Flight dynamics as close as I could given that I have never even sat in a Tripacer let alone flown one.

Also about my design philosophy. I make mostly light GA type planes. I am not interested in making jet airliners. Also I while trying to make the models detailed I will not try to model every little rivet in the proper location. My planes look close enough to the real thing and thats good enough for me and most people who download my planes. Please do not e-mail me with things like the oil cooler is 2 inches too far back and the left dohicky is in the wrong place.

This package features:

Reflective textures and Dynamic Shine
Opening front and rear doors (Shift E for the front and shift E then 2 for the rear)
rolling wheels
full animation of control surfaces
Custom 2D Panel (Bitmap courtesy of JL Stubbs)
Full Virtual cockpit gauges (fully functional and adjustable in FS 2004)
Repaintable base textures for your own repaints


Instalation (same for 2002 and 2004)


Unzip the file to a temporary folder open the folder then created and cut and paste the contents of the effects folder to your main FS effects folder. Also cut and paste the contents of the Gauges folder to your main FS gauges folder. Then paste the aircraft folder into your main FS aircraft folder. Start FS and go flying.

Thanks and aknowledgments

Thanks to Dave Eckert for the pilot and his exelent tutorials, JL Stubbs for the Panel bitmaps, Rick Salasa for his Beacon light effect and the usual suspects over at Free Flight Design, Flight Sim Verteran's Club and Bush Flying Unlimited.

Copyright Info

This aircraft is released as Freeware. Copyright Brian Gladden. As freeware you are permitted to distribute this archive subject to the following conditions,

- The archive must be distributed without modification to the
contents of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files
added, removed or modified is prohibited, except for repaints. If a 
repaint is uploaded it must be texturs only. The model and panel files 
are not to be uploaded.

- The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another
archive without the prior permission of the author is prohibited.
This means, for example, that you may not upload an archive that uses
our visual or flight models with your own aircraft or include it in a
package containing a panel or aircraft sounds without first obtaining
the authors' permission.

- No charge may be made for this archive.

- The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be
respected.

Copyright August 23, 2003 by Brian A. Gladden. All Rights Reserved.

Panel bitmap Copyright JL Stubbs and used with permission.

Support Info




Brian Gladden

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