History

Under the provisional designation VT-22, the Antonov OKB designed the An-22 Antei (Antheus, named after the giant son of the Greek god Poseidon) to carry cargoes up to 50 tonnes (115,250 lb) over distances of 3,500-4,000 km (2,175-2,486 miles) and for paradropping of cargoes of up to 15 tonnes (33,075 lb). Its NK-12MV (NK-12MA on production a/c) turboprops and AV-60 (5.6m-18'4") (AV-90, 6.2m-20' 4" on production a/c) contra-rotating propellers are the most powerful turboprop engines in service, delivering 14,600 kgp (32,190 lbs).

The first An-22 flew on 27 February 1965 from the runway at aircraft plant No. 473, Kiev-Svyatoshino. The runway was officially listed as having a length of 1,800 m (5,905.51') but Pilot Yuriy V. Koorlin was said to have measured it at 1,750 m (5741.47'). The An-22 was publicly revealed to the West at the Paris International Air Show in June 1965.

The An-22 was the largest transport aircraft of the time, and set a number of world records. Between November 1965 and January 1975, the Tashkent Aircraft Plant No. 84 delivered 66 An-22's.

Some notable features of the An-22 include the comprehensive navigation and precision drop avionics complete with three separate radars, a 14-wheel undercarriage (tire pressures can be adjusted from the flight deck to optimize the aircraft for different airfield surfaces), a reinforced titanium floor with integral rear loading ramp, four overhead gantries and two floor winches for freight handling, twin tails, and double slotted wing flaps. The main cargo hold is pressurized to a differential of 0.25 kg/cm3 (3.57 psi). There is a forward cabin, between frames 10 and 14, comprising 1 upper and 2 lower cabins, with provision for 21 passengers. 

On October 26, 1967, the An-22 set 14 payload to height records. The pinnacle of which occurred when I. Ye. Davidov piloted the An-22 with a cargo of 100,400.6 kg (221,383.3 lb) of specially manufactured concrete slabs, each weighing 6 to 12 tonnes (13,230-24,460 lb) to an altitude of 7,848 m (25,749'). It also established the record for carrying a maximum payload of 104,444.6 kg (221,443 lb), to a height of 2,000 m (6,562'). Although several of these records were broken by later a/c, the An-22 still holds 41 records. 

A number of speed records were also set on February 19 1972, averaging 593.32 km/h (368.67 mph) over a 2,000 km (1, 242.7 mile) closed circuit. Two days later averaging 608.45 km/h (378.07 mph) over a 1,000 km (621 mile) closed circuit, both records set with a payload of 50,000 kg (110,231 lb). Several more speed-with-payload records were to follow in 1974 and 1975. 

On July 18, 1970, An-22, c/n 00340207, CCCP-09303 with 26 persons onboard, became another victim of the infamous Bermuda Triangle. No cause is known and after an extensive search only a swamped life raft and a few packages were recovered.

The Antheus has been superseded by the larger, jet-powered An-124 "Condor". As of August 2003, some 15 An-22's were still being utilized by the Russian Air force, but were scheduled to be phased out "in the nearest time". A few more are still said to operate in The Ukraine.

FS2004

Dimitri Samborski's fine An-22 is designed for FS2002. Unaltered, it has some problems in FS2004. This set of files will address many of those.

Aircraft.cfg and Antonov An-22.air have been modified to improve the Center of Gravity and other issues.


INSTALLATION

1. Unzip the included files into a temporary directory making sure the "use folder names" option is checked.

2. After unzipping the package, you will find 4 directories and this Readme:

    GAUGES
    Effects
    Sound
    AIRCRAFT

3. Copy the content of each directory into their respective sub-directory in FS9.

4. Go to the AIRCRAFT\Antonov AN-22, open the directory named "Panel.V1" and copy the following files into "Panel.V2" folder:

    I21.bmp
    MAIN.bmp
    ENGINEER.bm
    NAVIGATOR.bmp
    NAVIGATOR2.bmp
    SAU.bmp
    UPPER.bmp

DO NOT COPY NAVMINI.bmp and Panel.cfg

NOTE: The An-22 model, as created by Mr. Samborski, is from Batch 2 (V2), but after viewing a photo of the Batch 1 (V1) nose, a decision was made to create both versions. This package includes 2 liveries, one for each nose version, “Aeroflot” for V1 and “Antonov Design Bureau” for V2. It also includes a startup guide.

5. Sounds. The sound within this pack is of a very low quality, therefore we STRONGLY RECOMMEND you to download Dimitri Samborski's Tu-114 and use the sound files from it. The Tu-114 is truly one of the finest a/c available for FS2004. If you already have the Tu-114 installed, alias the An-22's sound to the Tu-114's sound folder. The Tu-114 is available at:

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=53845

We highly recommend that you also download the Tu-114 sound enhancement available at:

http://www.avsim.ru/files.phtml?action=download&id=3029

6. Liveries. Your choice. Apart from the 2 liveries included, there are not many variants. Some liveries are included in UNNT traffic package, available at:

http://www.avsim.ru/files.phtml?action=download&id=2754

Make the necessary entries in Aircraft.cfg for your choice of liveries.

7. Download and read the Il-62M manual. Available at:

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=62304

NOTE: This panel is based on the Project Tupolev IL-62M which is, without doubt, one of the most sophisticated panels available for FS2004. For those of you familiar with the PT IL-62M, there should be absolutely no problems mastering this panel. For those of you NOT familiar with the PT IL-62M, we STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you download the manual and read it carefully, paying special attention to the section describing the Navigation system, including usage of the autopilot.

8. Go fly and enjoy!

NOTE: We have endeavored to be as accurate as possible with the specifications, but, as with many Russian aircrafts from that era, accurate data is difficult to obtain and often contradictory. The specs used here are the most often quoted ones.

Model:		Dimitri Samborski (samdim@chez.com), February 2003).
Panel:		Enrique Del Rosario.
Dynamics:		An-22-dinamika by Alexei Antonov with modifications by Enrique Del Rosario.
Sounds:		From Dimitri Samborski's Tu-114.
Sound Enhancement: 	NoName.
Liveries:          	Your choice.
Gauges:		Very special thanks to Stepan Gritsevsky of Project Tupolev for his Il-62M gauges, who so 				graciously gave his permission allowing their usage. THANK YOU STEPAN!

NOTE: Due to some bitmap modifications, most of the gauges were renamed to avoid conflicts with the original ones.

ReadMe:		Ken Creppin. I would like to thank Dimitri Samborski for sharing some of his precious time to 				comment on and correct several items in this ReadMe. THANK YOU DIMITRI!
           
On the subject of Project Tupolev, may we suggest that you download the following:

1. Project Tupolev's Tu-154B-2. You'll need the version 9.4 and the update 9.5 and 9.5.2 files. These are available from:

http://www.protu-154.com/files_e.html

2.  Project Tupolev's Il-62M 1.03 from:

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=83851

The PT Il-62M English manual is available at:

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=62304

These are two of the finest aircraft available for FS2004. We'd like to send a BIG THANK YOU to everyone at Project Tupolev. Your excellent work is much appreciated and enjoyed. Also, we highly recommend that you download 2 further great airplanes:

1.  Dimitri Samborski's AN-24RV. Available at:

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=68155

2.  Varnavskiy Sergey's Il-76TD. Model available at:

http://www.avsim.ru/files.phtml?action=download&id=5041

Panel available at:

http://www.avsim.ru/files.phtml?action=download&id=3705

Thanks also to Douglas E. Trapp for his earlier work on a FS2002 version of the An-22 Dynamics, for it was his work that inspired us to create this. You can download his FS2002 An-22 Dynamics here:

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=81984

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A few words from the author/designer:

First of all, I want to thank GOD for all His love and for every single moment of my life… 

Thanks to my wife and daughter for being so patient during the long process of making this panel.

I would like to give a huge and special THANK YOU! to Ken Creppin (author of this Readme) for his advice, enthusiasm, support and help... without him this panel would have been much harder. THANKS Ken!!! 

Finally, I deeply apologize to the Russian speaking community for any errors in the letterings and labeling of the panels. Many of the terms were taken from online translators.

God bless you all…
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Disclaimer: You knew this was coming!

This panel works in FS2004. We make no guarantees or promises that it will work in any other version.

It should cause no harm whatsoever to your system, but if you feel it has, we take NO RESPONSIBILITY. Use this at your own risk.

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TERMS OF USE AND COPYRIGHT
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This package is FREEWARE. There may be no charge for distribution of these files, nor may these files be distributed via ANY form of payware CD or payware website.

Those portions of the files modified herein are the property of the author and may not be used as the basis for other distributions without written permission from the author. 

The files may not be incorporated into other programs (commercial, freeware, shareware or otherwise) or redistributed on any media without written permission from the author.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to drop me an e-mail at: 

kdrosario@hotmail.com

Copyright 2006 by Enrique Del Rosario. All Rights Reserved.

Errata:

There are several details that are not correct in the model portion of this release.

The model was originally from FS2002, so there have had to be several compromises, as we do not have    access to the source.

There are no wing landing/taxi lights.

CoG problems still exist and trimming is extremely sensitive in some systems.

The model is Batch 2, but included are nose positions for both Batch 1 and Batch 2. Why? We like Batch 1 and know it is not accurate for this model.

Gauge placement in the nose position was dictated by the 2D panel. They should be more accurately placed in fuselage panels.

Gauges represent no specific plane. They can't. The An-22 is in its "senior" years and many of them differ due to "upgrades". Perhaps a more accurate representation would be to show missing gauges in the panels as is often seen in photos of the real a/c. We chose not to.

No attempt has been made to represent the throttle panel between the pilot and co-pilot. This is by choice even though accuracy suffers. This will be addressed if ever a new model with VC is created by the original modelmaker.

The main and nose gear is "spongy" in some systems. All attempts to correct this have produced results far from perfect.

• The plane cannot be made to "sit" as can the real Antheus.

• We have deliberately tried to give it a "heavy" feel.

Finally, we've left out one rivet. Find it and you win an all expenses paid trip to the destination of our choice. No Hints!

SOURCES

Gordon, Yefim, Komissarov, Dmitry and Sergey. Antonov's Heavy Transports. London: Midland Publishing, 2004.
