Mil Mi-8 for AI?

[Lazerbeak]

I'm working on adding UTAir AI to my sim. Ivan gave me some great flightplans, and now all I have to do is collect the planes. Most of them were easy to find, but I'm having a little dilemma finding a suitable Mi-8. I thought about using Vladimir Zhyhulskiy's Mi-8, but it was designed as a flyable craft, so I'm concerned about frames.

Does anyone know if Vladimir's Mi-8 will work well as AI, and if not, is there a more "purpose-built" Mi-8 out there?

EDIT: Never mind, I found a great one (designed for AI) on avsim.ru. Unfortunately, I still can't seem to locate one of the UTAir liveries for it (the white/blue one), so if anyone can point me towards it, I'd be very grateful.

[born_2_fly]

Surely Ivan has this aircraft and repaint if you said he had the flightplans?

[Ivan]

Which one did you get... Dimitri Shurov one?

Only orange paint available for that model (and it has some weird flyinf characteristics at takeoff and landing)

For a look into the future: http://www.trafficsystem.ru/forum/index ... wtopic=179 (somewhere halfway down there is a preview of an improved paintkit for the AI Mi-8

At the moment i use the Vladimir Zuhlysky model (2nd release with VC) for ai, on a limited scale

[Lazerbeak]

Which one did you get... Dimitri Shurov one?

Only orange paint available for that model (and it has some weird flyinf characteristics at takeoff and landing)

For a look into the future: http://www.trafficsystem.ru/forum/index ... wtopic=179 (somewhere halfway down there is a preview of an improved paintkit for the AI Mi-8

At the moment i use the Vladimir Zuhlysky model (2nd release with VC) for ai, on a limited scale

Indeed, I'm using the Dimitri Shurov version. I too noticed the odd takeoffs. Shame there's no white version, but I guess it's enough to tide me over until RATS releases their UTAir package (that Mi-8 sure looks beautiful).

As for the Vlad Zuhlysky model, I still have fears that it might wreck what little FPS I'm getting.

[SkyNoz]

You can use models like that but they would need to be heavily modified, like re formating the texture to a smaller format DX1/DX3, deleting stuff that is not needed for example, sound, panel, and a few stuff in the airconfig. relating to

-"[Radios]"
-"[autopilot]"
-"[TailHook]"
-"[gear_warning_system]"
etc.