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I was surfing around some Flight Simulator sites when I came across this old beauty.  Its a Cessna 172P!  Was looking all over for a skyhawk that flew (and looked) similar to the 172N I fly in real life.  The only other cessna 172 for FS2004 ive ever found was the Real Air upgrade, which in my opinion, didnt really make the plane fly any more realistic than the default.

This old beauty was originally for FS2000, but it looked great and so I decided to download it.  After giving it a few test flights, it seemed to me that this by far feels as real as it can get.  As it was originally for FS2000, it of course had a few issues with FS2004.  For one, the Carb Heat knob didnt work!  (Which I fixed my editing the aircraft.cfg file and setting the thing to use a carburated engine, like its supposed to!)  Also, it was using a constant speed propeller, which I managed to also fix by once again editing and changing it back to a fixed pitch.  Minor details of course.  The one thing I never was able to figure out how to fix was the aircraft lighting (as you will see in the screenshots), which looks rediculously huge.  There wasnt even a lights section in the aircraft.cfg!  If anyone knows how I can fix this problem, please let me know!

Anyways, the shots:
Trying out some forced approaches


Ahh the beautiful beaches


A look from inside the cockpit


Climbing out

Very nice VC it looks like.

yeah..it looks really nice rocket bird..there's nothing you can do about the lights rb..they are deep rooted into the model itself

Very nice VC it looks like.

That's no VC.

And the lights seem to be built into the model itself.