Anyone who can paint the default piper and 172 in the Flight Safety and Embry Riddle liveries along with the callsigns added to the voice callsigns and the AFCAD packages for parking for them. I can helpwith some of the Vero Beach Florida info for the Flight Safety routes of where sudents fly to and what not. Attached is a photo of one of the planes and you can see the Flight Safety fleet below and a piper plane.http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/62134.jpg

Dang, I wish I could paint....;)

There are some ERAU skins for the 172 in the library I believe. These work with the default bird. I can then email you a traffic.bgl for the ERAU traffic in the pattern and some flights local. These just give some extra ambience to the KDAB airport.Eric Joiner

Unless MS made some big changes to the default C172 model in FS9, it's going to be hard to do a respectable paint job for FlightSafety. The two sides of the fuselage use the same texture; it's just mirrored on the left. That means you can't really have writing on the side of the fuselage. It really blows, because it keeps a lot of great real-world liveries from being done for this otherwise quite nice little plane. I spent a long time dissecting the textures when I was doing the Kangan Batman TAFE livery for RealAir and never did find a way around that restriction. I ended up just living with the backwards writing on the left side.

The Flight Safety part is just a small part so I could live with out that. The voice part would add more realism. To be able to load DAB and VRB with flight school traffic both in the parttern on the ground and a base to send AI traffic to all other airports around the state would be great. Add to the fact that Flight Safety has schools else where in the US. It would just as great as UT to offer Commercial as to have school traffic. Thing is its just a couple paint jobs, a few AFCAD files, and adding the callsign in voice which would seem to be the hardest part.

I don't think the ERAU C172 is in the avsim library but here's a link to the author's site...

http://www.timsfsstudio.com/

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I did an Embry Riddle repaint for the DF Cardinal if you own it...the paint is in the library:-)

Following on from Bill's post, I confirm that to do a comprehensive repaint of the 172 in any livery would require probably a completely new Gmax model and new texture templates because of the inherent restrictions in the default model, which I know Bill worked very hard on to overcome with the RealAir version of the 172.We had considered working on a complete redesign, but this is time consuming and we are uncertain whether we could even recoup the reasearch, development and design expenses involved.I would be interested in how many potential users would genuinely welcome such a new design.Rob Young - www.realairsimuations.com

http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/62389.jpgFind the free paint file, for the default 172, atThe avsim file library (do a search)orwww.flightsim.comRegardsEd

I'd be very interested in seeing a high quality 172.... One thing that's always bugged me about the default is the lack of wheel fairings, which is how 90 pct. of the 172's I've seen come equipped... The 172 is a classic aircraft and deserves more visual attention than it received by Microsoft...-John

I'd love to see a better model with a quality VC...Best,sg

Hi,I would be glad to pay $40 for a new Cessna 172 of the same quality as the SF.260. The current RA one is great but lacks a real 2d c/p layout with appropriate pop-up windows.I have most of the "classic" add-ons but always come back to the C172!Robert Tiffany