Hi,

 

I'm after the above mentioned plane for FS9.  Exact livery is unimportant, just so long as I can acquire a reasonable model of it. In the AVSIM library I see there was a download titled 'yakovlev40.zip'.  It appeared to be a complete plane so I downloaded and installed it.

 

Looks good from the outside but the problems begin inside on the flight deck.  The 2D-panel is missing two or three gauges at the bottom, and the 3D-panel is blank entirely and cold-and-dark at night with no way to light it.

 

I see no gauge packs, .zip folders, etc. that are to be installed in the main gauges folder.  Unless I'm missing something, I think the author (who did release this over 10 yrs ago) may have left some critical stuff out to getting those panel items to look right.  Would anyone who maybe cares to have a gander at this file agree with me?  I would also guess that 10 yrs after, the odds of catching up with this author to ask anything further would probably be rather difficult at this point.

 

I may resign myself to the realization that this is a good plane to fly in spot view but not in the cockpit.

 

--  John

If you can find it the Supronov Yak-40 is a masterpeice,

There is a review here:

http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?1657-Suprunov-Design-Yakolev-Yak-40

 

One of the best addons for FS9 ever made with a stunning (even to this day) Virtual cockpit.