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Nice set of photos!

Nice photos!

Thank you for the comment, P_7878! TBH...I wasn't familiar with this livery either...I was living outside of Canada at the time, so I never saw this one "live" either. Hopefully I've done this one some justice through this repaint...and allow it to live on... 🙂

Nice set of photos...especially like the one near the middle...breaking through the clouds on climb. Well done!

Thank you! Spend a little more time on this one than I initially planned...happy with the result! Thank you! Thank you Andreas! I think what you may be seeing is the weathering effects of the paint kit...as mentioned in another post...Fenix has done so many things well on this sim...including their paint kit...no wonder it is one of te most popular add-ons for painters! 🙂 Thank you!

This particular aircraft left the Toulouse Assembly facility as Serial # 159 and was delivered to Air Canada on April 3, 1991 (originally delivered in the Air Canada Classic Red Stripes livery...see my earlier post). The aircraft repaint depicted here is actually the third livery adorned by C-FFWN/Fin 212 (with the 2nd livery being the traditional white bodied, black tail with red maple leaf...the one before the current "bandit" livery!). 🙂 This "Canadian Flag" paint scheme was a one-off design, painted only on this aircraft, to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of Air Canada in 2002. This unique paint scheme was entitled "Symphony of Voices". Not only did this paint represent the 65th Anniversary of the airline, it was also a homage to the employees of Air Canada...with all 22,000+ employee signatures adorned within the fuselage Maple Leaf of this one-off paint design. This Symphony of Voices livery flew for 7 years (Sept 2002 - Nov 2009) before C-FFWN was again repainted (for the last time) in the AC "toothpaste blue" livery. C-FFWN/Fin 212 was retired on September 30, 2019 following 28 years of (uneventful) service to Air Canada, and then made her final flight to the Pinal Airpark storage facility the following day. This Fenix A320 Texture Set was painted on request. As no images/stencils of the fuselage art and tail graphic design were available independantly, these "artworks" were re-created based off of photos of the aircraft available online. Fenix has also created such a perfect cabin, I couldn't resist making a few changes there as well...including period correct fabric for the seats, a copy of Enroute Magazine and the Air Canada A320 Safety Card in the seat pouch and some additional bilingual signage in the cabin. Just uploaded to FS.to

Fully agree!!! 🙂 Imagine seeing the NE during "turning of the leaves" in a Zeppelin???

Great set of photos...although that Buffalo looks a little out of place so far from home! 🙂

Assuming you have not made any adjustments to your MSFS mouse control settings, a simple right click on the mouse should change the mode from 1000's to 100's. (Doing so and you will physically see the switch motion change/depress.) Personally, I haven't been able to get my landing altitude to adjust to 10's of feet...it seems to default to 100's. Hasn't stopped me from enjoying this aircraft though... 🙂

Very nice photo tour! If you can't see it first hand in an automobile, then, a DC-3 has to be the next best thing! 🙂

Great series of photos!

Excellent photos!!! (As I going through each one, I thought the same thing..."You're not going to make any great distance in that airship!") Our lives have become so much more fast paced than just a few short generations before us.

I suspect you meant to say "whined"? Just curious...if you flew both the PMDG 747 and the PMDG 777 in P3D, did you notice a difference in the quality of the textures between the two cockpits?

Great set of photos! Of course, you caught my attention with all of those retro liveries! 🙂

I'll give Honda kudos for developing a 6 cylinder bike. It was unique for the time...in reality, the heat it generated on the inboard cylinders and the fact it was only slightly >1000 cc...it wasn't all that powerful...great marketing however! The CBX experiment did lead to the more popular CB900 series...a much more practical and better handling bike.

Great photos! Love this post!

Just a few touch-ups to finish up and this one will be ready to be packaged up!

Thank you Bernd! I always love to do a little history research on the aircraft I choose to paint...glad you enjoyed the story on this one!

Thank you! The skills can be easily learned...if fact, it's easier to paint in MSFS than earlier versions of the sim. Fenix has done so many things right with this add-on...including a terrific paint kit and a 3D model for Blender as part of the paint kit. The most important attribute to have is plenty of patience!!!

Thanks Dan!

Excellent photos and a terrific livery! (Are you doing Marketing for Fenix? 🙂 ) Agree that Fenix hit Block 2 out of the park!

Thank you!

Beautiful...aircraft...scenery...all of it!

Totally agree! JetBlue has created some very visually appealing liveries over the years...much nicer than many of the "boring" paint schemes out there today! 🙂 Thankfully, here in Sim World, we don't have to worry about fuel efficiency! 🙂

This is a representation of C-FNVV (Fin 416) wearing her second livery, the Canadian Airlines International "Proud Wings" paint scheme...better known as the Goose Livery! I've been playing with this livery the last couple of evenings...still very much a work in progress!!! Most people fondly remember CAI (Canadian Airlines International) as the successor to Canadian Pacific Airways (later, simply CP Air). Truth be told, it was Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) that purchased CP Air in 1986...or rather assumed their massive debt! The rebranded CP Air Fleet (as well as the existing PWA fleet) assumed the new CAI Livery starting in 1987, which was a blue and orange striped fuselage with a striped/chevron tail logo. This particular airframe, serial #404, was delivered to CAI in February 1994 and was adorned, initially, with that original, rebranded CAI livery. Trying to sustain economic life into CAI, in 1999, the company undertook a new corporate branding entitled "Proud Wings", with the entire fleet being repainted again. The Fenix A320 is depicted here in the V2 CAI livery. If you look closely, you can still see a small part of PWA's corporate branding in the "Canadian" typeset...the last vowel is in the shape of PWA's old tail logo. Sadly for CAI, and this airframe, the end was near. In 2000, Air Canada completed it's merger/takeover of Canadian Airlines and this particular airframe livery was phased out in 2001 having only been displayed for 2 short years. Kind of a fun fact...this particular airframe, still flying today, has worn six different liveries in her flying career under the same registration (C-FNVV) and fin number (416). She is still currently flying for Air Canada in the current AC Jetz brand Black Livery, an aircraft primarily used now for charter flights of Canadian Sports Teams. Hopefully I can get this repaint finished by next weekend for a few "nostalgia" flights!