Aircraft Assignements in UT winter 05

Craig wrote: I am at work now so I cannot check if this is a duplicate flight under the SIAT schedules or not.

Craig,

This is no duplicate flight so the Sibaviatrans 134 can be assigned to the Krasair 134.

Fred

I don't know who operates the Tel-Aviv to Elat route for El Al using an ATR equipment. El Al's website indicates it is its own ATR, however, I have not seen any pictures of that ATR, is it the 42 or 72 model?.

Does anyone have a picture available?. I'd love to do a repaint...

Hernan

I belive that this route is operated by Arkia Israeli Airlines, they operate ATRs and were acquired by El Al.  El Al's current fleet consits of 6 742s, 5 744s, 4 772s, 6 762s, 1 763, 4 752s, 2 737 and 6 738...and I think all of them have been retrofitted with anti missle technology.

As it happens, I flew from Tel Aviv's Sde Dov (LLSD) to Eilat (LLET) a few months ago on an Israir ATR42. Parked alongside me was an Arkia ATR72.

Both airlines have frequent flights on this route. The aircraft usually fly at about 9000ft and fly over Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, with dramatic views of the mountains of Jordan with Amman, its capital, in the distance.

There are also some flights to Eilat from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport (LLBG), by both airlines. A huge new terminal was opened there recently. There is a scenery for it from Avsim:

http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004scen&DL ID=59965

There are also excellent sceneries for Sde Dov and Eilat on the Vatil website:

http://www.vatil.org/vatil/index.php

I'm not sure that Arkia has been acquired by El Al. I booked my flights from London through El Al and they gave me the Israir flights. I was told that El Al and Arkia are 'not talking to each other' at the moment,  whatever that might mean!

I was wondering what the old terminal was being used for now. I haven't been there since 1999. Does anybody know of a good afcard for the above scenery?

Just to keep it on topic, I would assign the Israir ATR's to the routes.

Am Yisrael chai!

 

A few more:

China Airlines F100 -> Mandarin Airlines

Niki B738 -> Air Berlin

Asian Spirit F100 -> Asian Spirit BAe 146-100

 

Craig,

Were you able to asssign this texture without a problem?, because, I have not been able to see it under the "variation" list, therefore, I cannot find a way to assign it.

I've used the [fltsim.x] provided by the author. What is strange is that it shows up in the FS Painter window, but, for some reason UT doesn't "see it".

Thanks Craig,

I'm so embarrased  I forgot to correct the sequence [fltsim.xx]

After this, newbies may no longer trust my advice.   

I think the DHL flights out of KCVG are actually run by Ameriflight for DHL.  Or at least I thought so, there is quite a bit of jet traffic for Astar/DHL out of KCVG and Ameriflight does not operate jets (other than a Lear I think).  Looking again, I might be right, I was looking at the map wrong.  I think that the EMB120, Fairchild and Cessnas out of KCVG are Ameriflight.

That is what I am saying, the flights that I listed are not DHL but rather Ameriflight.  This could just be old routes that Flight 1 had and they reused it with these schedules, since it is hard to get a schedule of cargo routes....cargo ops is one area where UT is weak in, but with the ability to import new airlines and schedules, that is easily corrected.

On the subject of DHL, does anyone have a definitive list of the airlines whose planes operate in DHL colours?

I'm aware of Astar of course, but I believe Asian Express Airlines operates in DHL colours, or at least they do according to the photos on Airliners.net (Asia Overnight Express as well??) and so do Valair (who I think are really Vensecar Internacional as they also have the IATA code V4).

Can anyone tell me of any others I've missed?

The UT timetable shows that the Airlinair B1900 only operates between Rennes and Basle/Mulhouse. According to the Airlinair website, that route is operated jointly by Airlinair and Chalair, and according to the Chalair website the flight is made using a B1900C. So I think it should be assigned to a Chalair B1900C. There's a Chalair repaint for the HTAI model on AVSIM.

HTH, Matthew

I found an interesting one: Air Jamaica DC-8 seems to be associated with ABX Air has matching routes for the DC-8 (JM planes fly between KMIA, MKJP and MKJS) and the flight numbers of both airlines are between 8036-8041. The timetables are different though. I assume this all just by looking at UT's timetables. And I can't find any evidence of an Air Jamaca DC-8, which even sounded suspicious enough that I had to check it out.

The Air One ATR 42 is operated by Avanti Air. That's in addition to the ATR 42 they operate for Meridiana as discussed previously in this thread.

Does anybody have a picture of the A320 for ABX Air, operated by Ryan International?. Apparently they are based in Atlanta. So far, to replace the default one, I assigned an A320 with plain old white fuselage.