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• Simulatorer • Gammaldags | • Vintage | Night Mail Fligths in XP11
| In the 1930s there was a wide network of lighted airways in Europe. With my addons for X-Plane 11 you can revive night flights in a Junkers F13 aircraft with basic or advanced instruments. |
- Add to realism with old airports by Leif Ohlsson: Torslanda, Bulltofta, Bromma old, Kastrup old,... - Turn off modern street lights, and add old NDBs,... - It is a real challenge to fly without modern tools in pitch dark nights! |
| Old aircraft • Junkers_F13_BJ_ver2019a.zip or Ju-52, DC-3, see • Vintage aircraft page |
Light beacon scenery - XP11 by Bo Ju (also old NDBs) • ES_Old_Beacons_ver2019b.zip |
Maps for planning, see • Maps Southern Scandinavia |
For more realism: - Old airports by Leif Ohlsson (zip-file here, not ready yet) (• Recreating old flights, Leif Ohlsson) - Street lights off, and reduce stars (see beacon zip-file). |
| Junkers F13 mail flight in Sweden 1928 - Click for larger images! - |
Ju-F13 in X-Plane 11, Jacques Brault's model, Swedish texture by Bo Justusson |
| JuF13 1920s - with basic instruments. 2D cockpit by Bo Justusson, based on RIMOWA replica, see • Links Start procedure: Battery ON, Magnetos Both, Start button. Remark: Rotating steering wheel, and left/right views. 
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JuF13 1930s - with more advanced instruments: Gyro-type artificial horizon and turn&slip, and also Variometer. NDB-radio - your radio operator "tells you" bearing to NDB and its ID, plus a NDB-homing indicator, above horizon. 
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| Late evening, north of Halmstad, two light beacons visible. Weak lights in cockpit and scenery - sim-fly in a dark room! 
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Installation zip-file contains files in a dir "Junkers F13" with 3 sub-dirs. Copy dir "Junkers F13" into your dir: "XP11/Aircrafts/". Variants, in sub-dirs: - "Ju_F13b_1920s_BJ" - basic cockpit instruments, 3 textures: Swedish(default), German, Neutral. - "Ju_F13b_1930s_BJ" - more advanced instruments, 3 textures, same. - "Ju_F13m_Brault_McLeod" - Jacques Brault's original model, to XP11 by Sean McLeod, German texture, simple cockpit. For other night mail aircrafts in X-Plane, see • Links below for Ju-52 
and DC-3 
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| 1930s Light beacons in Sweden,Denmark,Finland - I have made a scenery file(dir) "ES 1930s beacons", put it in dir: XP11/Custom Scenery/. It contains all light beacons in Sweden, Denmark, Åland-Finland. Shown with X-Plane object: airport_beacon_big. Beacon. Light beacons, Scandinavia. Map, NDBs 1955. 
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Remove road lights - X-Plane has an error in showing street lighting also outside towns. Very bad for 1930s-1950s sceneries! - I made a scenery file that hides roads in Southern Scandinavia. File "ES 1930s Roads&Lights Off" - place it in: dir: XP11/Custom Scenery/. But remove it when you want to see Roads, daytime!  - Click for larger images! - |
1950s NDBs in Sweden and on routes into Denmark,Finland Put my file user_nav.dat in dir: XP11/Custom Data/. It will add old NDBs: 24 in Sweden, 3 in SE Denmark, 2 in SW Finland. - X+ID: I have added "X" to NDB IDs to distinguish old NDBs from existing ones. See maps below. Source is "Airways Map 1955". |
Reduce stars (not necessary) XP11 shows many stars, even with total overcast! You can turn stars OFF by renaming earth_astro.dat to .OFF, or reduce number of stars with 100x weaker earth_astro.dat file made by Robin A. Peel in StarBrights-addon. Dir: XP11/Resources/default data/ |
SW Sweden |
Denmark |
Sweden-Åland-Finland
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Lighted Airways, map 1944
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NDB Airways, map 1955
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NDBs 1950s, coords,ID,freq 
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| Or use route maps from 1930s, see • Flygkartor/ Aviation maps |
 
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If you have tried my addons then please send me an e-mail with your experiences.
I will be greatful for all comments and corrections!
Page updated: 2019-04-24, Bo Justussson, Stockholm
Contact: justusXownit.nu - change X to @