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Hey Simmers…How are ya!

I would like to share how to repaint your favourite aircraft. I’m just gonna tell you what I’ve usually did…And I usually made it for FS9, Maybe it’s a same way for FSX, just in FSX they use a different texture format….And this is just a BASIC steps for repainting an aircraft. Before that, pardon me for my English ;p

What Things You Gonna Need?

1. A Paint Kit. Every Aircraft products have a paint kit. Wilco/Feelthere, Project Opensky, Level–D, PMDG, etc. have their own paint kit. You must use the paint kit according of what product you gonna use. If you want to paint a boeing 737 from Wilco/Feelthere then you will have to use a Wilco/Feelthere’s Paint Kit. Okay, next.
2. Adobe Photoshop™. For sure you all knows this app.
3. DXTBmp Application from MW Graphics. We gonna use this app to convert the .psd file to .bmp file
4. Image Tools. Use this app for extracting mipmaps. Otherwise you’ll got your aircraft Texture blur when you play it in your Microsoft Flight Simulator.
5. FS Repaint™. This is a payware. You can buy it here … I use this app just to preview my painting (I’m sure previewing your painting by entering the FS is gonna kill you.. ).

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Yes, we only just fly a simulation but it does no harm if we learn how to calculate the enroute time that are very useful when we gonna fill the flight plan. Okay, here we will discuss how do we calculate our Flight EET (Estimated Enroute Time) to our destination. Thanks to Danang Pariadji who gives the formula.

First, we must determine the aircraft’s True Air Speed or TAS. There’s several ways to calculate the TAS, but i will only use two formula.

• Take a half of your altitude and add it to your Indicated air speed. For example: 280 Knot IAS at FL350. Then 350 / 2 = 175 –> 280 + 175 = 455 Knot TAS.
• Divide Your altitude by 1,000 and multiply by 5. And Add the outcome to your indicated air speed. For Example: 35,000 / 1,000 = 35 * 5 = 175. Then 175 + 280 = 455 Knot TAS.

Voila! Now we have our True Air Speed. Now here is the formula to calculate our Estimated Enroute Time…

(Range / TAS) * 60 + 20. For Example: We take place from WIII (Soekarno-Hatta Int’l Airport – Jakarta) to WARR (Juanda Int’l Airport – Surabaya). The distance between these two airport is: 375 nm, Our TAS is 455 at FL350. Now we have all required data…. So the calculation is: (375 / 455) *60 +20 = 69.45 minutes or 1 hour 10 minutes.

This time estimation will be influenced by many factors such as wind factors, etc. And of course it depends what type of aircraft that you will use. Example above is using Boeing 737 classic. And it’s for Simulation use only