Flying Carpet's Flight Sim repaints...
Jet Airways
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IATA CODE |
ICAO CODE |
CALLSIGN |
| 9W | JAI |
JET AIRWAYS |
Jet Airways was founded in 1992 by Indian tycoon Naresh Goyal and started operations about one year later from its base at Mumbai international airport. Following an aggressive expansion plan, the airline rapidly grew to become the leader on the Indian domestic market, and started international services in 2004.
In 2007, the airline purchased another domestic operator, Air Sahara, which was rebranded as Jetlite and integrated into the group as a low cost division. Another low cost division was later created, known as Jet Konnect, and which aims at boosting demand on low density routes.
2007 also saw the introduction of a new livery designed by Landor Associates.
The 2008 global financial crisis severely affected Jet Airways operations, the airline being forced to discontinue several international routes and lease out or defer delivery of most of its long haul 777 fleet.
Nowadays, Jet Airways and its low cost arms remain the domestic market leader, served with a fleet of over 50 Boeing 737s and 20 ATR 72s.
Up to date flightplans are available from Alpha India Group
Boeing 737-800
This package includes three variations covering the wingletted Boeing 737-800 operated by Jet Airways in their new colours: standard, with additional Konnect titles with and without eyebrows.
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Boeing 737-800 winglet base model
This package includes another three variations covering the non-wingletted Boeing 737-800s in Jet Airways new colours: standard, and with additional Konnect titles with and without eyebrows.
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Boeing 737-800 standard base model
Boeing 737-700
This package includes three variations of the Jet Airways Boeing 737-700 in their new colours: standard with and without eyebrows, wingletted
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Boeing 737-700 base models (both standard and winglet models)
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Each repaint means long hours of research and hard work to make it look as close as possible to the real world original.
Although it is all available here for free, I will appreciate any contribution to keep me going maintaining this website and bringing you more flightsimming goodies!
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About my repaints
These textures are intended for use as AI traffic in Microsoft's Flight Simulator versions 9 and 10.
They have been thoroughly researched and painted based on actual pictures of the real aircraft, so that each individual aircraft is an exact replica of the real thing at the time of painting, down to the precise windows configuration and the stencils colours and locations.
To view them in your simulator, you need first to download and install the base aircraft models/packages available separately . Most of these models are available from the usual avsim and/or flightsim libraries, but I have provided a link to these base packages on this site for your easy reference. Check the links section.
You will also need adequate flightplans to take these birds into your virtual skies. Running a search on avsim and flightsim libraries will get you up to date flightplans for most of the world's airlines
About bitmap formats
Most of my repaints are provided in three textures formats: 32bits, dxt3 and dxt3 with mipmaps.
AI traffic can draw heavily on your computer resources and significantly reduce your sim's framerate. Using the right set of textures can improve your framerate and ensure smooth and
lifelike movements.
Basically, 32bits texture are larger and therefore having more pixels, will have sharper details and will look better in your sim, particularly at close range. Downside is they take up more HD
space and use more resources.
Mipped textures are supposed to be what fs is really looking for, and will ensure the best framerate and movement smoothness. However, if your graphic processor is an older or a lower end one,
with less than 1GB dedicated memory, mipped textures will look awfully blurred.
To keep things simple, if you run your sim on a new, powerful, high end computer, go for the 32bits or mipped textures, or use the 32bits only for intricate liveries where the quality of finer
details will make a difference.
On the other hand, if you are using an older less powerful machine, or if you are not sure or don't know what all this means, go for the non-mipped dxt3 format.