Flying Carpet's Flight Sim repaints...
Tianjin Airlines
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IATA CODE |
ICAO CODE |
CALLSIGN |
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GS |
GCR |
CHINA DRAGON |
With more airlines being merged into the Hainan Group, part of the rationalization plan led to operate all regional services under a specifically created entity, hence the founding of Grand China Express in 2004. The airline received its own AOC in 2007 and started operations with a small fleet of Dornier 328 Jets.
Based at Tianjin Binhai International Airport, the airline quickly grew to become the main regional carrier in China, currently serving over 90 cities with a fleet of some 60 aircraft.
The Dornier have been gradually replaced with larger Embraer ERJs and E-190s, with a few Airbus A320s being now added.
In 2009, the airline changed its name to Tianjin Airlines, resulting in quite a few livery variations within the fleet, some aircraft featuring the new colours, some still wearing the former livery, and some again in hybrid configuration with new titles over the old livery.
Up to date flightplans are available from Alpha India Group
Airbus A320
Tianjin Airlines has recently added Airbus A320s to its fleet in their new livery
To be used with the DJC AI Airbus A320 (IAE model) base model
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Dubbed the 'Chinese Manhattan', the huge financial district of Yujiapu is being developed in Tianjin and aptly promoted on Airbus A320 B-6789
To be used with the DJC AI Airbus A320 (IAE model) base model
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Embraer E-190
Part of Tianjin's E-190 fleet has been repainted in their full new colours, as featured on B-3129
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Embraer E-190 base model
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Some E-190s feature a hybrid livery with new Tianjin titles over the former Grand China livery
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Embraer E-190 base model
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Embraer E-190 B-3150 features special markings promoting 'Erke to be number 1'
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Embraer E-190 base model
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Embraer E-190 B-3152 is another aircraft in the Tianjin fleet featuring additional 'Harmony' titles. (Thanks to Ren Yihe for the translation!)
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Embraer E-190 base model
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This colourful logojet promotes the Tianjin Morning Post newspaper
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Embraer E-190 base model
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Yet another logojet for Tianjin Airlines, this one promoting the Chinese social network 'Sina Weibo'
To be used with the Ai Aardvark Embraer E-190 base model
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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.
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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.