Large Fierce Mammal

The real “Air 1″ serves lower mainland British Columbia in the traffic patrol role.

I happen to have a client; D. H.; now retired from a career as a pilot with RCMP Air Services, who shares with me an interest in virtual aviation using various computer based flight simulation platforms. We both agree it’s both cheaper and harder to die that way. This mutual interest has led me to the current matter, particularly since I keep promising to provide copies of my efforts to him but so far never have.

I happen to be reasonably skilled at repainting aircraft modelled in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 so I’ve embarked on a project intended to find, and if not found then to create RCMP Air Services textures for freeware FS2004 aircraft.

The first in the series wasn’t created by me. It’s the freeware Eurocopter EC120B Colibri modelled by Nemeth Designs and downloadable from their website here. The RCMP Air 1 textures are the beautiful work of Lou Waldman and can be found at the Hovercontrol website here.

I’m providing D. H. with a packaged version of all this, but anyone else who has difficulty finding and installing the goodies described is welcome to get in contact with me.

First, here are some screen shots of the simulator helicopter. Clicking on the pictures will expand them for a better view.

Air 1 at the airport in Scar Creek, B. C.; scenery is from Hovercontrol and available here

Another shot of Air 1 on a helipad at Vancouver International Airport.

Lastly, here’s the short film I made demonstrating this bird in all her glory. Grab some popcorn and enjoy!

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