General Air Yakovlev Yak-40 for FS98 by Matthias Lieberecht

Lieberecht@cw-net.de



Thank you for download this aircraft. Andrea Cini designed this

wonderful Yak-40 aircraft which I've used for the repaint. His

Aircraft is equipped with Moving Parts for Gear, Flaps and

Spoilers. I've made some minor changes to the Flight dynamics

to support the STOL capacity of the real Yak-40, a realistic

airspeed and a horizontal flight situation (AOA is almost zero).

Also new are the lightened windows at night.



About the Yak-40



The Yak-40 was first flown in 1966. The aircraft should replace the

IL-12 and IL-14 and it was the first civil aircraft made by Yakovlev

for short distances. Like other Russian aircraft the Yak-40 is very

robust and the landing gears are designed also for impracticable or

rough grounds. Especially for such grounds the Yak-40 has very good

STOL capacities. The aircraft can operate from 700 m. (2100 ft.)

runways and comes out with a much shorter runway for emergency landings.

More than 1000 Yak-40 were built. Aeroflot operated nearly 800 and

100 Yak's were exported. There are 900 Yak-40 actually flying and

for some smaller airlines this aircraft is the first they start with.



About General Air



General Air was a German commuter Airline which operates to the

Islands in the Northsea and some other German routes. They used

several Yak-40's, Do 28, Piper Pa-23, Commander 680 and DHC-6 which

mainly was used for the Helgoland Island of course of it's STOL

capacity. For further Informations read the enclosed General Air

textfile (German language only) which was written by Karl-Georg

Genth, a former General Air Pilot.



Some technical details



Length: 20.36 m.

Wing span: 25.00 m.

Height: 6.50 m.

Weight: 16000 Kg. (Max T/O Weight)

Payload: 2720 Kg.

Power: 3 Ivchenko AI-25 (1500 Kg/Th ea.)

Capacity: max. 40 Pax

Crew: 2-4



Installation



Just unzip all files to your Flightsim aircraft directory. All

folders will be created automatically.



Credits



I want to thank Andrea Cini (andrea_cini@hotmail.com) for this

great aircraft. Without him this General Air Yak-40 would not exist!

Thomas Viertbauer (thomas.viertbauer@jessenlenz.com) for the very

detailled informations about General Air and the great photos.



Feel free to send feedback or critic to:



Matthias Lieberecht

Lieberecht@cw-net.de



and visit my Homepage:

http://home.vr-web.de/~lieberecht/start.htm