FREE BONUS: Download extra SAAB 105 Texture: 'BLACK PETE' , a complete black SK60 from the 16th Wing in Uppsala and a livery decipting the coulors of the 4th Wing in Östersund, made by Ronny Olofsson of the Swedish Flightsimulator Club: sk60texture.zip 9mb

FSQuality designer Christian Haiböck created this aircraft for the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and spent uncounted hours, to render this aircraft as close as possible to the orignial. The original, to which Christian Haiböck has a very close relationship, as he is one of the mechanics at the Austrian Army, who are servicing this aircraft type. This means, that he really knows the SAAB 105, which
he affectionate calls „his baby“.

And this is what you feel when looking at the aircraft and flying it in your Flight Simulator 2004.
Designed with G-Max (off course) the plane’s appearance proves the affection of it’s creator.
Inside the cockpit the same thing. The custom made gauges are designed to meet the original ones and even the mirror is activated and shows the attitude of the plane. But most important for any aircraft-add-on for the Flight Simulator is certainly, that the flightperformance meets the performance of the original. Christian Haiböck knows his „baby“ inside out, and he knows how the SAAB 105 behaves, so one may think, that this part was easy for him. Not at all. He had to satisfy the most critical „Betatesters“ one can immagine – his flying collegues, the pilots of the Austrian Army, flying the SAAB. And his goal was, to get a „very well done – the model behaves as real as is gets“ from these guys... Well, he made it.

The result was, that the different models Christian Haiböck has created, behaves in part surprising different – as they do in reality.

Description

The Saab 105 is a double seated, twin engined jet trainer and light attack aircraft. Built in light-metal it has shouldered wings and a T-tail unit. The aircraft is equipped with two ejection seats placed aside or optional four fixed seats.

Engines

The General Electric J85-GE17-B is a single spool turbojet engine with an eight stage compressor and a two stage turbine. Variable inlet guide vanes and bleed valves enable optimal compressor performance at all rpm. Fuel is scheduled by a hydromechanic fuel control unit. In addition to the thrust, the engines provide bleed air and drive the hydraulic pumps and the generators. Max thrust: 12,6 kN per engine at 16800 rpm.

Electrical system

Each engine drives one 10kW DC-generator, which is used as starter motor on start up. These two generators are the main power supply for the DC bus. In addition to them, there are two nickel cadmium type batteries with a nominal voltage of 24V and a capacity of 32 Ah, which are normally parallel connected. For starting the engines the batteries are automatically switched in serial mode to prevent a too big drop of voltage. Powered from the DC-bus, two dynamic inverters are feeding the two AC busses 3x 115V 400Hz. Inverter 1 (UMFI) feeds the MAIN AC bus and Inverter 2 (UMFII) feeds the ARMAMENT bus in position “ON”. If Inverter 1 fails, Inverter 2 can feed the MAIN AC bus by switching UMFII to “RESERVE”. In this case, the ARMAMENT bus is not fed.

Fuel system

The maximum content of fuel is 2050 liters which is divided into wing – and fuselage tanks on each side, which cannot be selected separately. The wing tanks are always emptied first by using bleed air from the engines, to fill up the fuselage tanks. Inside the fuselage tanks there are small inverted flight tanks in which the fuel boost pumps to the engines are situated. A flight condition with negative g is possible up to ten seconds. On low rpm, the fuel pressure resulting from the bleed air pressure and the gravity feed is enough for running the engines. For rpm higher than 90%, the fuel bust pumps (TANKPUMPEN) must be used.

Anti icing system

The Pitot probe is heated electrically and operated by the “PITOT”– switch. The switch “ENTEISUNG” operates the hot air valve to heat the compressor inlets and the electrical intake duct heater, but only when the generators are online. Wings and empennage have no anti icing system.

Flight controls

 This aircraft is equipped with conventional flight controls. Elevators and rudder are actuated mechanical by cables and pushrods. Additionally the ailerons are supported by a hydraulic booster, the flaps are actuated by hydraulics only and can be selected in three positions: “E”= flaps up “S”= start position (20°) “L”= flaps land (40°).

Features

• 8-Liveries
• 2 Modi - SAAB105 und SAAB105 auto setup
• G-Max Model, full animations
• 2D-cockpit
• virtual cockpit
• mirrors in 2-D cockpit
• individual panels for each model
• animated pilot, passengers in 4 seater

• free repaint set will follow soon