The Constellation, with its beautiful curving lines and triple tails was a product of 1930s America and the headlong dash for superiority in wartime aviation technology. The aircraft embodies the power and the romance of the large piston-engined airliners of this period.
With 11 aircraft supplied in three model types and a complete Flight Engineer's station, radio station and Co-pilot's station, Constellation Professional is the ultimate Constellation package. Models inlcuded are the C-69 Military Transport Prototype, the C-69/L-049A, and the L-049A first production type.
A complete Virtual Cockpit is modelled and the flight model has been tested by real-world Constellation pilots. A replica of a typical cabin is included to provide a taste of what life was like aboard these great airliners.
Constellation Professional has been developed exclusively for FSX (SP2 & DX10 Preview compatible) and makes use of the all-new FSX graphics features to amazing effect.
Aircraft and liveries
C-69 Military Transport Prototype
- Military Green
- Later all-alloy finish
C-69/L-049A
- Lockheed factory livery, pre-delivery (TWA striping on the tail)
L-049A First production type
- BOAC 'Baltimore' British Overseas Airways
- BOAC 'Baltimore' British Overseas Airways - with Speed Pack
- TWA - Trans World Airlines
- TWA - Trans World Airlines - with Speed Pack
- PAN AM - 'American Clipper' Pan American World Airways
- PAN AM - 'American Clipper' Pan American World Airways - with Speed Pack
- AOA - American Overseas Airlines
- AOA - American Overseas Airlines - with Speed Pack
Virtual cockpit
This fully functional and detailed Virtual Cockpit has it all!
- 'Liqui-smooth' gauges
- All controls such as fuel dump levers, trim controls, autopilot gear and nose-wheel steering wheel (where employed)
- Complete Flight Engineer's station, radio station and Co-pilot's station with fully functional equipment and gauges, detail animations including outer, middle and inner marker arrays, course deviation meters, prop feathering gear and prop reversers on the throttles.
It is intended that the aircraft be flown from the Virtual Cockpit but a set of pop-up gauges is available in 2D mode, mostly to aid with navigation (VOR, ADF and 'flying six' gauges, radio stack etc.)
FSX graphics features
Constellation Professional has been developed exclusively for FSX (SP2 & DX10 Preview compatible) and uses the all-new FSX graphics features to amazing effect
- External cast shadow effects and dynamic self-shadowing on aircraft
- Normal (bump) mapping creating extremely realistic airframe skin
- Specular material effects replicate the signature metal airframes
- High definition DDS textures that are frame-rate friendly
Numerous custom animations
- Fully animated exterior models with correct operation 'Fowler' type flaps
- Highly detailed undercarriage
- Working fuel dump
- Windshield wipers (operated from the Virtual Cockpit)
- Engine cowl flaps
- Animated extending ground boarding stairs truck
- CGI style modelled stewardess figure greeting you at the boarding door (L049A civilian model only) and animated pilots
- All models feature a selectable ground crew member to watch over you starting the engines, along with wheel chocks and fire extinguisher
- Steerable nose wheels (castoring and power-operated types where used)
- Opening main door with an appropriately period detailed passenger cabin interior
- Opening cockpit crew door
Effects and details
- Bump maps, reflections and accurate texture schemes
Engine start effects
Landing and taxi lights
Glazed windows with interior detail visible
Night textures for lighting effects
Interior cabin lighting at night
You want smoke? Just start up the engines and you will see clouds of it, along with flames from the exhausts! Under high power you can see the exhaust flames as well as the expected black exhaust trail as you power though the skies.
If you have to dump fuel watch as it discharges through the wing vents into the sky.
Custom sounds
Full custom sound pack along with the distinctive Constellation brake squeal!
Cabin interior
To complete the period effect there is an appropriate period cabin interior, complete with animated passenger (L049A civilian model only).
Pro Paint pack
The Pro Paint pack contains texture files with registration marks and other aids for correct placement and alignment of textures. Some experience with Adobe Photoshop is assumed and recommended. A flyable 'Paintshop' model is supplied for use in Flight Simulator for testing user-created schemes. This model is exterior only and is designed specifically as a painters' aid.
System Requirements
- Flight Simulator X (SP2 and DX10 preview compatible)
- 2.5GHz PC or any Dual Core
- 512Mb RAM
- 128Mb 3D graphics card
- Windows XP/Vista/7
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The breaks squeal when used just like the real things.
The planes fly a little mushy but relatively fast. More than anything this plane looks like no other and screams class. The one passenger cam view does show off how elegant air travel once was. Spacious seating that give the impression of a high class picnic in the sky with plush seating and decadent detailing. Not like modern air travel where seating is typically a experiment in body packing as many as possible rather than a pleasant experience that it once was. Problem though, the cabin camera doesn’t pan around like say a cockpit view does. You can use combo key commands to move forward, backward, up, down, right and left in a very cumbersome manner. No free panning around and it’s a bit annoying.
Night lighting is very nice, but I can’t get the taxi lights to work.
All in all it’s a great plane, at a really good price that is a nice flyer.
Based on use with FSX Steam. 3.3ghz i7 16GB ram, Intel UHD 630 integrated GPU 128MB dedicated Video memory.
- Flight Simulator X (SP2 and DX10 preview compatible)
- 2.5GHz PC or any Dual Core
- 512Mb RAM
- 128Mb 3D graphics card
- Windows XP/Vista/7
