Lionheart Creations Ltd. is pleased to announce the re-release of the Classic Bellanca Cruisemaster, Build 2.0. This is a stand alone aircraft package that comes with 14 seperate textures, 3 themes of panels, detailed Virtual Cockpits, and a custom sound pack.
The Bellanca Cruisemaster originally was the only Bellanca by Lionheart Creations and was an immediate success. It was later followed by many requests for other models, and soon the Cruisemaster became part of the larger package of the Bellanca fleet. But now, you can once again get only the Cruisemaster as a simple, stand alone aircraft.
The exterior of the Cruisemaster was quite different from the standard Bellanca's, as it sported a set of kidney shaped dual scoop openings of which had smart little chrome grilles inside. The earliest Cruisemasters even had an automovitive like decorative metal trim down the sides that started at the front of the cowling. The cowling engine access door is animated so that you can see the tight fitting flat six Franklin engine. Use tailhook command to open this panel.
It is found that people rather like to save an FS adventure with their plane parked with engine off for a more thorough adventure of realism, requiring a bit of preparation for a cold start, checklist go-through, and pre-flighting. The Cruisemaster was given a neat feature for these poeple called 'Tie Down Mode'. When you save the plane in 'Wing-fold', and you open your flight, you will find your plane tied down to blocks, an antique wooden exterior rudder lock over the rudders surfaces, a pitot cover/flag, and an airchart/map tucked up over the front bracer bars over the instrument dash top to block the sun from the gauges. Tapping wingfold will bring the tie-down mode down and you are good to check your oil and begin preflighting your antique classic.
The interior of the Cruisemaster features a miriad of various 'operable' controls, varying from the standard throttle, mixture, and prop controls, to the landing gear crank, park brake handle, emergency hand operated fuel pump, to misc animations such as a removing fuse door cover to reveal the aircraft fuse box center, an opening map box cubby, heater control knob, and the fuel management selectors. Even the passenger seat folds forward when the door is openend to for passenger access.
A feature that is becoming a new wave in FS aircraft is the convenient 'hiding control yokes'. One click and the flight controls hide away and one suddenly has perfect view in the Virtual Cockpit of all gauges and switches. This is part of the new 2.0 Build series of LHC Classic Bellanca's.
The once well known Bellanca airfield, airport number 65 in the United States back in historic days of aviation has been recreated. Bellanca field was the birth place to perhaps 1800 Bellanca's, ranging from the Junior, up to the Cruisemaster and even included the earliest mini-liners of early Bellanca stardom. The original Bellanca field no longer stands, but Lionheart Creations Ltd now brings the field back, which features static aircraft on the field, authentic and nastalgic factory buildings created from old black and white photos, and an actual AFCAD generated runway to land on.