Flight model for Emil's Malta - Add-on for Microprose European Air War.
v.5 - 23/4/2006

Version 5
Corrected instruments layout for G 50, Macchi 200 and 202, Spitfire Vb and Vc; improved gyro-compass readability for these latter as well as fuel gauge needle visibility for former two. Revised range for Macchi 200 and introduced fair fuel burn rates for all flyable single-engined fighters; you should no more run out of gas before reaching at least your home base, when flying Axis. Corrected as well smoke origin position on Macchi 200. Introduced grey tinged gunsights for above mentioned italian fighters.

Version 4
Removed a glitch which didn't allow some fighters to reach their planned altitude during cruise to target. Corrected Bf 109F-4 number of guns.

Version 3
Fixed all engine powers, wrong in previous v.2.

FEATURES
This FM is an attempt to introduce figures closer to historical about aicraft weights and engine performances. This procedure has been applied to all single-engined, flyable aircrafts. Also some minor issues of original Emil's patch have been corrected. In addition, cockpit instruments layout of G50bis has been corrected as well as have been added Mr Jelly's corrected "radiotxt.str" and "tarnames.str".

INSTALLATION
Execute the self-extracting file contained into this zip, extracting it into your EAW-Malta patched directory, leaving it overwrite existing files. Run the "2dcpt-install" batch file. Done!
To restore original Emil's FM, unzip into same directory original Emil's FlightGuns.zip.

SOURCES
To do this work, following references have been used:
Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II, originally published by Jane's Publishing Company 1946/47 - Reprinted by Bracken Books, London, England in 1989.
Aerei (italian aviation magazine), marzo 1977.
Mach 1 (italian edition of "Wings" by Orbis Publishing, London), 1978.
Dall'elica al getto, by Federico Filippi - 1983.
Bf 109F - Monogram's Close-Up No. 9, by Thomas Hitchcock - 1990.
Bf 109 - Storia del caccia Messerschmitt, by Nino Arena - 1980.
"The Supermarine Spitfire V Series", by Ted Hooton - Profile Publications Ltd. - 1967.
"I caccia FIAT 1930-1945", by Piero Vergnano - 1969.
The internet.

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