About This File
FSX Alitalia Douglas DC-8-62, In the late 1960s Alitalia, Italian Air Lines, took delivery of nine DC8-62 and two DC8-62CF (Convertible Freighters) and utilized these ultra long range aircraft into the 1980s. The aicraft reproduced in this package is a real DC8-62 flown by the author (logging some 8000 hours, including three years as flight instructor on the type) in the good old times and it features reflective metallic skin plus full animations. The livery is that of Alitalia, Italian Air Lines, used In the late 60's. The panel background was created entirely from scratch, based on photographic material found on the net and some material from the original Alitalia Flight Manual. The gauges layout of the panel is the one used by Alitalia, with some little changes due to sim restrictions. The autopilot panel does not reproduce exactly the real one, but it is a modified B737 autopilot, to avoid boring pop-up windows. Most of the gauges are in .xml format while a few are in .gau format, expressely created by the author. Included in this model there is also a virtual cockpit, with working essential flight instruments and animated flight controls, plus camera views. By Capt. Italo D'Attomo.