Aeropro Eurofox MLA for FS2002 

(c) 2002 Joop van der Heijden 

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Meaning: it's free, it's provided *as is* without any express or implied warranty. Making copies and/or (re)distributing the product is permitted under the condition that no money, goods, services or whatsoever are demanded in return.

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Version 1.0, December 2002

The slovak Aeropro Eurofox is a microlight designed as a high wing monoplane supported by struts. A two-spar wing is provided with flaperon. Fuselage is a latticework of steel tubes. Tail unit is formed of a latticework tube frame. Landing gear is of a conventional type and although the aircraft is also available as taildragger in this FS version both aircraft have a trigear with nosewheel. The Eurofox is powered by a Rotax 912 UL engine. 

In the real world both aircraft from this FS version are owned and registrated by the flight instructors at the dutch flightschool (Adventure Flights) where I follow the RPL-MLA course.

I found that building this FS version of the Eurofox has contributed quite a lot to my real world flightlessons. F.i. the tuning of the flight dynamics has really increased my knowledgde of instruments, systems and aerodynamics and has also added some 30 flyinghours (and many, many starts and landings,... ) to my virtual logbook because of all the necessary testflying. It could be a recommandation to all student pilots: if the plane you're flying doesn't exist in FS then build it yourself. However if it already does exist then just try to build a better one,...


Known limitations, issues and bugs:

Pulling the stick after landing raises the nosewheel even at very low speeds. 

Sudden taxiturns can make the airplane so instable that it may fall on its side

Testbutton fuel checklight is on/off switch instead of pushbutton

Warning lights (fuel,generator and flydat) are too dim at night

Landing and strobelights are not visible 

The E6B flightcomputer bezel acts strange at rotation angles approx 45 deg from horizontal/vertical.

When using the FS2002 aircraft editor or manually modifying the aircraft.cfg file please keep in mind that because of differences between FS engine readings and the real world Rotax 912 values (like RPM and temperatures) the Flydat gauge contains built-in conversion routines. F.i. when the engine does 2000 rpm the flydat will show +/- 3800 rpm. 

Other things that still have to be examined/corrected are (among others) fuel burning rate and service ceiling.

Plans for upcoming releases:

Working on the bugs and issues
Rebuilding the visual model with a modern 3d development tool like GMAX
Building a working Garmin GPS and a Microair transponder for the PH-3M6
Building a working AccuNav Sport GPS for the PH-3H9


Current fileversions december 2002:

eurofox.gau     - v1.0.23   (Eurofox gauges)
e6b.gau         - v1.0.1    (E6B flightcomputer)
aircraft.cfg    - v1.0.3    (general aircraft specifications)
panel.cfg (3h9) - v1.0.4    (panel specification ph-3h9)
panel.cfg (3m6) - v1.0.7    (panel specification ph-3m6)


Please mail any comments to : digi_eurofox@hotmail.com

