DHC-1B-2 Chipmunk – Bubble Canopy [Download]

The DHC Chipmunk was designed by engineers at the Canadian offices of the De Havilland Aircraft Company and became the RAF’s military trainer of choice in the 1950s.

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) had their own version designed, with its most distinctive feature being the large two-piece bubble canopy. This disposed of much of the framework of the standard design and provided a much wider field of view which is so essential in the training environment. It stayed in service with the RCAF until 1972.

The model featured in this add-on for the Just Flight DHC-1 Chipmunk (required for this Bubble Canopy version to work) is the DHC-1B-2 and features many other differences apart from the bubble canopy which distinguishes this version.
 

FEATURES

In addition to the features that come as standard with the DHC-1 Chipmunk pack:

Cockpit

Electrical panel is mounted on the top coaming in front of the pilotElectrical panel contains switches for the lights, a starter, battery switch, push-button ID light, retractable landing light switch and a volt meterBespoke radio unit fitted ahead of the compass on the floor tunnel.Canopy has the appropriate latch system and emergency release mechanism.Primer lever and carburettor heat button are correctly placedCombined oil temperature and pressure gaugePanel carries the appropriate gauges including a fuel pressure gaugeFuel cock is replaced by a Left/Right/Off tank selectorMagneto switches are on the top of the fuselageCockpit/canopy heating system with controlsAll the flying instruments are appropriate to this modelSeats have built-in pull release for the harnesses
 

Exterior

Retractable landing light in port underwingStreamlined navigation lights on wingtipsRecognition lights buried in the wingroots.Repositioned ground power connector on fuselage alongside a battery boxHot air exhaust duct and flap under centre fuselageTail light First Aid pack on aft fuselage top areaSolid framed step-plates mounted on the flap and wing surfaces
 

Liveries

Royal Canadian Air Force – Yellow – ‘035’Civilian – Silver with light blue and red flash – ‘F-CHIP’ 

Other features

Manual supplementAuthentic flight dynamics for this bubble canopy version, with different power and speed limitationsAppropriate checklists
PC Minimum System Requirements:PC Recommended System Requirements:Processor:   2.0GHz or any Dual CoreRAM:   2 GBHard Disk:   370 MBVideo Card:   256 MB VRAMSupported OS:   Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XPAdditional Requirements:   Requires Flight Simulator X (Acceleration, Gold or SP2 required), FSX: Steam Edition or Prepar3D v1/v2/v3.
Also Requires Just Flight DHC-1 Chipmunk.

Product Features

• This DHC-1B-2 Chipmunk variant brings you the bubble canopy version of the aircraft, as used by the Royal Canadian Air Force, and is an expansion for the Just Flight DHC-1 Chipmunk.
• This model comes in an RCAF and a civilian livery, and features many other differences from the standard DHC-1 variant, including a bespoke radio unit and three-way tank selector. All gauges and panels modelled are specific to the DHC-1B-2 variant.