OwlAI has gone live with the first four F-104 AI packages

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I am happy to announce that today OwlAI has released the first four F-104 packages of the Ralf Kreibich Collection. For the time being they will be only available from the download center of The Owl's Nest. Every package has its installer, which will offer you to install into FS9 and/or FSX. If you feel paranoid about installers you can choose to extract everything into your %temp% folder - but then its your turn to put everything where it belongs.

You will find a Canadian, a German, an Italian and a special US package, the later containing the Starfighter Display Team and some NASA paints.

Please have a look into the documentation - a link will be created in your start menu under The Owl's Tools / Owl-AI. It contains a bunch of eye candy screen shots and all the credits that need to be given. My special thank goes out to Ray Parker, who was testing and painting and testing and painting and.... Ray, it is a pleasure to work with you - I hope we will continue like this in future

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The F-104 JASDF package has been released as well. You find it at the same place in the Download Center.

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I have uploaded the release V 1.10 of all packages. New are the Belgian, the Danish and the Netherlands package. The US package has been enhanced with the 434th TFS RED DEVILS, the 198th TFS Puerto Rico and the 83rd FIS Taiwan.

Changes - Read with care:

1. The F-104 flight model is from here on solely that of Mike MacIntyre. Ray has asked me to stop releasing his model.
2. The lights referenced in V 1.0 were Shockwave's. This version comes with light made by Mike - thanks again, Mike!
3. I have harmonized all aircraft.cfg. Not only the technical section, but as well the [fltsim.x] sections where I have enforced a title standard.

For that reason, the new installer will remove the last installation. If you have made any changes that you want to keep, you must make a copy of it before running the new installer. Also if you have made any fllight plans chance is that they will fail with the new version (if the title has changed). I know this is most inconvenient, but better now than any later. It will not happen again with any model in future.

Known Issues
For some configurations the lights are wrongly attached. I need to think about how this can be resolved.

Due to all these changes and a heavy real life work load the flight plans are still not ready for release. I hope to have them ready soon.

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I have uploaded Version 1.11 of the F-104. This version only fixes the light section.
Those who have Version 1.10 installed should download a small update package (OwlAI-F-104-Ver-110-to-Ver-111-Light-Fix). It contains the correct aircraft.cfg for all released packages. You have to copy them yourself.