I take my dog to a park in Balboa Park, which has outstanding views of approaching aircraft. I too had thought that may be the case the first couple of times, after watching countless approaches, I am 100% certain I've seen several aircraft single ventral strake removed on many aircraft, on one wing only. I've seen plenty of split-scimitar 737s overhead where I swear they were missing the lower strake, but when I eventually got a good enough view at a different angle, I could then see them quite clearly. There's no way that 40% of split-scimitar 737s are missing a piece of the winglet. Where are you seeing these planes missing the lower part? If they're flying overhead and you're looking at them from below/at an angle, I'd almost guarantee that it's an optical illusion due to lighting. I was not talking about the MAX wingtip device as that seems to be a single part. So, you can’t have a dorsal fin missing without the entire assembly missing.Īs per the OP, he was discussing the ventral fin actually what was being asked about, and in that case I really don’t know what the MMEL or SDL calls out for on the 737. and if you look at the pictures you reference, the dorsal fin is the primary structure and the ventral fin is attached to it. Looking at these photos they are indeed a 2 piece assembly The Split Scimitar winglets are normal Blended winglets with a new cap on top and anchor points added to the side to mount the lower section (and associated reinforcement). I think your thinking that their made like MAX style winglets as one piece. Not too familiar with the 737 but just looking at pictures it seems it is an all-or-nothing wing tip assembly. You can find me on YouTube via the link below.Considering the Split Scimitar retrofit assemblies are all based on the existing blended winglet, missing a “dorsal” fin of the winglet would cause the entire winglet assembly to be missing as the ventral fin is a part of the assembly from what I can see so you can’t have one missing without the other. X-CSL and the AI Models rights are respective of their creators and contributors. This mod only contains the mtl.dat replacement file.
As people file bug reports or I spot these myself in-sim, I'll be sure to make adjustments and update this pack wherever possible. There may be a few issues with either models not working or co-ordinates being way off the mark. Load up Microsoft Flight Simulator, connect to IVAO and wait for your new and improved IVAO traffic to appear! Drag and drop the 'mtl.dat' into the PilotCore folder. You can find this folder in the same place as the Community/Official folders at 'Microsoft Flight Simulator\IVAO\PilotCore'.
Head to your Microsoft Flight Simulator directory and go inside the IVAO PilotCore folder. This should give you a lot more to enjoy, rather than looking at the same few planes over again. This model matching mod increases the number of IVAO AI planes from 1,230 (although only around 10% of these actually worked) to 2,248. There are in fact over 800 in different variants and liveries, not including the -900 too! Models for the A330, A340, A380, 739, 77W, 748 and more were there but not even being used! Snooping around the files, this appeared not to be the case. IVAO X-CSL MTL however only appeared to have a single model, an Air Canada B738 with split-scimitar winglets. One of the most common aircraft in the skies is the Boeing 737-800.