Introduction
Members wishing to fly with 2-4-CIX, or watch the displays which they put on for members two or three times a year, MUST download and install some or all of these aircraft, depending on the display details published on the Forum. The installation instructions can be found on the Pilot Instructions and Spectator Instructions pages. These instructions must be followed EXACTLY, otherwise members will not see the display as intended. This would be unfortunate to put it mildly, after the months of practice the pilots put in.
Display Teams
The 2-4-CIX display teams are: The Tigers, The Chips, The Javlins, and The CATS. The Friesenflieger team which often joins us in our displays is also included in the Display Teams category. The WWI and WWII aircraft included under Solo Performers also display as teams.
Downloads
In addition to the unique "Spectator and Chair" for use by spectators, there are two categories of aircraft listed on this page. The Display Teams and the Solo Performers.
The Display Teams list comprises the aircraft flown by the several 2-4-CIX Aerobatic and Formation Flying teams. They are all freeware and will display correctly in FS9 or FSX.
The Solo Performers list comprises all those aircraft which members have from time to time flown in our displays. Some are regulars, some not. The virtual Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, although a formation flight, is listed under the Solo Performers category, as the aircraft flown under the vBBMF "banner" vary from show to show.
Several of these aircraft are flagged as "Non-flyable". These aircraft have had elements removed to reduce the file sizes, which makes them unflyable by a human being, but Flight Simulator still regards them as flyable. Members wishing to download a version of these aircraft which can be flown by a human being, should contact the 2-4-CIX Team Leader for the necessary files.
The TIGERS (de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth)
These are the 2-4-CIX Tiger Team liveries for the freeware Anthony Lynch Tiger Moth for FSX only.http://www.antsairplanes.com. 2-4-CIX display livery is by Peter Dodds. The download files contain all aircraft in the team. These files may be updated from time to time as the membership of the team changes. The current version reference of the download is shown following the download link above.
The main change in this version is that all three smoke colours
installed in these aircraft are now in a single file with accompanying
modifications to the aircraft.cfg file. See and be seen in
spectacular red white and blue. To see the coloured smoke,
the file fx_Smoke_TIGER.fx, in the CIX-TIGER\effects folder,
must be copied into the main FSX effects folder.
News for 2020
Our Member Johan van Wyck is developing an X-Plane version of the Tiger-Moth, and has now published it - version 1.0.1. He has graciously given us permission to also publish a 2-4-CIX liveried version on our website.
The liveries included in this download have been developed by the current display team from, and are being kept aligned with, the FSX version.
WIKI link: de Havilland Tiger Moth
Download The 2-4-CIX TIGERS for FSX (58.5MB) - Last change: March 06 2024 00:57:04.
Download The 2-4-CIX TIGERS for X-Plane (58.2MB) - Last change: January 20 2020 21:00:16.
Solo Performers
Unlike the 2-4-CIX teams above, where the aircraft to be flown are those listed, the aircraft flown by the solo performers in 2-4-CIX displays may be sourced from a number of places, according to pilot preference. It is VITALLY IMPORTANT therefore, that everyone taking part in a display follows the Aircraft Selection Instructions precisely.
Supermarine Spitfire
Aircraft.cfg title = CIX-SPIT
Leading our Solo Performance group is perhaps the icon of all the military aircraft of all time. There are many variations of this aircraft available, freeware and payware, and 2-4-CIX Spitfire pilots are free to choose their favourite, be it payware or freeware. 2-4-CIX Spitfire pilots often escort the Avro Lancaster, and continue with a display routine of their own.
Model by Aeroplane Heaven. Flight files by Jerry Beckwith. Texture by John Glanville.
Wiki link: Supermarine Spitfire.
Download The 2-4-CIX SPIT (23.4MB) - Last change: June 18 2019 23:12:38.
Avro Lancaster
Aircraft.cfg title = CIX-LANC
Completing our virtual Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is the Avro Type 683 B.1 Lancaster, S for Sugar. Her real counterpart is now preserved at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. This aircraft features in most of the 2-4-CIX displays, flown by "the boss" of CIX VFR Club, escorted by the Spitfire and Hurricane (and sometimes a Messerschmitt Bf109!). In order that everyone taking part in a display sees a Lancaster, especially any fighter escort (!), the Aircraft Selection Instructions must be strictly followed.
Model by Plane-Design. The original aircraft, together with 7 other variants, is payware, but this variant only is available freeware by permission of Ed Walters, Plane-Design.
Wiki link: Avro Lancaster.
Download CIX-LANC (4.0Mb) [Non-Flyable]
Download The 2-4-CIX LANC (3.9MB) [Non-Flyable] - Last change: June 18 2019 23:11:16.
Technical Information (For those who want to know more)
Why do spectators and other pilots in 2-4-CIX displays need these particular models? Look at this abbreviated extract from a typical aircraft.cfg file.
[fltsim.0]
title=Avro Type 683 Lancaster PA474
sim=Lancaster
model=
texture=1
...
[fltsim.1]
title=Avro Type 683 Lancaster R5868
sim=Lancaster
model=1
texture=2
...
[fltsim.2]
title=Avro Type 683 Lancaster T441
sim=Lancaster
model=1
texture=3
...
Note that the title= lines are all different. The texture= lines will also be different, and possibly the model= and other lines too. FSX treats them as three separate aircraft - although because they are all variants of the same aircraft type, it combines all the variants into one folder for compactness. Once you realise that they are all in fact separate aircraft, understanding the process of aircraft display is easier.
Multiplayer sends the "title=..." line from the aircraft variant the pilot is flying to all people in the multiplayer session. The FSX running on each individual's PC looks for an exact match of that title within its system. If FSX finds a match, then that is the aircraft which will be displayed. The 2-4-CIX aircraft have had their titles matched accurately, So if you have installed these approved models and the display pilots have followed instructions you will see the correct aircraft. If your multiplayer can't find an exact match then it makes an educated guess based on the "ui_typerole=...." variable in the aircraft.cfg file, NOT the "title =" variable. You'd probably see a Spitfire as a Cessna, because they both have one piston engine. If the ui_typerole = " variable is missing from the aircraft.cfg file, FS makes another guess, and again, most often, this will be a Cessna 172!
That is why, if you have two aircraft of the same type, one from this list and another which you will be flying, then multiplayer may not display the correct one. Even if you have the same aircraft from the same designer using the same texture, it would almost certainly not display correctly, because it wouldn't have the appropriate "title= ". That is why "Option 1" of the Aircraft Selection Instructions requires that you do NOT install the 2-4-CIX model of the aircraft you wish to fly in a display - only all the others.
So everyone has to be careful that they only have ONE aircraft with each "title = " label in their Simobjects/Airplanes folder. FSX gives an error message when two variants, from any aircraft, have the same "title = ". e.g. if you downloaded the CIX-LANC from here after modifying yours to have "title = CIX-LANC ", and you keep both aircraft in your Aircraft folder, you would get an "Aircraft Initialisation Failure" error message.
Engine fire effects, which sometimes appear, apparently at random, have been removed from these approved models. Smoke effects have been modified and should behave correctly.
