MD-87 and MD-90 ER's

[joseph29]

How do you know which paint uses the ER model and the non ER model?

Specificly the Danish Air Transport MD-87, Saudi Arabian MD-90, China Southern MD-90, and China Eastern MD-90.

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

Have you read the supporting MD80/90 service/handling/release notes ?

I've actually covered these details there

"ALL" of the MD87 and MD90 textures so far released use the standard MD87 and MD90 base packs .... meaning none of what's so far released uses any of the ER or IGW base pack versions.

HOWEVER ....

Any of these current MD87 textures display pefectly fine with both of their respective base packs .... and the same applies also in regard to any of the current the MD90 textures and each of their base packs as well.

Our MD-87ER, MD-90-30ER, and MD-90-30IGW represent "higher weight" versions of the standard MD-87 and MD-90-30 respectively.

In reality these aircraft are "extremly rare" considering only 1 or 2 of the ER/IGW versions of the MD90-30's were ever produced/sold .... and probasbly less than a handful of MD87ER's existt (I think 1 went to AUSTRIAN as OE-LBM or LBL).

I wasn't originally going to prepare base packs for these other rare versions, but, did so, in the end, only because I thought it was important to try to represent the entire line/family .... as completly as possible .... regardless of how rare or few in number these additional aircraft versions may be. My general feeling was .... only ever 1 B367-80 ever built .... as well as only temporarary DC9-30 REFAN too .... both of which we represent here at HJG .... so .... why not represent the rare "EXTENDED RANGE" and "INCRERASED GROSS WEIGHT" versions of the MD87 and MD90-30 also !

When specific textures are released for any of these other rare aircraft versions they will be clearly identified within their downloads page text data as follows ....

MD-87ER
MD-90-30ER
MD-90-30IGW

As I said above .... "NONE" are available yet .... BUT .... any of the textures so far provided will fit the models contained within these other base pack files, so, folks can, if they wish, still try them out like that way. Performance wise .... the differences are small .... BUT .... the higher weights and engine thrust (as may apply to each) "do" result in "differences".

Mark C
AKL/NZ