[UPDATE] Cessna 172 Bush kit (freeware) | Bagolu

A powerfull member of the short take-off and landing capable Skyhawk family built on a Lycoming 210HP STC

https://flightsim.to/file/12387/cessna-172-bush-kit

This is a plane patch over Asobo’s Skyhawk. When installing this mod, it adds a new plane to your hangar.

This mod respects the Game Content Usage Rules from Microsoft.

It includes :

  • an in-game short manual (help icon on the panel)
  • state saving (all buttons, levers, options…)

Model modifications of the original Asobo Skyhawk plane included :

  • Large and stable bush wheels
  • Sportsman STOL Camber Cuffs on the wings
  • Increased flaps angle

It also includes all the modifications made for my other mods :

  • working doors, windows, sunvisors
  • a configuration book to choose all options
  • wheel chocks, tiedowns, covers, gpu
  • VFR maps on a cardboard on the yoke
  • a tablet to display external applications (sky4sim, fs mca, vfrmap…)
  • visible pilot, copilot, passengers
  • custom seats configuration (pax, cargo)
  • checklist cards and flip checklist box
  • various radio stacks (vfr, all radios, pms750, tds750nxi)
  • optionnal garmin G5 units
  • state saving
  • etc.

Even though the mod was initialy released on april 09, 2021 on fs.to, this thread starts at v3.0.0 so I can give you more development insights and update news.

Feel free to discuss the mod in this topic : Cessna 172 Bush kit

Happy bush flying !

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v3.0.0 is out

Major rework, the same kind the taildragger has just received !

  • I have abandonned the reference to the 2 existing Asobo interior models (G1000 & classic), as it was getting harder and harder to follow the updates and impossible to debug with encrypted files
  • All features from my other mods have been backported to this one through a huge model edit :
    • working doors, windows, sunvisors
    • a configuration book to choose all options
    • wheel chocks, tiedowns, covers, gpu
    • VFR maps on a cardboard on the yoke
    • a tablet to display external applications (sky4sim, fs mca, vfrmap…)
    • visible pilot, copilot, passengers
    • custom seats configuration (pax, cargo)
    • checklist cards and flip checklist box
    • various radio stacks (vfr, all radios, pms750, tds750nxi)
    • optionnal garmin G5 units
    • state saving
    • Retro interiors (a few liveries available)
    • etc.
  • New features and fixes for this mod :
    • Manual flaps lever between the seats (you can use an axis/mouse or up/down buttons through 4 positions)
    • Rivets are now rendered correctly
    • light blueish windshield (exterior only)

Please, note that old liveries will need to be updated for this plane : it’s like a new variant. Texture pictures will be fully compatible, it’s a matter of configuration and layout changes only ! Feel free to contact me if you need support.

That’s a lot of changes and even if they’re almost the same as the taildragger variant, I hope there won’t be too much bugs left here.

Fly low, land everywhere !

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v3.0.2

Fixes:

  • Blue & gray variant had an invalid panel. All instruments were blank.
  • GPU was showing in air spawn when active in state saving

v3.1.0

Following the Reims Rocket update, here’s the GPS update too !

This updates brings two radio stack variants :

  • WT GNS430
  • KLN90b
    Use the book to select them, like the other variants.

Other new features :

  • Panel cover can now be used with G5 units
  • New 3D model for HSI

Fixes:

  • GPS & NAV emissive label in HDI fix (on correct circuit)
  • Gauges textures reworked a little

If you want to use the KLN90B, you’ll have to install in your community dir the mod from falcon71. Get it on github

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v3.2.1

MSFS2024 information:

  • This plane is currenlty mostly compatible with MSFS2024 as a legacy port, that is to say, without fancy new 2024 features.
  • It flies the same, all features work the same. The current issues in dev alpha are common to all aircraft from MSFS2020 (lights, pilots avatars…)
  • One feature is not compatible anymore : manual defrost uses a hack on the windshield that’s very bad in MSFS2024 : I need to remove it

I’ll probably try to work on it and make it a native MSFS2024 plane : use native dust/mud layers, native pax & cargo if we can
Of course, if my computer can handle it (not sure at all)

Changes:

  • added lights on radios and GPS : use the light knob to adjust
  • removed manual defrost for MSFS2024 compatibility

I wish you good bush flights either on MSFS2020 or on MSFS2024 !

v3.2.2

MSFS2024 information:

  • This plane is currenlty mostly compatible with MSFS2024 as a legacy port, that is to say, without fancy new 2024 features.
  • Screens still have bad visibility. Asobo has a fix since dev alpha but still hasn’t been delivered.

Changes:

  • Fix: vloc & from/to indic.
  • 2024 aoa fix
  • 2024 tweak : removed all “created by” not to mess plane grouping
  • windshield defrost renamed (. removed)

Happy 2025 flying year !

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v3.3.1

MSFS2024 information:

  • This plane is currenlty mostly compatible with MSFS2024 as a legacy port, that is to say, without fancy new 2024 features.

Changes:

  • Altimeter now with both mb and inHg
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AUDIO PACKS

As Echo19 has just released the Cessna 172 Precision Audio Pack, I worked on a simple mod to enable additional sound packs.

You will find an extra mod on my website, at the Bushkit download page, with the name bagolu-c172-bush-externalsoundpack.zip

This optional mod enables Boris Audio Works C172 sound set or Echo19 Cessna 172 Precision Audio Pack. Any other pack modifying the default C172 sound should work too.

You need to have installed in community (or throught the store) :

  • my Cessna 172 bushkit mod
  • Boris Audio Works C172 sound set OR Echo19 Cessna 172 Precision Audio Pack
  • my bagolu-c172-bush-externalsoundpack mod

Nb. both soundpacks support part of the custom sounds I included in my aircraft. Some of them may be missing as the packs are inteded to work on default C172