zswobbie1 Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 Any ideas on a decent SR-71 for FS2004? I had one sometime ago that got lost in the wash somewhere. Many Thanks, Robin Robin Cape Town, South Africa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing_Z Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 The ex-ALPHASIM ex-Virtavia Sr-71 is still on sale under Glowing Heat banner. Look for it at the usual shopfronts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobSeaman Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 The Alphasim SR-71 (single and twin cockpit versions) for FS9 has been available at Virtavia's web site as freeware for several years now. :) Just go to the main web site (virtavia.com) and look for the "Virtavia freeware" link about 1/3 down the page. Virtavia used to be Alphasim and I think its a great idea they keep their older downloads available as freeware, both for use in older sims and as scenery objects for FSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing_Z Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Be interesting to find out what was added - if anything - to the payware GH model referred to above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zswobbie1 Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 Thanks, guys. I found the freeware Alphasim SR-71A & B, as well (hiding on my 'library' portable drive that I'd forgotten about) the Pilot SR-71! Dunno where I got that from. I also found Kazunori Ito's YF-12 & his M-21/D-21 Mothership as well. Then I found Ross McLennan's SR-71 that looks VERY interesting.. Methinks I'll wait for the weekend to sort this lot out. Then for a U-2 (or 2!) The Glowing Heat SR-71 looks great, but, due to our South African forex conversion rate... :-( Robin Cape Town, South Africa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Yeah, The Alphasim is really great. The gauges look real too! OOM errors? Read this. "The great thing about flight simulation is that in real life there are no do-overs." - Abraham Lincoln c. 1865 An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobSeaman Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Virtavia/Alpha have other great aircraft for FS9 and FS2002 in their freeware archive. :cool: All the V bombers are there and the B-52G/H download is very challenging to learn. Heck, learning to fly the B-52s is like drinking from a fire hose. :eek: You may need to "unlearn" some things that seem like second nature ("rotate" vs "unstick") in FS. The flight dynamics for the both G and H variants are VERY good, the B-52 has its own unique idiosyncrasies in real life and Alpha was able to reproduce most of them. :pilot: For that matter, there aren't many clunkers in Virtavia's freeware section. Alphasim's MDL files might not have been the most detailed, because I think Alpha was focused more on selling planes that all or most users could load without causing a "slide show", but the details to me are close enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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