Sirrus

Meanwhile, our group of Veterans are back having "done" Thiepval, Beaumont-Hamel and the Ulster Tower.(The Ulster Tower make the best tea in Continental Europe, really recommended)
So we too can return to "Blighty". Charlotte Allen, 5 feet nothing, with the look of Marilyn Monroe but with a fringe, guides our passengers gently back to their seats and we can get airborne again.

As we climb into what was a clear blue sky, the weather starts to change

We try to climb over the cloud aware that there is a cold front somewhere out there...

Then as we start to think about alternatives, there is Le Touquet, sighs of relief all round.

Being as Sean Beckett did the take off, I get to do the landing
Not quite on the centre line but close. Mind you there is always someone (critical) watching!

Everybody off. Again, we are here to clear customs. 
The Veterans moan about Brexit, with some very old Anglo-Saxon words being used. Charlotte (Charlie to her friends) doesn't turn a hair.
And again, the French Customs are their usual efficient selves.

Well done in your partial repaint. Keep going.

The repaint below was done by a friend of mine for a now defunct virtual airline.

A really great looking aeroplane and a joy to fly.

Meanwhile, Joseph King and Wally Cassell are testing their troublesome port engine at Coventry

After some attention by Air Antique, they are happy and conduct a high speed test down Coventry's runway.

Having satisfied themselves that the fault has been resolved, Joseph King (he hates being called Joe) lifts N118PW back into her element and heads for Booker.

Officially belonging to the liquidator of Pan World, Joseph and Wally want to display N118PW at the upcoming event and, maybe, get a sale!
For a DC-3, this runway looks short...

...but Joseph and Wally get down without incident, and park the Dakota at the end of the, still empty, display area.

At Duxford, Claude Marx and Crassus Terrani move their Dakota into the line of exhibits for a Duxford Flying Day, and are soon gathering a crowd after offering tours of the aircraft for £5 a head.

After the crowds have gone, Claude and Crassus ease the Dakota into the air, on their way to Old Warden for one of their Open Days.

Old Warden isn't that far from Duxford by air, so Claude keeps FX low over the English countryside.

Soon, they touch down on the comparatively short runway at Old Warden...

...and are parked in front of the Museum's cafe ready to meet the visitors.

Having rectified a fault in the electrical system, Lottie Vincent takes KG496 back into the air heading North to Calais.

Climbing to 4000 feet, Lottie lets Erasmus Fuller take the controls and in beautiful weather, skillfully avoids overflying Paris!

However, on approach to Calais, they run into a rainstorm.

Crosswinds and torrential rain make Lottie's landing not her best...

...but they are here only to clear customs, thanks to a piece of dogmatism called Brexit.

No doubt French Customs will be their usual efficient selves.

Between May 25th and June 6th, Europe will celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings.

Already aircraft are making their way to North Weald to kick off the celebrations with practice parachute drops on the 25th and 26th of May.

They will the go to Duxford for the 1st and 2nd of June, culminating in the crossing of the English Channel on the 2nd of June to land at Cherbourg.

The fleet will then attend various events in Normandy from Cherbourg, between the 3rd and the 9th of June.

An early arrival at Duxford from Berlin, to where it will return for Berlin 75 celebrations, is the ex Aigle Azur Dakota, F-GEFX.

Claude Marx is Captain with Crassus Terrani as co-pilot.

The Ailes Veterans C-47, with Lottie Vincent and Erasmus Fuller at the controls, is stuck at Saint Yan with electrical problems.

However, a campus of the Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile is located in Saint Yan, so they should be on their way shortly.

The ex Pan World Airways DC-3, with Joseph King as PIC and Wally Cassell in the right hand seat, is in at Coventry with an engine problem.

Coventry was the base for the Air Atlantique Dakota fleet, so again they should be back in the air soon.

The Sirrus Aviation Dakota, KG836, is at Amiens having delivered some Veterans on their way to the World War One Memorial at Thiepval.

With Sean Beckett as PIC, and myself in the right hand seat, we should be back in the UK in lots of time for the celebrations.

I never download anything from this site as Google always blocks it.

I use Simviation, Avsim, Rikoooo, Fly Away, Perfect Flight, French VFR, FSX Freeware Scenery, and SOH, all without having the same trouble I have on this site.

Therefore it is logical to say that there is something wrong with the way this site deals with downloads.

It needs to be sorted, now!

13 hours ago, Rupert said:

for the best 'comfort' Victuals

In the CONUS, on a road trip, you eat where the truckers eat. If the parking lot isn't full of Peterbilts, Maks, and the odd Diamond T, move on, the truckers have. In towns, eat where the local cops eat, but don't take the last donut!

There are of course "special" places to eat.  The Brothers Taverna in Salem,MA., Cafe Beignet on  Royal Street in NOLA, ( if you're really lucky you get the "Steamboat Willie" Jazz band as well) and Scoma's in San Francisco (the fishing boats dock feet away on Fisherman's Wharf so the fish is fresh)

In Europe, you eat Pastel de Belem at Pasteis de Belem in Lisbon, (Buy more than one as they are delicious and there is always a queue), Moules Mariniere in any French or Belgian seaside town, but don't drink the wine they are cooked in - your legs won't work afterwards, Belgian Chocolate (almost anywhere) and you eat where the locals eat, not in any of the tourist traps. 

I believe this aircraft has been withdrawn from multiple sites like Simviation, Flightsim and Avsim.

I also understand that the developers can be contacted in the Forum areas of FS Nordic/FlightsimForum.fi.

Try freewarescenery.com.

Go to the FSX section, click on U, scroll down to United Kingdom and look through what they have.

Also PCPilots of Ireland used to have a great website, so you could try there.

Good Luck.

If you're interested in in space missions, you could join Kayamone Sutton's Virtual United States Space Program. The original VUSSP  had 150 members, conducted over 100 unmanned missions and over 20 manned missions. Highly recommended.

http://www.vussp.org

6 hours ago, Airbasil_1 said:

British Aerospace, BAe Hawk T Mk1, 208 Squadron, 
2006 Display at Farnborough Airport, EGLF, UK

Not in that colour scheme!

XX201 was the only 208(R) Squadron aircraft at Farnborough that week, and Howard Curtis's photograph of it shows '201 to be in its standard training black.

1 hour ago, defaid said:

is it possible to alter the effectiveness of the brakes (for FS9 either aircraft.cfg or the air file)?

Yes, certainly is.

In the config file, there are usually three lines that can look like this;-

[brakes]

parking_brake=1       //Parking brake available   

toe_brakes_scale=0.74    //Brake scalar        The number here may vary. This one comes from a CLS Piper Arrow.

You may adjust the "toe_brakes_scale" line, up to a value of 1. When the aircraft noses over, you know you've gone too far.

Many WW1 aircraft have this set at 0.

It take time to find the right number for each aircraft without skidding on a wet runway, or burying the nose in your local grass strip.

If you decide to go this route, be careful and good luck.

25 minutes ago, loki said:

Why would you have doubts when there are more and more historical aircraft coming out for MSFS all the time?

I can't use my FSX/P3D B-25 Mitchell in FS2020, so FS2020 doesn't appear to be my next acquisition, but the newest version of P3D might.

And I put hours of work into repainting my Mitchell. So you're asking me to dump all that?

Why should I when I can move on to a flight sim where I can use it.

As for the cardboard Spitfire, wasn't there one of those in FS2002?

However, if I were starting from scratch, and didn't want to buy second hand copies of FSX/FS2004, then, I just might look at FS2020.

35 minutes ago, kingnorris said:

Going  back to FSX, after awhile if an add on had no VC, I’d pass on it.

You miss some good stuff.

Don't tell anyone but I will swap cockpits around until I get one I like - sometimes it's a VC and sometimes 2D. (I have a Harvard with a Mustang cockpit!)

It's all a matter of personal preference, of individuality, which is how it should be without some person telling you what is "correct/right/normal".

1 hour ago, PhrogPhlyer said:

Those who found it worthwhile to adapt to the new sim, or have never used the older versions,

The thought occurs to me that maybe, just maybe, FS2020 was not aimed at those of us who have used the older sims.

E.G. if you had FS2004, your next move "up" was FSX, and if you had FSX, your next move was P3D.  At least, you could use some of the previous versions aircraft in the newer version. (Although I occasionally use an aircraft or two from FS2002 in FSX!)

So FS2020, and FS2024 may not be aimed at the "enthusiast" market but X-Box users, Playstation users and other console users who expect, and get, high quality graphics from their games.

And, one thing is certain, those of us who have invested in their "older" versions of Flight Sim, will never say that a younger version is better than theirs.

I do not know what Alp you have been hiding behind, but the World Trade Center twin towers, as shown in your post...

...were destroyed in an infamous terrorist attack on September 11th 2001.

The fact that you choose to put these on a thread where there are people who lost friends and colleagues shows very poor taste, and you should remove them.

On 3/12/2024 at 9:57 PM, Sirrus said:

Currently awaiting their turn in the paintshop  are:-

a recently rebuilt Spitfire PR11. The large oil tank under the nose alters the profile of the aircraft and being a photo-reconnaissance aircraft, carried no guns

This ended up as

and

Capable of 387 knots at 33000 feet, and of flying from RAF Benson to Berlin and back.

57 minutes ago, TomPenDragon said:

[ Club Chachapoya ] is the branding for all Club threads.

When was this decided?

Four days of drivel about rules and regulations and you end up where you started,

The only interesting bits were "how to make scenery" (which will come in handy someday,) and why a helo pilot sits on the right.

The rest was useless, like herding cats, we've ended back where we started, a loose collection of enthusiasts who want to fly, write stories and have fun.

If we wanted rules and regulations we would have joined a Virtual Airline, and to try and squeeze us into a myriad of rules is not to understand us at all and to completely misread the room.

If you want to be "in charge", be a "Commodoor" go away and found your own VA. You won't last long, they never do.

3 hours ago, PhrogPhlyer said:

With that being said, add your thoughts on a home field location when you submit any responses to the questionnaire.

That brings your thoughts to the group discussion and consideration. 

Why should I bother?

Every suggestion I have made in this group has been ignored from altering the scoring system in the Route 66 Challenge (to one that we used in the Australia Challenge) to not having a base at all, and having a silly name has been ignored. 

I have been abused, made to look stupid in these threads and been shouted at by those in authority in this clique. I have not received a single apology for any of it, so much so that I think the word "sorry" doesn't exist in American. 

No, I'm not going to waste any more of my time on this cliquey club.

2 hours ago, TomPenDragon said:

new Home Airport, Merril C. Meigs, KCGX

Who decided this?

Surely this should be a decision made by the membership?

14 hours ago, Rupert said:

18 hours ago, PhrogPhlyer said:

Range means total distance from T/O to Landing at standard cruise speed/fuel burn.

And yes, that's always one way data!  On any flight if your range isn't enough to complete the flight as planned,you might (probably will) end up dead! 

 

HELLO!!

No need to be rude or sarcastic!

2 hours ago, Bossspecops said:

Or to Berlin and back from the UK. 

Thanks, Kit.

15 minutes ago, Melo965 said:

In this case, range means one way.  So with a range of 1,360 miles, the PR Spitfire could go 680 miles to the photographic target and back again.  With a 170 gallon slipper tank the published range is 2,301 miles, or 1,150 miles there and back again.

Thanks Melo, that helps a lot.

56 minutes ago, Melo965 said:

My longest recent flight was just over 800 miles.  I can fairly easily fly the published range of 1,360 miles.

 

Once (in my FS98 version of the PRXI) I managed to fly about 2,000 miles from an island off of Southern California to Hilo Hawaii without refuelling.

I wonder if "range" means there and back, which would give a point A to B distance of 2720 miles?

Thanks for that.