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I've been having fun flying landing patterns "in" Charles Lindbergh's famous plane. I've seen the real thing hanging from the ceiling at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and the 1950s Jimmy Stewart film about Lindbergh's flight from Long Island to Paris (in real time, I might add). But the Spirit of St. Louis's addition to MSFS's fleet gives you a virtually real idea of what it must've been like to fly this plane.

 

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An excellent clip! Thanks so much for posting it!

 

Having said that, all the aircraft IDS floating all over the sky to me are distracting and take a lot away from the experience.

 

Michael

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Having said that, all the aircraft IDS floating all over the sky to me are distracting and take a lot away from the experience.

 

They can be switched off in the settings, along with POI (Points Of Interest) markers, wildlife markers and various navigational pointers - I've switched them all off except for the taxi ribbon, which I find very useful and it isn't cheating at all... :p

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They can be switched off in the settings, along with POI (Points Of Interest) markers, wildlife markers and various navigational pointers - I've switched them all off except for the taxi ribbon, which I find very useful and it isn't cheating at all... :p

 

the taxi ribbon, with you on that one..... you remind me of a joke.....

 

"The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.

 

Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."

Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."

The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.

 

Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"

Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."

Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"

Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land.""

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I've seen the real thing hanging from the ceiling at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and the 1950s Jimmy Stewart film about Lindbergh's flight from Long Island to Paris

 

Me too. Gosh, how I love those historic recreations... :pilot:

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