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The last of the Hungarian 21'

Yeah, that would make flying the mig interesting!

When I arrived at Papa the first time the old Migs were parked more or less over the entire base, in the later years they were moved over to the so called "Jurassic Park" on the right side of rw34 (google it and you can see them!). Many have later been sold for scrap. A few are still kept for display in the base itself.

I have started on a trio of other 21's from the last years of flying from Papa;

9178-standard 47 wing decals
6007-this ac had a distinctive decal bellow the canopy with an eagle head and wings with the pilot name (kind of in F-15E fashion)
4025- No 47th wing decals. This ac is currently in the village museum at Magyargencs (which was on my old road bike training route west of Papa) and if you ask the staff they will even open the canopy and let you sit in the cockpit.
 
Mig-21Bis 5531 and 6007 from "Griff" Squadron of the 47. Fighter Regiment, Hungarian Air Force, based at Pápa AB on a flight down to the Balaton area. The scheme would be from the late 1990's, just before the 21's were retired in 2000.

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Tail badge of the 47th Wing (which includes the badge of both its squadrons)

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Turning over the Tihany penisula (famous for its church) in Lake Balaton which will put you on long final to Papa's RW34.

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Mig-21Bis 9178

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Mig-21Bis 4025

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The airbase and the city of Papa in the background

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Another easily seen VFR landmark around Papa is the old vulcano at Somlo (famous wine area).

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looks fantastic. I downloaded the plane some time ago, but have really never flown it, I'm generally a ctrl-e sort of guy, but I don't mind manually starting an aircraft if it's this good, problem is there's really no (english) documentation. and the switches in the cockpit aren't labeled. I'm not railing on the dev for not making it in English, it's his baby and he can do what he wants, the original certainly wasn't in english! what I would like to know is A) has anybody made any sort of english startup guide for this beast, or b) is there any way of modifying the aircraft easily so I can Auto Start it with ctrl-e?

Oh, yeah I've seen the video on youtube, doesn't help me much, as I can't reference between it and the sim in real time, and in either case, doesn't explain what any of the switches ARE and why they are being flipped in that manner, which would help me get my head around this plane. I would love to fly this, since I think it looks like a spectacular job of FSX modeling. any help appreciated!
 
ShawnG said:
looks fantastic. I downloaded the plane some time ago, but have really never flown it, I'm generally a ctrl-e sort of guy, but I don't mind manually starting an aircraft if it's this good, problem is there's really no (english) documentation. and the switches in the cockpit aren't labeled. I'm not railing on the dev for not making it in English, it's his baby and he can do what he wants, the original certainly wasn't in english! what I would like to know is A) has anybody made any sort of english startup guide for this beast, or b) is there any way of modifying the aircraft easily so I can Auto Start it with ctrl-e?

Oh, yeah I've seen the video on youtube, doesn't help me much, as I can't reference between it and the sim in real time, and in either case, doesn't explain what any of the switches ARE and why they are being flipped in that manner, which would help me get my head around this plane. I would love to fly this, since I think it looks like a spectacular job of FSX modeling. any help appreciated!
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It looks like one of my images explaining the right side of the cockpit is no longer available, so I'll see if I can make a new one. I think many of the functions on that side have tooltips though...

http://nzff.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=15224&hl=mig-21



 
Hi,

I totally agree that the mig is hard to do a cold start, luckily we have the quick start option in the shift-2 panel. Only some sub systems which needs to be manually operated. I have the english translated manual on my iPad in front of me when I'm flying the 21...

But the button layout really makes this a "head down" plane while operating a lot of the systems. I have sit in the cockpit of the real 4025 (which is included in this pack), and the view out of the cockpit is very very limited when the canopy goes down. The entire frontal view is more or less occupied by the heavy frame and sight. I guess the original 21-F13 was a bit better in this regard though.
 
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