Tom Burnside
Charter Member
Can I put weapons on the aircraft. I see when you load up the maintenance hanger (I dont have Accu-Sim installed) there are external tanks and bombs on the floor.
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A2A P-51 Civ
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Alan_A
Charter Member
I don't believe the civilian P-51 has weapons mounts. Most civilian Mustangs don't - the exceptions are the few that have been restored to a high degree of authenticity. Those are better represented by the military version. Bomber_12th is much better qualified than I am to give you a rundown on them. IIRC, the background picture in the A2A maintenance hanger is generic - it's just there for atmosphere. So the ordnance on the floor is a little misleading. The Shift+4 payload menu will tell you for sure whether you can mount external stores or not.
Tom Burnside
Charter Member
Thats disappointing I will probably end up buying the military version sometime in the future.
Alan_A
Charter Member
Makes sense. I fly and enjoy both. They're very different, more than you'd think - the greater weight and slower control response of the military version handles differently (less skittish), needs a bit more power, things like that.
I'm usually a fan of vintage/period cockpits but the military P-51 is an exception - I have a hard time with the lack of forward visibility past the gunsight and also with the instrument placement. Would love to know how it became USAF standard to tuck the altimeter in the lower left corner. The civ is a bit more ergonomic. I don't like the idea of the P-51 as a rich person's toy,so I tell myself it's a very, very late production variant - sort of like a late-model B-52 or C-130. Same airframe but a different front office.
If you buy the military version, keep in mind that the same Accu-Sim package covers both, so you don't need to buy that again, only the base aircraft. So your external stores will come at a slightly lower marginal cost, which is something...
Hope this helps.
I'm usually a fan of vintage/period cockpits but the military P-51 is an exception - I have a hard time with the lack of forward visibility past the gunsight and also with the instrument placement. Would love to know how it became USAF standard to tuck the altimeter in the lower left corner. The civ is a bit more ergonomic. I don't like the idea of the P-51 as a rich person's toy,so I tell myself it's a very, very late production variant - sort of like a late-model B-52 or C-130. Same airframe but a different front office.
If you buy the military version, keep in mind that the same Accu-Sim package covers both, so you don't need to buy that again, only the base aircraft. So your external stores will come at a slightly lower marginal cost, which is something...
Hope this helps.