Confession Time

Oddly enough I can fly 'Rotary Wings' from take off to landing with very little trouble at full difficulty. (Long learning curve however!)
Heavy kerosine burners are my bete noir .......... civil or military, I can get them up but the ending is almost always very messy!
I can handle my favourite (read Carenado) GA birds with a certain amount of flair, while my all time favourite LIC Eagle might be regarded as my 'Showing Off' bird.
Favourite medium prop aircraft is David Maltby's superb HS748, an object lesson in systems management.
Tomcats and Eagles are my weapons of choice for disabling runways and hardstands ......... :isadizzy:
And a PS: Flying fixed undercarrige aircraft solves the 'forgetting to drop the gear' hassle.
 
OBIO said:
Still have a lot to learn about piloting a plane really....navigation is basically a mystery to me...I know how to read a compass, but getting from point A to point B without using the GPS to show me the way is beyond me.
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This site may be of use to you OBIO, it's got all sorts of info on ow Navigation aids work and also a number of flights to fly to practice them.

http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/index.htm
 
Hi,
Interesting comments here!
I have problems with the landings..any landings I must admit.I fly the propliners from calclassic and others and generally save a flight just before TOD. Some of the passengers have therefore been waiting to land since about 1958, as instead of trying another awful landing I start off again from somewhere else:applause: thinking 'yeay, this time it'll be better'.:monkies:

Andy.
 
yeah Me109 is a handful at times, oh and she loves to groundloop and propstrike.... just like the P-40...
 
FengZ said:
I recommend the following planes if you want to "do it by the books." These planes all have great visuals (VCs, exteriors, etc), but they also have very deep system simulations:...
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May I humbly add this one?

SF8's F-86 Sabre

This lady has all you'll need:
The fun doesn't stop at 140 knots - that's where it begins!
In my eyes, it has the perfect system depth: No 160 pages manual to learn by heart - just some simple 10 rules to obey:
1. Keep the engine spinning above 65% N1,
2. keep the engine spinning above 65% N1,
3. keep the engine spinning above 65% N1,
4. use your trim tab,
5. flip the boards before landing,
6. pay attention to your airspeed - or say goodbye to your gear and flaps,
7. watch your fuel weight,
8. get rid of your ammo as soon as you can,
9. get rid of your drop tanks as soon as you can,
10. see no. 1 to 3.
That's it!

And... well, here's rule no. 11:

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Smoothie said:
yeah Me109 is a handful at times, oh and she loves to groundloop and propstrike.... just like the P-40...
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I've never prop striked in a '109, ground looping though is a problem. But if you lock the tail wheel that will take care of most of it.
 
ok just happened..... taking my Agusta 109 out of the paint hangar using hover taxi, and forgot to take weights into account.... so its now back in for paint after striking the roof.... darn it! Luckily My moller was parked outside :D thankfully, don't want it getting scratched! here she is safe and sound, the A109A will be a few days again.... and i was looking forward to my personal scheme

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but don't try it in a SA Pioneer, or Fiesler storch with a 60kt headwind, you'll go nowhere fast, but yeah when gen av flying i always pass overhead and look at the windsock before comitting to an approach...
 
You get good at landings the same way you get to Carnegie Hall: "Practice, practice, practice!" My favorite method for said practice is to start (with no traffic) on the end of the runway and only about 20% fuel, then slew up about 3000' off the ground, yank back on the stick for about 15 seconds, then exit slew mode. When you come out, you should be at the cruise speed stated in the aircraft.cfg - provided you entered slew mode with zero speed. Now get the gear sucked back up and stabilize the plane and get set up for the approach.

If you can put up with Rod Machado's "odd" humor, try the lessons included with the Sim. I found them invaluable when I started flying with FS8 - nearly six years ago!
 
Smoothie said:
. . . . .Luckily My moller was parked outside :D thankfully, don't want it getting scratched! here she is safe and sound. . . . .
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oooooooooooooh nice!! Hey smoothie you got any more repaints of the Moller stashed away? I did four new ones for the FSX version that were released with the conversion, but beyond that and the base paint, I haven't done any more. . .I like that one. . .nice job.:guinness:
 
I cut my teeth on Fighters and trainers in FS. Back when Lago was successful and had the AMC-MB339-Falcon as it's premier aircraft, I learned to land using FSNav. I'd let FSNav land the plane for me and I'd watch, over and over again. Eventually, I started landing myself using what I had learned from FSNav. Everything was accelerated when flying Fighters so I had some white knuckle encounters, some hard landings and a few gear up lapses of memory, but it paid off. I also had the advice of some of the best. . .fighter pilots from my F-16 Squadron and being able to watch every single day for years as they made approach after approach. I just watched and then came home and practiced.

I just remembered a few basics that can be applied to just about any jet, expanded on what I had learned from paying attention and now I can land almost anything and touch down most times without even raising smoke off the tires. . .smooooooth as silk.
 
yeah i have a few in the works, made a paintkit for it, just doing a few car manufacturersas 'demonstration/company cars' Porsche, Ferrari, VW, Chevrolet and Dodge are on the list:kilroy:

back on topic, yeah practice makes perfect, just remember when practicing over and over, watch your fuel, simple enough is to do a pattern of Landings and TNG's, land, taxi to hold, perform the approach pattern, touch and go, and then approach pattern again and land, this way you'll find out the slow speed performance and suitable approach config for the airframe, a few places in the F-104 you really have to keep watch, Mexico city being one place... altitude makes that tricky, especially as the jets are slower to spool up, get below the power curve there well "see that yellow and black handle..... pull it". a lot of aircraft are docile and you fly them right they respond right a few are complete ***'s to fly, F-104, MiG-25 etc... but worth putting the effort in, now i'm getting back in my F-104 to practice my Full, Flat and Rolling Displays :wiggle: good luck and happy landings guys, remember a good landing is one you can walk away from, a great landing is also keeping the airframe in one piece...
 
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