Flying Stations closing shop
- Thread starter Cees Donker
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I bought the Buccaneer S2 and the Sea Fury. The Sea Fury seems to have a problem with cats and traps on carriers. Noses over on the traps (even when coming in slow), won't stay in tension on the cat and if it does it tends to pop up or go vertical halfway down the cat track. Beautiful aircraft but no fun if I can't do CV ops. I haven't installed the Buc yet, I hope that goes well. FSX carrier ops seems to work better with nose gear aircraft than with tail draggers.
Well, typical for me, waited too late to pick up the Canberra. Ugggh!!
To comfort you.................. you are not the only one. I wanted to purchase the small racer.
Cheers,
Huub
SkippyBing
Charter Member
If you mean the Mew Gull that's now free on my new site. Link in the signature.
Bellerophon
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Waited too long, too. At least I got the Buccaneers S1 and S2 in time. They are the best Buccaneers in any sim. As the BANA project was apparently cancelled for DCS, the Flying Station's Buccaneer will remain unchallenged.
Yep, I indeed meant the Percival Mew Gull. Very much appreciated!
And it was already a bargain, but free is even better 
Thanks,
Huub
Bookman1960
SOH-CM-2023
Is All Hope Lost Then?
I can't believe I missed this announcement, and more importantly, the opportunity to purchase the sets I hadn't gotten around to buying.
Is all hope lost then for any chance to do so in the future?
Thank you
KB
I can't believe I missed this announcement, and more importantly, the opportunity to purchase the sets I hadn't gotten around to buying.
Is all hope lost then for any chance to do so in the future?
Thank you
KB
YoYo
SOH-CM-2023
Ups, the same ....
is any place in the net where I can download his free HMS Victorious / Ark Royal carrier series?
Edit.
Ok Bravo Zula has now blog here :
https://bravozulu.blog/category/ships/
uffff and thank You.
Can anyone help? I have trouble getting the Buccaneer S2 catapulted. To begin, when you arm it, its tilted backwards. Upon release it flies all over the place and crashes.
Cees
Cees
harrybasset
Charter Member
Can anyone help? I have trouble getting the Buccaneer S2 catapulted. To begin, when you arm it, its tilted backwards. Upon release it flies all over the place and crashes.
Cees
In real life it was launched with the nosewheel well off the ships deck. The bridle attachment hooks were positioned so when the catapult took up the slack the Bucc pivoted about the main wheels and ran along the deck nose up to impart a positive angle of attack. It needed all help possible duting launch as the RN cats were quite short and less powerful compared to USN cats.
Thanks Harry,
I get that, but the aircraft is not going into the air as it is supposed to.
Cees
Are you getting proper thrust, flaps set (if any available), cold cat-shot? Buccaneer S1 pictured. Does yours look similar?
Yes I'm doing all that. When I rely on the built in launch bar the plane makes a few quirky jumps and crashes. When I use an entry I cooked up I get airborne with a nosewheel that won't retract. I'm on the verge of giving up on this one.
Cees
harrybasset
Charter Member
Cees Which Bucc are you flying? (Or not as the case may be) I've read in real life it seems to have needed strange control and flap settings for launching. I have a book of memoirs of a naval test pilot who saw the Bucc into carrier service, I'll look it up and report back.
harrybasset
Charter Member
Hi Cees
There is an earlier one from Alphasim which I don't think has the depth of systems like the Flying Stations production. There is also that from UKMil which I think is mainly RAF for land based flights.
Catapult launches seem to have been with full flap down to get maximum lift with full bleed air blow and 5 degrees of nose down trim set. I'll keep digging.
Mike.
There is an earlier one from Alphasim which I don't think has the depth of systems like the Flying Stations production. There is also that from UKMil which I think is mainly RAF for land based flights.
Catapult launches seem to have been with full flap down to get maximum lift with full bleed air blow and 5 degrees of nose down trim set. I'll keep digging.
Mike.
Hay Cees,
Probably a mute point but as per Mikes response did you ensure appropriate wind over deck for launch (carrier steaming into the wind with 20-25 knots or more WOD), select full flaps, blow control to ON, and appropriate nose down trim? (I think from the flying stations notes zero trim for light loading with no stores and for heavier aircraft 3-4 nose down trim or more depending on weight (check the tailplane trim settings gauge lower left in front of the throttle and just below gear indicator).
I've noticed (when i've been using the flying stations S2) that if I don't have this setup correctly (certainly correct nose down trim according to weight) the aircraft tends to over rotate on launch and crashes.
Gary
Probably a mute point but as per Mikes response did you ensure appropriate wind over deck for launch (carrier steaming into the wind with 20-25 knots or more WOD), select full flaps, blow control to ON, and appropriate nose down trim? (I think from the flying stations notes zero trim for light loading with no stores and for heavier aircraft 3-4 nose down trim or more depending on weight (check the tailplane trim settings gauge lower left in front of the throttle and just below gear indicator).
I've noticed (when i've been using the flying stations S2) that if I don't have this setup correctly (certainly correct nose down trim according to weight) the aircraft tends to over rotate on launch and crashes.
Gary
Reinstalled this one and now it's all peaches and cream!
Cees
Cees