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Freeware T-37 Tweet

ColoKent said:
LOVE Jankees all-white variant...and am hoping for a non-dayglo bare metal 1960s ATC variant at some point:

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Loving the first iteration of this classic...

Kent
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Hey Kent! I forgot all about the bare metal T-37's. That will be a nice edition for sure. I was telling one of my friends last night about the times I serviced the T-37's that came into our field. The last one was a spare that was based with one of the Heavy Bomber Wings (the crew was two B-52 pilots out getting their flight and nav hours in flying out of Barksdale and up the east coast). I hated being Fireguard for engine start on these Flying Dog Whistles. Even with ear plugs and cans over the plugs, the high pitched screech/shriek was punishing! The intake noise was louder than the exhaust. The only other jet that was like that were the old Hawker 125 bizjets that still had the Rolls Royce Viper engines (my former boss owned one on the field). Glad to see this model, I had missed the Simworks version when I moved over to FS2020 and deleted P3Dv4.
 
StormILM said:
The last one was a spare that was based with one of the Heavy Bomber Wings (the crew was two B-52 pilots out getting their flight and nav hours in flying out of Barksdale and up the east coast).
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Hi Bryant! Yes...SAC had a program called the "Accelerated Copilot Enrichment (ACE)" program in the 80's and 90s, and there were T-37 and T-38 detachments stationed at SAC bomber and tanker bases. The program was designed to give copilots "pilot in command" experience in less costly air frames. Those airplanes were white like the one Jankees is working on. The bare metal T-37s are more of a 1960s thing with Air Training Command (ATC), and Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT).

There are only two things that I wish were slightly better on this Tweet:
1. The flight model was a bit more tuned and smooth like Dino has done on the MB339 (but that will likely come with updates and patches)
2. The lights seem odd...like the red landing light...would love to see the lights sorted out.

Love the airplane though! Had my dollar flight in it as an AFROTC cadet on 14 June 1981 at Williams AFB, AZ (same day and year the F-117 then secretly had it's first flight...as it turns out). I feel old.

Kent
 
The ACE planes were also sometimes used for O-6 desk jockeys that wanted to do the minimum flight time required to maintain their flying status.
 
ColoKent said:
There are only two things that I wish were slightly better on this Tweet:
1. The flight model was a bit more tuned and smooth like Dino has done on the MB339 (but that will likely come with updates and patches)
2. The lights seem odd...like the red landing light...would love to see the lights sorted out.

Kent
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I couldn't agree with you more! The flightmodel seems too sporty. If I remember the FS9 and P3D offerings at the time, those had a lot less power.

But like you, I LOVE this model!

Priller
 
What a cool plane and she looks gorgeous, defiantly payware quality.

The one bug I found with it so far is the VR camera position is way off, it sets you several feet in front of the plane so I had to fix it.

If you want to fix it yourself here's my edit.
Open the cameras.cfg and scroll down to [CAMERADEFINITION.24] and replace the whole section with this


[CAMERADEFINITION.24]
Title="PilotVR"
Guid="{B9AC873B-4051-4073-B2D6-231ECFC51EEC}"
UITitle="TT:GAME.PANEL_CAMERA_PILOT_VFR"
Description=""
Origin="Virtual Cockpit"
Track="None"
TargetCategory="None"
ClipMode="Normal"
SnapPbhAdjust="Swivel"
PanPbhAdjust="Swivel"
XyzAdjust=1
ShowAxis="NO"
AllowZoom=1
InitialZoom=0.35
SmoothZoomTime=2
BoundingBoxRadius=0.1
ShowWeather=1
CycleHidden=0
CycleHideRadius=0
ShowPanel=0
MomentumEffect=1
ShowLensFlare=0
PanPbhReturn=0
SnapPbhReturn=0
InstancedBased=0
NoSortTitle=0
NodesToHide=""
Transition=0
PitchPanRate=20
HeadingPanRate=60
PanAcceleratorTime=5
XYZRate=0.25
XYZAcceleratorTime=0
ZoomPanScalar=1
Category="Cockpit"
SubCategory="Pilot"
SubCategoryItem="PilotVR"
InitialXyz= 0.09, -0.23, 5.85
InitialPbh= 0, 0, 0

I tried just tweaking the numbers but it didn't work so there's something wrong elseware in the section so you'll need the whole thing.
 
I can't believe how good this is for freeware. Looks great, super fun to fly. Can't wait to see some more liveries for it! Lots of possibilities with the T-37... US with day-glo, silver, all-white, and even an A-37 would be fun despite the lack of tip tanks/pylons.
 
Fantastic looking model! For a young 2Lt in UPT in 1988, this jet was both intimidating and a blast. Memorization of the boldface was required prior to your first flight. The hardest boldface was the spin recovery...

[FONT=&quot]Throttles – Idle[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]Rudder and Ailerons – Neutral[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]Stick – Abruptly full aft and hold[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]Rudder – Abruptly apply full rudder opposite spin direction (opposite turn needle) and hold[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]Stick – Abruptly full forward one turn after applying rudder[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]Controls – Neutral after spinning stops and recover from dive[/FONT]
 
I am so enjoying this jet !!

Anyone got any info on pattern/ gear / flap speeds etc - I couldn't see anything in the manual provided
 
collensr said:
I am so enjoying this jet !!

Anyone got any info on pattern/ gear / flap speeds etc - I couldn't see anything in the manual provided
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According to the T-37B flight manual:
Take off
At 65 KIAS, raise the nose smoothly and allow the aircraft to fly off the ground.
At 100 KIAS gear up.
At 110 KIAS flaps up.

Landing
Speed brake as required.
Below 150 KIAS gear down.
Below 135 KIAS flaps and landing lights as required.
 

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hschuit said:
According to the T-37B flight manual:
Take off
At 65 KIAS, raise the nose smoothly and allow the aircraft to fly off the ground.
At 100 KIAS gear up.
At 110 KIAS flaps up.

Landing
Speed brake as required.
Below 150 KIAS gear down.
Below 135 KIAS flaps and landing lights as required.
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Thanks so much for this !

Richard
 
hschuit said:
According to the T-37B flight manual:
Take off
At 65 KIAS, raise the nose smoothly and allow the aircraft to fly off the ground.
At 100 KIAS gear up.
At 110 KIAS flaps up.

Landing
Speed brake as required.
Below 150 KIAS gear down.
Below 135 KIAS flaps and landing lights as required.
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Where do you find the flight manual. all I can locate for free is the A-37B
I obsess over proper things like proper climb and cruise power settings
 
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Thought I would give it a try. Not trying to copy Jan but white seemed easy for a start.

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