HU Nimrod is up

[rayhere48]

What airport would be the best for this to be stationed at? Does anyone know if there is any military air traffic that would work well with this aircraft?

 

[jetstreamsky]

RAF Kinloss in Scotland and it also used to be at RAF St Mawgan until 1992, which is now Newquay Cornwall Airport in England.

RAF Kinloss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Kinloss and http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafkinloss/
RAF St Mawgan http://www.helis.com/database/heliport/uk_raf_st_mawgan

<dl><dt class="infofirst">For the R1 variant (51 Squadron), RAF Waddington http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafwaddington/aboutus/51squadron.cfm</dt></dl>

A few others are listed here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Nimrod

 

[jetstreamsky]

Shes a great plane to fly.. loved it when i took her out last night.. fotta admit though, with that nose, i'm finding it real hard to NOT paint a beak and feathers on her..

You think that nose is odd, I think it's rather regal, but you should check out the AEW3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Nimrod

 

[jimcooper1]

Nimrod Autopilot

Brian has not yet issued the documentation with the Nimrod. The autopilot is fiercely complex so here is a guide to using it:

http://www.gaugecode.com/jim/NimrodAP/NimrodAP.html

regards

Jim

 

[CavOk]

Brilliant freeware at its best. well done and thanks to all
happy xmas

 

[wantok]

Just d/l'ed, and WOW! Excellent freeware. Thanks Simshed.:salute:

 

[kilo delta]

Cool pic of Nimrod in her prime..... http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---Air/Hawker-Siddeley-Nimrod/1317308/L/

 

[Kiwikat]

I admit I almost skipped over this one. Boy am I glad I didn't!

Excellent job! Thanks for your hard work :ernae::salute:

 

[peter12213]

In that photo from Kilo are they flying on 2 engines? The throttles look asymmetric, would they shut engines down for long flights?

 

[SkippyBing]

The throttles look asymmetric, would they shut engines down for long flights?

I'm think they used to go down to two engines once on station to improve endurance and use four for the transit to/from.

 

[brianf51]

Yes it was standard procedure to use 'loiter' capability once patrol area had been reached. She can climb out nicely (well ok struggle) on two as well. Additionally because the thrust points are all so close in being asymetric has much less effect than on typical wing podded jets.