Piglet's F-5 series

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
This plane is probably old news to you FS2004 simmers, but I thought I'd throw a plug out for the new comers who are looking for a very sharp series of Nortrop F-5s. Piglet's series covers a good number of variations with great detail, a super sharp VC.....and it's free and is available here in the download library. I can not give any indication of how well it performs in FS2004 as I have the series converted to CFS2 (so I can shoot "real" bullets and drop "real" bombs), but in converted form, frame rates are really decent, the air file (after being run through Air Wrench to get it to work in CFS2) is HOT and I like it that way.

OBIO
 
I actually downloaded it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and had a chance to fly it. It is an excellent model and very sensitive to control inputs! Took a little time to properly control it, particularly the landings.

James
 
I just tried Piglet's F-5 (converted to CFS2) on HARD flight mode....and made it about 300 feet beyond the end of the run way before the plane stalled and became a plow! That flight model may be too HOT for the average CFS2 user, so I may have to swap in the cooler flight dynamics from the older Alpha Sim freeware F-5A, and include Piglet's HOT flight dynamics for those who want a true thrill ride.

Have the DP file done...and it is nice flying this stellar aircraft around with a full load of working ordnance.

OBIO
 
Glad to know I'm not the only one...I did the same exact thing on takeoff, with Hard mode.
 
Flyboy208 said:
Do a search for "Dave Larmer" at www.avsim.com - he converted all of Henry William's FSX repaints for this F-5 series to work in FS9.

Best wishes, Mike :wavey:
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I have some of those repaints (Canadian Series) and I can say with conviction that they are literally eye candy on Tim's superb FS9 F-5....:medals:

BB686:USA-flag:
 
Cees Donker said:
I only fly in hard mode. Not with choppers though....:costumes:

Cees
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Me too...Though it took awhile for me to finally learn to set it to easy mode with helicopters. I stubbornly tried to fly them in hard mode. Take-offs were a disaster about 75% of the time, hovering was an impossibility (model would become quite unstable), and landing was an ugly thing to do! Once I set it in easy mode, things became much easier.

James
 
Seven more pics here, for those interested, this series was taken with a departure from Beale AFB and an arrival at NAS Lemoore ....
 
I have the RNLAF textures and the yellow USAF texture that were converted to FS9. But Henry made some more textures in September. Two of them of the USAF "tcf5 35.zip" and "tcf5 203.zip" at Flightsim. These were never converted. I would like to see those in FS9 also but I do not know how to convert FSX textures.
 
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