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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Realistic 172?

FS is not really good to fly VFR using only landmarks, because they are pretty hard to see. I usually fly my routes I plotted on my charts in FSX before I use them in real life, it is really useful to practice tracking and timing and wind corrections :) Believe it or not but I've never been in a C172 though! It's a good thing I can fly a realistic one in FSX soon ... However I wished there were some more realistic Piper Cherokee 180's available too
 
pilottj said:
My instructor always said, put that line between your legs and you will be on the centerline :) Your brain wants to put it where you think the center of the plane is, which will put you off to the side.


Cheers
TJ
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Mine was telling me to put the line between two certain identical parts of a man's anatomy...:kilroy:

Don't know what he said to female students...
 
Wow, really didn't think the stock C172 was that popular! 100% about using FS for "chair" flying prior to any checkride and especially instruments. Agree about VFR flight, but you can still go over the PTS maneuvers in the sim, just don't pay attention to the flight dynamics. As a renter (for now) with access to a 172P and PA-28 Warrior, it's hard to come back to the sim and and expect anything remotely on par. I did use the sim when first learning the Garmin 430, the freeware mod helped with finding some pages.
 
A2A's Cherokee will include all engine options I believe, which means you can have the Cherokee 235...which is quite a little hotrod.:salute: I imagine the 172 will come in 160 or 180hp flavors as well.

Cheers
TJ
 
With the Cherokee 235 you could take another Cherokee with you on top of the fuselage and it would still take-off :icon_lol: The useful load is massive in that thing.
pilottj said:
A2A's Cherokee will include all engine options I believe, which means you can have the Cherokee 235...which is quite a little hotrod.
TJ
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A continental O-300 6 cyl. might be included as well if they are doing all engine variants for the 172.
 
orionll,
That's the gauge I have replaced all my stock FS9/X Garmin's with, again not all the pages work but they are good enough along with the free Garmin POH.

If anyone want's real numbers I would love to help out with a former USAF CAP C-172P I fly whenever the Warrior is booked, as much as a hot TX summer day will help!!!
 
Victory103 said:
If anyone want's real numbers I would love to help out with a former USAF CAP C-172P I fly whenever the Warrior is booked, as much as a hot TX summer day will help!!!
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If you would be willing to do 1 or 2 actual test flights, I can e-mail you my test flight questionnaire and you could get a 172 that has super realistic unbeatable FDE. Just PM me if you are interested.
 
bstolle said:
If you would be willing to do 1 or 2 actual test flights, I can e-mail you my test flight questionnaire and you could get a 172 that has super realistic unbeatable FDE. Just PM me if you are interested.
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I'm a student pilot in a C172M and I'll be flying Saturday. Mind if I take a look at the questionnaire as well?
 
Ah yes , the Cessna 172. My first "big airplane" after the 150. Hey, 150 hp was more than any car I had owned to the time. much 'heavier" in feel from the 150, but still with the huge Cessna flaps. Lightly loaded we landed it in all sorts of ridgetop mine strips in the bush. Takeoffs were somewhat more "exciting" given the roughness and lack of length of some of our early bush pilot fields. A pretty viceless stall, preceeded by that Cessna WEEEEEEEEEEEEE stall horn, enough of a drop to fly out unless one was really ham fisted.

Good plane if ya don't fill it up.... O-320, one of the great bomb proof gen av engines. A smooth flier, like its bretheren the 180 and 182.

T
 
Hey Bernt
I was curious if you think the Carenado Archer II could use an FDE update or if you think it is good enough. The Carenado version is a pretty stable handflyer, and while its been almost 20 years since I flew a Warrior, I recall it was very stable in cruise too.

Cheers
TJ
 
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