I just had one....Kenny Fox's Concrete Municipal scenery (part of his Washington Backwoods stuff...you can find it on Simviation.com...very nice scenery in those packages). Alphasim's C-141A...in the early Gray and White scheme...such a nice looking plane. Now, I don't know how long the run way is at Concrete Municipal...but I know that the C-141 would not have been a plane that operated out of that airport. But I managed to get the plane airborne and keep it airborne for a flight over the Washington Mountains...which look even better in LOD10 mesh.
I had to back the plane all the way to the end of the runway...the back tires were on the edge of the tarmac. Fire up the engines, apply brakes, and go to full throttle and wait until the engines achieved full thrust. Let up on the brakes and get rolling. Wait until some airspeed picked up, then hit two clicks of down flaps.
Now here's where it got hairy. Shortly after the runway ends, there is a drop off that goes down to the river below. The plane was not airborne before it got to that drop off, so it basically ramped off the upper plateau and into mid-air. It dropped a bit but I got the nose up, retracted landing gear to reduce drag and sweet talked the big bird into climbing. Once it was climbing and gaining air speed, retracted the flaps one click....let the bird get a bit more airspeed then retracted the flaps fully. Then climb, climb, climb. With mountain peaks around 7000 feet, it is imperative that this bird gets up over them. At 7500 feet, the belly of the plane was too close to the peaks for comfort, so I climbed up to 11,500 and could then enjoy the scenery.
If you want to test your mettle, grab Kenny Fox's Concrete Municipal, the Alpha C-141 and give it a go.
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I had to back the plane all the way to the end of the runway...the back tires were on the edge of the tarmac. Fire up the engines, apply brakes, and go to full throttle and wait until the engines achieved full thrust. Let up on the brakes and get rolling. Wait until some airspeed picked up, then hit two clicks of down flaps.
Now here's where it got hairy. Shortly after the runway ends, there is a drop off that goes down to the river below. The plane was not airborne before it got to that drop off, so it basically ramped off the upper plateau and into mid-air. It dropped a bit but I got the nose up, retracted landing gear to reduce drag and sweet talked the big bird into climbing. Once it was climbing and gaining air speed, retracted the flaps one click....let the bird get a bit more airspeed then retracted the flaps fully. Then climb, climb, climb. With mountain peaks around 7000 feet, it is imperative that this bird gets up over them. At 7500 feet, the belly of the plane was too close to the peaks for comfort, so I climbed up to 11,500 and could then enjoy the scenery.
If you want to test your mettle, grab Kenny Fox's Concrete Municipal, the Alpha C-141 and give it a go.
OBIO