One thing I notice in all of those shots is your elevons.. they're always up! Nowt unusual with that model though as it doesn't fly level without a fair bit of trim from what I remember Considering it's age.. they did a fair old job with it didn't they ;-)
I have seen stills of this crash, but didn't think any film of the incident existed...just 9 days before my first birthday.
Bob
Bob, is that the accident which was caused by the airframe being overstressed during its display ( or something like that ) ? I too have seen stills of it, but am equally surprised that film exists of it happening.
A bit of VA server downtime yesterday had me looking around the hangar finding things I'd not flown for a while and 558 came out for the first time in YONKS!..
Decided to do a 'quickie' from Prestwick to Keflavic and was shocked to see how poor it's performance was when flown vaguely seriously over a comparatively long distance :o Thank goodness for inflight refuelling (alt/aircraft/fuel-payload/LOADS OF FUEL) I guess most of us only poodle along pretending to do airshows so any probs aren't normally noticed but the PSS/JF model is SO off the mark in FS9, I don't know how they managed to get away with it! It wouldn't climb to any decent sort of altitude full of fuel without falling from the sky due to zero airspeed and it's high fuelburn make it the shortest range long range bomber in existance :roll: It also burns more off one side than the other.. odd :think: Anyone know of any 'after market' tweeks to this old girl or have we all accepted it as being as real as it gets?? One thing I've done is half the parasite drag so it'll now climb above FL200 in reasonable fashion and fuelburn/range is much better. It actually goes quite well now so there's still some life left in the old girl for those of us stuck in yesteryear
A bit of VA server downtime yesterday had me looking around the hangar finding things I'd not flown for a while and 558 came out for the first time in YONKS!..
Decided to do a 'quickie' from Prestwick to Keflavic and was shocked to see how poor it's performance was when flown vaguely seriously over a comparatively long distance :o Thank goodness for inflight refuelling (alt/aircraft/fuel-payload/LOADS OF FUEL) I guess most of us only poodle along pretending to do airshows so any probs aren't normally noticed but the PSS/JF model is SO off the mark in FS9, I don't know how they managed to get away with it! It wouldn't climb to any decent sort of altitude full of fuel without falling from the sky due to zero airspeed and it's high fuelburn make it the shortest range long range bomber in existance :roll: It also burns more off one side than the other.. odd :think: Anyone know of any 'after market' tweeks to this old girl or have we all accepted it as being as real as it gets?? One thing I've done is half the parasite drag so it'll now climb above FL200 in reasonable fashion and fuelburn/range is much better. It actually goes quite well now so there's still some life left in the old girl for those of us stuck in yesteryear
ATB
DaveB :tab:
I can think of one tweek, buy FSX and then buy the IRIS Vulcan! :000:
IF Iris did a try before you buy demo, I'd certainly try it mate but to be brutally honest.. I don't use FSX enough to justify buying anything for it. I only bought Accel under duress.. not for SP2 which I already had but to be able to use Ark Royal IV for carrier ops! :o I'd love to be able to bring it up to the standard of my FS9 but I have neither the will nor the money. One day maybe but not any day soon ;-)
Anyway.. the PSS Vulcan suits me fine in FS9. I bought it when it came out and have flown it more in the last 2 days than I have in the last 6 years. It'll probably be another 6 years before I fly it again! While it's VC is as rough as a badgers bum compared to modern models, it's 2D remains one of the best I've seen and this is where I live.. in the world of 2D panels ;-)
Considering it's age.. they did a fair old job with it didn't they ;-) 
I guess most of us only poodle along pretending to do airshows so any probs aren't normally noticed but the PSS/JF model is SO off the mark in FS9, I don't know how they managed to get away with it! It wouldn't climb to any decent sort of altitude full of fuel without falling from the sky due to zero airspeed and it's high fuelburn make it the shortest range long range bomber in existance :roll: It also burns more off one side than the other.. odd :think: Anyone know of any 'after market' tweeks to this old girl or have we all accepted it as being as real as it gets?? One thing I've done is half the parasite drag so it'll now climb above FL200 in reasonable fashion and fuelburn/range is much better. It actually goes quite well now so there's still some life left in the old girl for those of us stuck in yesteryear 
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