A Dusk Landing in the Fog...

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 15 Sep 2006, 17:11

The Real Weather was obliging today at McLeland Field...The vis was down to a quarter mile and this was just what I wanted for making a second Autoland recording with the aircraft lights on...No Tutorial on this one. Just some more artistic shots with less in the cockpit...ALL these shots are best viewed in a darkened room.

A more complete sequence can be seen by clicking this address:-

http://forum.fsscreenshots.com/dcboard. ... =full&page

Thanks for looking :dance:

cstorey · Post by **cstorey** » 15 Sep 2006, 19:15

Peter : lovely pics as usual - but why on the centre pic do your JPT and RPM gauges appear to show a total flameout!? Is this another replay artefact of the sort which seems to plague my replays?

Chris

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 15 Sep 2006, 19:25

cstorey wrote:Peter : lovely pics as usual - but why on the centre pic do your JPT and RPM gauges appear to show a total flameout!? Is this another replay artefact of the sort which seems to plague my replays?

Chris,

That is because I took that pic just after the Trident had run out of fuel on a replay :redface:

I had to reset the flight to start again with my saved fuel load (a rather light load because of the short length of my base runway). Subsequent pictures were taken after that reset and with the engines running again :dance:

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 15 Sep 2006, 20:52

Has anyone ever asked you how it compares to the real thing Peter? :think:

Vulcan_to_the_Sky! · Post by **Vulcan_to_the_Sky!** » 15 Sep 2006, 22:14

Brilliant Screenshots

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 16 Sep 2006, 00:26

VEGAS wrote:Has anyone ever asked you how it compares to the real thing Peter? :think:

It just couldn't get much closer Eddie:-

And those wheels, levers, knobs and lights on the autopilot panel work EXACTLY as the did in the real aircraft :dance:

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 16 Sep 2006, 10:41

Wow! Would you look at that!

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 16 Sep 2006, 11:02

DM's Trident must be very good indeed if a chap who used to fly them for real likes them!

Peter, I know you used to fly everywhere at M.85, but did you ever get to .9?

petermcleland · Post by **petermcleland** » 16 Sep 2006, 14:03

jonesey2k wrote:DM's Trident must be very good indeed if a chap who used to fly them for real likes them!

Peter, I know you used to fly everywhere at M.85, but did you ever get to .9?

I think the most I ever saw in a Trident was M0.92 just after starting a descent.

In a Vampire M0.78 with porpoising starting.

In a Venom (vertically down at full power from 50,000 feet) M0.91 and totally out of control from M0.86 down till the speed reduced again in the denser air back to M0.86.

In a Hunter (same conditions) M1.16 but in control.

In a Lightning M1.60 at 36,000 feet level flight and about to start an energy climb.

:dance:

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 16 Sep 2006, 18:56

.92! :shock: Now thats what I call speed