Classic British Flight Sim

Yes indeed mate, we are breaking new ground here (boom boom tish!). Bit of a good one, that, I was upstairs at the time and wondered what the heck was going on at first. Did you get much of it up your way? It was on the news for the rest of the afternoon and you just know the news crews were baying for blood.

Good stuff nonetheless. Glad the parrot green went down well, the more garish the better!

Sorry earthquakes?!!? Is it too late to cancel my flight, I don't do dangerous...

Steve
Is the the Ekco pod on the Kreigsmarine Sea Hawk??


Leif

Hello Leif,

yes, the Ecko pod is on the Mk.101 German Navy Sea Hawk, inner starboard pylon.

We even felt that one , on this side of the hill Steve.

We have been having alot of little ones recently - just like the 70/80s when they were letting off underground firecrackers

I thought it was the pod Steve, just didnt want to look a total splod

Leif

SkippyBing wrote:Sorry earthquakes?!!? Is it too late to cancel my flight, I don't do dangerous...

I thought everyone on 815 said that Dangerous was your middle name!?!

nazca_steve wrote: It was on the news for the rest of the afternoon and you just know the news crews were baying for blood.

Good stuff nonetheless. Glad the parrot green went down well, the more garish the better!

Yea the US news crews really do scrape the barrel for features, still at least the quake gave them something else to talk about other than backed up traffic on the '405 which is hardly surprising!

As for Garish paint schemes....it cannot be worse than one of my first Airfix kits ever built which was a Seahawk and at the age of 5 had not understood the concept of not putting all the decals supplied on the model at one time! I think the Dutch / German / RN scheme was quite fetching!!! NOT!

Hmm, your mixed-up Sea Hawk sounds akin to the time I thought bright blue and yellow was a 'cool' and decided to repaint some old B17s all over in 'race colours'. You've got to love those early model making experiments. It's funny, I tell my wife that FS repainting is something like model making but without the storage space problems and dusting! ;-)

May I express my encouragement to Steven Beeny in his work towards a Sea Hawk for FS2004. I am aware of two previous freeware downloads of the Sea Hawk for versions of MSFS and both were disappointing e.g. the wheels of the French model. Most of the models posted on the Classic British Flight Sim site are of an awesomely high standard e.g. those of Messrs Piper and Maltby and are a huge pleasure to fly. I have just finished reading Captain Eric Brown's breathtaking "Wings on my Sleeve". He thought highly of the Seahawk and also of the Sea Hornet. A FS2004 freeware model of that aircraft would be welcomed. I know that AlphaSim have a payware version and I'm not exactly poor but with payware I'd be buying a Pig in a Poke, whereas disappointing freeware can be simply deleted without tears. Most often with downloads for my own use I rewrite the aircraft.cfg and .air files, modify the selection and arrangement of gauges and change the choice of sound files (all virtually essential with the beautiful models from Kazunori Ito). So I won't worry if you don't fuss too much about those aspects Steven - the clever bit is your visual model.

Hi BoB

Welcome to the forum

Steve's Sea Hawk is a cracker. :tab:

You can though rest assured than many hours of work over the last few month on the airfile and cfg has been put in by the person doing them and this, like all projects our team here produce should not need any rewriting. ;-)

Garry

Hello BoB, thanks for your encouragement. It was the shortage of an up to date model that made me start the project in the first place, but the objective is, as Garry says, to make it an enjoyable flying experience as well, and I know the two chaps I have working on the FDEs have done a super job so far. Right now, one of them is modifying the generic clean config to the various 'armed' configs, as well as adding the various variant oddities, so hopefully there will be no need to edit them yourself.

By all accounts I have read, it was apparently a pilot's aircraft to fly, and from what I've seen in testing so far, that holds up

Looking forward to the beta feedback in due time, right now I am entering panel territory and will keep you updated.

ATB,

Steve