Classic British Flight Sim

calypsos wrote:

Nice metal finish there Trev

Yep took me a week with a giant tin of Brasso! Alas, I have not advanced from a helmet visor to an entire aircraft in 24 hours Garry, the repaint is nothing to do with me :-({|=

:k:

Just saying it was nice and you had showed it to us :think:

Didn't think you'd painted it

Garry

Looks like a Bananabob special methinks. :think:

AndyG

I haven't had a chance to get back to the Outhouse recently, but I was a beta tester for the package. For those that would like to actually steer (and don't worry about "super realism"), use this for the first contact point:

point.0 = 1, 10.85, 0, -8.033, 1600, 0, 1.504, 40, 0.248, 2.5, 0.9, 3, 3, 0, 140.8, 235.84

I talked to one of the crew of the "Spirit of Waco" yesterday and he had generally good marks on the SOH model's handling compared to the real thing.

Personally, I noticed that it seems to be a bit "slick" when coming off the power, but I understand that it's normal and that you need to set up for approach well before you're ready to come in and that it's very difficult to slow down after doing "fast passes" at an airshow so much that they frequently have to leave the airshow airspace, slow down while flying at flight idle for a while, then return to land.

Also, the proper method of steering is GENTLE differential braking. There are two things to remember about the real aircraft - never run-up the aircraft with the nose wheel turned, and never use heavy differential braking. Both can easily result in a nose gear failure, a problem that plagued all of the Invaders throughout their life as a result of the rear-folding nature of the nose gear.

Also, I realize that it's probably a restriction of FS, but when you retracted the gear on the real aircraft, the nose wheel retraction greatly hindered the aircraft's performance as it had to pancake into the airstream during retraction, which caused airspeed to stop climbing and often caused pilots to have to level-out until the gear was retracted so they could obtain a safe flying speed. As a result, if you lost an engine during gear retraction, you were probably best advised to simply find the best place to crash and not attempt to keep flying.

I haven't had any great difficulty steering this A-26 on the ground. Its sensitive, but quite quickly mastered. A really great model, I think.

Well that sucks... my e-mail has been banned and I can't register :roll:
Never mind, just dug up my old isp addy.

John Terrell (Bomber12) has just released a couple more repaints for the A-26, both at the Outhouse and at Avsim, for a couple of 'current' warbirds - John's usual superb painting and a specially customised model as well!!

AndyG

Anyone remember the A-26 that was on the UK display circuit many years ago?

N2601G or similar comes to mind but I can't find the slides that I'm sure I have right now :huf:

Hi Ian

Was that the one Don Bullock crashed in after a heart attack during a display?

Some say it was just the manoever....but anyways it crashed.....I think it was Biggin Hill

Garry

Garry

Thanks for that - a bit of extra info enabled me to confirm that was the one.

:prayer: :prayer:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=30061

So N3710G. Well almost N2601G :think:

And I had not realised that it had crashed.

Thanks again - all you youngsters missed this in the UK skies for the wrong reasons :crying: .

Ian