Classic British Flight Sim

Aerosoft Lightning T5 in P3dv4,
Real weather by ASP4

Lovely shots Dave

ATB
DaveB

Very nice indeed. Still impressed with P3D V4, Dave G ?

I once had the opportunity to sit in the cockpit of a single seat Lightning. I was amazed at how cramped it was! How the pilot flew at high speed while looking into the offset radar visor and interpreting the required interception pattern at night in bad weather and was then able to intercept and RTB safely astonished me.

At a North Weald airshow many years ago a nine ship Lightning diamond passed low over the crowd and one aircraft stalled out or was caught in the wash of the aircraft ahead. The pilot's reflexes saved his and many other lives as he broke away just beneath the formation and once clear of the port edge of the diamond he gently, very gently, with a bit of a wobble, regained height and set off back to base. A really fine recovery.

Paul K wrote: ↑

28 Jun 2017, 20:32

Very nice indeed. Still impressed with P3D V4, Dave G ?

Very much Paul.

Did you simply install her right into v4, or was anything additional needed?

Installed into v3, then copied across to v4. Replaced the 32bit ASC.dll with a 64bit version downloaded from the AS Twotter forum. That's for custom sounds. Had to modify the associated cfg to point to the correct folder (aircraft installed outside the main P3d folders). Seems to work OK. Removed the other dll ( used for refuelling I think)
I also modified the afterburner fx and control code as a personal preference.

Usual stuff.

Interesting feature that radar as in the early days when fitted with the Firestreak Missile which was heat seeking the pilot had to make a stern attack and often these were practiced at night over the sea at 500ft, so the pilot had to keep the AI in search mode and view the radar through the rubber boot visor, operate the radar controls with his left hand whilst at the same time fly with his right.

He would then have to employ mental mathematics to work out a targets heading and height and how to position his a/c to the rear of the target he was going to intercept.

One pilot who was doing this then looked up for a visual on the target that he manoeuvred behind and to his horror saw that the stars were below him and the fishing boats were above. He managed to roll the Lightning back and thereafter all training flights at low level at night had to be undertaken at 1,000ft.

The failure rate for pilots on the OCU was quite high due to the amount of workload involved.

Of course Peter can maybe give more details about the Lightning as he was instructor on the simulator, bet he could tell a few stories on that subject.

So Dave, next time try the above low level at night, let us know how you get on!!!!

Regards
Nigel.