Originally posted by RobAnt
I think you’re probably right. In the picture below you can see that the tailwheel is clearly well off the ground, while I have the brakes on. I know it’s only an FS2004 generated image, but I’m sure it’s accurate.

Incidentally, this model of the T20 is so docile, even I can fly it, is it that easy in real life? – I have the sim settings to “realistic”!

Rob,

All of Paul Barry’s Sea Fury Flight Models were made using the Flight Dynamics Workbook, by far the best way to make FM’s for the FS/CFS series of sims.

The FM you make with it will be within 1% of the real aircrafts performance and it will handle like it too. Basically , the more accurate your data used to build the FM, the more accurate the FM will be! 😉

From all that I’ve read, these Sea Fury FM’s seem to reflect what pilots had to say about the real thing. Take Off can be a bit tricky if you aren’t careful (but that’s true of most of the taildragger warbirds!) but once you are in the air, the Sea Fury handles like a dream and goes like a rocket seemingly without any effort!

As for the landing, well it seems it was easy to on the real thing providing you kept an eye on your airspeed and it seems that this is the way it is in Flight Sim. 🙂

Hope this helps.

Apologies for drifting away from the original discussion btw! 😮

Cheers

Paul

Well if your Lottery numbers don’t come up n the near future, you can always purchase the HFL/Aeroplane Heaven FS2004 version of PV202 due out soon. 🙂

Not quite the same but almost as real as it gets.;)

And I suspect that there will be a few more of HFL’s Spits to grace the virtual world too. 😀

http://www.historicflying.com/gallery.htm

Cheers

Paul

Originally posted by jbs
Daz,

Would you believe it, that shot was taken at the same 1988 Spitfire Show at DX, if you notice PT462 is in the “unusual” Charles Church scheme

You’re absolutely correct jbs it was the 88 Spit show at DX.

That pic was taken by Bradford senior from the top of a double decker bus!

As for PT462’s “unusual” scheme. Although I wasn’t too keen on it at the time, I must say I prefer it to the colours she has today. 😮

Cheers

Paul

Ant,

I think you’ll find if you go to the Multiplayer Settings menu in FS2002, there is a section called ‘Visual Details’ that lets you set whether you see the animations etc of other players aircraft and they see yours. If they are not checked with an ‘x’ then you won’t see the other planes animations and smoke.

As for FS2004 being worse than 2002. Well I’ve found it does a lot of things better and am pleased with it. But as Rob points out, to get the best out of it you do need a system with a lot of Ram, Fast CPU and one of the beefy, latest generation Graphics cards.

In think there is scope here for an FS2002/4 team and a IL2 FB one judging by the comments so far. One things for sure though, the FS series will allow us to fly in an accurate enviroment if you have the right addons. 😉

Cheers

Paul

Ah, Bill Wainright.

I do remember now!

Thanks Airbedane.

And so it’s Skillicorn.

I couldn’t remember the name exactly.

Now one question I’d like to ask, although not pilot related, is what ever happened to the commentator by the name of Roger & what was his surname?

I always remember him doing the shows in the 80’s and my dad said he was doing them in the 70’s as well! When did he stop doing shows at OW?

Cheers

Paul

I thought the DVD compared well to previous versions but I hoped it would have some bonus stuff like last years.

I’ll have to take a look next time and see if I can spot you Snapper!

Interesting point you make about pre existing contracts.

Maybe there was a deal that if anything happened, Sky News would get exclusive rights to it. They where there from the Thursday reporting about the show and the fact that Twilight Tear had returned to DX. Also they had interviews with the family of Hubert Davis as well if I recall correctly.

At the time I was pleased they previewed this unique show. Just a shame that events turned out the way they did. 🙁

I wish the full facts regarding the Firefly footage deal would come out.

Cheers

Paul

I got mine from Steve.

Dez, I didn’t think the last paragraph was worded disrespectfully.

Whilst I don’t know the full details behind the Firefly crash footage story, I think Red Admiral did a good job with this years DVD despite all the flack they got.

Personally I thought they handled the Firefly accident in a respectful manner.

Cheers

Paul