JayviatorThanks, can anyon explain what the part actually did, ok so i got that it changed the responses on a analogue computer, but im not very clever so what is an analogue computer and what does it mean by change the responses, did it make the responses quicker, or did it make it do something other than the autopilot was originaly designed for?
Obviously it was for a Vulcan, but i have been trying to find out more about the mk 10 autopilot and saw that it was fitted to other aircraft as well, would that part have worked in another aircraft as well.
I wonder if it has ever actually been used in a Vulcan or was just a spare, it certainly has a used look to it!
Its great that there are mnay knoweldgable people here, i thought it would take longer to get a answer because i thought it looked like such a inobscure little peice, i suppose the code numbers helped but only someone with extensive knowlede would be able to identify it by the codes?
JayviatorWow! thansk for the quick and informative reply, i thought it was probbaly something unimportant but it sounds like it was important, then again i guess every nut and bolt of an aircraft has an important part to play.
thanks again
JayviatorAs I live in Eastleigh i am very interested in the concordia, so i was pleased when i got this old advert, dated may 30th 1947, just 11 days after the first flight.
JayviatorFirstly i was asking because i just wanted to make sure i was doing everything correctly, i was previously using the rules given on fs passengers which correspond to what you said about the landing lights,strobes etc but i asked the same question on some other forums and seemed to get a different answer each time.
secondly i want you to know that i have the upmost respect for real pilots, wherever they fly cessna 150’s or Q400s and i never said i didnt like the q400, im just bored of seeing them all the time, back when i was a kid Eastleigh airport had much more of a variety of aircraft types and back then they had no problem allowing kids to sit in the cockpits whilst they got the plane ready for the next flight, i was always in awe at all the instruments and buttons and stuff, i thought how cool it must be to be a pilot to understand all that stuff, well i can only fly on my flight sim but those buttons and swithces and instruments all do the same on a real aircraft and now i understand them to!
I think im stuck in the 80s when planes seemed to have more charachter and the cockpits looked like cockpits, not like an office with computer screens!
as far as the q400 goes it is a good aircraft, i remember when it first started becoming regular here and i was amazed by its climb rate, i have also been a passenger in one from Hannover to Eastleigh and it was a nice flight i especialy enjoyed seeing the strange blue ring vortice things coming of the props, and amazingly the pilots did allow me to look in the cockpit and chat to them for a while it was the first time i had seen a glass cockpit with the screens all on, other times i had been in a glass cockpit they were off so it was quite boring looking at black screens, i chatted to the pilots a while and then one of the cabin crew said i had to leave as the bus was waiting to take the passengers back to the terminal!
I have actualy flown, well taken the controls of de haviland chipmunks and also cessna 150 on several occasions so i do have a little more experience than your average flight simmer who might treat the sim as nothing more than a bit of fun, i take my sim flying quite seriously!
(i also have a q400 in flybe livery and also one in FlyUK livery which is a VA airline i fly for)
JayviatorYour not a pilot are you?! if you fly the plane in your avatar pic then maybe that is the case for the q400 and other modern planes but my hs748 has landing lights that are extended and retracted by an electric motor, not built into the wings and i have been told that at FL10 the airspeed would probably rip the lights of the aircraft, also the procedure checklist for the 748 is correct as it has been developed with real 748 pilots imput and when i am flying with my landing lights on i have a red cross on my procedure checklist next to lights, which turns to a green tick when i swich the landing lights off so i can only presume that means i have done the correct thing.
ps if you do fly q400s, YAWN! they are a decent plane but i am so bored of seeing them at EGHI, bring back the Heralds Viscounts F27’s 748’s and Shorts 330/360’s!!!
JayviatorThats what i thought but i think those are FS procedures, not real world procedures, as i have found out my 748 procedures are correct for that type and the landing lights should be off after take off.
Maybe its down to whatever aircraft is being used, the 748 is rather dated now and doesnt even appaer to have strobe and taxi lights, just beacon nav and landing lights.
perhaps that 10’000ft landing lights thing is just for modern aircraft?
JayviatorThanks, I just learnt from another forum that the 748 procedure is correct, i have been using fs passengers rules which i thought were based on real life rules so it seems they dont have to be on until 10,000ft
JayviatorThats just up the road from me, i think it should be full scale! my town (Eastleigh) doesnt really have a great deal going for it, i think we should cash in on our aviation heritage and have more spitifire stuff in our town, we used to have spitfire christmas lights, complete with rotating prop! we were probably the only town in the world with those lights but they dont use them now, probably some politicaly correct moamny person complaining “oh its not in the spirit of christmas having a war plane as decoration” we have a mitchell road and mitchell way which i guess is named after RJ mitchell, and also RJ mitchell court. we also have a sopwith road on the new estate which all the names represent well known people who have some connection with eastleigh (and also some streets named after cable related stuff as it was built on the site of the old pirelli buildings) Im wondering if sopwith road is named after thomas sopwith although i wasnt aware he had any connections with eastleigh.
I think there should be Spitfire street, skeeter street, airhorse avenue, concordia crescent, cierva close and cunliffe owen close!
Maybe at least one of them will be used as i have noticed that another new housing area being built has 2 roads that seem to be named after types of aircraft Rapide clode and Argosy crescent! although im sure these are nothing to do with eastleigh and maybe they arnt naming them after planes at all!
JayviatorAs with mony people my first experience of a Chipmunk was with the ATC, I flew in WP840 (9) at 2AEF out of Hurn, Bournmouth on 22 June 1991 for 15 minutes. Little old me waddled across the tarmac in my uniform with coveralls, the bonedome on my head and the parachute banging against my bum with each step.
Since I first came to this forum I have found out where ‘840 is now based and the internet has let me find loads of photos of my first some of which I’ve included below. I was also staggered when I saw the 9 on the front of a Chipmunk pictured on the front cover of Pilot magazine and when I looked at the article inside found it was WP840! 😮
Nice to find a old freind eh!
I am sure i ticked of the ones i flew in my old military reg book (with a rather proud note saying “flown it” by the side! and im sure i have that old book somewhere if i can find it amongs my junk then i will be able to find out what chippies i flew, who knows maybe i flew WP840 as well!
I remember waddling with the parachute! do you remeber the saftey video with cadet “John andrews” i heard a rumor one cadet was not allowed to fly because when asked his name by the instructor he jokingly said John andrews!
Did you do any aerobatics, that was great fun, in my mind i was humming Top gun! at least i think it was in my mind!
JayviatorOnce again, I aplogise for bringing up an old thread but i had to comment on this, I to am very fond of the Chipmunk as I have taken the controls of a Chippie on several occasions whilst a member of 1216 sqdn ATC I was probably one of the last cadets to fly a Chippie as i know not long after i left they started using the Bulldog, i am so gutted i lost my 3822 as it had the reges of the chippies i flew so i cannot find out the history of “my” chippies, all i know is that they were from no2 AEF at Bournemouth (as i understand they are now operating the grob tutor from Boscombe down) I have just won a airfix model of a chippie on ebay, its reg is WK574, i would like to paint this up in the RAF red and white colours (just like the ones i flew) does anyone know if that particular plane ever wore those colours?
JayviatorI thought i found out what it was from because there is a picture on thunder and lightnings page of a gnat F1 cockpit and the ASI looks identical, but then i was told that the Gnat didnt fly until 1955 and my ASI is from 1951, so it cant possibly be from a Gnat, I have tried asking for help on another forum and a few aircraft were mentioned like venom vampire ect, which is what i originaly thought it might come from, but from my searches of cockpit photos none of the ASI’s in those aircraft look the same as mine, this really is a mystery ASI! I am taking it to the Solent sky museum to see if anyone there might have a idea what it is from.
Are there any books with aircraft codes in that i could look at to see if i can find any of the codes on the label on my ASI?, I did find a list here with some aircraft codes and manufactors codes, and i found 2 codes that i have on my ASI which were AS/PC according to the list i found AS is the airspeed manufactors stamp (although that coudl also refer to it being an air speed indicator) and PC is the aircraft code for a Battle (Fairey Battle I’m asuming as that is the only aircraft i can find called a battle) but this ASI cannot come from one of those as im sure the battle was not capable of the speeds on the ASI.
My quest continues!
JayviatorLOL. I’m told two Sea Vixens were found in one of those hangars, apparently having been forgotten about. By some co-incidence, it’s the one on display in Solent Sky.
I’ll have to keep an eye out for the Uni-Link bus Toby.
Thankfully the Spitfire replica has not been vandalised once since it was erected, which is a bit surprising to be honest.
Sorry to bring up this old post again, but i saw this bit about the sea vixen and it rekindled a old memory, there were indeed 2 sea vixens in the hangar, i remeber when me and my mate were kids and the airport was our second home, one day we were exploring around the hangars and saw one of the hangar doors partly open, took a peek in and saw the sea vixens, now this shows how long ago it was, if it were today we probaly would have been shot! but back then, someone saw us and let us in the hangar for a closer look, and even let us sit in one of the sea vixens!
JayviatorI went to Farnborough on the monday trade day to see the F22 Raptor, all i can say is WOW! and i went on saturday to see the Vulcan, which did fly and was amazing! for some reason she didnt sound as loud as i remember, although the last time i heard a Vulcan at close range i was a lot younger so it probbaly made more of an impresion on me, also maybe my hearing isnt as good as it was back then!
I went to Bournemouth on saturday not only for the Vulcan but also to see the Sea Vixen the Gnat flying with the red arrows and the DC-6, i was a bit saddened about the Vulcan not dipslaying but I very much enjoyed the Sea Vixen (my favourite display of the day) as i have never seen a Sea Vixen flying, same as for the DC-6, she was supposed to fly at farnborough so i was a bit sad she didnt fly but then it was made up for by seeing her fly at Bournemouth! also got a bonus with the Eurofighter, which i wasn’t to bothered if i saw her or not, and wasnt expecting to see it fly as it looked like it would only fly on friday and sunday, so i got 2 bonus flybys from that, albeit a blink and you’ll miss it display!
Jayviatorthanks
Thanks for helping me, i have since managed to rejoin as i contact the admin and found out the reason i was unable to login, because some of the old accounts had to be deleted because spammers were using them, or something like that, so i am glad to be back!
there are some codes on the ASI which are, CODE 147AS/PC, MOD 01, SER NO 171/51, BRIT PATS 543257 it also has a military broad arrow.
On the front it says 50-600 underneath the word KNOTS and it also has a number, which is probaly the most important number to find out what plane it was fitted to, but i cant read it as its partialy obscured by one of the pointers, all i can make out is TYPE 1-1.
It was made by Smiths, hopefully this additional info will make it a bit easier to find out what aircraft it would have been fitted to, i have searched lots of cockpit photos and cannot find my ASI in any of them. i have seen similar ones but none that are identical.
JayviatorWouldn’t the BAC 1-11 be appropriate to Solent Sky as it’s a local product?
Surely parking could be sorted on the airfield for her until the summer rather than try and dismantle her in the depths of winter?
I have read on the southampton airport mailing group that solent sky is going to be rebuilt and made larger, maybe large enough to take a certain 1-11
Sign In
