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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:22 am
by Ian Warren
General Dynamics F111 Advark by Virtavia







Now be interesting to compare to the F111-FSX dot com's model .... this is one jet that really cooks or least it DID

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:34 am
by lowflier
Whats it like?

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:38 am
by Ian Warren
Its good , at $40NZ very reasonable , found no load wing flex on takeoff but jury still out on that.. still require looks and a good play later tonight .

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:25 pm
by connor
I was just looking at the f11-FSX.com one, it looks pretty good. Have a look at the demo vid!

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:53 pm
by Splitpin
connor wrote:
QUOTE (connor @ Mar 17 2012,4:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I was just looking at the f11-FSX.com one, it looks pretty good. Have a look atthe demo vid!


Now thats a pig......beautiful , good find Connor.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:41 am
by Ian Warren
Jeez ... long time coming - their is now a patch 1.1 ... hells only had five minutes laugh.gif ... I do hope they are going to look at the external textures , times like this you wish you photoed the entire aircraft step by step , oh well , might be able to find a good link or maybe a museum trip is required .... come to think why don't we have a F111 for the museum , Kiwis flew em .. they displayed in NZ and even would have bits and pieces around Ohakea and in the Hauraki Gulf .

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:12 pm
by Ian Warren
With the Wanaka Warbirds on the horizon , a burning blast from the past

Someone told me to light the show up ........................ Whoops ! unsure.gif

rolleyes.gif , Aussie Amanda would say ... It was'nt me ..Dolly did it tongue.gif

In the few years they stopped for the airshows south i was impressed by the noise .. but also the time they took to there ohmy.gif

No speeding ticket for those pups .......................

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:05 pm
by Naki
Nice...so it does the dump and burn?

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:10 pm
by Ian Warren
By a simple press .. no not the 'V' key but 'I' key .. only 20 minutes away from Christchurch that was real enough ..blink.gif even took the virtual wrinkles outta my face laugh.gif

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:52 pm
by Charl
A misunderstood aeroplane... d'you think dump 'n burn was a design feature or what??
I can't think of another plane that does this.
Nice series, you do want to wring out the ole 'vark when you can, eh?
Meanwhile, it was just an old pussycat, serenely cruising out its service life, not doing very much at all...

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:13 pm
by Ian Warren
Charl wrote:
QUOTE (Charl @ Mar 30 2012,4:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
A misunderstood aeroplane... d'you think dump 'n burn was a design feature or what??

From Navy long range off the TFX program in the early 60's to a light tactical and strategic bomber course its fame with TFR ..misunderstood ... fuel dump and was nothing more than a fluke of design and course requires a quik match like the afterburn cool.gif

Charl wrote:
QUOTE (Charl @ Mar 30 2012,4:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Meanwhile, it was just an old pussycat, serenely cruising out its service life, not doing very much at all...

It real most known use was 1986 and the Libyan strikes from the UK , least it gave some of our boys time to have a play .

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:44 pm
by AndrewJamez
connor wrote:
QUOTE (connor @ Mar 17 2012,4:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I was just looking at the f11-FSX.com one, it looks pretty good. Have a look at the demo vid!


Wow!! check out the crew animations before taxi, draps his arm over the side of the fuse and then puts his mask on, eat that people flow!! this a payware dev or freeware?? Its obviously not virtavia. How about a cokpit shot Ian?

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:53 pm
by Splitpin
whathesaid.gif "Its obviously not virtavia"

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:57 pm
by Ian Warren
AndrewJamez wrote:
QUOTE (AndrewJamez @ Mar 30 2012,7:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wow!! check out the crew animations before taxi, draps his arm over the side of the fuse and then puts his mask on, eat that people flow!! this a payware dev or freeware?? Its obviously not virtavia. How about a cokpit shot Ian?

That from F111-FSX.com is a payware , i will be getting that myself , you no the old compare deal cool.gif ... cockpit shot will do , best i try the other parts , some feature are the same but the big deal if you have seen these fly regularly was the wing flex on takeoff .. the next looks it show that feature and yeah 111flow .. COOL .. also be interesting to what sort off cockpit operation it has compared also.

Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Mar 30 2012,7:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
whathesaid.gif "Its obviously not virtavia"

That's Not 'Jim Beam' biggrin.gif

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:13 pm
by Splitpin
Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 30 2012,7:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
That from F111-FSX.com is a payware , i will be getting that myself , you no the old compare deal cool.gif ... cockpit shot will do , best i try the other parts , some feature are the same but the big deal if you have seen these fly regularly was the wing flex on takeoff .. the next looks it show that feature and yeah 111flow .. COOL .. also be interesting to what sort off cockpit operation it has compared also.


That's Not 'Jim Beam' biggrin.gif

Your Damm right there Mr W.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:00 pm
by Charl
Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 30 2012,6:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It real most known use was 1986 and the Libyan strikes from the UK , least it gave some of our boys time to have a play.

As I typed, I thought ooh what about Libya?
Ronald Reagan couldn't make up his mind about Gaddafi.
So in the end he thought a little bombing might sort things out. Wasn't Top Gun round about that time?

The UN disagreed quite strongly:
By a vote of 79 in favor to 28 against with 33 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 41/38 which "condemns the military attack perpetrated against the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on 15 April 1986, which constitutes a violation of the Charter of the United Nations and of international law."

Oops...
Who said flightsim was not educational?

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:10 pm
by Ian Warren
Operation El'toro Canyon .. don't mess with Lakenheath F111s cool.gif

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:20 pm
by Naki
....and Vietnam.. combat tested there...not so successfully at first. A wing fell off one IIRC.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:53 pm
by Ian Warren
Naki wrote:
QUOTE (Naki @ Mar 30 2012,9:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
....and Vietnam.. combat tested there...not so successfully at first. A wing fell off one IIRC.

First deployment .. 68 .. 70 they proved the point cool.gif .. don't mess with 111

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:43 pm
by Charl
Charlie: Excuse me, Lieutenant. Is there something wrong?
Maverick: Yes ma'am, the data on the MiG is inaccurate.
Charlie: How's that, Lieutenant?
Maverick: Well, I just happened to see a MiG 28 do a...
Goose: We!
Maverick: Uh, sorry, Goose. *We* happened to see a MiG 28 do a 4g negative dive.
Charlie: Where did you see this?
Maverick: Uh, that's classified.
Charlie: It's what?
Maverick: It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.