Harrier...

[hasegawa]

G.R. Mk. 7, RAZBAM





G.R. Mk. 9, RAZBAM





F.R.S. Mk. 1 (RN), Wilco










G.R. Mk. 3. Wilco

[Ian Warren]

Superb Andreas . I have the Hawk ... Rick Piper's Skysims is ideal for your GR3 and FRS1, gos well together , I love the hover specificly the quadrant control with the nozzles for VTOL ops ... just brilliant

[hasegawa]

Well, I am a beginner in the "Harrier Business." First I have flown it conventionell... Meanwhile "I play with the nozzles" with ... mixed results. Yesterday was not my day. I have crashed one Mk. 9er on landing in RAF Valley. All in all it is an interesting, but not forgiving aircraft. You have not much options, if you make a failure.
Flying In 250 ft (peacetime rules) or below with around 430 kts over a longer time or in difficult weather is not easy. But I like it in the meantime. Sometimes a mix of REX-textures and Opus may create some "pretty worse weather-" ... Using Rick´s "Hawk" and later the Flying Station "Buccaneer" Mk. 1 with the less powerful engines was useful to master it with the Harrier. Next lessions are "Ski jumping" from the ramp at RAF Wittering and Air-to-Air-Refueling...

[Ian Warren]

I don't have the RAZBAM GRMk9 but found the Wilco harrier with the correct fuel loading , best at 50% simply superb and easier to fly than a helicopter .. course the speed factor adds to the extra fun

[hasegawa]

I have RAZBAM and Wilco. The RAZBAM may be more acurate but... the Wilco GR Mk. 3 and F.R.S. Mk. 1 is in my eyes easier to fly and more forgiving. In the RAZBAM Mk. 7/ Mk. 9 you have more to do with the INS navigation and i dislike the MFD-Style-cockpit, but it is today´s standart. The US-Harriers are not in use. This is another package from RAZBAM. But... I have a better landscape from UK nearly complete. (waiting for the last piece of Scotland in Northern Ireland).

[Splitpin]

Good job For me , their both great. All the tech stuff is insignificant .... as long as it looks good

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (hasegawa @ Apr 25 2013,7:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have RAZBAM and Wilco. The RAZBAM may be more acurate but... the Wilco GR Mk. 3 and F.R.S. Mk. 1 is in my eyes easier to fly and more forgiving. In the RAZBAM Mk. 7/ Mk. 9 you have more to do with the INS navigation and i dislike the MFD-Style-cockpit, but it is today´s standart. The US-Harriers are not in use.

One pilot pointed out for flying many years on helicopters moved onto the Harrier found it so much the same but easier , they are a very different type in were helicopter pilots would be more adapt to jumping straight in the deep end .