Mosquitos at Wanaka

[K5054NZ]

Hi all!

After much frustration due to unexplained programme crashes to desktop, and letting the damned PC just sit for a week, this morning I booted up FS9, loaded up Mosquito FB.VI "GB-A"/ZK-MOZ at Wanaka, played as traffic an RAAF 1 Sqn Mosquito I recorded earlier, and tried Take 7 on my first Mosquito pairs demonstration. This is a simulated attack on an enemy installation - visualise bomb-burst and strafing run pyro! BTW can someone please develop pyro effects for airshows? It'd add soooooo much to screenies and multiplayer events.

Heck, I realised i have a lot of work to get myself up to scratch. But the intention's there, at least I hope you'll see it! Derek - if you're out there, I'd love a fellow Mossie fan to fly formation with me online!

Anyway, multiplayer or again on Recorder, this is not the last of Zac's Mosquito demos. Enjoy the Thursday rehersals for Warbirds Over Wanaka 20xx .


"Wanaka tower, Mosquito formation cleared for takeoff on runway two-niner"


"And they're rolling! Just listen to those Merlins..."




"Tighten up - stick to me like glue"


"What you are about to see, ladies and gentlemen, is something not seen since the 1950s"


"Mosquito one breaking right"


"Two, breaking left"


"Just magnificent..."


"Bomber marks of the Mosquito could carry 4,000lb - the same load as a B-17 Flying Fortress!"


"And as the leader clears the area, the second aircraft will come in for a strafing run"











The model is BSK's Mosquito F Mk.II "Intruder" available at Sim-Outhouse, with repaints of FB.VIs from the same site. I promise I'll get better - I really want to get some nicely choreographed displays in FS....so much cheaper than the real thing...

[Daniel]

Nice display of the Mosquito down at Wanaka
With most of the crowd looking the wrong way
Keep the screenies coming mate

Cheers
Daniel

[ardypilot]

Very nice mate- it's awesome watching back your recordings and watching the performance come to life- good job!

[Anthony]

Great aircraft and great shots too!
Silliest crowd ever ... you'd think they would look at the aircraft, but then again it's a flight simulator not a crowd simulator.

Cheers
Anthony

[toprob]

QUOTE (Anthony @ May 19 2008, 04:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great aircraft and great shots too!
Silliest crowd ever ... you'd think they would look at the aircraft, but then again it's a flight simulator not a crowd simulator.

Cheers
Anthony

They are a vain lot -- they actually look at the camera all the time.
(These are rotate-to-user models, so yes, they always face the screen. However if you are flying then they are looking at you.)

[Charl]

Yes for that reason I always try, in spot view, to put the aircraft between me and the Wanaka crowd!
Recorder Module is great for teaching flying discipline, and the better your planning, the better the result.
I love doing live formation flying, even though the Recorded ones make better screenshots.
Great stuff, Zac, keep it coming...

[spongebob206]

Hi Zac

The Mk6 is my all time fav.

Awesome shots.
Been too busy at work at present, not flying much.

Will buy Mosquito at some stage. Actually can't wait.

Cheers mate, must catch up some time.


Derek

[K5054NZ]

QUOTE (spongebob206 @ May 19 2008, 05:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Zac

The Mk6 is my all time fav.

Awesome shots.
Been too busy at work at present, not flying much.

Will buy Mosquito at some stage. Actually can't wait.

Cheers mate, must catch up some time.


Derek

Definitely gotta catch up!I finish work at 3, or else Sun-Mon I have off. Mk.VI is my favourite too, not much of a glass-nose fan. The Mosquito pack should be out by Christmas. Which Christmas, though, is anyone's guess

Thanks for the positive comments guys! Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the crowd (sorry Robin!) - at least with two Mossies going around in different directions I can just say they're watching the other one!

[chopper_nut]

Gud stuff Zac, be neat to see two of them wouldnt it?

[Florian_S]

Great display Zac....I find formation flying with Recorder very very hard...but practice makes perfect so I will stick with it

[spongebob206]

QUOTE (K5054NZ @ May 19 2008, 06:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Definitely gotta catch up!I finish work at 3, or else Sun-Mon I have off. Mk.VI is my favourite too, not much of a glass-nose fan. The Mosquito pack should be out by Christmas. Which Christmas, though, is anyone's guess

Thanks for the positive comments guys! Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the crowd (sorry Robin!) - at least with two Mossies going around in different directions I can just say they're watching the other one!

Hi Zac,

Sweet, I finish at 3 also.
Gotta get the package when it arrives.

Must organise a day. I pick up the kids at three as the wife works till Six.

Sunday sweet also, however I awake at 4am so no late nights flying for me.

Cheers

derek

[K5054NZ]

Roger that Derek! Have you got a cellphone? PM me with your number and we can exchange! I'm also doing early starts, 0500-1500 Tue-Sat.

Nick - hominahominahomina! I recently discovered a shot of the late lamented RR299 and Kermit Weeks' RS712 flying together (sadly can't find it online, for the moment!).....gold, pure gold. Add to that my purchase of 633 Squadron off TradeMe a coupla weeks back and I'm desperate to see some Mossie action! Who knows, maybe after KA114 some other DH.98s will be sent to Glyn and AvSpecs.....Flying Heritage in Seattle has a T.III which is a possibility.....and Glyn *is* planning to fly NZ2308 back to Australia, and the RAAF Museum's A52-600 may be flying by then.....My god I need to get out more!

Flo, it sure is! I'm not ready for real formation stuff yet, so I limit it to a flyby and then separate but coordinated displays. The Mossie one here is a case in point. The two aircraft takeoff together, arrive over the target in line astern (as you'd imagine would be smart!) and then peel away to attack separately. This (I hope) a) gives a realistic impression of a normal low-level attack, and 2) means the crowd isn't always waiting for the aeroplanes to come back, as by rights there's always one in front of them!

[Ian Warren]

Heads up for you Zac http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsim/cbfsBB/viewto...p;sk=t&sd=a If the Beaufighter is anything to go by ... this is going to brilliant !

[Ether]

I love the mosquito. Its what I would get built if I won the super super lotto jackpot.
When to the Mosquito museum once when I lived in the uk where they still have to original prototype (yellow). Only prototype of any major WWII plane still in existance.
Offered one of the guys restoring one 50 pound to sit in one expecting alot of resistance (hence the larger money). Guy didn't bat an eyelid and got a ladder and up I climbed.
As you would imagine the view with all that glass around was very impressive and it was a definite thrill. Gave the money as a donation to the mosquito museum too.



Ether

[K5054NZ]

So. Very. Jealous.

Wow.....any pics? Sitting in W4050, what a thrill that would be! Awesome!

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Ether @ Jun 3 2008, 06:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

When to the Mosquito museum once when I lived in the uk where they still have to original prototype (yellow). Only prototype of any major WWII plane still in existance.
Ether

Mosquito production the a large New Zealand part in the building in 1940 , Enlisting the help of the NZ-Army Forestry group New Zealand Expeditionary Force setting up mills and cutting

[Ether]

Didn't think to take photo's of sitting inside the mossie. Have got probably about 10 pic's of the museum somewhere though.
Not digital so probably among a thousand photo's from the period....

Museum is definitely worth visiting.


Ether

[K5054NZ]

QUOTE (Ether @ Jun 3 2008, 09:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Museum is definitely worth visiting.

You think so? As soon as I first heard about its existence I thought "yeah, GOTTA go there!".