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Postby Splitpin » Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:41 pm

Anybody fly these anymore?......i remember when these were pretty much all i had....now we are spoilt for choice.













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Postby Adamski » Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:06 am

Sad to say (apart from the Dak) that I haven't taken these out for a long time. Could be something to do with me not having FS9 I suppose.

I'm always amazed when I see "The Spirit of St. Louis" how Lindbergh could have even taken off - let alone do his epic trip in that "thing". I think U-boats had better visiblilty!

BTW - his autobiography account of the trans-Atlantic flight makes *gripping* reading. Hadn't slept for three days prior take off - and only packed two sandwiches **which he didn't even eat**. Incredible man, incredible achievement (of navigaton if nothing else).

Could've sworn I saw a bit of "green stuff" appearing in the lower part of some of those pics. Did you Photoshop that in afterwards laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif ... Oooops! ... nuclear device incoming to the Birkenhead area. No need for any stinking GPS co-ordinates for one of those winkyy.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:15 am

Marty ! ..............defaults ohmy.gif
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Postby IslandBoy77 » Sat Dec 18, 2010 8:22 am

Adamski wrote:
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I'm always amazed when I see "The Spirit of St. Louis" how Lindbergh could have even taken off - let alone do his epic trip in that "thing". I think U-boats had better visiblilty!

Nice one! laugh.gif thumbup1.gif And true, I think... blink.gif
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Postby nzropilot » Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:47 am

Nice selection of sceenshots!
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Postby dbcunnz » Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:20 pm

Geesss Marty I suppose you will be putting shots of rubber band windup models on next tongue.gif laugh.gif
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Postby SgtPepper » Sat Dec 18, 2010 1:45 pm

Cool shots, gotta love those old aircraft. thumbup1.gif
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Postby Splitpin » Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:52 pm

Thanks team....the comet and the trimotor i really like.(to fly) the rest are....well....default...but nice.

Adam....that green stuff seems to creeping into a few of my shots latley....I'll have to keep an eye on it winkyy.gif ....GOD, next thing you know I'll have scenery in my shots tongue.gif

Doug....Go to bed tongue.gif

Sarge, Ian , Nzropilot....cheers

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Postby scaber » Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:03 pm

Nice shots. Actually, thought I need to whisper in case Ian's listening, my default aircraft is the cub - slow and low is the way to go! ohmy.gif
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Postby Splitpin » Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:52 pm

scaber wrote:
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Nice shots. Actually, thought I need to whisper in case Ian's listening, my default aircraft is the cub - slow and low is the way to go! ohmy.gif

Cheers scaber...you cant beat an old piper .
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Postby dbcunnz » Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:18 pm

scaber wrote:
QUOTE (scaber @ Dec 19 2010, 04:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Nice shots. Actually, thought I need to whisper in case Ian's listening, my default aircraft is the cub - slow and low is the way to go! ohmy.gif

I agree that the Cub is a very nice aircraft to fly but as usual Microsoft stuffed the default one up by making it a back seat pilot only when all others and real life cubs are flown from the front seat.
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Postby scaber » Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:50 pm

dbcunnz wrote:
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I agree that the Cub is a very nice aircraft to fly but as usual Microsoft stuffed the default one up by making it a back seat pilot only when all others and real life cubs are flown from the front seat.


Yes, that does annoy me. I noticed that A2A have a Cub and have wondered if it is better in that respect. Anyone here had a play with their version?
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:04 pm

scaber wrote:
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I need to whisper in case Ian's listening, my default aircraft is the cub

I heard that laugh.gif ... were the ell is ya Vulcan cool.gif
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Postby Naki » Mon Dec 20, 2010 2:39 pm

dbcunnz wrote:
QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Dec 19 2010, 05:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I agree that the Cub is a very nice aircraft to fly but as usual Microsoft stuffed the default one up by making it a back seat pilot only when all others and real life cubs are flown from the front seat.


The J-3 Cub (as per A2A and default model) is flown from the rear - the Cub and Super Cub are from the front
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Postby scaber » Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:08 pm

Naki wrote:
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The J-3 Cub (as per A2A and default model) is flown from the rear - the Cub and Super Cub are from the front

OK, thanks Paul. I have noticed that you can use the 'A' key to swap to the front seat but the view panning is fairly slow (in virtual cockpit) and I feel too close to the instruments unless I zoom way back and then that feels wrong too...
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