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gajinoz

gajinoz

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Had a fun day today. Spent a few hours learning to fly a Spitfire around Canberra.

Yeah, well, it wasn't a real Spit., I downloaded an absolutely amazing sim for FS2004.

Unfortunately I've never had the great good fortune to fly a real one but from everything I've seen, heard and read, this sim acts about as close to the real thing as a computer program can get, it even creaks and groans when you pull big G.

If any of you out there are into playing with FS2004 I strongly recommend you have a look at THESE addons.

Nothing like an idle sunday! :)
 
Been into flight sims for years. Started out with CFS1 (If it doesn't have guns, I don't want to fly it...). I've had all three iterations of CFS, Mig Alley, European Fighters, and finally the "Sturmovik" series.

Oleg's IL-2, Forgotten Battles, Pacific Fighters are flatly the best WWII "Prop" sims out there. Superb models, physics, details, etc.

A few years ago, the family sprung for me to take one of those "warbirds" flights, in an AT-6 Texan. Wonderful experience. I found that my creaky old body wasn't quite up to high-G manuevers, but I had fun!
 
mwerner said:
A few years ago, the family sprung for me to take one of those "warbirds" flights, in an AT-6 Texan. Wonderful experience. I found that my creaky old body wasn't quite up to high-G manuevers, but I had fun!
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I know what you mean. I've thrown an aeroplane about the sky more than a few times but one day a guy took me for a ride in his Pitts Special. I think I used to be a normal person before that, now look at me! :)

The same people that made the Spit I have also make a Decathlon. This was the first plane I learned real aerobatics in. An easy but fun plane to fly. A tail dragger, also my first, and no flaps so side slipping became an art. I loved that plane. I'll definitely be getting that one.
 
Back with CFS 1, we had literally hundreds of user-made "imported" aircraft we could download.
Our little group, the Combat Flight Center, used the Pitts Special model which had been modified for dogfighting. (added guns, tougher "armor", etc.) These things were incredible fun to fly, and you could just about wear out a joystick flogging the little dudes around.
 
mwerner said:
Back with CFS 1, we had literally hundreds of user-made "imported" aircraft we could download.
Our little group, the Combat Flight Center, used the Pitts Special model which had been modified for dogfighting. (added guns, tougher "armor", etc.) These things were incredible fun to fly, and you could just about wear out a joystick flogging the little dudes around.
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My joystick is getting a pretty serious workout with my Spitfire. The sim has an interesting feature, if you pull too much G, not sure how much it thinks too much is, it simulates you blacking out by making the screen go black. All you can do is centre the controls and hope you don't hit the ground before you "wake up" again.

I'm trying to perfect aileron rolls so I can do a victory roll past the control tower without ploughing in to the runway. :)
 
That's pretty much standard, especially with military sims. Various unscrupulous people have tried to use various cheats to get around it, as in most online games it's set "server-side". It used to be with CFS that you could quickly go to a different "view" and avoid the blackout feature.
With the early flight model for WWII online, the pilot would die if you did a sudden negative-G manuever! (long since fixed...)
 
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