I'm going to surmise that when that Beechcraft took off at the end of the movie "Casablanca" on its way to Lisbon that it had to stop and refuel somewhere. My guess it that was Faro. If you look at a map you'll see what I mean. Now we've got two Faro sceneries, one by TropicalSim and one by Aerosoft. How do we decide?Fun eh?Lee :(

I'm going to surmise that when that Beechcraft took off at the end of the movie "Casablanca" on its way to Lisbon that it had to stop and refuel somewhere. My guess it that was Faro. If you look at a map you'll see what I mean. Now we've got two Faro sceneries, one by TropicalSim and one by Aerosoft. How do we decide?Fun eh?Lee :(

The plane at the end of the movie was actually a Lockheed 12, which has a range of 700-800nm, Casablanca to Lisbon is 369miles, so it easily can make it.

I'm going to surmise that when that Beechcraft took off at the end of the movie "Casablanca" on its way to Lisbon that it had to stop and refuel somewhere. My guess it that was Faro. If you look at a map you'll see what I mean. Now we've got two Faro sceneries, one by TropicalSim and one by Aerosoft. How do we decide?Fun eh?Lee :(

To be honest, the Aerosoft one seems to look better (which kinda stinks as I have the TropicalSim one...), and actually costs a little bit less. To me, the Aerosoft one seems like a win-win kinda deal! (Although the Aerosoft one doesn't have AES... YET!)Cheers,James

Slightly off-topic, but of interest for film and TV trivia fans, the plane at the end of Casablanca, which was indeed an L-12 Electra Junior mocked up in Air France livery, even though they never actually operated that type, was mostly a reduced-scale flat cardboard and plywood cut out model, painted to look three dimensional. The director, Michael Curtiz, used midgets walking around it to make the mock up appear larger than it actually was and force the perspective of the set, although a genuine Electra was also used in some sequences which were shot at Van Nuys Airport in San Fernando.That's why there is fog around the aircraft at the end of the movie and in the scene where Bogart and Rains walk off into the distance as the film ends. The fake fog was necessary to help conceal the slightly dodgy model of the Electra and the fact that the service personnel were vertically challenged extras, which is a trick that Ridley Scott also used in the movie, Aliens. But Curtiz mainly had to do all that since the film crew were not allowed to shoot at night on an airport because of the regulations in place at the time concerning night lighting, Casablanca having been made in 1942 when the US was at war. Years later, those hangars at Van Nuys were also the set for 'Santini Air' in the TV series, Airwolf.Al

369 miles in a slow prop plane without stopping to pee! Are you sure they didn't stop in Faro?Lee :(

Kidding aside, thanks for the info on the Lockheed 12, and Alan, the background on the models made for the film is very intriguing story and typical of movies of that era. Still a great film!Lee

Lived in Faro for years and often biked across the saltflats to hang on the fencing at the end of 28 and get blasted with airfuel (this was before the rw extension). When the wind is right you can hear the takeoff and reverse thrust from the Marina and the "centro hist

The Aerosoft version will have a FS9 version later on down the road (included with the price of the FSX version). :(

Well thanks - completely missed that.If I had read more and written less.............. :(

Which performs better?