Bears review on the Lago Stagg

Pretty good review with a few caveats. I'm not sure when he got his copy,there has been a patch released but...the Stagg in its original form flies much to fast for a D17S model. You might see as much as 212-213 kts which isn't correct. I added the strobe lights,there is a switch on the panel but they weren't in the lights section. But..when you do add strobes sometimes you'll get the flying wires flashing off and on at the same rate as the strobes while in flight. Sometimes this happens,sometimes it doesn't.I spent some time and went through the .cfg and got it flying much closer to specs for speed and fuel burn. Yeah,there were a lot of different types of Stags and engines but this one is a D based on the P&W R985 which puts out 450HP. It is a D model but the tail number is off an actual G model that's owned by Jim Gorman(pic below),there also shouldn't be any brace tubes on the tail section of a D.Bear was talking about some older "period" gauges for the Stag,there are some that are available at the Lago site. But...if you peer into the cockpit of a real Stagg today,you'll see the inside of an aircraft thats sixty years old but the panels are fully upgraded for cross country flying and resemble nothing out of the 40's except the basic panel shape.About Beech and the real Staggerwing aircraft--It was actually well over a year before they sold the first one,it was about 14 months from when the company was formed. It was sold to Lofland Bros. Oil company which most likly saved the struggling Beech Aircraft Co. from going under--they were that close. Beech didn't gain sales and go into full production after providing more powerful engines,it was just the opposite,they went smaller. They began building the "B" model with the much smaller Jacobs 7 cylinder radials--only around 230 hp. It brought the cost down into the $7,000-8000 range which was needed in the depths of the depression. The smaller engines also meant the gear needed to retract or the aircraft would be to slow to suit that market. And the rest is history...http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/42384.jpgDavid