I have just started playing around with Kirk Olsen's F16 Viper with the Eric Marciano panel. I have been feeling a bit jaded with flying commercial a/c lately - and am finding this to be quite a new experience. 6000 FPM climbs, etc! I do recommend this combination to others!!BUT -- it only comes with an absolute minimum of documentation. Does anybody know of a "tutorial" to guide one through how to land this a/c -- even one that comes remotely close to allowing me to crash land somewhere near the runway would be fine! :) Right now, trying to slow down from 650 knots while trying to pick up ILS beams is proving to be a challenge!! :) Maybe that is why they don't take 57 year olds into TopGun school!! Just a guess.:( :-lol Thanks Barry

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I can't help with the tutorials, but for the last few days jets are all I've been flying.It's because of this:http://www.grouchymedia.com/other_videos/m...de/download.cfmBlairCYOW

Just for fun I have installed a few of the really fast freeware jets including the X15 rocket! After a very fast flight around Europe I just felt like landing anywhere so I managed to slow it right down enough to land at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight which is a very small field. I didn't land it properly (almost though) but the slowing down took several minutes over a distance of a few hundred miles. I remember a story several years ago about a US plane (might have been Blackbird) that was to land at Mildenhall in the UK and had been travelling so fast it had to overshoot to Holland and turn back to slow enough to land. Don't know if it is true but having tried it in a fun way it makes some sense. Seems to me that you have to get used to how long it takes to slow down before planning landings, then try it out again. Also testing for minimum stall speed might help.

I'd contact the creator of the model about getting basic speeds for the pattern, short final and touchdown. In general, pull back on the power, deploy speed brakes, deploy gear and flaps when speed is low enough and control decent rate with power. I remember reading that in a normal airforce approach you're on a glide slope of between 8 and 13 degrees, not the 3 degrees you're used to when flying the heavies. As long as you watch your speed and don't get behind the power curve you should do alright.TonyDigital-Flight

Actually, I have found exactly what I needed -- more in fact. I downloaded the F16 package put together by Nick Karatzides. Not only is this an excellent package with a really fantastic, realistic 2D panel (aircraft by Ollsen) -- but it has the best set of documentation for any freeware (or payware a/c) that I have seenHighly recommendedBarry