11 hours ago, bernd1151 said:

😀😀😀

I was lucky to have flown in her twice as passenger with my jet passenger card, while I served in the Luftwaffe. An experience I will never forget in my life!! Fürstenfeldbruck west of Munich to Decimomannu, Sardinia with the Transall C 160: 3 hours, 25 minutes. Deci to Fürstenfeldbruck with the F104: 42 minutes 🙂

Good hint for a first flight ! I am sure that the ambient sound was better in the SF than in the Transall 😄 !

I have great respect for Black-Box Simulations based on what their fleet of airbuses represented in the good old fs9 days, and am rather biased towards the Buldog which was one of the first Airfix kits I assembled and actually took the time to paint ! It was a nightmare to stand on it's wheels, and I eventually had to add some ballast under the engine cowling 🙂

I will try to evaluate from the various videos already available 🙂

Edited November 22, 20214 yr by jcomm
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49 minutes ago, jcomm said:

...and am rather biased towards the Bulldog which was one of the first Airfix kits I assembled and actually took the time to paint!  It was a nightmare to stand on it's wheels, and I eventually had to add some ballast under the engine cowling 🙂

I could have written that sentence! 

I am quite liking the Bulldog.  It flies very nicely.  I can't say more than that as I have new flown one in real life.  The visibility out of the front is great.  Glad I bought it.

The SSW TF-104 is now available from Aerosoft if that's your preferred store.
https://www.aerosoft.com/en/microsoft-flight-simulator/msfs-aircraft/3649/sim-skunk-works-lockheed-martin-tf-104g

 

Still waiting for Just Flight and Orbx to put it on sale though the latter does have a store page for it up now, you just can't buy it there yet
https://orbxdirect.com/product/simskunkworks-tf104g-msfs

Anyone like it? Is it worth it? Can't seem to find any reviews yet. I will probably buy it eventually but I'm going to wait until Osobo fixes the VR fiasco before I spend anything more on this sim. I really do want it though.

I love that they included the restored and flight ready LN-STF Starfighter from Royal Norwegian Air Force. And that they've included the howl. Awesome. 

15 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

Not sure what I don't do right. But without afterburners I'm unable to keep level attitude at around FL30th Airspeed bleeds and level flight look like on pic below

 

I was able to climb to FL310 under full military power (i.e. no afterburners) and maintain about 250N IAS. AOA looked similar to your pic. Seemed a bit sluggish to me but I'm too lazy to fire up P3D to compare. However, kicked in the afterburner and easily climbed to 41000 feet and after a few minutes, got to Mach 1.6. 

The dev is active on the official forums with interesting titbits

Development of sim skunk works lockheed martin tf-104g - Third Party Addon Discussion / Aircraft - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums

The Bulldog has just had a minor update already - 1.0.1 - master switch adjustment and some minor coding errors fixed. 

Black Box are showing they are really responsive lately.  There are still a few polygons showing on the BN-2 Islander, but they did a great job on the new sounds recently - I love flying that as well as this new Bulldog. 
With these and the MilViz Porter, it's getting hard to chose which plane for a flight lately. 

How do you control the loadout on the TF-104, e.g. Tip tanks?

Looks like my credit card will be taking a bashing in the next few weeks!  

 

Edited November 22, 20214 yr by bobcat999

1 minute ago, bobcat999 said:

The Bulldog has just had a minor update already - 1.0.1 - master switch adjustment and some minor coding errors fixed. 

Black Box are showing they are really responsive lately.  There are still a few polygons showing on the BN-2 Islander, but they did a great job on the new sounds recently - I love flying that as well as this new Bulldog. 
With these and the MilViz Porter, it's getting hard to chose which plane for a flight lately. 

How do you control the loadout on the TF-104, e.g. Tip tanks?

Looks like my credit card will be taking a bashing in the next few weeks!  

 

Spotted a mail abnout the Bulldog update earlier - is there any word on what's included ?

3 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

Spotted a mail abnout the Bulldog update earlier - is there any word on what's included ?

Just a small tweak - as my first line above - 1.0.1 - master switch adjustment and some minor coding errors fixed. 

Just now, bobcat999 said:

Just a small tweak - as my first line above - 1.0.1 - master switch adjustment and some minor coding errors fixed. 

Sorry that'll teach me to read forums while trying to do other things !

2 minutes ago, Matchstick said:

Sorry that'll teach me to read forums while trying to do other things !

No prob mate - we've all done it!  

Up at Orbx, my credit card can testify to that. Firmly installed on ETSF tarmac, @bernd1151 !                                                             

Just doing some calculations.

Looks like it's about 5 bucks Canadian cheaper for the 104 if you buy it from Aerosoft compared to Orbx. Orbx charges the Canadian sales tax where Aerosoft doesn't. Worth looking into. Do your own calculations though, numbers aren't my strong suit.....