July 3, 20232 yr I take off from Dillingham    Once you have survived the take-off, she is a real pleasure to fly 😉           Thanks for viewing! Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
July 4, 20232 yr Wonderful set bud ! cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online :  ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage  HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
July 4, 20232 yr Author Many thanks Will and PM ! Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
July 5, 20232 yr well done Jack ... and you were in good position to bomb the cruiser ship 😉 Jean Marc
July 8, 20232 yr More beautiful shots of the classic fighter, bernd, to be reckoned with on the same illustrious pedestal as the Spitfire... It has been always one of my favorites since early SIM days ...I forget the Maker (Flight Replicas?) ...which version I often used to wrestle with in (virtual) flight to keep to level altitude ... no fault of the (SIM) maker, btw... Had often wondered if is it "Bf 109" or "Me 109"...it seems both are correct ...though, bernd, to the non-German-speaking natives (yours truly included) ..."Me/Messerschmitt" sounds a little easier to say than "Bf/Bayerische Flugzeugwerke" ...🙂 ... Glad you're (finally) getting to grips with flying this a/c in MSFS...since, I notice, the Title, here, is not "She's Handful" Part 2...🙂 ... Very nice series of pictures ...! Â
July 15, 20232 yr Author Thank you very much for commenting, P7878 !! And regarding your comment re my earlier post, I have to say you have an excellent memory 😀 On 7/8/2023 at 5:03 PM, P_7878 said: Had often wondered if is it "Bf 109" or "Me 109"...it seems both are correct ...though, bernd, to the non-German-speaking natives (yours truly included) ..."Me/Messerschmitt" sounds a little easier to say than "Bf/Bayerische Flugzeugwerke" ... The early versions were built at Bayrische Flugzeugwerke and thus called Bf 109, the later versions were built at the Messerschmitt facility and that is why called Me 109. Like you (and almost all German pilots at that time) I prefer the Messerschmitt term 🙂🙂 Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
July 15, 20232 yr A very pleasing set of views Bernd. Beautiful scenery. How much of a problem do you find the narrow track of the u/c?
July 16, 20232 yr Author 17 hours ago, VH-KDK said: How much of a problem do you find the narrow track of the u/c? Good question, Martyn. In the beginning she was a handful. So I opted to start and land her only on grass. After I had mastered this I ventured to concrete runways. Now, I guess, with quite some training I can get her up and land again without major hickups on any surface. The most important thing for me was, and in this respect the Spitfire is much easier to handle, to apply power very very sloooooowly. As soon as you get the tail up and find yourself still on the runway, things start to brighten up 😀 Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
July 16, 20232 yr On 7/15/2023 at 5:39 AM, bernd1151 said: Thank you very much for commenting, P7878 !! And regarding your comment re my earlier post, I have to say you have an excellent memory 😀 The early versions were built at Bayrische Flugzeugwerke and thus called Bf 109, the later versions were built at the Messerschmitt facility and that is why called Me 109. Like you (and almost all German pilots at that time) I prefer the Messerschmitt term 🙂🙂 Bernd: I recalled now that I'd visited a RW display specimen of Bf 109 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC., years ago, during one of my visits there. The exact model/version is listed on their website as "Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6/R3" .... I read that, "The (Reg.) number falls within the range of airframes manufactured at Messerschmitt's Regensburg plant in summer or fall 1943. Messerschmitt built this particular model specifically to operate in tropical and desert climates." So, this sample belongs to the later versions, you've referred to above, built at the Messerschmitt facility ... It was shipped to U.S. in late1940s to the ownership of the National Air and Space Museum, and was coincidentally stored till 1970s in Park Ridge, IL, (a Chicago suburb ~15 mins from my place of residence), before been finally moved to its current location/museum in Washington, DC ...! Every plane has a (remarkable) story to tell...🙂 ...
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