jon b

Well you just reminded me to update my infinity T-38 collection which I’d almost forgotten about so we’ll call it quits 😉 There’s some amazing scenic flying down in Indonesia, turquoise seas and high mountains. We used to fly down 14,000ft valleys , land onto one way strips on hillsides , and fly into a small island which was basically just a 5000ft active volcano with a village and and an airstrip on the side. We’d stay there overnight but you kept your bags packed in case the thing blew its top and you needed to get out quickly, there was always smoke coming out of the top.

I suspect historically a lot of Middle East controllers may have been trained by the British at the Bournemouth college of air traffic control.

It seems to be after being given a heading rather than just a short cut. It sort of makes sense if it’s related to weather avoidance of course. I don’t know I always thought it must have just been standard phraseology left over from the old days.

If it’s V2 you last flew I don’t think it’s been updated much since the V2 release, however if it was V1 there been a massive improvement with V2

The Hawk or the 339 ? The hawk I find the hawk generally ok with the trim, I’m using a FFB stick so I’m quite sensitive to when it’s not in trim. The 339 I’ve not flown in a while so I wouldn’t like to say but off the top of my head I don’t recall constant trimming but I could be wrong.

And finishing point ! Unless you want fancy avionics and radars nothing flies as well IMHO.🙂

A small finders fee ?🤣 I tried the goshawk again recently back to back with the hawk and didn’t think much of it to be honest. Yes the 339 might have been the first add on I bought for 2020 and it was very vanilla back then. At some point they obviously upgraded the flight model as I tried it again a couple of years later and it just felt right ( as you say once it’s in the air) Things like slow flight and spins felt realistic and it would trim out and hold height well. But yes, there’s nothing really that comes close to the hawk, I particularly appreciate the way it tracks straight down the runway on a touch and go rather than requiring a dance on the rudder pedals. I think it’s had a fair bit of input from ex RAF guys. Of course the ideal solution would be if just flight made a Goshawk expansion pack for the hawk !

Itu Benar ! 1993-4

I cant help with any recommendations but in the early 90’s I used to fly an old HS748 turbo prop on the shuttle flight out of Bali to the neighbouring island of Lombok and back several times a day, wonderful memories. I think its changed a lot from when i was there,Bali airport is expanded and Lombok now has a large international airport, we used to go into a small domestic strip on the coast.

The hawk is pretty much my default daily driver nowadays. I just love the V2 handling, they’ve tweaked the telemetry or done something because it talks so nicely to my motion rig it’s like nothing else in the sim, I swear I can feel each main leg suspension strut independently compress when touching down with a bit of into wind wing down. The 339 would be in second place to the hawk but it always feels like I’m flying a real aircraft when I fly it, though not flown it for a while. I did have it in DCS but with the motion, control loading and VR it’s too much tweaking required (for me) to run 4 sims so just use MS24 now and dropped DCS XP12 & P3D although they’re still installed. Also looking forward to the Skyhawk.

Yes their Goshawk Certainly flies completely differently to the Just flight Hawk I’ve noticed. I do like the way their MB 339 flies though.

I routinely get the “turn right heading 090 direct ABC when able “type clearances when flying my airliner in the US, climbing out of SFO it’s common for example , I thought it must be just standard US Phraseology if a little superfluous ? In the U.K. they’ll give you direct the oceanic entry point from 300 miles out sometimes and they know you’re able. However they do have a phrase “own navigation ABC” which is slightly different from a direct, you can go direct ABC if you’re able to otherwise you can use other enroute fixes and nav aids on you flight plan route to go via and Navigate yourself to ABC. Years ago in the old HS748 Analog turboprop freighter I’d get cleared direct something 100 miles away and have to ask for a heading as I’d have no chance of finding it on my own 😔

Just spent an hour flying it around, I must say it’s one of the most plausible and pleasant flight models I’ve experienced in the MSFS product line. I really like the way rapidly changing the engine power makes the nose pitch and yaw. Very easy and pleasant to fly accurately. Maybe it was the stylish track playing on the MP3 player that added to occasion but I found myself spontaneously laughing out loud as I leapt into the air for the first time

Looks like The storekeeper has the tin box edition of flight simulator 2004 a century of flight stuffed down the back of his trousers

A most comprehensive write up, thanks Bill ! I hope you were or will be involved in its development as you’re obviously a subject matter expert .