boleropilot

g'day guysAnthony obviously hasn't been back to this thread so i'll make a quick commentthe Drifter is now released (my actual real-life acft) and Ant has also done the airstrip I operate from (Roadvale)it's abt 6nm north of YBOA Boonah, both Roadvale and YBOA are freeware and are at Ant's website (link in above posts)cheers for nowBPps you can GoogleEarth Roadvale, S E Queensland, Oz

g'day from the tough 'celebrity' guy in the light t-shirt, my first post here455 is my real-life aircraft, Anthony is a good mate of mine and he spent a lot of time photographing 455, not to mention the flying so he could record the sounds from the back seatall of the beta testers spent a fair bit of time getting everything spot on, i went back to Ant with lots of emails and he kept working on the numbers to get the flight dynamics perfectbtw, most Drifter pilots fly a 'glide approach' for landing, going to zero throttle from the end of the downwind leg - the Drifter is a 'high drag, low inertia' aircraft so you have to get that stick forward as soon as you chop the throttle455 lives at a small private airfield at a little place called Roadvale (you can GoggleEarth the airfield) - the wonderful thing is that Ant has also produced this 'strip for FSX, it's on his website @ Ant's Airplanes (freeware)he has also produced YBOA Boonah (the airfield near where I live - it;s freeware too) and he has done a brilliant job of that - Roadvale is about 6nm north of YBOA - look for a red Hilux ute parked at the Roadvale hangar (mine too, of course)the combination of YBOA and Roadvale will work much better if you have Orbx's FTX scenery installed, you can buy all of Oz or just the Gold section to cover this areayou will find the Rotax a bit noisy at takeoff and climb but it settles down a fair bit at cruise revs of 5,400rpmAnt has spent a fair bit of time on both the Drifter (zoom in on those air filters - Wow) and the hangar at Roadvale, it's very accuratefor those in Oz, you might have read my flightsim reviews in Aviator and Australian Flying magazinesanyway, looking forward to seeing some screenies of the Drifter from all of you rag and tube afficionados, either at Roadvale or in other locations around the worldcheers for nowBP