Classic British Flight Sim

Does anyone know where that is? It'd be interesting to try it in FS.

In view of the time that's passed since then it may be worth trying to contact them through the Fleet Air Arm Officers Association at http://www.fleetairarmoa.org/

That should be doable, I don't think the maths would be that hard, just some standard equations of motion. It'd be another way of verifying the thrust and drag values of a model although I'm not sure where you'd get the real world values to compare it to. Anything with a TWR >1 should just keep clim...

I'm not sure about developing a climb profile, unless you're operating in the vertical (i.e. nose pointing skywards) the majority of your lift is coming from the wings/fuselage. Generally climb profiles are based on a constant IAS/Mach No. which will move the aerodynamic surfaces through the air at ...

Very impressive.

Wonders to self, how long is the Ark's flight deck....

Thinking out aloud again, I wonder if a graph of some sort could be made up giving TWR performance to altitude? (I'm thinking lines from the ground up showing what angle a TWR gives to move a given load at a given speed to a given altitude?) - Unless I am totally wrong (which is not uncommon) this ...

Well to take off vertically you'd have to have a TWR of greater than 1, otherwise you'd just sit there burning fuel until it got to 1 anyway. 1.1 sounds about right to take off and climb away, you could work backwards from the rated max thrust of the Pegasus and the empty weight of the Harrier to fi...

Just a small point, shouldn't the RNZN one have a Kiwi in the roundel, not a kangaroo? I'm not sure but it may even have started off with the fern leaf thing they used to use.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that if it wasn't carrying the civil registration it should have an easily readable alternative, or words to that effect. Obviously with the Harvard that's not really a problem, similarly the airworthy Vixen. Not sure about what the markings are like on XH558, bu...

Dave, have you tried the single engine throttle technique detailed in Michael Doust's 'From the Cockpit' book? You set both throttles so you're getting about the right rate of descent and then only use one to make corrections which reduces the tendency to over correct. I'm not sure how you'd have to...