Classic British Flight Sim

In a moment of pure madness, so it now seems, I went for the recent offer from JF and bought the 748. It is quite nice to look at and the VC is acceptable though lacking in significant internal camera views (since added by me). Sadly though this aircraft is not a patch on Rick's fine offering. There...

Hi Nigel, As a Yorkshireman living up in Scotland I can answer the haggis question. Hogmanay is for downing as much alcohol as you can ... and then more besides! Burns Night (25th January) is when haggis is eaten. They may sound 'orrible but actually the good ones are really very nice. Yes they do c...

7+ hours? I wish! Up here 6 hours is the best we get and if the weather is bad (and it really is this week) daylight doesn't happen!

Andy, in the dark looking for candles.

Hi Nigel. You just need to familiarise yourself with pages 29 & 30 of the manual. Most other things are obvious. One thing I forgot to mention is that the sound package is not very good in that it doesn't sound much like I remember RR Dart equipped aircraft. I might play around with the FS9 vers...

Hi Nigel, I spent a couple of hours this morning in various phases of flight with the F27. It really does hand fly well. Since I changed the cfg file things are much better and I will tinker around with the induced_drag_scalar to see if it helps slowing the aircraft down. TBH I suspect that the prob...

Nigel, I have calmed the F27 down with a couple of tweaks to aircraft.cfg in both versions (there are separate versions for the 100 and 200/300). So far so good but I will give them a fuller test tomorrow as a job I am doing in my prime hobby is driving me to distraction and I need a break! The mods...

Dave, it wasn't the startup speed I was referring to (and I know that a lot of discussion goes on about this especially for the 748) but the speed at which the engines react to throttle changes. Some aircraft react so slowly that you have to hold on the brakes at the end of the runway before you dar...

I have been waiting for the 748 for ages and in the meantime thought that the F27 might be a nice way to pass the time. I am on the verge of buying the 748 but will wait a while until any early issues are ironed out. I noticed the JF sale so I went in and purchsed the F27 using my few points availab...

To my friend cstorey. I take your point about Schumacher. I didn't like his tactics at times. That said he was still a great racer in my opinion. Taking licences away from racing drivers who display aggression and/or cause accidents unfortunately would reduce the field down to, probably, just the sa...

I have watched F1 since the early 80s. When both Schumacher and Hamilton first started in F1 I didn't like them or their tactics, possibly because I was rooting for other drivers at the time. However watching race after race you see the greats emerge and both of those guys were/are way ahead of the ...