Classic British Flight Sim

DaveB wrote: I like the taka-taka-taka sound one of the crew was making

ATB

DaveB

I was just about to post that, must be another Robert Shaw fan thinking there was flying a Spit straight and level in a combat zone for more than 30s and he was diving in out of the sun for the attack

Yes indeed.. that was on yesterday too though I missed it this time round

ATB

DaveB

Maybe it's RAF training in disguise for the next, unannounced budget fighter/ transports...........some written down used ATR's ???

oh it was deemed instructional... well that's different.

It did not look all that extraordinary to me for what was obviously a training flight . We are not told where this was, but in the former Yugoslavia, the practice of all UN flights, usually C 130, was to make a descent of this sort to minimise exposure to ground to air fire during approach, and I understand that this practice is now universally adopted for C 130s in Afghanistan

I saw a Hercules do that at Biggin in the early 90's

Impressive nose down but pulled out quite flat at the end and the landing itself was quite a normal firm touch followed by max braking.

A Khe Sanh approach !

Ah.. there's a man who can remember things! Yes.. very impressive stuff. They sometimes boot stuff out the back while still rolling (jeeps with fighting blokes embarked e t c) then reverse back down the runway to pick them up and finally.. shove it in a forward gear and takeoff again. Gotta be a whole pile of fun for all concerned

ATB

DaveB

I saw a Hercules do that at Biggin in the early 90's

A bit like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtObGx-X ... re=related

But not quite like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFhdS_1z38

Yep...that's the sort of thing Ian...Cheers