Classic British Flight Sim

Tomliner wrote:Don't know too much about the technical nitty gritty of liveries and squadron markings etc.What I do know is that it was in a Chippie that a boy from a non affluent family on a council estate in Nottingham had his first flight at RAF Newton courtesey of the ATC.I will never forget it.From there did my my interest in aviation grow.That was nearly 50 years ago.Thank you so much Rick for your work,it brings back so many memories.Very Best Wishes EricT

Same here. ATC sprog at cambridge in about 1970 I think.

Rick, she looks great as always, can't wait to try her out.

Glyn

All we need now is for Toby to recreate Hamble for us and we can fill the sky with Hamsters


Leif

Awesome, keep up the good work!

Heres hoping for a rendition of G-BCSL
http://www1.airliners.net/open.file/0433444/L/
I see her quite often at Liverpool

HI Jonesey

Someone painted that one about a year ago.

search the forum to find it.

Regards
Rick

Oh I didnt know... D'oh

My Dad is expressing interest in this now as he flew Chippies when he was in the ATC

Rick Piper wrote:Hi Guys

Powder blue added and detail regained by changing livery layer to multiply
so you can see the metal contours underneath.

Wing reg removed but small reg added to lower wing for now.



Peter, I will add it to the beta tomorrow as i need to twiddle the wing textures a little more yet

Thank you so much Rick...spent a sleepless Thunderstorm night dreaming about what I'm going to do with her...BTW she was really owned by a BEA First Officer on Vanguards at the same time as me. His name is Peter Benest and I can't really remember the details but he formed some sort of syndicate to defray the expenses of running her. That was how I became involved. I didn't fly her a lot but I remember Pete Benest checking me out for Back Seat flying and I do remember him saying that it was a good idea to practice NOT using the brakes as the disc pads were rather expensive!! I didn't fly her very much as I remember I was pretty busy being a Gliding Instructor at Manston. However, I did enjoy flying her and did a lot of aeros...I think I will ship her out to Anchorage and put her on a "Tie Down" at Lake Hood strip...Then I'll do the Range, Endurance and Service Ceiling test flying there and that will ready me for a "Chipmunk Tour of Alaska"...working through the valleys and glaciers rather than over the tops of the mountains. All in real time and real weather and eventually reaching McLeland Field...Then next year I can tour the Tongass Fjords in her...Yeah, Great Plans for a big adventure :dance:

Rick, I look forward to her delivery...I'll continue testing today in FSX but would prefer to work on the nitty gritty numbers in FS9.

Peter - I only flew a Chippie a few times,now well over 30 years ago, but I was interested in your remarks about the brakes, because IIRC there was a rather odd differential braking system where you had to set the handbrake half on which then coupled the wheel brakes to the rudder pedals. Is this a figment of my imagination or was this how it worked?

Chris

cstorey wrote:Peter - I only flew a Chippie a few times,now well over 30 years ago, but I was interested in your remarks about the brakes, because IIRC there was a rather odd differential braking system where you had to set the handbrake half on which then coupled the wheel brakes to the rudder pedals. Is this a figment of my imagination or was this how it worked?

Chris,

That is how they worked...You pulled the handbrake to a halfway position and then I seem to remember you latched it there by pressing down a ring on the lever. I seem to remember that at that stage no brakes were applied if you had the rudder central. Then when you pushed left rudder then left wheel would brake progressively as you applied more rudder and the same for right rudder. If you kept the rudder bar central and pulled the brake lever further back then pressure was applied progressively to both wheels. To latch the handbrake, I think you pulled the lever all the way back and pressed down on the locking ring again.

That is how I remember it but like you it was over 30 years ago in 1970 the last time I flew Sierra Bravo.

One thing you might be able to help with Chris (I just can't remember, and Rick wants to know), the rudder pedals...Did the foot tread portion swivel to remain parallel to the mainspar as the pedals were pushed or did they remain fixed to the rudder bar. Also, as the aircraft was aerobatic, did the rudder pedals have those foot retaining loops that stopped your feet falling off them during negative G?

Will you be releasing the float equipped Chipmunk?

Will you be releasing the float equipped Chipmunk?

you are the 5th person to ask and i already said yes in the other thread.

But it will not be in main release as T.Mk.10 is first.

Regards
Rick