Classic British Flight Sim

....if anybody is interested.

A.F.Scrub has just released a Spitfire XI, it's over at SimV, although it may well turn up elsewhere later.

AndyG

AndyG wrote:....if anybody is interested.
A.F.Scrub has just released a Spitfire XI, it's over at SimV, although it may well turn up elsewhere later.

IF anybody is interested????? You can bet at least one is........

It's on Flightsim.com too, (and my HDD by now as well..........)

I'm no on my flying PC at the mo, so if someone would like to post some pics and / or a review would be good.

No sooner the word than..........



The aircraft is PL890, one of the later batch of PRXIs. Visually it's not too bad, a little blocky perhaps, the wing being distinctly angular in section. It has the port oblique camera hatch just aft of the cockpit but no sign of the belly ports and it also lacks the leading edge fuel pump fairings just forward of the u/c bays. The biggest visual problem is the fighter type windscreen, PRXIs all had one piece curved screens, but none of the ones on display nowadays have them fitted. The only one that did crashed in France a short while ago so perhaps it's a little understandable.

It has a fighter type 3D panel without the distinctive camera control panel where the gunsight usually sits. I only know two PR Spits that ever showed that though. The 3D panel isn't the world's best, with some off bleed-throughs from the cowling forward of the cockpit. The panel has the capability to show a psuedo camera sight view as well that I have yet to figure out properly. You can slew the 3D viewpoint all the way down below the fuselage though, essential for virtual PR work, as you can slew and zoom in to your target using the tophat switches.

From the flying point of view it's pretty reasonable, lifts off around 95 KIAS, climbs at well over 200 KIAS, and has a low level max of around 390 KIAS. She'll climb to 45000 ft if you take the last few thousands gently and finally stalls out at around 46600 ft at some 70 KIAS. Handling in the approach is OK, nose high of course so you have to come in on a curve, but that's normal Spitfire practice.

Oddly this version exhibits exactly the same Dutch Roll that our FS98 version did, but somewhat faster. The FS98 PRXI rolled at around 0.5 hz and the FS9 one is about twice as fast. Ours did it on the approach though, not so clever, and the newer one passes through a Dutch Roll period around 28000 ft and then does it again waaaay up high.

Not so bad, but perhaps the definative FS PRXI has yet to be built. (I keep on saying that..........)

Yes - as with all Spitfire versions, the Mk.XI is somewhat confusing as far as features go!

The bulges for the pulsometer pumps aren't (as far as I can tell!) necessarily present on all aircraft. There are also variations in undercarriage, rudders and cowlings. I have a spreadsheet showing detail variations solely between the two-stage Merlin Spitfires, and it's incredible just how many changes were made over the production lives of these types.

kit wrote:
Not so bad, but perhaps the definative FS PRXI has yet to be built. (I keep on saying that..........)

All fair comment Kit, but a good effort all the same. Certainly good enough to fill a gap on my Breighton flightline for the moment though.

AndyG

Andy,

AndyG wrote: All fair comment Kit, but a good effort all the same. Certainly good enough to fill a gap on my Breighton flightline for the moment though.

PL965 then? In pink or blue?

And do you have the black Hurricane to match as well?

kit wrote:Andy,

AndyG wrote: All fair comment Kit, but a good effort all the same. Certainly good enough to fill a gap on my Breighton flightline for the moment though.

PL965 then? In pink or blue?

And do you have the black Hurricane to match as well?

Oh, blue of course. And yes, I DO have the black Hurricane. Still got a few of the others to sort out though.

AndyG

Well Ive seen a taffy paint for the Bucker Jungmann somewhere just cant remember where :crying:

<------- u might recognise these 2 as well in my avatar

UKVoodoo wrote:Well Ive seen a taffy paint for the Bucker Jungmann somewhere just cant remember where :crying:

<------- u might recognise these 2 as well in my avatar

The very first (& to my mind best) - & unreleased - repaint I have done is of Taffy Smiths Jungman in the Yellow & Blacl scheme it carried.

I shall take it for a spin & post some sceenies later for your delight :tab:

Bob