Classic British Flight Sim

I see that the 'Ready for Pushback' 747 Classic has been released as freeware on Avsim. As I am finding it too easy to land the VC10 at Kai Tak (haha!) I thought this might get the adrenaline flowing.















Thanks to DanKH for the clipboard monitor utility and to RFP for the Jumbo.

Ian

You just have to Love Stonecutters - Im assuming , given your longevitity that you flew that appraoch more than once Ian

I loved standing behind the FE for that ;-)

Leif

NIce stuff! :flying:

Good to see you back in the air Ian.

Nice shots Ian ;-) My challenge, given those shots, would be to run that many buildings without grinding to a halt

ATB

DaveB :tab:

DaveB wrote:Nice shots Ian ;-) My challenge, given those shots, would be to run that many buildings without grinding to a halt

Dave - the FlightSoft Hong Kong 2004 doesn't seem to be that frame rate hungry, in fact my old 1.4 Ghz Athlon ran it bearably (just!). The scenery seems to be self-contained and doesn't thin out when you move the sliders (sorry - don't know all the technical terms here ). The downside is that the bits of Hong Kong that aren't buildings are pretty crap, but as that's only about ten percent of it, it doesn't bother me too much I'm only concerned with the checkerboard approach over Kowloon and I'm happy as a chinaman with that! My new laptop is a T7300 core 2 duo 2Ghz, 2Gb RAM and an Nvidia 8600M GT graphics card. I have most sliders at 'high' and the FPS set at 25 and the lowest FPS during that sequence was 19.

Believe me, the real challenge is flying the 742 properly. RFP have modelled 95% of the systems and a cold dark start requires the full airline operational sequence of checklists. The buggers have even disabled CTRL+E so you can't cheat. There are four manuals. One for the simulation - 98 pages, two for the 747-200 operation -135 and 72 pages and an appendix of 21 pages. I haven't read any of it yet so it's pure luck that I stayed airborne with all engines running long enough for the screenshots. I'll have to take another six month sabbatical to read the manuals! In between refresher courses on DM's fab four :prayer:

Leif - you are right about my longevity (you say it as though you don't suffer from it!) so yes, I've been in to Kai Tak more times than you can shake a chopstick at. I had to chuckle when you said you would stand behind the E/O. Talk about the most sought after place in the world - I've seen two people standing in the flight deck on commercial flights for that approach and most Captains were willing to turn a blind eye. I sometimes had to fight my way into the flight deck to give the cabin landing checks! Despite it being as attractive as a cup final seat, I had plenty of opportunities to sit in the jump seat for landings on VC10s, 707 freighters, 747 classics and of course 400s. You couldn't get near it coming in from London but we used to do shuttles to and from India, Tokyo, Taipei or Manila and there wasn't a heavy crew on those so there was often room for two cabin crew on the jump seats. It seems incredible now but we were so blase that sometimes nobody could be bothered :o

Funny story - 747-400 SFO's landing. SFO's 8 year old daughter in first observer's seat. 2000 feet, intense concentration approaching checkerboard. 'Daddy?' 'Not now darling - don't talk to daddy now, please.' 700 feet, middle marker, commencing turn. 'Daddy?' Captain and SFO in unison at the tops of their voices 'SHUT UP!!!' Daughter bursts into tears and inconsolable sobbing all the way to the shops where Daddy had to buy her a very expensive toy and do some difficult explaining to Mummy

Ian

Nice shots there is that free the FlightSoft Hong Kong 2004?

James

Ian: I think they where quite rude to the little girl, if you at first have invited your daughter to see your work desk, you must be willing to leave your job every once in a while to answer her questions. He could just have hit the P-key, talked to his daughter, and resume the landing then after. No need to shout at a kid. I would of cause also had saved him from spending money on candy afterwards, not mentioning no need to explain before mommy ...

Hi Ian,

Well.. the old dog XP3200 might be able to run that with a modicum of speed then I reckon. Tks for that ;-)

The old 747's are interesting aircraft but tbh.. the level of knowledge required is further than I want to go these days I'm afraid. Did all that with the PSS Scarebuses/DF 737 and am more of a 'Wash and Go' man these days

Lovely story about that poor little girl

ATB

DaveB :tab:

After wheels up landing........"Daddy I only wanted to say you forgot to to pull the big handle that makes the funny noises and makes the pretty green lights come on" :roll:



Garry