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Well, seeing as there are a few of us here who play MS Flight Sim, I figured we should start a general topic about it. Rather then having a bunch of separate threads, that is. I don't think there are enough of us to justify that. Anyways, I run Flight Sim 2004, bone stock aside from a few add-on planes. I really enjoy it, but I always wondered about a few things. First, there was the stability of the Piper Cub, but that was addressed in another topic. The other plane I was wondering about was the Curtiss Jenny. I have a full-size joystick, rudder pedals and a throttle quadrant, but I still find it next to impossible to keep the J4N straight on takeoff roll. Once in the air with some speed, things even themselves out, but does anybody know any tricks for getting off the ground gracefully?

There's nothing wrong with enduros!

now THAT is what I call "Water Injection".

Dude, that's one serious hotrod. I've seen one similar to that motoring around my town, making much noise and smoke and not going very fast. Oh, and just for the record, my Bandit is back on one piece again, and running awesome. I'm gonna try to get a video up on youtube soon. Needless to say, I'm beyond ecstatic. =D

I always have a blast with Flight Sim, though I only run FS9 and never do the missions. I just love the whole kit; from taxi and takeoff to navigation to landing, I love every minute of it. A big part of that is probably the excellent 3rd party planes available.

I ride too! I've got a '91 Bandit 400, but it's currently in pieces, undergoing a much-needed tranny rebuild. Turns out Mr. Previous Owner liked to shift clutchless, and sucked at matching revs. Here's my most recent pic of the complete bike, before I changed handlebars and some other stuff: ...And here's it's current condition... =( @ MajorLee, that bike looks seriously immaculate. CBR600F2? @ TurtleHawk, that's a pretty slick bimmer.

YES! That's my all time favorite paint job with my all-time favorite nose art on my all time favorite fighter. I NEED that skin!

I like the classics.

I know what I want for Christmas. Also, that was a strangely epic soundtrack.

Looked to me like plain old compressor stall. Usually there's a puff of smoke or flame with a bird strike or blade failure. Then again, I have been wrong before. The video on the Global TV Calgary site is a good one, but I can't hear the engines over the Bee-Gees that were playing on the loudspeakers...

makeup and tampon commercials during football games. COME ON, REALLY?

Possibly the best first post I have ever seen.

I hope a museum near here bucks up for that engine. As for me, I want the Martin-Baker from the Canberra they have for sale; Good flight-sim chair!

Well, I just got flight sim 04 re-installed, with my new rudder pedals and full-size joystick (pictures later), and the first thing I did was get the IRIS P-40 pack. I've taken a few flights, but i really wanted to know what power settings to use on the engine for climb and cruise and such. I did a quick google search, and found THIS. It's (almost) everything you need to know about flying a P-40, and I found it pretty good to watch.

YES! F-35s! SHINY NEW FIGHTER JETS! HOORAYY!!!! I'll bet they end up at Alert Bay. Do Lockheeds work in cold weather?

Was that a CF-18 doing the Sabre Dance? Damn... Glad he got out okay. Don't worry, man! We have 65 F-35s on the way!

try higher cruising altitudes to increase your range. Your indicated airspeed will be lower, but your ground speed will be much higher and you will burn less fuel as well. I usually try to cruise as high as I can get. It's also handy if you run into MiGs.

...just a little too late...

Knocking down Bulls in the Skyray... something I've been waiting to do for a looooong time! They didn't shoot back, though... I'll have to fix that.

Never seen the northern lights from above before...

(Aw maaannn, I wanted to be the one who killed this thread for good!) ^False. Soccer is one of the many sports that I am much better at watching then playing. And I fall asleep whenever I watch it. The person below me has the summer off.

Oh Boy, I've missed a lot. All these beautiful WWII and early post-war planes, SR-71 and F-117 WIPs, the NEW CAT IS OUT, the TSR-2 is out, and SF2 has it's own board. whoa. Overload of awesome. Anyways, I rigged up my joystick yesterday and re-installed SF2 V and E today; got a few good shots in, but I severely need to get the ENBseries mod working again. Here's the angelic F-4C I posted by accident on the SF1 board: And here's my first flight in the new 'Cat. My heart belongs to the F-14A.