WarBirds

samro · Post by **samro** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:57 pm

I was thinking,
what about having some WWII aircraft available for purchase in the private hanger bit, logging a few hours in a mk1 spit or a P-51D would be entertaining!!!

Post by **Quantum** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:07 pm

Just think about how many 'Exceeded 250kts below 10,000ft' penalties you'd get.

samro · Post by **samro** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:17 pm

hummm good point... but who needs a pilot rating more than 95%

could have some slower aircraft, Wings of power do a b-17 for FSX, that said It would take ages to acrew enough personal weath to get one!!!

flightsimer · Post by **flightsimer** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:45 pm

u could have the North American T-6 Texan, of the Navy's version the SNJ. I have flown them in real world... its a REALLY fun plane to fly. They would cost over a million dollars, since they are arround 1.5 in real world

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:57 pm

I tried to get the mighty Antonov 225 added especially as it is now open to lease for anyone who can afford it.D/LD the model and sorted the panel out plus sound but for some reason it was never added.But the Program updates section doesn,t seem to get updated anymore so never did find out why it wasn,t added.

CAPFlyer · Post by **CAPFlyer** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:01 pm

Umm... I approved the addition of the AN-225 several weeks ago. Might want to double check the database.

Also EVERYTHING is updated daily. We don't update the list anymore simply because there's so many updates going on that it's hard to keep up.

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:07 pm

Thank you ,I have been looking at the aircraft types list and it never appeared there so i thought it had not been added.I will go look see if i can afford one.I was beginning to think it wasn,t added because i never suplied the MDOW,which i did not include because i could not get my head around how an aircraft could operate with no fuel in it..

flightsimer · Post by **flightsimer** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:08 pm

its not under the database, under aircraft types....

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:14 pm

And its not under manufacturers list even though they are working on its sistership at this very moment and it doesn,t appear on the o/of/Production list either.Most peculiar.Cant see anyone overlooking such a large Aircraft.

flightsimer · Post by **flightsimer** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:27 pm

its not in production anymore. there was only 2 225's ever made. both of which are use commercially, but also carry the soviet shuttles.

are they reopening the line? or wat do u mean sistership?

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:56 pm

The second one was never finished but after they got the first one back into service it proved so popular that they restarted work on the other one.I dont think it is yet flying.Beautiful Aircraft,i saw it land at Manchester earlier on this year,absolutely marvelous.It can carry up to 250 tons of cargo and it spends a lot of time nowadays doing jobs in the USA.It comes in very handy for transporting sections of space rockets,lot better than transporting them by road.

flightsimer · Post by **flightsimer** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:08 pm

it doesnt carry 250 tons , it carries 275. (250,000kg's)

still... thats alot...

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:21 pm

i,m an old pounds /shillings and pence man, never did like these litres/kilogram things.

Post by **cmdrnmartin** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:56 am

Last I heard, the 225 was dead, except for the one flying example. Since it was a one off project, I think we disallowed it, I'm not sure what the consensus was on that...

Stan · Post by **Stan** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:12 am

It lost its airworthiness certificate but it has got it back now and is in big demand.