Fighter pilot – the second installment.
For those of you who have watched the first episode of the
BBC show Fighter Pilot here is the second episode. You can totally understand
their desire to fly and you know that most are destined for failure. See if you
can pick out who will make it at the beginning. What a shame that there are
such highs and lows in life, especially when it is your dream to fly. I have no
doubt that I would have been chopped; come to think of it I probably would not
have been selected for officer training in the first place. But this is where
the joy of flight simulator comes into play. You can fly anywhere in the world
in any aircraft you like and you can make as may mistakes as you like. Flight
simulator has come a long way in the two years that I have been away and I am
very excited about getting my sim experiences as real as I can.
I must say that training as a military pilot and being
accurate and critical on performance will help you flying skills no end. At
present I am flying the jet provost “jp5” which is freeware, and I am using the
Linton On Ouse scenery which is also freeware. My first sorties are just
circuits at 1000 feet above runway, climbout and circuit speed 150 kts with
gear down and firat stage of flaps at 115 kts by the end of the downwind leg.
Form the end of the downwind leg I turn and descend at 115 kts all the way to
about 300 ft above runway where I apply landing flap to land on the numbers at
about 90kts, not as easy as it sounds.
I am also thinking about using FRAPS which is a screen
capture for FSX but more on this soon
Happy flying.Here is the second installment of Fighter Pilot " Officers and Gentlemen"
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