VH-MAL

A wonderful review Jess. Hope you don't mind, but I put a link to your review on A2As Comanche forum - it's been well received there too! Malcolm

And jaydor did a wonderful repaint in APS colours with VH-MAL proudly emblazoned on the side - I'm still working my way up to being able to buy it in AH, but it's one heck of an incentive! And it has "Old Crock" on the side of the cabin, which is my 'name' at the OZx Forums - it has been the only forum where VH-MAL had already been taken! Thanks again James. Mal

The VC is one of the best I've seen (IMHO). Here's a link to the gallery: http://www.x-aviation.com/catalog/84Gallery.html Almost makes it worthwhile getting X-Plane 10! Mal

Thanks Joe! Mal

I had the same problem, and I found quite a few quirky things with this aircraft. Unless you are using a flight yoke with the full complement of levers, it is very confusing - the mixture lever works in reverse to the prop and throttle levers in that you pull it out to get full mixture. I don't know if that is a fault with the sim, but I have mentioned it on their forum. The magneto key is hidden under the yoke, and that has to be on, as does the battery control which is a push knob, and the interesting thing is that the fuel pressure switch (just to the right of the spring-loaded starter swit

I bought this wonderful aircraft a few days ago now, and I am very impressed. KCFlight have done a great job, and JK has excelled himself with the repaints - the aptly named VH-WET being my favourite! Their forums are excellent and the few little niggles that us hawk-eyed flyers discovered, have been taken note of in a gracious manner and I am sure will be dealt with in due course. As I said on their forum, KCFlight have captured the essence of this aircraft, and I can see it fitting in perfectly with the Atolls Of Tuvalu scenery I bought some time ago - I've just got to fly VH-WET (currently

The latest LSA from Anthony Lynch (Ant's Airplanes) is the delightful Eaglet. He put this out for public Beta Testing, so I jumped at the chance to be involved in helping out another Aussie. The end result IMHO is very good (and not necessarily because of/despite me), and everything seems to be in tune with the actual performance in the RW, even the propeller torque. It's available from: http://www.antsairplanes.com/eaglet.html and there's a free demo version also. Mal

Just read this excellent review on the Avsim site. For those interested, the link is: http://www.avsim.com.../AirHauler.html Mal

Since the release of their latest patch the A2A Spitfire with Accu-sim is virtually gremlin free now. Unfortunately, because of its realism, I won't be flying it much during our hot summer (I like to fly with RW weather) because the engine overheats very quickly. But don't worry, if I get the urge, I'll head up north (of the equator) and go flying in some cooler climate. Mal

A bit late to add to this I guess, but for what it's worth: I have the Aerosoft Katana and find it very difficult to fly which in my limited experience (flying, that is) means that it must be somewhere near accurate! From the forums it seems that they are on the money with this one, to the extent that the stall warning horn sounds on short final if you are flying by the numbers. And if you can wait a little while, Ant's Airplanes are working on the Eaglet, and his (Anthony) previous efforts of the Sierra and the Drifter have been quite accurate in all respects. Perhaps these aircraft are in

Great shot - takes me back to my Flight Service days when I spoke to that particular aircraft on many occasions. It was used by one of the tuna fisheries in Port Lincoln (South Australia) as a fish spotter. Those guys would go out at first light and head south down over the briney and stay there most of the day, reporting in on 30 minute skeds, giving their positions in code which only we in Civil Aviation bases had access to (so the opposition did not know where they were!). Would have been quite an experience to go on one of those flights, although I think it would also have been very boring

And after a prod from John, I'm on the map now! Malcolm

I didn't think they could improve much on the excellent B-17, but the realistic modelling in this Spitfire is incredible - even down to compression tests on each individual cylinder! A2A have lifted the bar yet again. The down side is that this sim is more memory hungry than their previous aircraft, and on my mediocre system I had to download the alternative textures just to stop my compy doing CTD's every time I tried to load it. The bmp files are 65 MB, which is huge, but the dds files are about 13 MB which my computer can manage. This sim is absolutely superb - if I could only stop it ove

And Merry Christmas from Down-Under. Unlike the northern hemisphere it will be 34 Celsius here on Christmas Day, so I can definitely wish you all 'warm' greetings! Congratulations Joe on a superb forum. Malcolm

And the B707 and B52 are not 9.99! Malcolm