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Message started by tasev1 on Aug 30th, 2009 at 5:16am

Title: How do you fly it?
Post by tasev1 on Aug 30th, 2009 at 5:16am
I do not own this plane.  But, I would like to understand how you can effectively fly this plane by hand from the VC with anything but a high end-high resolution PC.  I understand that many aircraft these days come with VC only for FSX - and that's fine if you've got big glass displays that can be popped up.  But this is a hand-flown aircraft with limited autopilot, and needs a lot of attention to engine EPR/N1 and button switching.  How can you possibly keep on zooming to the engine gauges to check takeoff power in a crosswind and not go into the grass?  There's no autothrottle on this one.

At least the old Legendary 727 had digital overlays so I could read the values.

To top it off, I hear this version does not come with manuals that provide performance data (funny Leg727 had them)?  So I guess the easy way is to firewall the throttles and be done with it.

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