Good afternoon everybody,

nzaviationrules, you're not alone who wants a 747 SP. There is a topic in this part of forum speaking about this :
http://www.captainsim.org/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1297524176

I'd like that Captain sim make a 747SP ( I love "line" EPR/N1/N2 gauge like a thermometer ).

Have a good day
Yannick

Good morning everybody.

nzaviationrules, I'm french and I can say that the pass in the Rugby World cup 2007 was forward ( that's the first time that an English referee is gentle with a french team hihihi ).
Where do you come from ?

I think the fact that Captain sim makes classical jets, it's a very good idea. I'm not a good virtual pilot ( I'm a newbie ), but I think it's change from modern airliners with glass cockpit. There are so much things to think during a flight, it's more interesting then monitoring the computer ( FMC ).

Have a good day

Friendly

Yannick
PS : sorry about my so poor english

Oh, glad you agree with the forward pass!! That ref needs his eyesight checked....

I am from NZ, living there now in Christchurch--where are you from in France??

I totally agree with you and Boeing247 in terms of the older, less modern cockpits- I absouletly love the worn in, raw flying feel to them more than anything-sheer fun, and a great way to get your head around the way the systems work in those cockpits

Good morning everybody,
I live at Paris. It's amazing the fact that this forum can get meeting together aircraft fans from 3 different continents. New Zealand must be a very beautiful country.
Boeing 247, you're a better pilot than me because you can land your 707 without ILS and you can use the doppler and the INS... I fly whit the default FSX ATC who sometimes make me crazy ( in the last fly I've must do 2 Go around because a Cessna was on final approach 4Mn behind me... ).
But, for coming back of this main topic, I'hope that Captain sim continue making classical jet like a 747 100/200 or SP. They make so beautiful aircraft and not to hard to play with after some training flights.

Friendly

Yannick

P.S : sometimes I Fly with the 767 Captain ( after programming the FMC it's funny to pilot him ), and I regret that there is not an air Mauritius Livery ( Markoz in an other topic that an air mauritius 767-200ER have done the furthest flight with this kind of bird )

How on earth does the ATC instruct you to land on a Taxiway instead of a Runway? I've never had that happen. Not even with add-on airports. The worst thing I have had happen, is the Control Tower (not ATC) at HNL give me instructions to land my 707-300 on Water Runway 04. Like I'm going to do that!

Mark

They didn't instruct me to land on the taxiway, but they vectored me to the point where there was no possible way I was going to touch down on the runway.

However, the cowlings are different, and the nose is the ditinctive Douglas/McDonnel Douglas narrowbody shape

From an earlier quote, the problem with the DC 8 is the modifications it had. The wing cowlings, winbg sweep, engines,length, speed were all continually changed. It is like making a new plane altogether for FSX modellers. The 747 classics would be great. I would like to use both cockpit versions of the 747. The engine variants, range and other things would be difficult though. Also, for the Frenchies (not trying to be mean, just British) use Google translate if you are having language problems.