Stuart Buchanan wrote: > --- Melchior FRANZ wrote: >> * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 07 December 2007: >>> - avoiding really difficult to fly aircraft in the default aircraft >>> collection doesn't make fgfs a toy, and >> Oh, and to take some pressure from the bf109, I declare now the >> "pittss1c" the official victim that I'll pick on. That one should >> definitely not be part of the default aircraft selection. :-P >> >> m. > > That's quite OK. > > I was originally hoping that the Pitts would be a nice way to transition from > the > very easy j3cub to the powerful warbirds, but it turned out to be quite > handful > itself! > > We have a very nice progression from nose-wheel aircraft to twins for > complex/IFR > operations: > > c172p/pa29-161 -> c182rg/pa24-250 -> Seneca-II > > However, I don't think we currently have a real equivalent path for > taildraggers > in terms of handling. > > The closest I can think of is: > > j3cub -> dhc2W -> pittss1c/p51d/bf109/.... > > However, there is a big jump in challenge from the Beaver to the warbirds. > > Anyone know a good half-way house taildragger ?
I've got a Chipmunk T-10 planned when the grob g115 is more complete - was the standard RAF trainer a long time ago, and is still in service for pilots training to fly with the BBMF - would that be suitable? Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
