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Where can one find a Westland Lysander suitable for FSX? And if more than one is available, which seems to be the most realistic in terms of flight performance?
Many thanks for any suggestions...

Lysander77 wrote:Where can one find a Westland Lysander suitable for FSX? And if more than one is available, which seems to be the most realistic in terms of flight performance?
Many thanks for any suggestions...

I found this link but it is not freeware
http://fsaddon.eu/wpfsaddon/?page_id=731

Have you tried the freeware one here?

http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1 ... er&x=0&y=0

pete wrote:Have you tried the freeware one here?

http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1 ... er&x=0&y=0

Pete
for what it is worth I used Google and I did not see any link to here at all. But than I am not sure how these things get to Google any way
I guess next time I will look here first. It just goes to show you that even the almighty Google search does not reveal all.

Google can be ridiculously out of date - how many of us google for something and find results from 2007 or 2004 in the 1st results? It happens all the time to me ..... yet google is still the best global search engine out there.

& with so many things - firefox and skype for examples - the so called 'updates' are a REAL BIG TIME mess ups ........

pete, you're right. My last Skype update ruined mine compleately.................and i simply cant get back

Thanks, Pete. I've been wanting that one too, but have missed it.


Whenever I read a book with a plane in it, I like to download & fly it. Yeah. I'm a weirdo.

The Westland Lysander was a plane used in a book called Eye of the Needle to insert spys into occupied France in WWII.





As to improving Google search results (sometimes), click on "Search tools" -"any time" - and then the time period that you want to restrict the search to. It doesn't always help you find what you want, but you can at least eliminate some results.

Again, thanks.

Many thanks for these most helpful suggestions! Now it will be possible to fly a favorite aircraft in FSX. Very kind of you all to respond so quickly and effectively to my inquiry...

I've tried the ac, its good, but it seems to me it has some auto flaps "working"!!
Tell me about it......

It is a nice plane, and it definitely has a problem with the leading edge and flaps auto working depending on the speed.

Other than that it would be a good companion for my Fieseler Storch.

In fact it seems better at STOL than the Storch.

Interesting results... I believe the leading-edge flaps (on the real Lysander) were designed to come into play when the aircraft dropped below a certain speed (which now eludes me.) A description of the experience of flying the Lysander, written by a an RAF pilot from WW II described the effect as "tricky", but once one allowed for this, the aircraft was otherwise an excellent one to fly. How closely the sim versions can approximate such effects is another interesting question.

Interesting results... I believe the leading-edge flaps on the real Lysander were
designed to come into play when the aircraft slowed to a certain speed - the
exact speed now eludes me. A description of flying a Lysander, written by a WW II
RAF pilot, described the effect, with the comment that once one came to
terms with this feature, then the Lysander was an excellent plane to fly.

I could believe that. I sped the plane up and slowed it down several times, and that's exactly what happened.

OldAirmail wrote:I could believe that. I sped the plane up and slowed it down several times, and that's exactly what happened.

That has to be weird I have never seen a plane do that before. Is that the way the real thing worked or just some one getting a little lazy
Not I have to down load this and see it for myself and than try to figure out how they did it. I think it might be part of the model file but not sure. I once tried to make a aircraft using GMAX and just about lost all of my hair I never did get it to work but I did manage to build a building that I use as a line shack.

Bass wrote:pete, you're right. My last Skype update ruined mine compleately.................and i simply cant get back

Off topic --- but I also got the 'updated' skype asking now for a microsoft account (MS are going downhill fast &, it seems, following apple trying to get control over your system ..... I always avoid control at all costs!!)

See this for the cure to skype (& fully uninstall your skype -0 then reinstall the better (older) version that just requires simple skype login without MS account crap)

& don't update firefox -- it seems to be just getting worse and worse! (My old ff is just fine - from about 2010)

(MS also tried to install my default search as yahoo and install yahoo as my homepage ----- Going downhill fast if they're doing that)