) for each one and some comments.All those planes have one thing in common: they've got great VCs! Otherwise,they wouldn't be on my HDD.
A Dornier 26 taking off from a lake in Maine on an early winter morning for a short hop. Unusual plane,but a great piece of german engineering! By the way,the author is the same guy who also made the Ar-79. All gauges in german and original navigation equipment. Makes every sea-crossing an adventure.
Cross-country flight in a Beech Debonair. Great panel,exterior model and flight dynamics. Needs some working on the panel.cfg 'though. (Why interior views if you have a VC??)
Coming in for a smooth landing.
As the earth begins to swallow the sun, a Ryan SC making a last pass over Stein Valley,BC,Canada before heading home.
Unusual model,looks like an Arado Ar-79 (said that before) but is great for some sight-seeing or sunday afternoon-flights. The "look and feel" of the VC is just great and very authentic, but it only has simple instrumentation. But hey,who the heck needs a speed indicator?
During the long flight over the Canadian mountains,the little plane dances in the wind like a leaf. The pilot,however, isn't really impressed by that and enjoys the view into the darkening valleys. He'll be home in one or two hours and after he has parked his trusty airplane,he'll meet up with his friends in a bar and tell them about his exciting day and the difficult approaches to the Stein Valley airfields (upper and lower).
At flight level 550, a Stratojet Excalibur is roaring over the Rocky Mountains,on its way to the East Coast. The setting sun is makes the a great playground for reflections. The passengers, some businessmen, are sitting relaxed in the comfortable cabin,while the landscape is drowning in darkness and the two high-tech engines make sure that the airplane is fleeing daylight at a constant speed of Mach 2.25. "Who the hell needs the Concorde?",one of the passengers thinks before his thoughts fade away and he falls asleep.
Just to say it shortly: The Excalibur dumps every corporate jet. A range of 4500kms (at a speed of Mach 2),plus a STOL capability speaks for itself. But sadly,it is just pure fiction.
The VC looks a bit generic (custom gauges mixed with default ones from the Learjet),but as soon as you move the throttle lever forward and see the landscape passing by faster and faster,you'll completely forget about that.
Sources:
Dornier: flightsim
Debonair: avsim,flightsim
Ryan: fsfreeware
Excalibur: flightsim,avsim
Hope I haven't bored you too much with all that text.
Silent.
P.S: Concerningt my "North Pole" adventure,I won't continue it. Boring flights trough 24/7 darkness and the same way back isn't just attractive for me anymore (and I'm sure for you,too). I've taken the challenge, I've (almost) been there,I've seen the border of the FS-world. So do you really want to see the boring flight back home? I honestly don't...
