so wait, thats a channel hop? Wow, I really would have loved doing that in real life. Ive gotto do it virtually!
Yup, so if you get hold of Charles Watson's Rochester (file version is RCHCW40M) and this scenery you'll get a real feel for the flght. We had what was called the Light Aircraft Corridor over the Channel but now I think you just fly with flight following by Manston Radar. If you get flightplanner to find your route IFR by low altitude airways that gives you the exact route for the LAC. But cancel your flghtplan once airborne (you couldn't do that in real life - you had to have a valid flightplan in place going from the UK and returning back from Le Touquet) and follow the track on your GPS. If you don't, M$ ATC sends you off on completely the wrong track to pick up the Le Touquet ILS which you don't want. The proper track is over the water and turn right along the French coast before calling up Le Touquet Approach.
I like the aircraft, although the VC panel is a little, odd....
It is a funny one Andrew. My new graphics card doesn't like any window in the panel that masks the whole screen - it just creates an invisible layer that prevents all switches working. So until I removed the yoke window I couldn't use the 2D panel. Did the whole flight from Rochester using the VC which is a bit more blurry than the pic when you're a bit closer to it. But good fun though.
I've just installed the superb Robin Regent from Francesim which I can't use properly yet because everything's in French and I have to work out all the switches. Also the TB9 Tampico but although I quite like it it has no pilot in spot view - bit eerie
