Aerotow: Choose and guide the towing aircraft !

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Aerotow: Choose and guide the towing aircraft !

Postby Daube » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:04 am

Hi all,

For those who love gliding in FSX, I have recently discovered an excellent little freeware (but still in Beta) module nammed Aerotow.
This module allows you to:
- choose any of your aircrafts as a towing plane
- predefine a generic flight path (right or left loops, starting a this or this altitude etc...) so that the towing aircraft remains above the airfield. 8-)
- tell the towing aircraft to follow the VFR flight plan you have defined !
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Re: Aerotow: Choose and guide the towing aircraft !

Postby ShaneG_old » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:09 am

Can we see a shot of you being towed by a Fighter jet? Or how about the An-225 ;D! That is really cool ;)! Gonna have to try this one, thanks for the HU! :)
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Re: Aerotow: Choose and guide the towing aircraft !

Postby Daube » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:27 am

You can do it, but because of the overspeed (a jet is too fast for a glider), the cable will break very soon ;)
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Re: Aerotow: Choose and guide the towing aircraft !

Postby ShaneG_old » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:43 am

So now we need a super strong tow cable addon! ;D ;)
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Re: Aerotow: Choose and guide the towing aircraft !

Postby BAW0343 » Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:12 pm

wow, I saw something like this awhile ago but this seems a lot easier!

Excellent find and thanks for telling us!
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Re: Aerotow: Choose and guide the towing aircraft !

Postby Knick » Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:59 pm

So now we need a super strong tow cable addon! ;D ;)



I agree! ;D
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