Harrier Jump Jet
Scenery
As you can see from the photograph at right the Falkands terrain is not exactly flat.
Unfortunately the terrain in
Harrier Jump Jet 2002
is
rather flat.
There are three fixed bases modelled on the islands:
- Goose Green
- Port Stanley
- Pebble Island
Unfortunately, selecting Port Stanley in
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2
produced an error
"Failed to initialize the databases..." ,
so I opted for a flight
- from Goose Green
- South East along the coast
- then up the East coast
- a touch and go at Port Stanley
- then further up the coast
- left at the main inlet
- past Teal Inlet and Douglas
- heading about 315 degrees to Pebble Island
This worked out well and took a pleasant 15 - 20 minutes in the Pucara.
Note that Mirages and Skyhawks were based on the Argentine mainland, the Falkland's strips being too short for fast jets. However in the sim-world of
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2
I managed to quite easily operate the
A-4 Skyhawk from Port Stanley.
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Mirage attack on a Royal Fleet auxiliary ship.
Image from
"War in Peace" ISBN 0-85613-841-X
Falklands Map from
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2
Click here to see a large map
or click on the map to see scenes from that airbase
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