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WP 1 : Bridge over the rail line. | Follow the rail line WEST to:
WP 2 : Rail marshalling yards | Follow the rail line WEST to:
WP 3 : Bendery Fortress | Follow the Dnister River NORTH to:
WP 4 : Grigoripol car race circuit
content_pasteA 747 Jumbo Jet has been converted into accomodation next to Stockholm Arlanda airport and Microsoft Flight Sim has modelled it in great detail.
content_pasteThe Forth Bridge is the most prominent landmark in the area, 2 nm N of Edinburgh airport. There are actually three bridges at that location, Queensferry Crossing, Forth Road Bridge and Forth Bridge and as of January 2022, you can fly under all of them with no collision. If you are careful!
content_pasteCaptain Scarlet debuted on TV screens in the 1960's as Biggles reimagined for the 21st century, in the 1960s with ripping yarns and tales of derring-do. The "New Captain Scarlet" is a CGI masterpiece from the master of 'boy's own' adventuring, Gerry Anderson.
content_pasteFor some insight as to why Microsoft used cartoon graphics for the intro and throughout the sim menus, see my interview with Scott Lee in Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 3.
content_pasteI was busy as a one-armed wallpaper hanger on final approach! Quite tricky to get the recommended 10 degrees AOA... more practice is the answer.
content_pasteThis was tough... they shot at me (with live ordnance) ... I thought it was supposed to be a training sortie... ; -(
Check out the next video where I (hopefully) PASS this mission.
content_pasteI passed the bombing, not elegantly but nonetheless, then a rudder failure meant trouble on landing... I mean WHO or WHOM parked a tank there?
content_pasteI did escort the fighters successfully. My wingman did most of the work as I directed him via voice command. And then I took out the enemy AWACS (scratch one MiG-29...). This is the first video I've made with voice control, using Voice Attack. I make so much more use of the wingman when I can simply talk to him rather than hunt around in the dark for keys!
content_pasteNight flying! >> Dangerous << Exciting! >> Even more so when you're being shot at... << Actually the graphics in MiG-29 Fulcrum look stunning at night, and of course draw distance becomes irrelevant. Enjoy this one!
content_pasteSecond attempt at this bombing mission. The bombing is very forgiving in this sim... but then we ran into the most 'Top Gun' helo pilot of all time! Then I shot him down. I found the explanation for the 'Top Gun' helo pilot in the documentation for the mission editor. Flight models and aircraft models are independent... and the manual warns not to assign an F-16 flight model to a chopper... which is exactly what some wag at Novalogic did here!
content_paste"Other screen caps by me, FlyingSinger,
with standard Orbiter 2005 installation, plus high-resolution ""level 9"" earth textures, well worth installing (free of course, all Orbiter stuff is, amazingly, free).