ShawnD2112 wrote:
Having had a chance to fly a BUFF sim while a cadet, I can say the things
bomb better than they handle. They roll like pigs and the engines take
forever to spool up. (course, it was 18 years ago, I wasn't a pilot then so
didn't really know any better, and still don't know anything about flying
jets). I did better as a bomb nav than I did as a pilot. Crashed on
landing on two attempts but got the nuke right in the pickle barrel!

Shawn


Awhile ago I flew the KC-135 flight sim at Pease. It handled rather
nicely as long as I took into account swinging a few acres of wing to do
making for a few over controls. 135s don't like being rolled at 2
kilofeet. The FB-111 sim was more fun, but I had a lot less time on it
so I never did get the hang of it. I have some on the F-4E Sim at Hahn
AB and F-15 and C-130 sims at Eglin. If some rich person wants to by me
the F-15 sim I'd be happy to let them

The one sim I wish I could have flown was the A-10.

Apparently some people are bulding flight sims with cockpit parts from
various sources like e-bay. I'd like to know how realistic a home F-16
would be.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired