Hide the Harrier

A few shots gents of hide and seek with a Harrier (thanks for this idea Tailhook and the scenery recommendation ). A little background info for anybody that did'nt know, in Germany the RAF would hide it's Harriers away from the then, Soviet threat, rather than keep them on airbases where they could be readily knocked out it hid them in "hides" around the country that had their own very short runways or indeed used roads as runways. So here's a few shots of a Harrier hide after flying from the MAIW French Airbase scenery somewhere in France .

On the flightline next to all them Frenchy things


Taxi out




Turn onto the Runway...


...last checks...


..advance the throttles and into the sky


Turning to course for Germany






Descending into Germany


Low level approach to our destination


Lower gear and start vectoring the thrust....


..and come in nice and low and slow over the trees




Easssyyy does it






Safely down now taxi to the hide


I see i'm not the only one here






Shut her down and let the ground crew do their business




Thanks for looking and thanks for the idea Tailhook

Wow!!!
Brilliant, this is totally unique, never seen anything like it, 10/10!

ok solid pics now let us in on the secret of the scenery????

Thanks gents , the scenery is hides_v1.zip at Flightsim.com and it gives you a few other little bits to download.

thank you sir

No problem , here's a little film of the real thing, the engineers don't seem too professional though

Superb screenshots Welshflyer and a great exercise in "hide and seek"

...though try as I may I still haven't found the tent of this here combatant



I'm told my lullabies are irresistible

hahaha i would like to see her tattoo...... i couoldnt dl the maiw stuff cause its on avsim....arrrggghhhh

You watch it now... I'll tell your wife

tailhook you are the man

Welshflyer your piloting skills are commendable - I can't even land a helicopter on that strip without doing a bit of pruning on those trees

honuala in case you don't have the mcdmil.zip yet, you can get it at flightsim.

Thanks Tailhook, i must admit it took a few tries to get it right! At first i was trying to land it like a normal aircraft by lowering the thrust as i vectored it, but in fact you must do the opposite,as you lower flaps/vector the nozzles you must increase thrust, you do go up at first but then you start to slow down and descend slowly, once you find the correct angle for the nozzles you're golden !

I did post this on the scenery forum the other day
http://flyawaysimulation.com/postt35157.html

If you find it let me know

What - a ménage à trois? Do you really think she looks like she's up to it? Better let her sleep off her hangover first

I'll take two of those to go please...