Old vs. New

Im not only enjoy but love ❤️ old crafts.
But i have to admit that autopilot is needed some times... 😉

Most of my flying is in tail draggers if that tells you anything. I enjoy the older planes, including biplanes especially those with radial engines. I never use auto pilot even when it's available.

Warhawk wrote:Most of my flying is in tail draggers if that tells you anything

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crash_deplane wrote:

Anybody else enjoy flying the old timers?

Been doing it for years and always will. Another reason why I treat FS as a Game, I can fly a Heavy and a Bi-plane all in one day. 😀

crash_deplane wrote:

After flying the newer stuff for a while, I decided to go for a flight in the Ford Trimotor. Went from Detroit to Marquette MI, using real weather. That one certainly makes you appreciate the autopilot. Went through some snow showers and turbulence but pretty uneventful otherwise. Kind of a fun flight overall but flying in real time with no autopilot makes for some real work. Anybody else enjoy flying the old timers?
-Dave

I enjoy flying the old ones, but not if I need to go very far. A long, slow trip without A/P can get pretty tedious.

I mention this from time to time: I actually rode in a Ford TriMotor back when I was a kid (~1960 or earlier, I guess). My dad took us on Island Airlines from Port Clinton, Ohio, out to one of the islands in Lake Erie.

Island Airlines is recreated in FS09, by the way, as one of the historic flights, called "1935, Island Airlines."

What I remember about the flight is that we took off from a grass strip, and the old plane rattled and shook like it was going to fall apart before we ever got off the ground. And it was seriously LOUD!! And it was made out of corrugated aluminum, so it looked like a chicken coop with wings. 😂

Ed

Decisions, decisions, I had the chance to go up in a Ford tri motor but chose the 1927 New Standard biplane instead. The skin on the tri motor always reminded me of corrugated barn roofing. In their time they were good airplanes though.