Captain Sim 727

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Made a little movie:

watch out! BIG movie. this is more than 7 minutes long. 75mb and it's even shortened up.

Movie link

I purchased the 727 Captain Sim last week (I saw somebody mention it here in a post from October).

Great plane I have to say. No fancy electronics in it. Back in the day they used to fly stick and rudder and the instruments weren't much more complicated than what I have on my Piper nowadays. Kinda scare if you think about that ... in the 70s airliners didn't work much different than little pipers ... they were just bigger and faster.

This 727 is particularly tough to handle.

This is perhaps the toughest plane I ever landed in flight sim.

Aside from the fact that at slow speed it's a bear, the engines have a reaction time that is abysmal.

At slow speed the adverse yaw is awful. The plane has a lot of momentum and the controls tend to get very mushy.

The engines react VERY slowly to throttle inputs.

With this plane you need to think ahead a lot. YOu need to know what to do to be were you want to be at least a full minute before you get there.

While that's true for every plane, for this one, there's no room for error.

If you come in too slow or too low and you are only a bunch of seconds away from touchdown you are going to have to torch the engines to get out of it and chances are your approach is toast.

There ain't no recoveries at the last minute with this bird. You sure sweat every second of that landing wtih this puppy.

This is actually my 5th landing. the first 2 didn't go so good (smoke and fire and loud crashing noises are not my idea of a "good" landing).

The 3rd one was on the grass ... only in real life there's the NJ Turnpike overpass where that grass is in Flight Sim ... so in real life this would have been "itchy".

This fourth one was a tad slow and i dropped it on flare a tad harder than I liked. But at least it was down the centerline.

This fifth one is my best yet. Which is in the movie ...

http://www.captainsim.com/727/727english.html