Australia looks great.
It’s just a little bit boring to have to always fly upside down on the left side of the sky ! 
Edit: Now pics are in the right direction.
Temora’s Spitty is a looong way from home…
You get used to it…you certainly see the world in a different aspect…
Yeah, I came across the museum’s page on the aircraft when I was looking up the livery. They said it defended Darwin during the war, so that’s where I planned my flight. Great to get some of the actual history to make it more meaningful, rather than just a scenery gawking joyride which is what I usually do in Flight Simulator.
I’m a volunteer at HARS, YSHL…the Grey Nurse visits us from time to time…one beautiful aircraft.
How does the rendition you use handle?..”Like an angel in the air…but like a b.i.t.c.h on the ground”… quote from a WAAF delivery pilot in WW2
Yes, but from the training videos and in-cockpit demonstration videos I’ve watched, the base Flight Simulator flight model is likely making it much harder to control and more likely to wreck than it is in real life.
There is certainly a modern myth that they were easy to fly but it comes from combat pilots comparing it to truly difficult and lethal '30s vintage aircraft like the Gloucester Gladiator, or notoriously tricky aircraft to fly like the bf109, they were not comparing it to the equivalent of a C172.
As the Battle of Britain progressed, combat stress, fatigue and lowered standards of training of new pilots added to the dangers of flying. Even in the initial month of the Battle between 10 July and 11 August, no fewer than 47 RAF fighters were written off in accidents, and another 68 were badly damaged. These numbers compare to 85 aircraft lost to enemy combat during the same period.
Though some of those accidents were of course mid air collisions and part of that was pilots with less than 12 hours on type (note this does not necessarily mean less than 12 hours total flying training) being sent out to squadrons to replace losses.
Note that the Seafire had a dreadful reputation for carrier landing incidents.
http://spitfiresite.com/2010/10/battle-of-britain-1940-accidents-losses.html
Oh I’m sure they weren’t easy aircraft to fly. It’s just that the Flight Simulator rendition is probably making the ground handling excessively bad. It’ll veer hard left on you sometimes on the take off roll no matter what you do: power, trim, CG, it doesn’t matter. I can stop that with toe braking in the Corsair, but not the Spitfire. It seems to happen less in the Spitfire with less power, however. But the Spitfire has this added challenge of the stiff, spindly gear causing the plane to easily tip over, so you have to really wrestle both the ailerons and rudder to keep the wings off the ground.
You don’t see that at all in the take off and landing demos. The pilot isn’t putting in all kinds of rapid control inputs just to keep it on the runway, and even goes out of his way to point out that the bad rap it gets isn’t true: “It really does have good manners on the ground”.
Beautiful airplane!
Yeah I have seen it IRL a few times, both down at Temora and also flying at an Airshow at Williamtown back in 2010. Got a video of it starting up at Williamtown. Though it was with a â– â– â– â– â– â– pocket camera with awful sound sadly:
Loved the show! Thank you for the post, enjoyed watching and listening!
The big powerful engines of WW2, there’s nothing like it. In Texas, I’ve seen the Confederate Airforce flying and practicing their stunts. You can actually feel the ground shake as they fly by. B17 & B24 flying is a sight to see but listening is the best!