Some shots at Duxford from the weekend.
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Here are some screenshots from some shortfield flying at Little Gransden. Although it remains a challenge (realistically-so), operating the MSFS 2024 Asobo P-51D into and from short runways (2,500 ft/no obstacles) with Randall Snow’s Improvement Mod (available at FS.to), when flown correctly, is accurately doable. I’ve had repeated success operating in/out of airfields such as Little Gransden (2,600 ft runway), Breighton Airfield (2,600 ft runway), and even Fowlmere (2,300 ft runway) - all of which Mustangs have landed at/taken-off from within modern years (back when guys like Maurice Hammond and Rob Davies would bring Mustangs into those airfields for select events, and Breighton was where the P-51D G-CDHI was based for a time, as I recall). Shortfield takeoffs are performed with 10-20 degrees of flaps, 6-degrees right rudder trim, and my preference of 3-degrees nose-up trim (empty fuselage tank). While holding the brakes, the power is brought up to 30" MP, brakes released, then smoothly but quickly up to 61" MP. Some gentle back pressure on the stick at flying speed and you’re off. As taught in reality, the shortfield landing approach is one that should be flat, with the airspeed slightly below normal - for shortfield landings, I usually carry about 130-mph on base, about 110-115 mph on short final, slowing down to 100-mph over the threshold (the nose blocking all forward view by that point) and touching down in a full three-point attitude at about 90-mph. True-to-reality, a lot of nose-up elevator trim is required - I usually find that I’ve dialed the elevator trim up to 8-10-degrees nose up. Also true-to-reality, some braking is required in the later half of the runway rollout.
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last shot, left the blue birds behind, I see…
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