How classic do you mean though? Actually a biplane?
It does have radios and a transponder but it’s done via the tablet not via instruments in the cockpit itself.
The tablet has an autopilot as well
There’s also a portable GPS unit you can enable via the tablet and drag about various positions in the cockpit.
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Good point the PT19 he mentions is not a biplane.
In which case the Golden Age freeware Kinner Sportswing is also worth a mention, note the download fails in Chrome use Edge.
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Thanks guys,
It doesn’t need to be a VFR plane for realistic, legal, current-age VFR flying. I’ll take everything that is old, immersive, in-depth and doesn’t have too many navigation systems outside of your eyes and maybe a compass (hidden ones are ok 
The Moth looks nice, but I’ve watched some reviews now, and it seems it only saves the fuel an oil amount between flights, no gear wear, no engine stress, not much persistence. Which is fine I guess, just not as good as I was flying before. The reviewers also said that they’ve tried not following any of the operation rules at all and there weren’t really visible consequences, so hard to say how advanced it really is “under the hood”.
I went back for another flight in the Moth and now I AM getting the mad bobbing up and down. Even worse than your video.
Strange thing is if I turn the Range down, it does settle it down but nowhere near enough even on ‘1’. Disabling on the slider (far left) does stop it moving but another new and weird thing is if I switch Turbulence off completely with the blue switch at the top, I get an awful loud looping click sound now! So the only way is to have the range slider on Disable. So strange how it’s behaving different for each of us and different between flights.
How? I click the Hide word to try and toggle it and nothing happens. Could it be because I’m using one of @pby5a ’s liveries?
First of all: most Carenados do not have simplified flight models. There ARE many planes with more detailed flight models but compared to the majority of what’s out there (including all Asobo planes and several with a higher price tag) most Carenados are very decent. There are exceptions of course like the Arrow.
The Bücker Jungmann is IMHO the worst plane you mentioned and I wouldn’t recommend that to anyone. It’s not especially well done visually and somehow nothing really feels right about it. Flight model, sound, it’s all a bit shoddily done.
The F3F is mediocre at best. Beautiful, like most AH planes, but with bad sound and no character whatsoever. Here ‘simplified flight model’ is almost a compliment. It doesn’t remotely feel like the fighter it was designed to be.
The Stearman is iconic, simple and nice. Not terribly refined and a little too tame. It’s very hard to get her to misbehave in any way.
Haven’t flown the Waco much so I can’t really comment.
The Nieuport 17 doesn’t have much power by any modern standards but still is tempramental and has a tendency to bite you when you least expect it. She stalls very suddenly. Especially in a slow turn she will kill you if you’re not careful. Best flight model of all double deckers so far
The Staggerwing is the only one of the bunch fit for a longer flight. Good range, speed and comfort. Trims easily and is sporty but easy to handle and not jittery at all.
Just bought the Tiger Moth and haven’t had time to fly her yet. So I can’t comment. But the FSX version was very good, so I have high expectations.
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FlyingIron Spitfire, you get a compass, and a backup compass.. You get to do fairly high speed aerobatics too. Compared to the DCS Spitfire IX it’s very easy to fly, but well, expected. The Carenado craft I’ve tried all fly like each other, oddly., given different arrangement of wings & engines.
The Moth’s engine distortion is really starting to get to me now :S has anyone dug out the previous freeware conversion & tried playing the engine sounds from that? can definitely tell they’re from DH engine instantly. I still really enjoy flying it provided I turn the sound down…
As for being thrown around, with live weather I’m being thrown around in literally everything now ( and I don’t use FS"Realistic" )
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Nice, but isn’t mine…
Sorry, meant to have that reply to the preview you posted before.
Yep, agree… It worked ok for me due to me having downloaded one of the shared profiles in FSR thus not affecting my other aircraft profiles.
I also have the dreaded turbulence issue that others are discussing on this thread so clearly the Tiger doesn’t like FSR or vise versa!
It’ll get sorted either via Ant or the FSR team i’m sure…
The totally weird thing: The Tiger Moth is totally well behaved here. Every other plane is hardly flyable in Real Weather but the Moth behaves really nicely. Just as I’m used to from real flying it moves a bit, lifts the wing here, makes a jump there but doesn’t flip over etc.
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Do you take requests?
Odd, shows fine for me when I click the tablet option. I’m still using the 1.0 version as the 1.01 patch only deals with stuff I had no problems with so that maybe that patch screwed something up? You can also use some keybinding to show the GPS and Tablet. It’s avionics switch 1/2 in the 1.0 version and Increase/Decrease nav 4 volume in the 1.01 patch so maybe try those.
you can always ask, if I like the scheme I’ll do it, if not, not
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Today, after installing version 101, I noticed that the mixture lever is not working anymore. When in the VC, I try to move the handle with my mouse it won’t move. All other levers (throttle, flaps etc.) does move. Also tried keybinds, but no response. I do not use FSUI for Y-as mapping.
The mixture lever is gated. It won’t go past the throttle. That’s a safety mechanism so you can’t accidentally close the mixture lever.
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