Way before MSFS, we had this

In the UK, Airfix created “Flight Deck” and then “Super Flight Deck”. I had the latter.

You fixed the line to a distant point and then ‘fired’ the Phantom from your carrier deck. It went up the wire and then turned around, lowered it’s hook and you had to navigate back onto your ‘Carrier’ to land.

Happy memories.

Super Flight Deck

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How exactly do you do that? I’ve never managed to work out how to embed videos on this forum.

If your trust level is high enough (and I believe yours is) it should just be a matter of pasting the youtube URL in your message and it would be embedded automatically. Same with images and video files.

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I had a Mainstream Gem 4 channel radio control in a 36" wingspan biplane with a K&B 58 Glowplug motor.
Fully aerobatic.
What we couldn’t do at the time was put a Go-Pro vid in the cockpit on a swivel table.

I also had 35ft and 50ft control line stunt airplanes.

Then when Microsoft introduced Flight Simulator in the eighties, I got it.
Stick line graphics of Chicago Ohare and monochrome instruments which couldn’t be read easily.

Then in the early nineties, I took flying lessons at Coventry / Baginton EGBE.
Didn’t take exam because children appeared :anguished:

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I had the aircraft carrier version!

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My version had a Twin Otter, kept losing the Glide Slope.

Truth

Jk. The Twin Otter is my current favourite

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Folks, this trip down memory lane is nostalgic, but it has nothing to do with MSFS. Feel free to take this over to the Discord Server’s General Channel. Thanks.

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