BEagle: Beautiful shot of your aircraft
. Is she easy to hand-fly? Multiple entries in logbook for "center engine needs oil [check]"?
What is also fun is to have the excellent Battle o. B. DVD and and at the same time, fly the Spitfire or Hurricane against He-111, Bf-110 or Ju-88 etc on the (Ubisoft) "Sturmovik Forgotten Battles AEP"
. If you are good, against the Me-109 or FW-190: the artificial intelligence (AI) for the enemy aircraft, is not too bad.
Among the many single-engine planes, you can also fly the twin-engine Heinkel and the BF-110, along with the P-38 and the German jets + the Komet rocket plane! Assuming you have a very good video driver and hard-drive space/good RAM etc, costs about $30 US.
When you continue well past Initial Operating Experience (now called simply OE), it is not very welcome by a girlfriend or wife
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The time of night can be a serious factor. An unwelcome "line check" at 0230 can threaten to 'revoke your license'.
The ease and simplicity of "quick combat", not only the graphics, operating flight instruments and unique characteristics of each type, is top-notch.
On the keyboard, as a minimum, only the "escape" button is required. You can easily record your mission. Keeping the mouse by the other hand allows you to look back or behind to plan where next tracers might come from.
After limited tng, the enemy will always have to "aufpassen" for you!
As a transport pilot, this WW2 "flying" is a refreshing change from an oversold plane which lately struggles in the southern heat to get above FL 290-at least before kids and others went back to school and lightened the loads on many. Recently saw the specials on the young guys who competed to fly the 2-seat Spitfire under tutelage of the lady Instructor (Carolyn Grace, who was widowed?), and the youngsters in the Lancaster-very good shows on the US History International Channel (Hint).