koke
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Post by koke on Sept 8, 2010 12:54:05 GMT 12
Hi My F-16 Sim pit in AKL   |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 8, 2010 12:55:53 GMT 12
Wow, that looks like a lot of fun!
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Post by mcmaster on Sept 8, 2010 14:00:48 GMT 12
That is impressive! What program will you run with it? Falcon?
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Post by skyhawkdon on Sept 8, 2010 15:07:34 GMT 12
You and Sean Galbraith will have to get together on-line for a dogfight with his A-4K (Kahu) simpit!
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koke
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Post by koke on Sept 11, 2010 21:43:28 GMT 12
She's running on Falcon4. Triple projectors and all.
Sean helped with a few bits. Thanks. But I think the old A4 is no match to the Fighting Falcon ;-)
Koke K ex GSI
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Post by skyhawkdon on Sept 13, 2010 15:25:19 GMT 12
Thanks. But I think the old A4 is no match to the Fighting Falcon. Many Indonesian, Thai and Singapore F-16 pilots made the same assumption and came away with their tails between their legs and a much healthier respect for the Kahu Skyhawk! ;D |
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Post by timmo on Sept 14, 2010 11:22:15 GMT 12
Indeed- I can't remember the numbers off hand but when my brother (barnsey) visited to pit the A4K against the Singaporean F-16s (?- Would have been Vanguard in 2001?) I think it was around an 70-80 win rate? Certainly, the hardest part was getting close...and then it was mostly bad news for the F16 crews.
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Post by Barnsey on Sept 17, 2010 1:18:09 GMT 12
Like a lot of things, the pilot operating the machine plays a very large part in its success, or otherwise. The high success rate we had against the F-16 was fighting against the Royal Thai Air Force.
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that was against their F-16As, their relatively easily defeated Aim-7 and Aim-9P4 vs our Aim-9L, and probably most importantly: they were coming out of the Asian economic crisis where they had suffered a large cut in flying hours and training.
Compare that to the RSAF with their late model F-16C & Ds, AMRAAM, ECM and their continued exposure to high level training and doctrine - the odds certainly weren't as favourable to us!!
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Post by smithy on Sept 19, 2010 6:27:07 GMT 12
I had a crack in the F-16 simulator in Bodø in Norway at the Luftfartsmuseum there. Was a hoot but bloody difficult (hardly surprising) even with help.
I was very lucky with my job in Bodø when I lived there as through work (a Danish bloke had come up to film them) I got a tour of Bodø air base, taken around 331 Sqn's F-16s and on the flight line for their morning sortie.
My office window looked right out over the main runway in Bodø, so every morning and afternoon I was treated to watching F-16s taking off and landing. Bloody brilliant!
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