Topic: „On the Trail of Richard Bach” – in the flight simulator cockpit

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February 20, 2012 at 9:50 pm #5262
Richard	When you zoom in on the Google satellite view of Lee Bird Airport at North Platte, NE, you’ll see the airplanes parked on the ramp south of the red-and-black roof of the FBO (Fixed Base Operator). That’s where you get fuel and maps and a ride to town if you stay overnight. That’s where James saw the news clipping about Maria Ochoa. Go across the parking lot to the west to the terminal building, and there’s the cafe where he met Dee Hallock. Google “airport near Magee, MS” and you’ll see the north-south runway that was fun in an east-west crosswind.
February 20, 2012 at 9:58 pm #5265
Richard	Here’s Jamie Forbes, a photo I took looking up to him in the T-28, back then. This reply was modified 86 days ago by Richard.
February 21, 2012 at 1:17 pm #5284
medwyn	These details are outstanding, thank you Richard! I think I will have some more ideas how could we spin up these flight recreations at each stops… Here are some google map pictures related to the information you provided: Lee Bird Airport – the FBO and the terminal: Marianna Mun Airport and the ramp at the end of Williams Drive: And that beautiful spot on Lake Jessie with the house next to the seaplane base: Jamie looks confident in that cockpit – the perfect state of a master… I made a search on the internet and found the T-34 appearing in two versions applicable to FSX. One of them is a freeware model but after trying it yesterday I would go for the payware one I think. Here is a short video of that – I hope it looks accurate
February 21, 2012 at 4:11 pm #5289
Richard	Beautiful, Medwyn! The Lake Jessie house photo shows it with the seaplane ramp which was there when I owned it…I’d drive the Lake Amphibian up the ramp from the water into the hangar. When I wasn’t using it, the alligators would come sun themselves on the ramp, a warm homey sight. Most often, the curving shoreline between the house on the right and the seaplane base on the left was parking place for floatplanes come to visit. Not a bad representation of the T-34B. It shows the original military cockpit and instrument panel, not so classy as the panels after civilian owners get their hands on the airplane. But a nice touch, with the landing gear handle coming up after takeoff, showing the three striped barber-pole Unsafe windows in the gear indicator till all three wheels are up and locked.
February 22, 2012 at 5:42 am #5297
lincolnbuff2	Richard, I was in Monmouth, Illinois yesterday, trying to imagine clear skies instead of hazy and a biplane overhead carrying passengers on their maiden air adventures. It made me smile, as it does whenever I read that passage. To the creators of the simulators, it would be cool if some of those Midwestern sites and flights make it into the flight plan.
February 22, 2012 at 7:44 am #5299
Deb	Reading this thread I’m wishing that I knew more about flying. I can hear and feel the love and passion coming through the words but don’t connect with it the ways you guys obviously do. I completely and utterly keep my own space and freedom and joy – but this really does come across as a beautiful, peaceful, calm, gentle way. Is it?
February 22, 2012 at 7:45 am #5300
Coleen	Medwyn, You have done some outstanding things here! You have gone above and beyond to help us see these things! I am sure that we could put these things together ourselves, but boy, you sure have saved us a lot of time by doing this and sharing it! My hat’s off to you!!! And a big “Thank you”!
February 22, 2012 at 3:04 pm #5310
medwyn	…I could simply jump out of my skin – I’ve just placed my order to “The Aviation Trilogy”! Three books in one (including ‘Nothing by chance’) in hardcover and will arrive within 3-5 working days. After two weeks of hard work to find any of them in either my language or English I’ve found this copy… I hope it is not a fake or else I will get the wheelbarrow out of the shed, attach four wooden planks on it (two each side one above the other), grab the engine out of the lawnmower and fix it on the nose of the barrow to put an instant biplane together and I will fly over their company to spread 17 kg of flour on their heads… But let’s take the positive version: the book will arrive in one piece within a few days and I can jump into the world of barnstorming through the most authentic glass of Richard Bach… yes, this version is much more satisfying! (However I can still build that crazy biplane sometimes…) And if the book is in my hands, more flight plans are to come Lincolnbuff2, you will be happy with these! There are several very nice biplanes modelled in the sim (Tiger Moth, Stearman, New Standard D-25, even Curtiss Jenny!) and we are on the trace of a proper Travel Air 4000. Richard, have you been told about those alligators before you moved to the house or they’ve just came to introduce themselves after you had put your last piece of furniture in the living room? Deb, you can learn how to fly on two ways: you can either learn the professional background of flying aircrafts or you can open your senses to fly with your soul. Since you are here I’m sure you have already mastered one of them I think this topic is trying to combine both. Coleen, you are a very strong wind in our sail! And there are still so much left in our sleeves Now it’s time for me to dive into “The bridge across forever” and see if you, Richard, bought that Tiger Moth or not…
February 22, 2012 at 3:13 pm #5311
Deb	Thanks Medwyn. Nice. Think I’ll carry on with option 2, but continue to observe and enjoy option 1 being created.
February 22, 2012 at 8:51 pm #5319
Richard	The alligators came with the house, and were no real problem. They hadn’t eaten any humans in…days, so I chose the same attitude as others around: do your swimming while the ‘gators aren’t hungry. And to be truthful, after you land on a Florida lake the toothy guys generally skittish, and move away from the airplane instead of toward it.
February 23, 2012 at 6:10 am #5325
lincolnbuff2	Medwyn, thank you. I saw the first airplane fly over my house when I was four years old and wondered then what it would be like to be in one. I had a brief ride in a two-seat closed-cockpit plane when I was 19, have taken commercial flights since and have flown in a four-seat Cessna, but since I first discovered them, I’ve been in awe of biplanes. For more than 20 years, I lived a mile from the Galesburg, Ill. airport where the National Stearman Fly-in is held each year, yet have never been in one. I’ve been promised a ride this year and I cannot wait. Yet, since I first discovered Richard’s books — yesterday in space-time, years ago in this dimension — I’ve known the joy that is flight in an open cockpit, an amphibian or a T-34, for he makes it so real in his books. Aren’t we, his readers, fortunate? Can’t wait for the simulator. Thanks to all involved in creating it! Ann
February 23, 2012 at 8:29 am #5332
francois	Being a life-long flightsimmer, just like some are life-long pilots, I couldn’t resist jumping in on this thread of course. Hi Richard, hi everyone….. greetings from Europe, and from the co-owner of Glenn Norman’s WhyFly.aero As for repaints, I’d advise to drop in on some of the forums on the internet, notably the Sim Outhouse forums, or FSDeveloper.com. Lots or repainters around those places. I am a flightsim add-on publisher myself, not a repainter, so cannot be of instantaneous help I’m afraid Kind regards from Holland, Francois
February 24, 2012 at 1:20 pm #5356
medwyn	Welcome on board, Francois! You jumped in the right seat in this cockpit. Maybe there is a chance for a multiplayer flight? There is a nice scene set over Cheyenne airport for example Another good news is that today I got the confirmation e-mail about the shipment of The Aviaton Trilogy! Very busy weeks are upon me
February 24, 2012 at 8:21 pm #5369
Richard	Here’s what the T-34 looks like in the hangar today: Not my favorite paint scheme, as I prefer to be seen in the sky instead of camoflaged, but it does go fast…
February 25, 2012 at 12:42 am #5373
francois	Well, the camouflage scheme DOES fit it……. I like that cockpit