Circular Runways

[LSLGuy]

Here’s a tidbit from an older thread on silly games in flight simulators you might enjoy:

@Richard_Pearse

Sounds like a lot of fun! …

During my initial BAe146 endorsement the instructor was fairly “old school”, putting more emphasis on pure handling skills than is fashionable these days. We did a couple of exercises for a bit of fun and handling practice.

1. He set the weight of the aircraft low, the equivalent of being empty with a bit of fuel. Put as at the end of the runway with a 100 knot wind straight down the centreline and got us to take off, hover, and land back on the piano keys. If you kept the nose pretty well aligned with the runway you got the illusion you were flying something like a Harrier jump jet. With the right combination of power and attitude you could gently climb, descend, fly backwards, forwards, sideways etc.
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