RAF Marham

[Wing_Z]

Probably worth a sticky: John Young's work is always worth sitting up and taking note - remember Duxford?
At flightsim:

FS2004 Scenery--RAF Marham
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Name: egym_1993_9_1.zip
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FS2004 Scenery--RAF Marham in the UK for the period circa 1993. Designed for use with the Victor and Canberra AI packs (JY_VICTORS_AI_FS9_1.ZIP,JY_CANBERRAS_AI_FS9_1.ZIP). A very detailed, but frame rate efficient scenery of this airfield set in the Victor K2/Tornado GR1 era. By John Young, Airfield Construction Group.

Also see the various AI packages for Canberras & Martin B-57, Victors... he has been busy.
Lucky we have a long weekend ahead here, there's hours of play awaiting

[Wing_Z]

Let me take the screenshots for you, then:







This is a a towering work, wonderful that it is also available for FS9.

[stuartcox]

Thanks for the HU Wing_Z!

Finally got it all working after solving conflicts with UK2000 scenery.
Very nice indeed - and only a short hop to Duxford...:-)
I especially like the re-fuelling option, catching up with the Victor on course to Scotland! A great little extra.

Cheers, Stuart

[Wing_Z]

Yes I've transplanted this one and Duxford to a separate sim, so didn't see UK2000 conflict - which scenery?
I'd like to catch up with a tanker, when's it go to Scotland?

Edit: I see on flightsim there's a whole raft of repaints for the Victors and Canberras by Dale Ashcroft.
Time to dig out some more of Mr Beeny's product, too...

And while at flightsim, I took a look at the download counters.
As with Duxford, there is almost as much take-up for FS9 as for the FSX flavour.
Wonderful.

[CG_1976]

Go Green Bats:salute::salute:

[stuartcox]

John explains in the manual:

"The specific Victor with hoses in the RETRO traffic file is XM715 and has the Hemp paint scheme applied. It departs Marham twice each weekday. It cruises to a waypoint (included in the scenery) just to the north of the Shetland Islands and then returns to Marham. The cruise altitude is set at 20,000ft to give a small margin of visibility below that level. The speed has also been deliberately restrained to 250 knots to enable user aircraft to catch up with the tanker should the need arise."

The UK2000 conflict was with part 4, which includes Marham.
I tend to install any addons directly into the main fs9 scenery folders, to avoid priority issues, and it took ages to find the Uk2000 files that needed deleting. (Own fault).
Otherwise you are stuck without ground textures.

Been hovering around in a Lynx for the last hour, just to take in all the fantastic detail..:-)

Another great package!

[Wing_Z]

No time for that, too busy diving straight in!

Brave to put everything in one basket; I did that to all my Greece scenery, just dropped it into a giant folder called, er, Greece.
When it went pearshaped there was only one way out, and I've been patiently rebuilding the Aegean ever since.

Thanks Stuart, I will go looking for XM715

[Jagdflieger]

Great stuff! Thanks to the author, John Young.

By the way, there's a bunch of new texture files up at flightsim.com for the AI canberas and Victors.

[Wing_Z]

Thanks Stuart, I will go looking for XM715

John Young did a fantastic job on this package, perhaps a little photo-essay...

1993: Post Desert Storm, the lads still like to stay current.



Today’s mission: Carry a full combat loadout and make the refuelling rendezvous with one of these big birds, flying a 006 track northward to Scotland.



The weather a bit iffy, hope we can get clear of it before we make contact.



Not to be… winds aloft are 50kts plus, swirling from 224 magnetic to 175.
While we have the benefit of a GPS-locked track, the poor old Victor is zigzagging madly across the sky, trying to outguess the next gust.



After a very long time indeed, and halfway to Scotland, we make the contact and have a sip

Fat and replenished, we break and return to base.
The Tornado is heavily loaded and probably near max landing weight; how about sticking out the tailhook, then, and making use of the arrestor gear? Mmm will have to install arrestor zones in this scenery.	In the very first picture up top, see the fellow with the dog? Well, they’re here to welcome us back. Tough dog, that; 125dB from the Turbomeca’s.

[Jagdflieger]

Super photo essay. Most enjoyable.

[Wing_Z]

Glad you enjoyed it JF, I was really taken by the way the AI responds to atmospherics.
If you think about it, you could just make it go in a straight line A-B.
But MS really put a little thought into it.

On this trip the Victor was blown off course sometimes 1nm, and had a considerable crab angle to maintain its track.
Not much good for aerial refuelling, but entertaining to stay with.

[Wing_Z]

Ian Elliot mentioned elsewhere that John Young has done F-111 Ai as well as Canberras and Victors.
Together with Dale Ashcroft's many repaints, there's a feast of '60s hardware.

Being an RAF airbase agnostic, I just plop 'em into Marham which gives an excellent backdrop.

Here's a series of clips of these marvellous creations, also a snippet of that Victor weaving all over the sky, mentioned above.
Well worth installing, these... I have a standalone sim for them, and might yet build an authentic environment of that era