Ryan NYP

[Moses03]

Was watching the Spirit of St. Louis movie the other night (Jimmy Stewart version), and got to thinking about the default Ryan. Has anyone mucked with a more user friendly FM or know of one? As you all know it is nearly unflyable, especially with a lot of fuel. Would be nice to have a more enjoyable hand-flyer version to cruise around in.

Moses

[Sunny9850]

That would defeat the purpose of this particular aircraft. Lindy had Ryan tweak the aircraft to be unstable, his reasoning being that this would force him to stay awake.
In this case I think the only way to appreciate the accomplishment is to live with the flight model challenge. At least we can hit the pause key and get up from the PC and walk away from it for a while.

Cheers
Stefan

[Moses03]

I'm all for defeating it. :mixedsmi:

[Motormouse]

Something tells me Bill Lyons might have done a version.
Check the usual places.

Ttfn

Pete

[Ferry_vO]

Drop 90% of fuel; the real thing flew for 34 hours on full tanks! 10% will still give you three hours of flight time. Much easier that way. ;)

[Motormouse]

Bit of googling.... Flight1 have a freeware Spirit of St Louis,
which was used for the official sim recreation of the flight by the EAA.

Ttfn

Pete


link here --------> http://www.flight1.com/view.asp?page=library

[Moses03]

Thanks Pete, will have a look.