Learning to fly the Vintage Classic RAF Tornado. 19.99 €

1) Introduction

Pilots today train, get checked out and get type rated on simulators.  It takes 10 years to train a Tornado pilot. I learned to take off fly it and land it in 15 hours. Now ok to be fair I am a real ...

2) Real pilots and flight sims.

3) Aerobatics?

Not at all designed for aeros but you can do a limited amount.

4) Gear, Flaps, slots, Wing swing and thrust reversers.

Run through where the gear lever is, the speed brakes and the flaps. Thrust reverser and swing wing operation.

5) Starting the engines and shutting down.

Cockpit briefing. front and back.

6) Intro to Heads Up Display

The heads up display is a great help to flying as you maintain more of your attention outside the cockpit.

7) Intro to the Auto Pilot

Introduction to the Tornado Auto pilot system. Which can follow the terrain at a given height up to 1500ft AGL or maintain a given altitude. It can also manage the throttles for best fuel efficiency a ...

8) Auto Pilot Terrain Following.

Terrain following...Awesome feature the civi planes seriously lack.

9) Flying the Tornado.

Lets go take the bird for a fly!

10) Emergency Landing with fully swept wings.

Hydraulics can fail leaving your wings swept right back. so you have to practice landing like that  with no flaps as the flaps only work with the wings fully forward.

11) Bird Strike Danger.

Bird strikes are a major hazard to aircraft, they can damage aircraft in a big way, some pilots have had to eject and the aircraft was lost.

12) RAF Lossiemouth landing.

The RAF used to train there Tornado pilots at Lossiemouth. Why not learn to fly your Tornado here?

13) Runway Bashing.

Going around and around is essential to getting your landing perfect.

14) Landing the Tornado on an aircraft carrier.

While the Tornado was never designed for carrier opps it has an arrester hook and it is possible to land on an aircraft carrier.

15) Low flying 450 to 500 knots

Pick somewhere nice with hills and do some low level flying.

16) Low level Nav exercise Perth to Valley

Using a map and a stopwatch put a cross on the map every 6 mins where you think the aircraft is. Flight is from Perth in Scotland to Valley in north wales.

17) Nav ex Valley to Brize Norton.

Another nav ex requiring you to put in 6 min markers, this time some of the flight is in and above cloud.

18) For the love of flying

People learn to fly for many reasons. For me it is LOVE.

19) Try various landings in limited visibility and crosswinds.

Mastering the landing is all important, also try not to touchdown before the piano keys or the numbers. Sirri Island Airport (IATA: SXI, ICAO: OIBS) (Persian: فرودگاه سیری‎) is a regional ...

20) Tornado GR4 World Tour

I decided to fly the GR4 all the way around the world and I enjoyed it tremendously. You can do it too in an aircraft of your choice. FOR FREE. why not?

21) Manston to Marham South of England in the rain.

Using the Terrain following radar and auto pilot navigate your aircraft in grotty viz.

22) Flying over the North Pole.

23) VR Headset is a must for the serious aviator.

24) A few laps, Lossiemouth in VR.

25) Tornado Lossiemouth to Stornaway Scotland in VR

26) Tornado Stornaway to Wick Scotland VR

27) Tornado Wick to Lossiemouth Scotland.

A good days flying and the Tonka is put to bed back in Lossiemouth.

28) Low level flying in VR Lossiemouth.

Talk through of a low level exercise from Lossiemouth down Loch Ness and around the valleys.

29) Air Accident Investigation Branch.

What Air Accidents Investigation Branch doesThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch investigates civil aircraft accidents and serious incidents within the UK, its overseas territories and crown depende ...

30) Landing practice on 1 engine.

31) Lossiemouth touch and goes in grotty viz on a new runway.

Test yourself out on a new runway in grotty viz.

32) T&Gs at Valley EGOV part 1

33) T&Gs at Valley EGOV part 2

34) Tower Bridge Challenge.

In real time and weather VR supersonic under Tower Bridge. Just for fun we would never try this for real. One RAF pilot did it in a Hawker hunter at around 400 knots and was fired as soon as he landed ...

35) Update version 4.

36) Land on the Sand Barra airport Scotland.

37) Take off on the sand Barra airport Scotland.

38) Hit and run.