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I'm really interested how it looks/feels in CFS3?

Not yet but soon will.
Awaiting delivery.

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Thanks for you reply,i'm looking forward to your experiences!

I'd be flying it if was the P-47.

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120th Fighter Wing, Montana Air National Guard

The CFS3 P-51 is excellent! It is the CFS Mustang that you always wanted to have. She looks and flies excellent, although I only did a few circuits so far. But, Scott, if you are reading this: the brakes do not work. And there is neither a steerable tailwheel not the possibility to lock the tailwheel, not even by holding the stick back. Or am I doing something wrong? But these details do not distract from the overall beauty of the plane. I hope we will get some repaints!

Could you(or Scott maybe you have some..) post some screenshots,i've no idea what to expect actually?
Sounds very promising though!

Stickshaker,

I am not sure - I'll see if one of our guys knows this.

Here are some screenshots I just took this morning:

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Thanks Scott!
Looks great.especially the cockpit!
Does it come with more than 1 skin?
Thanks again.

Looks like we forgot that CFS3 sets brake power in the .air file rather than the aircraft.cfg file when we ported this one over from FS9. But the tailwheel lock is enabled and the tailwheel is set to be fully-castoring, just like the FS9 and FSX versions. Scott has the corrected .air file so the brakes update will be along presently. Your tailwheel lock should work just fine, though.

It sort of comes with more than one skin.


78th Fighter Group. Notice the spinner.


Vintage 357th FG photo. Similar spinner on Bud Anderson's 'Old Crow,' Chuck Yeager's 'Glamorous Glen,' and Kit Carson's 'Nooky Booky.'

Sorry, minor point of order.

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You mean noseart,like the other planes in CFS3?

No. Look at the propellor hub on Scott's screenshot. The plane is skinned like 'Big Beautiful Doll' of the 78th FG. The 78th's distinctive markings for all planes in the group was a black and white checkerboard nose and -- on the P-51s -- a black and white propellor hub, like in the photograph. The 78th FG operated out of Duxford, England.

The 357th FG, out of Yoxford, England, had a red and yellow checkered band on the nose of its planes, but the propellor hubs on the P-51s were alternating yellow and red bands.

What I'm saying is that the included skin is actually a hybrid of two famous paint schemes. (Both are 8th Air Force, however.)

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Sorry,i see what you meant now..would not be hard to correct though..

Thanks for the info, Scott and SD. I’m glad to hear that the brakes problem is about to be solved. I tried again but the tailwheel lock really does not work. It works all right with other planes. Is there a non-standard key assignment perhaps?
One more question: is it right that the flaps, even the combat setting, cannot be used above 200 kts? I can understand that for the regular flap settings, but I would think that you could use combat flaps also at higher speeds sometimes.
Yesterday I flew against an AvHistory Bf-109G-6 at 10.000 ft and I thought performance of the P-51 was a bit on the optimistic side. But today I took on an AvHisttory Bf-109G-10 at 1500 ft and the performance edge was much smaller. I think it was both the lower altitude and the somewhat faster plane. So the Mustang seems to perform right relative to other planes. And it flies very smoothly. I can understand that people still very much like flying the real plane. Stalling behaviour makes you have to be careful in a turning fight, much like I have read about the real plane.