Mustang! Thunderbolt! Hellcat! Corsair! Spitfire! Hurricane! These and many of the other great Allied fighter aircraft of World War Two are highly familiar to a great many people and to everyone interested in aviation history. All of these aeroplanes and the valiant pilots who flew them did their very crucial part to ensure the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.
However, what all of these pilots who flew these aeroplanes, all of the celebrated aces and all of those who flew with them have in common is one aeroplane, one which is not nearly as well-known or popularly celebrated — the North American (NAA) T-6, or AT-6 as it was called in the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF), SNJ in the U.S. Navy (USN) and U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), and “Harvard” in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Virtually every one of the pilots who flew against the Nazi and Imperial Japanese air forces, learned the art and craft of combat flying and honed their aeronautic skills to a diamond- sharp tip in the AT-6 before they were given leave to go into harm’s way in Mustangs, Hellcats and Spitfires.
Compared to those mighty and oft-heralded fighter aircraft, the relatively obscure AT-6/SNJ is the common bond that ties all of these pilots together and which enabled them to “go forth and vanquish the foe” so successfully. Many thousands of young, eager pilots owe their very survival in the mad swirl of aerial combat and the rest of their lives thereafter to the lessons they learned whilst in the cockpit of an AT-6, so successfully and profoundly did this humble aeroplane perform its role and do its duty.
markadeane (verified owner) –
One of the first taildraggers in sim to really make you work the pedals (or joystick twist as the case may be!). The T-6 provides a nice counterpoint to the Mustang in that it is more leisurely, but still oozes warbird character and rewards patience and practice.
tim (verified owner) –
If you read a pilot report in a magazine and think to yourself: “Well, I knew all that already” without ever flying that particular aircraft, chances are high that A2A created a virtual rendition of it. And that is the case with the T-6. The tricky ground handling makes every landing a new challenge, the sound is exactly as a T-6 sounds and all the systems are faithfully recreated. This is really the ultimate simulation of a T-6G Texan!
tune82 (verified owner) –
This aircraft is become my favourite warbird. Relative easy to land, love all the extra sounds with the accusim engine. Through this you really get the idea you onboard a real alive aircraft.
Tomas Linnet (verified owner) –
Every day in a T6 is leg day. The most noticeable feature of this aircraft is the ground handling characteristics, when on the ground you’ll need to keep awake, this is the A2A aircraft that you are flying until you are parked. The sound of the Wasp is wonderful and really ads to the experience of flying this iconic trainer. Insides and outsides it’s a good as you’d expect from an A2A aircraft and Accu-Sim makes you take care of you aircraft.
5 out of 5 from me.
Enjoy your flight!
-Tomas
Pierre Hanekom –
This is an amazing version of the T-6 and worth every single penny! I would love to see this machine in the new MSFS, and maybe a South African Air Force version!
Re-installing FSX just to keep flying this bird, so that should say something about how well this aircraft was created and programmed.