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| Lancaster X By: Andy Medley |
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First Class Simulation Contact sales Avro Lancaster holds a place in history as a iconic aircraft from the 1940’s, it was built in 1940 and flown 1941 as it made its first flight fresh from the hanger the sounds of the four heavy powered engine’s made their first piece of sound. The Lancaster was made primary for night bombing but it did run some daylight missions, because the bomber was and all-rounder it gained the name DAM-BUSTER when it flew in the 1943 operation chastice.  Installation: The installation in most First Class product’s is very straight forward simple insert the CD or DVD and run the product in most cases the CD or DVD with auto run its self very simple. All you have to do is add the files to your specific location of the flightsim folder on your PC. Once you have completed the install you may also find now the First Class are putting the Manual ‘s on the CD also so you may wish you open your tab called MY COMPUTER and right click on the CD value and explore to find the manual. A little fiddly but it saves money i can only think that’s why they do this. Getting Started with the Lancaster: As the Lancaster is a RAF bomber you may wish to start at an RAF base somewhere in UK. Conningsby is where the battle of Briton memorial flight is based so good choice for a start there. Every person is different so whether you wish to start from cold and dark or simply have the engines run from the start your call. What we did find is not many options have changed in this aircraft like the Ctrl+E does the engines and so on but neither or less still looks great. So if you’re a novice pilot the Lancaster still like you also it’s not just for a pro pilot.  Sounds: Time has passed since aircraft this were made so getting the sounds right in my eyes is a key factor , but like in many cases these days many companies just slam a sounds set together call it good and that your lot and semi complete aircraft package. After i have to say the engine sounds are brilliant but other sounds like the flaps and landing gear sounds are better off maybe not having a sound as they seem to grate too much and lost quality. Movement of Aircraft: Animation is good on an aircraft it takes time and show very well on the aircraft, but in many other cases First Class aircraft have never lived upto this standard. But today i was happy the Bomb-Bay doors opens and so did many other animation features. On landing the aircraft seemed to float a little but other than that overall the aircraft is good. Dynamics: The Lancaster is not light in any way but as you can expect it does show in the Flight Dynamics, with full left or right ailerons the big monster does roll very slowly at low and high speeds result it’s going to take time to enter the runway. As this Bomber taxi’s you could say it’s like a DC-3 or an older Avro tail-dragger very time consuming.  Panel: I glanced at the panel and compared it with the real thing and not much has or did change, so maybe top marks for that but i did only glance take a look yourself on that one. As many panel these days consists of a virtual cockpit i feel the virtual cockpit of the Lancaster is very good most buttons work while some still don’t have a button just a visual presents in the cockpit. You still have a choice or 2D over Virtual if you wish, after much consideration i do say the panel is worth 3 stars out of 5 stars and that’s saying something. Conclusion: An aircraft that is great and a pleasure to fly, First class could be my first choice for WW2 aircraft the sounds where OK the panel was great for a change. I would say this type of aircraft would suit the more novice or pilots over the pros but still the outcome is good for the Lancaster. |
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