Captain Sims Boeing 707

[Ian Warren]

BOEING and Captain Sim http://www.captainsim.com/







It is very expensive , i'll keep you posted

[Splitpin]

GREAT SHOTS Ian i love #6 (landing) ....but.....re number 2, your not meant to stand on the back of the seats and take pics....you should be in that left seat

Nice aircraft, i have it...but i need to re-activate it....and Im having a few problems with their support site.....I'll keep at it.

[BigBird]

Awesome!

Can't wait for their next sale

[Charl]

Great pics! Lucky tyres come cheap in the sim, eh?
Most beautiful of the airliners...

I have this 707 somewhere but can't recall: did capsim do an AWACS of it?

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Aug 18 2010, 08:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

..but i need to re-activate it....and Im having a few problems with their support site.....I'll keep at it.

Be interesting to compared the FS9 model , the cockpit has had a make over , Looks good

QUOTE (Charl @ Aug 18 2010, 09:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have this 707 somewhere but can't recall: did capsim do an AWACS of it?

AWACS , Charl indeed they did for the FS9 package and few other variants .

Tyre,s and the fuel bill ... bill .... bill ...... Bill Gates .. don,t spose you want to help with the fuel bill and ... Bill ... bill .. bill

[AlisterC]

Good luck coming to a stop at Wellington! (hence the tyre joke maybe lol)
Nice pics Ian.

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (Albatross @ Aug 18 2010, 09:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Good luck coming to a stop at Wellington! (hence the tyre joke maybe lol)
Nice pics Ian.

No nothing wrong with the tyres its just a pothole in the runway

[Ian Warren]

Doug , I must get those pot hole people out to level my landing spots ... Alister , best way to turn a paddock into a runway ...

[Naki]

Wow ...very nice!..very expensive too

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Naki @ Aug 18 2010, 11:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

..very expensive too

Yeah your right Paul ! .. first release is only this aircraft , typical off all CaptSim , they always have been top dollar , updates are incoming , i do have to reinstall the FS9 to compare , i will keep and post screens .

[Chairman]

Fortunately they also have regular sales offering huge discounts. Thanksgiving should be next, wonder if they'll do everything for 9.99 again

Based on todays prices and cash rates the 707 is NZD $102, neatly between Concorde-X ($99.99) and PMDG MD11 ($106). Something in me baulks at paying PMDG prices for a Captain Sim plane ...

Gary

[h290master]

looks good but costs way too much

[TonyM]

Ian,

Great shots, I really enjoyed them !

Never bought the 707, but paid full wack for the 727, which is
my favorite tubie, and reckon it was muny wel spent.

Will try and hunt up a couple of screenies to share

Cheers

TonyM

[Ian Warren]

Thanks Tony , yes the 727 is a pretty model as well , looking forward to your screens


Bonus Features:
Version 1.1 (Release September 2010) will deliver the following free upgrades:
• Highly detailed and accurate Boeing 707-320B Exterior Model
• Repaint Kit

• 4X High resolution textures of 14 popular liveries:
- Luftwaffe
- British Midland
- Olympic
- Qantas
- Spanish AF
- American Airlines
- TWA
- South African
- Lufthansa
- Air France
- British Airways
- Braniff
- Continental
- Equatoriana

[IslandBoy77]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Aug 19 2010, 04:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

- Braniff
- Equatoriana

Now THERE'S 2 names I haven't seen in a while! When my Dad was stationed as a missionary in Ecuador for 2.5 years, he took the family with him (a great experience for an 11 year old!) back in 1979 - we came into Quito (pronounced Key-tow for those who may wonder) in an Ecuatoriana 707 - the old "paisley power" design, before they went across to the all-gold one (haven't seen their latest). And Braniff was the butt of many a joke - the local Yanks (of whom there were quite a number in Quito) referred to it them as "The Grand IF" - apparently Braniff were shoddy and very unreliable (not that our flight home in 1981 on a Pan Am 747 Clipper was much chop - leaking air con, flickering lights - what a disgrace!).

Actually, I have a great flying story about Braniff. For those who don't know, the city of Quito is situated at 10,000 feet (which means so is the airport...). I don't remember the length of the runway, but I think it was between 2 and 3 miles. Despite having a very long runway (which one couldn't see the other end of from the ground due to the curvature of the earth), pilots were still wise to land as close to the threshold as possible without taking the undercarriage off on the perimeter fence. So one day, just before we arrived, this Braniff jock decides he's going to touch down about 1/3rd down the runway. All the friends and family are waving and such as the 707 hurtles past. And keeps going. And keeps going. It winds up running off the end of the runway, down into the hollow before the northern perimeter fence and breaking the front nose gear. So there sits the 707, butt end pointing decidedly skywards, but otherwise intact. And the only injury? A retired pilot who thought the thing was going to blow (and with Braniff, that was always a possibility!). So he pops the back door and jumps - forgetting that with the poor old 707's posterior pointing "up", that he's now got a 20-30 foot gap between him and terra firma. He broke his leg.

It was always interesting watching the heavies landing and taking off from Quito - we were about 2km as the crow flies from the airport, and we could nearly always hear the massive roar of the reverse thrust on the 707's & 747's that landed there many times each day. But better, south-departing aircraft used to skim out over the west along the flank of Mt Pichincha (Pi-cheen-cha, with the "Pi" pronounced like in "pip") - I could almost count the rivets on the underside they were so low. Of course, an 11-year olds perspective of "low" and what is really low will vary, but they were low enough so that the whole house shook and we had to yell at each other to be heard over the roar! Of course with the thin air, full load and such, the departing aircraft were definitely "balls to the wall" to even get airborne, let alone be at a safe, NZ-respectable height whilst passing over our house.

[Ian Warren]

Great little read , a bit of history and a language lesson Equatoriana did have a shady rep too , but Braniff had 1984 the most hour flown and cycle than any other 747- 100 .. ever dated , many wondering when or if it entering a hanger at any stage of its career , maybe you 707 ride could be attributed to these facts .

[TonyM]

Ian,

Here ya go ....hope you don't mind me adding these to your thread, but seemed the
right place, being Boeing/Capt Sim related. just compare the cockpits, not that
much different, are they ?. Same era, and don't ya just love that 'lived in " look.

Sorry that all my shots are 'OZ" related, but once some good NZ scenery is available, I'm sure I have
a 100 series 727, in RNZAF colours, parked in the hangar somewhere.

Anyway hope you enjoy







Cheers

TonyM

[Splitpin]

Nice shots Tony......the second one is great, can almost smell that "cockpit" smell

Cheers

[Ian Warren]

Tony , Very Australian .. the red dirt .. Great Screens , the cockpit - you can walk in off the street and no how to fly any Boeing 70/72/73 ,

[Charl]

Holy cow!
Didn't read the thread above properly.

Wing Commander Warren (and part-time flightsim billionaire extraordinaire...) just shelled out more than the price of the sim for that jet!
Even beats out the ALPHA C-17 ...OK that one didn't have a VC

One hundred and some Kiwi...Think these guys are making hay while there's a breath of life left in the just-about-to-become-obsolete flight simulator.
And I thought Switzerland Pro was a bit rich...

Wonder what's the most expensive addon of all time?