Product descriptionLancaster is supplied in a variety of variants and liveries and all come with detailed crew stations that you can select to fly the aircraft from; historic scenery of some of the more notable locations that the Lancaster is associated with is also included. As a fantastic bonus a fully featured de Havilland Mosquito is included for your reconnaissance/Pathfinder flights.
This simulation illustrates life aboard Bomber Command's most famous bomber. Whilst it is impossible to re-create the experience of the real thing, Lancaster is the most accurate and evocative simulation of a Lancaster on 'ops'. Many new special effects have been created to add to the excitement and realism whether you choose to fly as pilot, navigator, radio operator/gunner or bomb-aimer.
Detailed Description
The Avro Lancaster is probably the most iconic heavy bomber of WWII and rates alongside the Spitfire as one of the most recognised. The supreme combat aircraft designers at Aeroplane Heaven have carefully crafted this aircraft with due respect and memory to the tireless crews who flew in them.
Detailed features
16 aircraft
•Lancaster Mk1 "Standard" - 3 liveries
• Lancaster Mk1 "Special" 617 Dambusters with Upkeep mine (bouncing bomb) - 2 liveries
•Lancaster Mk1 "Special" with Grand Slam ('earthquake') bomb - 1 livery
•Lancaster MkII with Hercules radial engines - 2 liveries
•Lancaster MkIII "Standard" with 'H2S' radar installation - 2 liveries
•Lancaster MkIII Aeronavale - 3 liveries
•Battle of Britain Flight BMF in modern configuration - 1 livery
•Lancaster prototype - 1 livery
•de Havilland Mosquito - Pathfinder/Recon
Scenery of RAF Scampton
The Lancaster is supplied with four main aircraft selectable virtual cockpits. Each Pilot station is equipped with ALL-NEW 'smooth gauge' technology for added realism!
•Pilot and Navigator Stations
•Pilot, front turret and bomb-aiming stations
•Navigator, Radio Ops
•Pilot station only
High quality sound set - relive the heady sounds of the massive engines.
Superb animations
•Operating sliding windows
•Operating rear crew door revealing flare chute
•Operating clear-view quarter lights
•All switches and controls in cockpit including weapons bay door control, bomb jettison are operable
•Working armour plate headrest, swing out Radar kit, Navigators seat and folding engineer's seat
•Fully functional Engineer's panel
•Working turret controls to pan the turret and elevate the guns from the turret virtual cockpit
•The Bomb aimer's station is fully equipped with working auto-turn control, bomb arming switches, timers, bomb computer, and bomb release
•Retracting Landing lights
•The airframe has correct flap operation all highly detailed, working automatic elevator counter mass tabs, rudder trim tabs and the correct gear retraction sequence
• The mid upper turret rotates and the guns elevate and depress correctly to match the anti-strike track on the collar
• Full crew figures (depending on the variant selected) with animated pilot, bomb-aimer and mid-upper gunner
•Operating bomb bay doors with fully detailed bomb loads
Superb effects
•Bombs can be armed and will drop properly and realistically with a characteristic 'wobble' on the smaller 250 and 500 pounders
•The Upkeep mine will spin and drop
•The Grand Slam will drop realistically
Please note that the weapons will not destroy any objects as the Lancaster product is hosted in Flight Simulator 2004 which does not have this function.
System Requirements:
•Flight Simulator 2004
•Pentium IV 2GHz PC
•512Mb RAM
•32Mb 3D graphics card
•Windows 2000/XP
•900Mb hard drive space
•Monitor capable of 1024 x 768 resolution