FSX Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Triple Pack

It's an OK addon. It's now literally the only SR71 addon that I was able to find here. Only really want one version of the SR71l(the original) and the best-looking one doesn't have the main gauges, they just appear as blank black circles with only a handful of other secondary gauges that appear.

The exterior looks great and most of the VR cockpit looks decent just wish the gauges worked. I think it may be a poorly pieced together and or poorly coded gauges file but no matter what I do or how I try to move the gauges file I still get the same issue so I think it may be faulty line of code somewhere. Also, a way to switch to the radar room behind the cockpit would be cool.

Nicely detailed but I noticed a serious flaw in the flight dynamics models. The actual SR-71 could cruise at 80,000 feet and had an operational ceiling of 85,000 feet along with a cruising speed of 1,976 knots or Mach 3.35 but most of the aircraft stall out at 44,500 feet even with a climb rate as low as 3,000 feet.

This is my second attempt to give a fair review for others using FSX Steam like me. This pack has a solid modeled plane exterior but all three have severe VC issues. 1 model has missing instruments, another has Non-functioning instruments, and the third has NO VC at all. None of them can get anywhere near Mach 3.

Only one can even break Mach 1 but has a top speed of M1.5. Terrible. Of all the SR71 add ons I've tried this is right in the middle of an already very mediocre pack found around the web. My issue isn't on my end, I know what I'm doing and can install even the more complicated add ons with little concern.

This is just flat out a bad offering of a classic and legendary aircraft that deserves so much better. Let's face it a nice exterior but no true VC and grossly underpowered performance are an insult to this icon of aviation.

AGAIN this is based on experience with FSX Steam specifically. Perhaps it is perfect on other versions or maybe even pre Win10 OS? I cant know? But it is totally incompatible with FSX Steam, period.

Now a mega-three-pack containing all versions ever released on FAS.

Please credit the original modeler back in the early 2000s, ie myself. Working on a new payware one, look at Glowingheat's Facebook page.

No VC in my FSX Steam version. NO VC makes it feel wrong.

No VC at all.

I found it a fun aircraft to fly, definitely enjoyable to fly over Russia at 84,000ft taking photos

The easiest way to correct flight controls for any issues such as reverse thrust. Go into FSX, FSXA in-game menu to settings to controllers and scroll down to issue such as reverse thrust and or whatever you would like changed, erase the present setting and then set the one key you chose, I would set f2 as reverse thrust for use upon landing then tap f1 to shut off reverse thrust.

Make sure to save the setting on the next page. I found that it's less tedious and time-consuming during inflight to go onto the keyboard do I do setups on my Nintendo controller for everything and make appropriate changes on my flight stick.

Having glitches ruining your near-perfect landings? Go to search type in %temp% before starting FSX, do a right-click erase everything. What isn't erased are necessary files like Adobe arm which is needed to read files.

Another way to free up space on the hard drive is to right-click on the trash bin, scroll to delete files permanently. To note, these files won't be recovered but will not affect your backups. You will always notice changes in regards to the Windows 10 issues.

To have top graphics in win 10 go to settings, game graphics and set on, and for even better graphics go to control feature in Windows to appearances go to advanced and set for performance, this will take away the bling out of things like mouse transparency and stuff you don't need, another is using USB memory as ram, one thing you need is ram, another tip is FSX cfg. Just below Graphics setting place HIGHMEMFIX=10. That's done like this, place your cursor NEXT to the last space at the word Graphics, tap return key, now capitalize and place HIGHMEMFIX=1 Now tap the red square upper right hand, it will ask you to save? Tap yes.

I have other space-saving ram insights and things that make FSX nearly perfect but then again the system, the screen, graphics card, etc have to be taken into consideration. Personally, with over 4 million files and a computer I've rebuilt and overclocked I can say I'm glad solid-state and better motherboards are on the market and yes, a new Flight Simulator 2020 is soon to arrive. From what I've seen with the graphics it'll be a worth it . SEMPER FIDELIS. Any questions leave em here.

An interesting history. The SR71 was a basic glitch from the beginning starting with the paperwork. Being a typo classified it as the SR rather than RS. RS is the coding given to recon aircraft and Helios. The typist an info NCO made the error and in short, was never corrected.

The public notated top speed attained was never truly made public, what was made public was the flight from the West Coast to the East coast and the total elapsed time was not considering a 242 nautical turn around to make the landing.

The data shows that the fuel cell membranes were leaking, so thin the fuel would seep through and immediately upon reaching an acceptable altitude then would fuel up. That's when the transition of the KC 135s we're refitted with a less fuel consuming yet more powerful thrust was added.

Of all of the situations, the RS71 Oxcart came into contact with the refueling was the most confounding as the top end of the tanker was close to the stall speed as without the speed the 71 being close to wingless could easily have an issue.

The top speed of the 71 was well over 3000 mph. I would watch the aircraft take-off and come in just before Dawn in Plattsburgh N.Y at least once a week and also out near S2 close to 51 Area. It wasn't uncommon to see the aircraft go through its changes at Palmdale as Palm Springs was but a hair away.

I still give credit to the X15 for the huge steps in experimental leading to the RS71. Even when you look back in flight and see the B1 it should be known we started those experimentally with props and cable controls then went on to jet propulsion. I

t didn't work out too well because the airframes were heavy and the cables couldn't handle the stress... then along came wireless and computers and FBW, that's fly by wire and contact point control thru a computer database.

It's amazing what you can recall and appreciate the move forward in the aeronautical field once you've become old.