I agree, the challenge makes it quite rewarding to fly =) I've watched about every video of him flying both the R-2 and Z, but I wish I could have seen one of his performances live.
Your review is perfect as always, I like the description with the lot of details and history The Gee-Bee always be one of my favorite aircraft, he's so cool as he's deadly... What a beast! It's actualy a flying radial engine😅
Thank you very much! I'm glad you like it =) Fully agree! It's also one of my favorites. I never expected we would have such a good representation of it in the sim one day =)
As an RC modeller who flew both model Z and R2 I can say both are bitches to land properly even when watching them from outsides, and from the cockpit the visibility on landing is not zero but below zero. Great flying and pretty good landing! Cheers
Thank you very much =) The sim version is probably the easiest variant, or at least the version with no consequences 😅I can't imagine landing a model version or the real one, I would bend it immediately!
@@portlyoldman Your aerobatic instructor wasn't by any chance Steve Wolf? He build the Gee Bee R-2 replica together with Delmar Benjamin in the late 80s - early 90s. A friend of mine got instructions from him in the Pitts.
Haha fully agree! What Delmar Benjamin did with the real one was incredible! When he flew it at a few airshows in Europe he actually managed to land it at Michelstadt, which only has a runway length of 600m (1970ft)...that feels short in your regular Cessna or Piper, I can't imagine doing that in this beast with a landing speed of 200 km/h (120mph) 😳 I wish I could have seen one of his displays in person before he retired!
@@vintagesimulations some pilots said real stuff much more easy than in simulators:) so probably this one same in real not so crazy horse. about landing, it's possible for everyone of us with good wind:) actually we all have more practice than real pilots. however, that's not help people like me, i fly in simulator from the end of 90x and stay undisciplined inaccurate and take all that too frivolously, so if i fly about middle, my lands at hardcore birds pretty bad in any way many first times lol
@@einherz One very important instrument you've got in real life that you can't simulate, at least not in a normal home sim setup is your seat of the pants feeling for lack of better words. In real life you feel a taildragger aircraft moving under you during the landing and you can often react with the rudder before the aircraft actually starts moving to the side. In the sim you can often only react, when the aircraft has already started moving to the side. Having said that I think in generel flightsimming is a lot easier than real world flying, with the biggest aspect being that there are no consequences ;) When it comes to the Gee Bee, the real one is definitely more difficult to fly! I would recommend reading this interview with Delmar Benjamin about it: www.avweb.com/air-shows-events/delmar-benjamin-the-need-for-speed/
@@vintagesimulations i heard same about seat place, i even heard one pilot has a sea sickness in sim, because of absent of impact on the vestibular... and in real life pilot have same fov we got at minimum zoom, where we can see nothing. and when we have zoom equivalent real we can see nothing again... all other stuff about physical training, and how good model in simulator, some time model more hard than real... and more important in real pilots have natural eyeballs friction... this can not gives today best of the best vr. my guess is both has some harder and easier things. and real pilots i guess can do same easy in simulator as in real, however if no practice in simulator, after real it can be feeling harder, because other joy pedals forces, luck of senses, lack of visual information, other eye movement... relearning always much harder than learning.
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The Gee Bee is really fun to fly.. at least in sim. I remember seeing Delmar Benjamin fly his replicas, amazing but dicey things.
I agree, the challenge makes it quite rewarding to fly =) I've watched about every video of him flying both the R-2 and Z, but I wish I could have seen one of his performances live.
Your review is perfect as always, I like the description with the lot of details and history
The Gee-Bee always be one of my favorite aircraft, he's so cool as he's deadly... What a beast! It's actualy a flying radial engine😅
Thank you very much! I'm glad you like it =)
Fully agree! It's also one of my favorites. I never expected we would have such a good representation of it in the sim one day =)
As an RC modeller who flew both model Z and R2 I can say both are bitches to land properly even when watching them from outsides, and from the cockpit the visibility on landing is not zero but below zero.
Great flying and pretty good landing!
Cheers
Thank you very much =)
The sim version is probably the easiest variant, or at least the version with no consequences 😅I can't imagine landing a model version or the real one, I would bend it immediately!
Ooooh.. I’ve got a huge cut-away picture of this machine in my bedroom!
That's awesome! It's such an iconic machine.
@@vintagesimulations - indeed it is. My aerobatic instructor (i was never much good!) used to talk about it when we were flying the Pitts.
@@portlyoldman Your aerobatic instructor wasn't by any chance Steve Wolf? He build the Gee Bee R-2 replica together with Delmar Benjamin in the late 80s - early 90s. A friend of mine got instructions from him in the Pitts.
middle name of this toy is chucky... and human who fly her is hero from metallica song - "master of puppets"
Haha fully agree! What Delmar Benjamin did with the real one was incredible! When he flew it at a few airshows in Europe he actually managed to land it at Michelstadt, which only has a runway length of 600m (1970ft)...that feels short in your regular Cessna or Piper, I can't imagine doing that in this beast with a landing speed of 200 km/h (120mph) 😳 I wish I could have seen one of his displays in person before he retired!
@@vintagesimulations some pilots said real stuff much more easy than in simulators:) so probably this one same in real not so crazy horse. about landing, it's possible for everyone of us with good wind:) actually we all have more practice than real pilots. however, that's not help people like me, i fly in simulator from the end of 90x and stay undisciplined inaccurate and take all that too frivolously, so if i fly about middle, my lands at hardcore birds pretty bad in any way many first times lol
@@einherz One very important instrument you've got in real life that you can't simulate, at least not in a normal home sim setup is your seat of the pants feeling for lack of better words. In real life you feel a taildragger aircraft moving under you during the landing and you can often react with the rudder before the aircraft actually starts moving to the side. In the sim you can often only react, when the aircraft has already started moving to the side. Having said that I think in generel flightsimming is a lot easier than real world flying, with the biggest aspect being that there are no consequences ;)
When it comes to the Gee Bee, the real one is definitely more difficult to fly! I would recommend reading this interview with Delmar Benjamin about it:
www.avweb.com/air-shows-events/delmar-benjamin-the-need-for-speed/
@@vintagesimulations i heard same about seat place, i even heard one pilot has a sea sickness in sim, because of absent of impact on the vestibular... and in real life pilot have same fov we got at minimum zoom, where we can see nothing. and when we have zoom equivalent real we can see nothing again... all other stuff about physical training, and how good model in simulator, some time model more hard than real... and more important in real pilots have natural eyeballs friction... this can not gives today best of the best vr. my guess is both has some harder and easier things. and real pilots i guess can do same easy in simulator as in real, however if no practice in simulator, after real it can be feeling harder, because other joy pedals forces, luck of senses, lack of visual information, other eye movement... relearning always much harder than learning.
funny machine...
It certainly has a unique look 😅
@@vintagesimulations exactly...