If you are unfortunate enough to have both engines flameout, leading to oscillations greater than the conditions required to restart the engines you can end up not being able to restart the engines on your 15 mile trip to the ground.Indeed, thanks to the production of this amazing little war fighter, a lot of things changed within Russian aviation. All this is avoided by flying the profile by the book. If you pull to much Alpha while climbing at too low an airspeed, or indeed while turning at significantly slower than cruise speed at high altitude your engines will flameout from being starved of sufficient airflow, requiring a restart.

Beginning at Mach 2.6 the pilot would then decrease KEAS 10 knots for every 0.1 Mach until the desired cruise speed was achieved.Īs with real life SR-71's the high altitude performance dictated that it must be flown within set parameters - this includes angle of attack.

He must maintain 450 KEAS all the way to Mach 2.6. Once climbing the pilot must control the throttle as close as possible to roughly 450 KEAS. Due to the time taken and fuel wasted breaking through Mach 1 in horizontal flight the real world SR-71 pilot would perform what they called a 'dipsy doodle' manoeuvre whereby the pilot climbs to the low 30's and approximately Mach 0.95, then descends 3 or 4 thousand feet, then gentle pulls the stick up once Mach 1.15 is surpassed. As an example, your climb profile must be close or match the real life climb profile in order to reach heights above 75,000 feet and Mach 3+. It has unquestionably the best SR-71 flight model out there - this SR-71 must be flown by the book. I rendezvous my SR-71 with a tanker for mid-air refueling This tanker is not included with the AlphaSim Blackbird package. Sim pilots can adjust the difficulty of this operation by adjusting how close and for how long the Blackbird needs to stay in formation. Once you are in place, your fuel tanks will quickly top up. Then, fly in close formation behind the 'tanker' you have chosen. However, the AlphaSim SR-71 will accept fuel from any AI aircraft, including jetliners and General Aviation aircraft. If you are able to, you can include tankers like the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker in your AI aircraft list. Operating the fuel controls brings up a real-time listing of AI aircraft in your vicinity. Another helpful system that is not very realistic is a novel tool for requesting mid-air refueling You can ask for fuel from any AI (Artificial Intelligence) aircraft in FSX, that is, any aircraft that is being flown by computer in the sim.

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