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The flight dynamics feel good. It isn�t too sluggish in flight, and once speeding along at 500KIAS you can pull some quite tight turns (for a bomber, anyway) and it gains tremendous amounts of speed with the wings swept. It also doesn�t start oscillating madly (as some FS aircraft do when they go quickly / overspeed); instead it remains smooth and constant.
Taking off and landing feels fairly realistic (although I am only 14 years of age and have never flown a real Tornado
). On approach with wings open, it stalls at just under 130KIAS, and taking off is a thrill as you thunder down the runway. The Tornado picks up speed fast, and rotates (with a full payload) at about 150 � 170KIAS.
My only quirk with the flight dynamics are that I can only reach mach 1.3 in level flight, whereas the real Tornado GR4 can get up to about Mach 2. But this hasn�t affected the score much as I�ve awarded the flight dynamics 8 out of 10.
Wow! These sounds blew me away when I first heard them. For those of us who have seen a Tornado in flight, we know that they can get pretty loud. And these sounds are indeed �pretty loud�. As you increase the throttle, you can hear the engines whine, and then as you get into the higher quarter of the throttle, you can hear that �low rumble� that the Tornado creates. And this sound only gets amplified when the afterburners kick in�
I must say that I was not let down with these sounds. They�re loud (just like they should be) and aren�t just the same drone all the way through � and for this I award them 10 out of 10.
One final little thing � a special mention to those afterburner effects, they really took my breath away!
Total Score (out of 40) : 35
Scoring system:
0-15 � Not bad�
15-30 � Good!
30-35 � Great!
35-40 � Wow!!
Thanks for reading, and Happy Flying!
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