I've been flying the T-37B Tweety Bird, once the Air Force primary jet trainer, for my own FSX training flights. But I've found it nearly impossible to trim for level flight at any airspeed, and it can barely turn during ground taxi. Any suggestions for fixes? I could switch to the current Texan II, the nice IRIS freeware plane, but I'm fond of the Tweet, used to see them on occasion at March Air Force Base.

Tweet won't turn more than 5-10 degrees when I try to steer it off the runway, ends up in the grass every time. SIGH!

This one:

T-37 Dragonfly (Category: FSX > Military)
Posted Sep 26, 2008 04:15 by Mark Rooks

I'll look forward to the RAZBAM Tweety, but I hope to have 'graduated' by the time it comes out. I'm using the T-37 with Bill Stack's TopSkills sim books, doing the exercises as if I was a student-pilot, trying to be systematic about learning what I haven't learned!  Maybe it's just my lack of good technique but getting the T-37 to turn off some of the airbase runways at any speed seems undoable and the Tweety ends up mowing the grass.

jimm57 wrote on Mar 26^th, 2012 at 11:19am:


I'm flying the same one. My only other criticism is that the trainer version should probably have two pilots, one representing the instructor.

I'm using the Saitek X52, no pedals, but no problems with taxi turns in my other planes.