Flight near London.   Easy landing, reduced speed,   vertical takeoff aircraft   https://store.flightsim.com/pizzagalli.ch-_bymfg_97-0-1.html      

I was wrong about the  Mike Stone's Walrus. It wasn't built for FS2004, but actually, the model was for FS2002!! But it looks fine and flies just as nicely in FSX!!!   The Sea Otter is for FS2004/FSX but from various angles, you can see design cues used on the Seagull.

What I was thinking and should have said was "Supermarine never made a true Amphibian Spitfire."  R J Mitchell and company made many great amphibians as you and Kit have already mentioned.  Maybe I will find a suitable Supermarine aircraft to fly for this mini-challenge.  Thanks for the nudge in that direction.  🙂  

the update went fast, 35 mins, the content manager stuff took around 1.5 hours. was a good update this time. AD sends

So if I understand correctly, by the time I reach 150 kts I should be roughly 750 feet at an attack of three degrees, assuming I began my descent at 1800 feet? I was listening to professional F16 pilot say they quite often land by watching angle of attack in case the above scenario of glideslope loss occurs. I think for most airports the localizer is about ten miles out?    In your case, I see turn heading 127 at 2400 feet, is procedure to just trust the DME and go around if you don't see threshold markings by your decision altitude to go around? I imagine this could be nerve racking in real life. (it was nerve racking in the sim, I got saturated and crashed)

I will try. thanks... 

As Phrog says it never hurts to practice doing the basics well.  It's great when the plane does things for you.  But it's even better when you can take the pride of doing it correctly yourself!  Isn't that really what we all are shooting for when we sim?

I agree, this can be frustrating. But maybe consider this may be a way to improve your instrument flying skills. Should the GS fail while on the approach, you would continue to use distance indication via DME, but must determine your own decent rate (using the decent chart and profile GL angle)  and try to hit the altitudes on the approach chart profile.      

Just to make sure there's nothing running in the background, I reboot every time before I run P3D.   That rule is good for any flight simulator.   Jorgen

Wonderful shots!  Having said that, I noticed none of the fabled Boeing 727.  Perhaps it's not available with or without the staircase in the back that could be opened in flight!😮

It's still hot here!  Won't someone try the cool off flight to Austria?  I flew it myself yesterday but for some reason I can't post my screen shots.  Otherwise I already would have.  However I believe anyone who makes the flight will enjoy it.  And I hope you'll post shots as well!   Michael

One problem that I was having running FSX on Windows 11 is that it would sometimes crash just as soon as a flight was loaded.   What I eventually discovered is that, if previously used, the Windows Edge browser would leave multiple occurrences running in the background even after Edge was closed.  When that happened, there was apparently some memory space conflict with FSX that would cause the crash.   Now, before I make any run of FSX, I run the Task Manager and end any occurrence of Edge running.   No more FSX crashes! 

As Sirrus says, the very last Supermarine prop powered aircraft was an amphibian, the Seagull from 1948.   For its time it was very hi-tech, having contra-props driven by a Griffon 29, so it was almost as powerful as a Spitfire PRXIX, and had variable incidence wings even! They only built two of them as the advent of the helicopter rendered the concept of a fixed wing SAR aircraft obsolete.   I've been hoping that someone would do one for FS, but sadly it's yet to happen.  

Cruising FL350, mach .92 on a test flight with the Gulfstream G700.