The Vulcan B Mk.2 for Microsoft Flight Simulator, created by Just Flight, has hit the virtual storefronts earlier today and is now ready for purchase and download. Let’s have a look!

Vulcan victorious

On sale for $32.99 (substantially cheaper than prior iterations on other sim platforms), the Microsoft Flight Simulator Vulcan by Just Flight looks to be one impressive product. Giving us a unique look at the Cold War era bomber, Just Flight have modeled the B Mk. 2, K.2 and MRR variants with additional features giving us most of the different options and equipment sets that this aircraft operated with over its long lifespan.

The aircraft sports the usual features with high resolution textures, Wwise audio, hundreds of modeled switches and controls, 12-liveries, an EFB complete with an aircraft configuration system that lets you set the state of the airplane and configure the various payloads and packages and more.

Both Olympus 201 and 301 engine types are modeled with the 201 option giving the Vulcan its well known howl as the engines are throttled.

I haven’t had a chance to fly it yet but I’m looking forward to the opportunity to. Learn more about and purchase the Just Flight Vulcan here. The company also reports that the aircraft should emerge on the MSFS Marketplace soon though we know that the process can sometimes take weeks.


10 responses to “Just Flight’s Vulcan B Mk. 2 for MSFS is out”

  1. Fair price.

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  2. I can hardly wait to try it … got a new computer to finish building, and I’ll save it for that – should look GLORIOUS!

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    1. Oh yeah for sure. You making the jump up to 4K? The sim looks incredible at that resolution.

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      1. Would love to run at 4k, though I generally lean more towards maximizing graphics settings over resolution.

        We’ll see what a 5800x3d/RTX 4070/NVME/64GB RAM gets me. Not a top of the line rig, but should be a solid performer 🙂

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  3. While I always appreciate new DCS content, early cold war strategic bombers seem a little out place no? Considering our map sizes, existing theaters, etc?

    I suppose if you really love the Vulcan.

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      ShamrockOneFive

      At this point I don’t think we’ll see this in DCS World but I wouldn’t mind it. The Vulcan had some tactical capabilities with anti-radiation missiles as well as more strategic capabilities.

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      1. The addition of Shrike missile support was very much a bodge-job done in haste during the Falklands War. Its conventional capabilities were pretty much iron bombs and that was it (albeit at 21x1000lb, quite a few of them), and it wasn’t dropping those with particularly stellar accuracy. It was a plane primarily designed as a nuclear weapon platform from the beginning, not one terribly suited to conventional duties.

        Much as I love the plane (I grew up within sight of where it was made) it really is hard to see what place (besides eye candy) it would have in DCS.

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  4. I ended up buying it yesterday for MSFS (had a previous JF incarnation for FS9 and liked it). The visuals and sounds are as lovely as they appear in the promotional videos. I tend to have the sensitivity for MSFS dialled down a bit because I find general handling in MSFS far too loose-feeling, but with that the Vulcan is a lumbering beast when fuel-heavy. Not screwed up a landing yet though. Only oddity i’ve found so far is the plane will pretty much take off on its own (even with 70% fuel) without control input at default trim (nose wheel lifts around 130kts, plane will just take off at 150+). No idea whether that is realistic or not. Also advisable to trim the nose down a good chunk after take-off or you’re heading for a stall pretty soon after.

    There’s an awful lot of things to play with in the cockpit. Not been brave enough yet to do a 100% cold start by hand.

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      ShamrockOneFive

      I did some reading and apparently the procedure was to hold the nose down on takeoff as the Vulcan tended to want to lift up early. So that’s probably correct behaviour.

      I am very much looking forward to flying this!

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      1. Maybe so. It does after all have the surface area of a couple of football pitches. Just the airspeeds seemed a little lower than I expected. Mind you, I remember an incident with one of its retired sister V bombers (a Victor, which is also a big old thing) where a taxi run turned into a brief take-off due to a bit too much gas. So perhaps they really are that keen to get airborne!

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