While X-Plane has matured rapidly in the past few years, X-Plane add-on developers have largely ignored that subset of simmers who enjoy flying military aircraft within the confines of a civil aviation simulator environment. With combat- related flight sims faring well in their own space, it isn’t too much of a problem but it is very nice to see a large entity such as Just Flight throw its weight behind bringing a superb military trainer to the virtual skies of X-Plane. With its Hawk T1/A Advanced Trainer, Just Flight hasn’t just broken into the X-Plane military add-on market, they’ve come screaming down the valley into it!
Brief history
The BAE Hawk is a British single-engine jet trainer that has been flying for nearly 45 years. Originally manufactured by Hawker Siddeley in the mid-1970s, production was continued under British Aerospace and ultimately BAE Systems into the present day. Over the course of its production run, multiple variants of the Hawk have emerged with ever-increasing capabilities that go beyond even advanced trainers with some export customers making extensive modifications to turn them into frontline light attack aircraft. The Just Flight Hawk models the T1/A Advanced Trainer wit…
