Ditto

 

It's so completely different to anything that we have been used to in a flight sim before and is yet another reason why Flight is so brilliant IMHO.

A fuel stop at Cold Bay.

 

Fill er up please and I have a low tire on the port side also. What, self serve. A couple of questions please. Do you have a taller ladder? I will need about 12 people to push me back and do you take plastic? I almoat forgot, do you have 50 gallons of oil?

Yeah, the thing is big. I landed at a few smaller airports and it looked like a big ol' Tonka Toy in a Hot Wheels world.

If the C-46 had a cockpit, I would most certainly own it and from the posts here and on Steam, it has moved fairly well. Some people enjoy it as it is.

Some people enjoy it as it is.

What choice do we have?

Ditto

 

It's so completely different to anything that we have been used to in a flight sim before and is yet another reason why Flight is so brilliant IMHO.

 

Hello

I am sat here trying to make sense of that statement but I just can't, please help me out here.

It is a poorly modelled shell of an aircraft with no realistic means of control, no cockpit, no instruments.

This type of twin engined transport aircraft has been modelled many many times over the years much better than this effort.

Most times with a good VC, fully working dual throttles, prop and mixture controls and full instrumentation.

please tell me how this particular aircraft flies with one engine out, probably the same way it does with both engines given that it only has one throttle control.

In short sum up for me how this is any advancement for what we already have in FSX and X-Plane.

 

Hello

I am sat here trying to make sense of that statement but I just can't, please help me out here.

It is a poorly modelled shell of an aircraft with no realistic means of control, no cockpit, no instruments.

This type of twin engined transport aircraft has been modelled many many times over the years much better than this effort.

Most times with a good VC, fully working dual throttles, prop and mixture controls and full instrumentation.

please tell me how this particular aircraft flies with one engine out, probably the same way it does with both engines given that it only has one throttle control.

In short sum up for me how this is any advancement for what we already have in FSX and X-Plane.

 

Apologies for my vagueness, I blame the G&T's but it is Saturday night :$

 

Im displeased by the fact it doesn't have a cockpit, I'm displeased by the fact it doesn't do all the stuff you quoted above, and I swore I wouldn't buy a plane without a cockpit...

 

... But, For something that costs the price of a burger compared to planes for FSX that cost the price of a reasonable three course meal it don't half have a lot of taste and satisfaction.

 

When you fly it it just instantly feels different, which took me by surprise, the external model is amazing and you have two paint schemes, all this considering the price. I just expected it to feel like lots of planes I've flown in other simulators. If The feeling of each plane in flight could be fed back so a blind person could feel it, even they would be able to tell you which plane they were in.

 

If you get all this for the price of a burger and chips, then if you were able to have the three course meal just imagine how good that would taste in Flight, or fly in this metaphor?

 

Sadly, the restaurant is closed.

The end of another long flight. Four people and one suitcase.

Nice shot there!

I just don't know if I can bring myself to purchasing this aircraft, without a VC. I have the P-51, and that is the only cockpitless aircraft I have in my hangar. I did not even fly the Carbon Cub, until the Deluxe version was available and I purchased it.

 

I don't know, I am sure I have some MS points left over, may have to check that out.

It is a lot of fun Don. I don't like the fact that there is no VC either but I will take what I can get. It gets in and out of some very short strips, and that is half the fun. You must really pay close attention to your speed and attatude with out proper instrumentation. Would it have been so hard to include a pop up 6 pack of gauges?

Allright you talked me into it, might as well especially seeing how this will be the last one offered. I might as well go for it.

Well that worked out pretty good, I had a balance of 160 points, needed 560, and I was able to purchase just 400 which gave me the exact points I needed for this plane, - last dlc, and left with 0 ms points, that worked out very well.

I had the best time doing a Job in the C-46.

I cant remember where it was, but the runway went out into a River. Medium sized runway.

All sides had pretty high mountains but if you did it just right you could get enough speed in the C46 to get air-born. Retract Flaps, put my gear up and I was riding level with the river. After that I would follow the river to the right while gaining altitude and following the river back left. If I went to far I'd hit the mountains.

 

Then I would get to about 2000feet and take a steep right to about 300 degrees and it would put you just high enough and just right to go between to high peaks and you were off for the job.

 

I need to find this airport and take some video of what I just said. It was awesome. I normally fly with my pops(he is 77?) and he couldnt do it for the life of him. Finally I had to walk him through it so he wouldnt stall and sink or hit the mountain.

 

woot

_{I was watching an episode of Ice Pilots last night and a new co-pilot was being checked out in the C-46. The captian was explaining to him that the C-46 needed to be landed tail low or it would pounce down the runway. I found that to be true. He said it was designed that way to utilize the fat underside of the fuselage to help slow it down just before touch down.}

 

_{Last night I flew a job into Point Hope with the C-46. Well it was a long flight and I had only 1% fuel remaining on arrival. Not very good planing on my part. Just when I was putting the gear down the engines quit cold. The passenger just had a fit and wanted to know if this was normal, I told him it was. Dumped the flaps and made the runway with no power, nice normal roll out but I could not make it to the cargo drop off point. The job was counted anyway, cool.}

One of the things I expected, especially after the Red-tails/Mustang deal, was that flight would do tie-in promotions, with an Flight Alaska-Wild Alaska sort of deal being yet another no-brainer.

 

As per standard procedure, Microsoft appears to have just stumbled right past the whole concept. <_<