Hi. I use the Lago twin Otter. Since there is no special Lago-forum to post in I

Didn't try this yet. Usually controlling each engine independently from the other helps taxiing in the water if the plane has no water rudder, on ground differential breaking normally helps.Andreas

There is no problem.The Twin Otter amphib in real life doesn't feature steerable wheels so they weren't modelled on the Lago Twotter (I know some other designers incorrectly do model them).You need to steer using differential power and differential braking only.

Some Twotters do, some don't, Jeroen - the ones that do were a later addition to make ground handling easier.I can't remember offhand, but didn't Lago not make the float nosewheels free castoring either? If I remember correctly they're fixed, which makes the ground handling horrible at the best of times! (But also more realistic, unfortunately...) ;-)Ian P.

they're fixed I think. Haven't really looked that closely.Yes, some Twotters were retrofitted with steering cables into the floats. AFAIK that was never offered by DHC themselves.

Ok thanx guys!

But thay oughta

These discussions are always funny from my perspective, because you always get the realism freaks banging on about things that aren't 100% accurate to the original model and the inexperienced/less well equipped people complaining that the real thing is too hard and should be 'dumbed down' to the level of their equipment and expertise.The problem is that neither side is wrong, so which way should the developer jump? If they do what one side want they alienate the other and don't sell as many copies in either case. The result is that they compromise.I don't think what they did was stupid, I understand that they have a lot of very happy customers for their product and far fewer upset ones. If that is the case then they made the right decision.In order to help you, specifically, however, here's the after-market add-on for the steering cables:In your aircraft.cfg file, find the following lines:point.0= 1.000, 12.540, -6.510, -7.900, 1250.000, 0.000, 1.180, 0.000... (etc.)point.7= 1.000, 12.540, 6.510, -7.900, 1250.000, 0.000, 1.180, 0.000... (etc.)Change them to say:point.0= 1.000, 12.540, -6.510, -7.900, 1250.000, 0.000, 1.180, 30.000... (etc.)point.7= 1.000, 12.540, 6.510, -7.900, 1250.000, 0.000, 1.180, 30.000... (etc.)**SAVE A COPY OF THE FILE BEFORE YOU MODIFY IT**If you still don't think you have enough control on the ground, change the 30.000 entries to something larger. There are limits, though, because 180 makes them free castoring and you really don't want that! :-hahOh, and don't blame me if you break it. ;-)Ian P.

Ok Ian. Thanx. I think You

Has anyone got the transparent windows fixed yet? This is such a fun bird to fly (try a landing at TFFJ in one!).XP Home SP2Asus P4P800-SE Intel 3.0GHZDDR 400 D/C 2x512MBGeForce FX 5700 256MB (56.72)SB AudigyMSFF2 & X45 throttleSee you in the fence...CYYZ

I don't think they can without a full model rebuild, which is why it wasn't done at the time.I just bought myself a 6-lever quadrant for exactly the reason of non-steerable aircraft driving (I'm a DC-3 nut) and have been trying to get the Twotter into some lakes around Alaska that it still doesn't really fit in... There really is no better aircraft than a deHavilland for scud-running into a remote lake *and getting back out again intact*, IMHO! ;-)Cheers folks - oh, and can you let me know how you get on please, Johan? :-)Ian P.

Ian! I will try your numbers in the morning.

Ian.My line says this from the start. point.0= 1.000, 12.540, 0.000, -5.050, 1181.000, 0.000, 1.180, 39.900, 0.250, 2.500...etcNot like your first line. So I don

That looks like the first line from one of the tricycle-geared Twotters to me, not the Amphibs...The reason I say this is that the entry at position 2(the 0.000) puts that gear touchpoint on the centreline, rather than offset, and the 39.900 at position 7 means that the gear point is steerable to 39.900 degrees either side of neutral.Look for the folders entitled "(fs/aircraft/)LAGO DHC-6 Private amp" and "(fs/aircraft/)"LAGO DHC-6 Aloha amp" - these are the amphibious model folders.When you find the contact points, if you count from the left, starting at 0, the one you want to change is number 7 - the 39.900 in the entry you show above (obviously, don't change that, it's fine). It should say 0.000, for unsteerable. Ian P.

Ian.terribly sorry. My bad. A little groggy work from me there! :-badteethFrom now on I