Pilatus' sales drive.N1677

[Ron Attwood 3,465]

Pilatus toured the US on a sales drive with this aircraft. Afterwards, it was then sold to EPPS Aviation, Atlanta, Georgia. Nice touch is that the registration number is also the serial number.

Screenshots courtesy of Jim Baumann

On my MediaFire now or on AVSIM soon.

 

[Tokitaumelie 164]

Thank you, Ron! Looks awesome.

Just completed a flight with one of your repaints last night!

 

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi Ron,

You keep this up people are going to think Carenado paints are - - - easy...

Nice work - yet again - and a very colorful example...

Side Note - anyone get proficient landing this thing at St. Barts ? There's a commercial carrier that uses them there - flying in from San Juan (tons of videos on YouTube) - for the life of me - I can't get her down there without planting her in the sand... Maybe the real one is a tad more draggy in SO mode ?

Regards,
Scott

[Ron Attwood 3,465]

40 minutes ago, scottb613 said:

You keep this up people are going to think Carenado paints are - - - easy.

Yeah, they're a doddle. I can knock them off in two weeks now. No sleep mind.

Reverse thrust works a treat. Stop you on a dime(whatever a dime is)

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

Beautiful paint, that one!

Thanks 

 

[Bob650 31]

Wow, that's some amazing work. Another beauty! Thanks!

 

 

-Bob

[dmarques69 316]

Very nice, going to "steal" that one!

[Ron Attwood 3,465]

On 1/22/2018 at 1:36 AM, dmarques69 said:

Very nice, going to "steal" that one!

No need, it's free!

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi Folks,

What a beautiful screen shot - incredible scenery - and amazing paint...

Regards,
Scott

[mgr 29]

Hi Scott,

On 21-1-2018 at 8:34 PM, scottb613 said:

Side Note - anyone get proficient landing this thing at St. Barts ? There's a commercial carrier that uses them there - flying in from San Juan (tons of videos on YouTube) - for the life of me - I can't get her down there without planting her in the sand... Maybe the real one is a tad more draggy in SO mode ?

Yes, have a lot of landings on St. Bath's. Only thing i've changed is the drag of the flaps, the values were mentioned somewere in this support forum.

My entry looks like this (aircraft.cfg):

[Flaps.0]
type=1
lift_scalar = 0.7
drag_scalar = 1.9
pitch_scalar = 0.8
span-outboard=    0.7   // Percent span for flap position
extending-time=    25   // Seconds, time to fully extend
system_type=        0   // 0 = electrical
damaging-speed  = 170                                  // KIAS
blowout-speed   = 175                                  // KIAS
flaps-position.0=   0   // degrees
flaps-position.1=  15   // degrees
flaps-position.2=  30   // degrees
flaps-position.3=  40   // degrees

Also my experience is, don't start to low, 1500 ft initial (Pain de Sucre) (dirty all the way up at this alt, and reduce speed to approach speed) try to pass the little rock (alt 95 ft on the chart) at 800 ft.

VFR Chart: https://www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr/dvd/eAIP_04_JAN_2018/CAR-SAM-NAM/AIRAC-2018-01-04/html/eAIP/Cartes/TFFJ/AD 2 TFFJ ATT 01.pdf

Good luck!

Marcel

 

 

 

[scottb613 1,188]

4 hours ago, mgr said:

Good luck!

Marcel

Hi Marcel,

Thanks for the information - I'll look for the post in the forums - so these mods are based on some real world assumptions ? I don't want to do a fictional mod just so I can land - LOL - but - something must be off because they do land PC-12's there routinely without incident - and I kind of know what I'm supposed to be doing - can't imagine it's all operator error...

Hmm - that mod only affects the "flaps up" position - no ? I would think it would be the "flaps 40" that would be more draggy or provide less lift to help with that landing...

Of course I'm using FlyTampa's beautiful scenery for St. Barts and LatinVFR's for San Juan... 

Appreciate the help - I'll try some more attempts and your mod...

That's also the first plate I've ever seen for landing there - thanks for that as well...

 

 

Regards,
Scott

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

4 hours ago, scottb613 said:

 

Hmm - that mod only affects the "flaps up" position - no ? I would think it would be the "flaps 40" that would be more draggy or provide less lift to help with that landing...

 

No, those lines affect all flaps settings.

[scottb613 1,188]

Hi Bert,

Thanks for the clarification - I'll load them up when I get some time for the sim again...

Regards,

Scott

[mgr 29]

Note i use also "Autogyro" 's air-file:  PC12.air    12,858  bytes   date:  19-01-2015 12:04  

Marcel

 

[Ron Attwood 3,465]

Hijack hijack!