Showing off two inexpensive payware aircraft, VSkylab's Gyroplane for Xplane11, and Ant's Eaglet for P3DV4 and earlier sims.  Both locations are Nirvana for me--Napa, where I was raised, and Neuschwanstein, near Fussen Germany, the inspiration for the Disney castles and also prominently featured in the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", a song of which was always a crowd pleaser during my Gospel choir's concerts when I was a young boy and teen.  We were based out of Napa and included secular, as well as sacred music, for our concertgoers.  I have an mp3 of a vinyl album we recorded made by Jeff Smith, our secular guitarist and always the favorite of all of us.  He sang many songs in memory of the great secular guitarist, who passed way too soon, Jim Croce.

Back to the Tecnam Eaglet--for 12 something (I paid ten with my justflight discount points) you cannot go wrong--you get one of the only LSA's available for P3D4.5 and same holds true for the VSkylab's Gyroplane, the only realistic flying Gyro I have ever flown, I still give Xplane11 the nod when it comes to Rotorcraft simulation.  The Gyroplane has a startup procedure that must be followed--it has a clutch you must engage to prerotate the rotor blades, then just before you begin your takeoff roll, you disengage the clutch.

This afternoon, when I flew it for these screenshots, I had a zero roll landing, otherwise it does STOL takeoffs.

John

John

 

very nice, I have to get that Tecnam Eaglet.

Nice pictures of these 2 interesting aircraft!

And, of course, I agree with the strategy of, "Two Sims, Same Nirvana".