On 4/11/2021 at 4:53 AM, Bilbosmeggins said:

It does make you wonder what they were thinking when they included the Icon amongst the default craft? Surely they must have considered that you might actually want to use it for it’s intended purpose. Bizarre 🤨

Assuming its intended purpose is to take off and land on water, it does that very well (as do the float planes).  Yours don't?

I do it like this:

1. Press Y then move aircraft to water

2. Take off 

On 2/17/2022 at 8:18 PM, cobalt said:

Assuming its intended purpose is to take off and land on water, it does that very well (as do the float planes).  Yours don't?

I meant that a plane had appeared to be included with no landing jetties, or runways to facilitate it, as well you know. But thanks for trying to antagonise me. Always a pleasure 😐

Edited February 18, 20224 yr by Bilbosmeggins
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There's quite a few water runways in the sim... tons, sadly water feels more like lumpy jello atm.

Yes, but this is quite an old thread. Initially, we either hadn’t found them, or they didn’t exist. Not sure which, lol. And I agree with you on the landings, as I tried one the other day at that Great Barrier Reef POI.  The plane didn’t seem to slow down with the inevitable drag as I believe it should have done, and just seemed to want to skim forever.

1 hour ago, Bilbosmeggins said:

I meant that a plane had appeared to be included with no landing jetties, or runways to facilitate it, as well you know. But thanks for trying to antagonise me. Always a pleasure 😐

No offense intended, but as the Ikon is an amphibious craft, capable of taking off or landing almost anywhere, why would the lack of water runways be an issue? Amphibs and float planes operate all over the world with or without without water runways (Alaskan bush planes for example). There are countless piers and docks in the MSFS world that you can pull up to. I just have difficulty seeing the problem here (though clearly it is, for some folks). 

Starting a flight in a straight float aircraft needs one for a start 😄

But yeah, is what it is, water still sucks 😞

On 2/19/2022 at 1:26 AM, cobalt said:

No offense intended, but as the Ikon is an amphibious craft, capable of taking off or landing almost anywhere, why would the lack of water runways be an issue? Amphibs and float planes operate all over the world with or without without water runways (Alaskan bush planes for example). There are countless piers and docks in the MSFS world that you can pull up to. I just have difficulty seeing the problem here (though clearly it is, for some folks). 

To be fair, the thread is entitled Water Runways. Had it have been called Bodies of Water Within MSFS I would have been inclined to agree with you. Of course I’ve flown the Icon and put it down on some random piece of water, many a time. However, that doesn’t allow you to plan a flight and get the benefit of ATC comms etc. And, at the time of release, I believe the Ikon was the only float-equipped plane.  Which I why I thought it to be an odd inclusion, as I believed, either rightly or wrongly, that there were no actual designated water runways back then.