I'm waiting for my first Pan Am flight out of Idlewild.  😉

Watching the tutorial videos so hopefully I'll actually be able to get the old girl off the ground when she gets here.  

man this is comming in june allready, but cant wait !

@cavaricooper it's sacrilege but is the GNS 430 above the windscreen the default one I presume?  Also does this thing have DME?

Great shots...I love your very first one where you can see the engine Nacelle reflecting on the right side of the fuselage....

I was a Naysayer over at the SoH forums but if the price is reasonable I'm all in!

Ryan-

What is a GPS? 🙂 
 

Yes, this old girl has dual VORs, dual ADFs and dual DMEs. She keeps me busy plotting radials and distance for position. As a current ATC you will appreciate the pencil pushing involved when flying her out of Gatwick to MAN, or out of Vienna to INN. I must add that both LON and LOWW ATC have been very gracious and accommodating. Still, there are times I select a heading, wait, wait and finally breathe a sigh of relief when the needle swings and starts pointing.

Figuring out proper drift angle whilst homing to a station is another thing that I fall asleep pondering.

I did smile when I read your postings over at SOH... resistance is futile mate... she’s FAR, FAR beyond good.

No Milk of Magenta for me here.

C

Edited May 22, 20215 yr by cavaricooper

2 hours ago, cavaricooper said:

 

Wow, that's some amazing 3D modeling work, hats off to their graphics guys.
Now we just need a "bird chop" addon to go with it when it's released.

Edited May 23, 20215 yr by Alpine Scenery

Thanks for the posts. I'm ready.

4 hours ago, cavaricooper said:

😉

David-

I have been drooling so much that the Trolly Dolly has decided a new embroidered handkerchief would be the perfect Father's Day present.  I am OBSESSED with this aircraft.  She was always something I was especially fond of (my signature line on the PMDG Fora is proof) but, now she haunts my dreams.  I fall asleep thinking about reducing MAP 2" every 5 minutes, and worrying about keeping heat in the cowls.  I daydream about how to keep 160 KIAS to 4 DME (ZATL wishes I could do that!) and then hang out everything on speed schedule and still make my turnoff without using more than 20" MAP reverse.  I pore over charts and locate VORs and DMEs and plan position radials along my route.  I happily say "Unable" every time some poor controller asks me to spell RNAV/RNP/ANP.

Hey- I heard Jets SUCK (or do they BLOW?)!

🙂

C

Disregard - I saw the answer to my question in one of your other posts. Thanks for the beautiful screen shots!

Edited May 23, 20215 yr by JRBarrett

Thx for the wonderful screenshots of a marvelous bird. This release day will turn a lot of pilots happy that are not specifically bound to magenta line flying and enjoy a ride in a classic with real workload. I was already checking where the Dc6 in our VA fleet are parked atm. 😄

Cheers T.

Thanks for the feedback, appreciated.  I again marvel at what a different place AvSim has become.  In Tom's day, this sort of post was promoted to the Front Page announcement section.  Today, it is buried in obscurity in the Screen Shot's Forum... very, very different.  I miss Tom.

C

Appreciate your screenshots for this Day 1 bird.

Apologies if answered elsewhere, has the P3D helpful flight engineer retained a seat, or been left behind? I confess to handing off to him & enjoying the view😀

However, I will no doubt adapt if he is absent.

Must try & persuade JKB to come aboard this one & work his magic with liveries.

T45

@Treetops45

The AFE is alive and well. For all the newcomers, he will be invaluable in learning the intricacies of feeding a radial. With experience in type, they can then rely on him less and less- but the CHOICE is there!

The livery painters are going to have a field day with this beauty.

14 hours ago, cavaricooper said:

Ryan-

What is a GPS? 🙂 
 

Yes, this old girl has dual VORs, dual ADFs and dual DMEs. She keeps me busy plotting radials and distance for position. As a current ATC you will appreciate the pencil pushing involved when flying her out of Gatwick to MAN, or out of Vienna to INN. I must add that both LON and LOWW ATC have been very gracious and accommodating. Still, there are times I select a heading, wait, wait and finally breathe a sigh of relief when the needle swings and starts pointing.

Figuring out proper drift angle whilst homing to a station is another thing that I fall asleep pondering.

I did smile when I read your postings over at SOH... resistance is futile mate... she’s FAR, FAR beyond good.

No Milk of Magenta for me here.

C

I got my PPL in 1988, long before GPS was “a thing” in aviation. One of our flight school aircraft had a Northstar LORAN, which seemed magical in its ability to fly direct to specific waypoints, but PPL students were not allowed to use it. Most of the school aircraft had only VOR and ADF - no DME. I have fond memories of doing cross country flight planning by laying out VOR-to-VOR courses on a sectional using a plotter, picking visual landmarks as waypoints, measuring distances with the plotter and calculating ground speeds and wind correction angles for each segment using a text winds aloft forecast and the wind triangle side of an E6B computer, and writing the whole thing down on a fill-in-the-blanks flight log form with a pencil. Might be fun to do flight planning for the DC-6 “the old fashioned way” (At least it has DME, which helps a lot!)

I assume that there have been some challenges testing the aircraft in the modern airspace system - finding non-RNAV SIDS and STARS is becoming more and more difficult these days. You mentioned you have done a lot of flights from ATL to CLT. Bet you may have flown the CHPTR3 arrival a few times, which is the only non-RNAV STAR from the southwest into CLT.

Really looking forward to flying the DC-6 in MSFS!

Edited May 23, 20215 yr by JRBarrett

The AVSIM screen shot policy is clearly posted under Rules and Policies at the top of the main page. 

Users on limited bandwidth and metered cellular connections do not appreciate posts with megabytes of embedded images in the forums, hence our policy that has been in effect for many years.

10 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

I got my PPL in 1988, long before GPS was “a thing” in aviation. One of our flight school aircraft had a Northstar LORAN, which seemed magical in its ability to fly direct to specific waypoints, but PPL students were not allowed to use it. Most of the school aircraft had only VOR and ADF - no DME. I have fond memories of doing cross country flight planning by laying out VOR-to-VOR courses on a sectional using a plotter, picking visual landmarks as waypoints, measuring distances with the plotter and calculating ground speeds and wind correction angles for each segment using a text winds aloft forecast and the wind triangle side of an E6B computer, and writing the whole thing down on a fill-in-the-blanks flight log form with a pencil. Might be fun to do flight planning for the DC-6 “the old fashioned way” (At least it has DME, which helps a lot!)

I assume that there have been some challenges testing the aircraft in the modern airspace system - finding non-RNAV SIDS and STARS is becoming more and more difficult these days. You mentioned you have done a lot of flights from ATL to CLT. Bet you may have flown the CHPTR3 arrival a few times, which is the only non-RNAV STAR from the southwest into CLT.

Really looking forward to flying the DC-6 in MSFS!

Jim-

I just landed at Charles de Gaulle on the ILS for 26R in the rain- not one RNAV waypoint in use.  I don't even select the GPS option. 

Scrambling for paper charts, with tick marks and pencil lines has me smiling all day.  It will be a lovely thing when the DC-6 descends upon VATSIM and carefully managed traffic flows into high density airports disintegrate.  They are a superb lot though, and will adapt... I shall enjoy EVERY moment.

 

Edited May 23, 20215 yr by cavaricooper

Liveries - I've started to dig around.

The link below was a thread ID'ing P3D liveries.

Gives some idea of what was produced for that Sim. & there were probably others.

 

T45