DH-89 Dragon Rapide (free!) out!

[YoYo 374]

On SOH library: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/125554-MSFS-dh-89-Dragon-Rapide . 👍

Edited September 19, 2021 by YoYo

[Sylle 48]

Looks great!

Thanks for posting Yoyo

[Chock 17,769]

Flown on a couple of Dragon Rapides over the years, so I know the thing fairly well and this sim version is well worth checking out. Good sounds, good looks and realistic handling, including the necessity to be careful about the risk of nosing it over as is the case with the real thing. The developer could easily have charged decent money for this one.

Edited September 19, 2021 by Chock

[Puddin 70]

@YoYo  Thanks for bringing this bird to our attention, my favourite era pre & WW2.  For a freebie she is top notch.

@Chock  Thanks for the tip on landing, after 3 nose plants I eventually nailed it, gotta keep that nose up!

[Republic DC9 234]

A delightful aircraft - it’ll be even more fun when I learn how to both LAND then STOP without ending up on my nose....75MPH and full flaps over the threshold then gentle braking without too much back pressure on the stick where the plane  lifts off the ground again until greatly slowed down then ample back pressure as braking continues?
 

Will keep attempting!

 

Steve

[YoYo 374]

Small fix: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php/121978-There-s-a-new-Dragon-in-the-skys-Released-to-SOH-18-Sep-21?p=1272051&viewfull=1#post1272051 .

[cavaricooper 2,615]

Would love some photos of the VC when possible please!

[Republic DC9 234]

7 hours ago, cavaricooper said:

Would love some photos of the VC when possible please!

Just posted one in the Orbx screenshots forum.

[jpe828 624]

Cool. I had the pleasure to go into a Rapide on the ground at an airshow. It had just been restored. After that, it went to take off with a cabin full of passengers on a sightseeing flight. It was gusty, and the airplane crashed and was subsequently totalled on takeoff. The folks up front were critically injured, and I believe the pilot is paralyzed now. 

It is a beautiful airplane to see in real life, cool to see it in sim. 

[Todd2 2,100]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

Well with Pamela Booker involved in the flight modelling it is guaranteed to be really good.

Definite download for me.

Edited September 20, 2021 by Glenn Fitzpatrick

[Petraeus 147]

My first ever flight was in a Dragon Rapide from Lee-on-Solent naval air base in the south of England. I was with a group of school naval cadets on a Naval Aviation course there. After taking off, and at about 200 feet (or so it seemed) we did a 180 degree turn onto course; I could still see the dandelions in the grass. We flew down the Solent and did a circuit of the Isle of Wight. It gave me a lifelong obsession with aviation.

Funny how you remember some details - the pilot was smoking a cigarette and flicking the ash out of the open side window.

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

Cockpit photo below. Very FSX . 

Flies quire well. 

Very timely for me as I am about to start a pre-1960 Neofly Career using stuff like the c140, c170, Widgeon, Stearman, Kinner Sportswing, Ju52, Grumman Goose and eventually DC6.

 

Edited September 20, 2021 by Glenn Fitzpatrick

[cavaricooper 2,615]

Ta Glenn

[FOD 23]

Petraeus

 

I’m with you.  69 years ago I was given a pleasure flight in a Dragon Rapide at an Open Day at RAF Yeadon – or EGNM as we know it nowadays.  When we landed, my only aim was to be a pilot! Many years and many aircraft later, I finally hung up my flying boots after a final farewell flight in a Mig 29.  Happy Days