While lots of you are sitting around figuring out what to complain about in the new Twin Otter, I am having tons of fun flying it.

Sure a few things are not perfect. And maybe it will take a while to tweak so everyone is happy.

My experience with the Twiotter is I am out flying my local fields here in New England in real WX and wind.

These are short fields, one of my friends died stalling a 172 at the departure airport, sad story, but it is a short runway at Twitchell 3B5 and tricky winds too. And 08B is a small private grass strip.

It is amazing to be able to fly something this big, in and out of these airports.

I am having a blast with my system with 4 screens and the Alpha and Bravo.

You can either sit around and be mad about a few things that are not done yet or you can go out and fly this cool model. Thanks Aerosoft for making these tough times pass faster.

 

 

Edited January 21, 20224 yr by 177B

Pardon my ignorance but was that a snow covered landscape or a sandy one from Florida?

2 hours ago, AOB said:

Pardon my ignorance but was that a snow covered landscape or a sandy one from Florida?

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Does it look like sunny Florida with palm trees?

New England is up north, and close to the coast there is only a few inches of the white stuff -- snow that is the kind made with water.

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Nice Setup!

 

Why don't you just go full VR though...?

 

You wouldn't need all those monitors and would up the level of immersion quite a bit!

Nice video. Thank you for sharing

Smart. The elevator music does a great job at covering the audio shortcomings 😛

I'm also having good fun with my Twotter. No time to grumble, but looking forward to a quality patch.

Cheers,

2Low2Slow

Meh, my flight hardware is better!  (Help, help, my nose is growing) 🤓

5 hours ago, Kilo60 said:

Nice Setup!

 

Why don't you just go full VR though...?

 

You wouldn't need all those monitors and would up the level of immersion quite a bit!

This is a good question! 

Fun in the snow with this:

https://flightsim.to/file/26343/hot-wheels-snow-explorer

 

10 hours ago, Kilo60 said:

Nice Setup!

 

Why don't you just go full VR though...?

 

You wouldn't need all those monitors and would up the level of immersion quite a bit!

Well this setup is now 6 years old, it was built around X-plane originally. And for me it is very immersive.

I built an autopilot just for the A320, and another for GA planes like a KP140. Also lots of switches and encoders for various functions both for Helis and Airplanes.

Back then VR really was very bad, so I went this way.

About 18 months ago I tried VR with an Oculus, and I thought it was pretty cool especially in helicopters, but it made me sick and I did not like the fuzzy resolution. So I sent it back.

Personally I prefer this setup to VR, I have tried the current crop as well, but until we get mixed VR or feedback gloves to tune radios etc I prefer hardware. This of course is just me. I know many who swear by VR.

It is interesting and I have discussed the nausea a lot of pilots trying VR. We don't experience it even in choppy IFR conditions during a busy approach when you have to refer to plates and manage a lot of information. IFR training is done to get you used to ignoring your body senses that fool you, and a lot of pilots do get nauseous in those conditions, I don't. But after 15 minutes I get very queasy  with VR hoods. It may be the bad resolution, I done know what it is. One pilot stated he thought that people with very good balance are the ones that have a hard time with VR. I don't know what it is but I don't like it at the current state.

As VR develops, I look forward to the Apple glasses mixed VR AR glasses and similar and I will absolutely try any new development in VR/AR.

To each his own, sim on and be safe, this is a wonderful hobby...

Edited January 22, 20224 yr by 177B

2 hours ago, deepstar said:

Fun in the snow with this:

https://flightsim.to/file/26343/hot-wheels-snow-explorer

 

Looks cool, though I think it may not be a short field plane.

Nice video, nice set up and nice landing!

Thanks for posting👍

9 hours ago, 177B said:

Well this setup is now 6 years old, it was built around X-plane originally. And for me it is very immersive.

I built an autopilot just for the A320, and another for GA planes like a KP140. Also lots of switches and encoders for various functions both for Helis and Airplanes.

Back then VR really was very bad, so I went this way.

About 18 months ago I tried VR with an Oculus, and I thought it was pretty cool especially in helicopters, but it made me sick and I did not like the fuzzy resolution. So I sent it back.

Personally I prefer this setup to VR, I have tried the current crop as well, but until we get mixed VR or feedback gloves to tune radios etc I prefer hardware. This of course is just me. I know many who swear by VR.

It is interesting and I have discussed the nausea a lot of pilots trying VR. We don't experience it even in choppy IFR conditions during a busy approach when you have to refer to plates and manage a lot of information. IFR training is done to get you used to ignoring your body senses that fool you, and a lot of pilots do get nauseous in those conditions, I don't. But after 15 minutes I get very queasy  with VR hoods. It may be the bad resolution, I done know what it is. One pilot stated he thought that people with very good balance are the ones that have a hard time with VR. I don't know what it is but I don't like it at the current state.

As VR develops, I look forward to the Apple glasses mixed VR AR glasses and similar and I will absolutely try any new development in VR/AR.

To each his own, sim on and be safe, this is a wonderful hobby...

 

I agree on the fuzziness and screen door effect for me is a no go with VR for now.

 

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones that doesn't get sick from the headset.

 

Great setup regardless!

On 1/22/2022 at 11:54 AM, 177B said:

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Does it look like sunny Florida with palm trees?

New England is up north, and close to the coast there is only a few inches of the white stuff -- snow that is the kind made with water.

🌧️

Yeah well I did say pardon my ignorance. I should have looked a bit harder but it just did not look like the snow covered landscape I remember from my visit to Colorado a few years back. We never get snow where I live but there is plenty of white sand around Australia but very few palm trees. 😊