Love this plane. And sim, live weather is now amazing.

We had a pretty intense snow storm here in New England yesterday.

But I flew KPWM to KPSM in real time WX anyway. 

Picked up a bunch of ice on climb out and descent. But the deicing worked fine and the windshield heat kept the view such as it was clear. I just spotted the rabbit lights at 200 AGL and made a nice landing in the somewhat gusty snow storm.

This felt so real. I use AirManager for instruments. This and my 4 screen make the cockpit seem real.

I use Navigraph on the upper left and VFR map upper right, with instruments on the touch screen below main screens. And a lot of hardware to control dials and switches. This really helps immersion as well.

It was pretty intense approach, AP flew it down to 500' AGL then I took over ready to go around. 

I flew the approach using AP and heading mode to capture the localizer and GS the APPR mode and the Otter flew a perfect approach. Using the Navigraph charts and plates you can vector yourself as ATC would in real life or have a friend act as controller using Navigraph on a separate laptop. This way you can even practice partial panel no gyro approaches. Nice training.

Below are a few iPhone shots of what the cockpit looked like and one of the Otter after stop at PSM check how poor the visibility was and how the Otter is partially iced up but windshield clear.

I have to say I really felt like I did this flight in real life, as I have many times before in actual snow storms as well with icing, it can be pretty intense. 

 

 

Edited February 26, 20224 yr by 177B

Nice! I think that the Twotter could land on a snowball.

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