Is there an anchor for MSFS2020 floatplanes

[Jarnie 22]

When I start a new flight at a dock and the wind is blowing, my floatplane either gets blown away from the dock or onto the dock.

Is there an 'anchor' like there is in Xplane which will prevent a floatplane from being blown away from its 'mooring'?

 

Edited November 14, 2022 by Jarnie
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[hjsmuc 393]

Lorby has a mooring tool. It works nicely. 

[Jarnie 22]

Thanks but where do I find that? I have never heard of 'Lorby' and was surprised to find the web site after a search.

Edited November 15, 2022 by Jarnie
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[Jarnie 22]

I downloaded and installed and ran it with MSFS running but it doesn't seem to do anything unfortunately.

Edited November 15, 2022 by Jarnie

[darshonaut 237]

Lorby Mooring. I haven't tried it in SU11 however, used to work fine.

[hjsmuc 393]

It seems to no longer work in SU 11, worked fine for me before. AFAIK, the Beaver can be docked with the Anchor function of the tablet. 

[Alvega 2,119]

On 11/14/2022 at 4:52 AM, Jarnie said:

When I start a new flight at a dock and the wind is blowing, my floatplane either gets blown away from the dock or onto the dock.

Is there an 'anchor' like there is in Xplane which will prevent a floatplane from being blown away from its 'mooring'?

 

The new Beaver has an anchor that you select on the tablet. For other planes you can use active pause.

[hjsmuc 393]

It seems to me that the mooring tool is working again once the SDK 0.24 was installed. 

[Eclex 102]

Lorby mooring still works for me. No change with SU11

[hjsmuc 393]

8 minutes ago, Eclex said:

Lorby mooring still works for me. No change with SU11

Did you update the SDK? That was the solution for me. 

[Alvega 2,119]

12 minutes ago, Eclex said:

Lorby mooring still works for me. No change with SU11

I don't get it, why use an external app for this when the sim does it by just pressing a key? 

[regis9 3,996]

6 minutes ago, Alvega said:

I don't get it, why use an external app for this when the sim does it by just pressing a key? 

How can you do this in sim?

[Alvega 2,119]

3 minutes ago, regis9 said:

How can you do this in sim?

As I said above, pressing the active pause button.

[hjsmuc 393]

The difference is that the tool enables a fixed and a swinging mooring. MSFS water and docking capabilities are not very sophisticated, but I think there is potential for these options. The active pause is the quick fix. 

[Jarnie 22]

6 hours ago, Alvega said:

pressing the active pause button.

Yes that will result in everything stopping including animations won't it.

I did not know that the tablet has this function (for the DHC-2) I am currently 'exploring' the DHC-2 but there are other floatplanes available requiring 'tethering'.