D'Entrecasteaux  (Redux)

This is a revisit to an area we toured in Caribou’s in 2023.   Situated near the eastern tip of New Guinea in the Solomon Sea the D'Entrecasteaux Islands are volcanic in origin and are separated from the Papua New Guinea mainland by 20 mile wide Ward Hunt Strait in the north and the 11 mile wide Goschen Strait in the south.  The tour begins at Tagula Airport (TGL) in the southeast of the Louisiade Archipelago and will finish with a series of landings on the southeastern tip of PNG.  The route is 570nm with 14 landings.  Most of the airfields have been enhanced by Mountainair – some of which have been updated to version 2 for compatibility with the Oceania World updates (links below).

 Flightplan HERE

 

The route was planned with WW2 warbirds in mind as they have the speed to get us across the longer over water legs quickly and are good for primitive airstrips.  There are a wide variety of planes to choose from.  Historically appropriate choices would include the Flying Iron  P-38 Lightning, F6F Hellcat, Got Friends - F4F Wildcat, Blackbird Simulations FG-1D Corsair or Blackbird Sim A6M5 Zero.  I plan to fly all of these aircraft (except for the Corsair), switching planes at the intermediate airstrips.  I will fly the  Zero A1-1-129 (Olive Grey) livery by Bomber12th.

Required Mountainair Scenery (Freeware):

•         Tagula TGL  Version 2
•         Guasopa AYGJ
•         Misima AYMS 
•         Kitava KVE
•         Kiriwina AYKA V2
•         Vivigani VIV  Version 2
•         Wapolu AYWJ V2
•         Salamo SAM
•         Esa'ala ESA Version 2
•         Sehulea AYSL V2
•         Panasesa AYSC Version 2
•         Doini Island resort AYDO V2
•         Wedau WED V2

 Recommend Departure time of 1:00 PM

•         Date and time: Saturday February 28, 18:00 UTC    
•         RTWR Multiplayer Discord Channel
•         MFS Multiplayer: South East Asia Server

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Great plan! 

I wanted to take the Blackbird Corsair. It flies ok, but the RPM and Oil Temp indicators are dead. Did anyone try the Corsair and get all the panel instruments working?

Thanks

Not much help here. I have not flown the Corsair for a couple of years. Activated it and got into the aircraft in FS2024, starting on the runway (and thus not doing a startup). The RPM and Oil Temperature gauges work (and do seem to work properly) in a quick around the pattern takeoff and landing. I did not test a longer flight. This is the Blackbird (Milviz) FG-1D Corsair v1.2.0_210812 which I originally installed in September 2022. So knowing “it works for me” is not much help other than saying that this particular version does work in FS2024.

Thank you, Mike!

I have no idea which, if any, add-on blocks the Corsair on my system. 

I'll take the P-38 instead.