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The C46, as far as I can see, is fairly close to RW characteristics.... a little more sluggish in response than a DC3. I have never flown either one in the RW but have ridden in both.

Move the eyepoint back with ctrl Q Be patient it moves very slowly

True to form the C46 is truck. I havent been able to nurse 200kn out of her. 172kn is the fastest so far. I still have to play with the prop speed and mixture, I think.

I agree with everything said in this thread. What I really appreciate is that they over ran the boundaries of Alaska to include a bit of northwestern BC which, for many years, was home to me. The landclass that they created for that area is nothing less than amazing. Farms were placed in the exact location of those in the real world. Whoever did that area was very informed about the Telegraph Creek area. So much so that I wonder if they had been there or lived there at one time.

The flight would take 9 or 10 hours from Dutch Harbor...

On the positive side, if the C46 is super charged it will be faster than the RV. On the negative side half the strips in Alaska are too short for operations.

I second Don B's post. Thanks Jeroen.

Fuel starvation... the cub does not have a fuel system tailored for aerobatics.

IMO,as a STOL aircraft, the Maule is near the top in its payload class, comparable to the Cessna 180 but behind the Helio Courier. It was my favorite in Flight until they released the Carbon Cub.

Slipping to lose altitude in Flight is easy. I use it frequently because I habitually am too high on final. Flight bush strips often have a tall tree right on the end of the runway.

I upgraded my system because Flight would not run smoothly on it. FSX was hopeless. I upgraded to an I7 2600 processor, a nvidia GTX 570 graphics card and as much ram as I could put on my motherboard. Yup... that did the trick... furthermore the system runs FSX with most of the sliders to the max at a very consistent 40 FPS and no tweaking.

Looking at the image quality of the picture of the rumored C46 I question that it is an image put there by Microsoft.

I have little doubt that the aircraft is a C46... Its payload of 7000 kg. is far greater than any freight missions that Flight has to date

I was fortunate that MSFlight included my home base in the Alaska DLC. In the real world I only flew two different aircraft and never tired of them, although the PA12 was favored over the Cherokee. High wing has much better ground visibility which is paramount in bush flying. FSX sits on my hard drive and gets sporadic use and only when I get a hankering to fly heavies or anything that FSX has to offer.... I guess that would mean nearly anything that Flight does not have. I wish that at some point in the future MS continues to develop Flight because for this old bush pilot, Flight is as good as it gets.. at this point in time.

I wonder if the permission to use Cessna aircraft went over to LM. My guess for a new aircraft would go to a smaller company or one that they have permissions from already.