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Does anyone have any input on the C-46 and how it flies?

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.

With a 2900 mile range, you could try flying between Alaska and Hawaii. I got a dollar says it won't work though. :)

 

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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.

The Cub is great. It's almost like Flight's version of a glider, as another member already observed. Fly low, in with a high head wind. You can practically hover beside control towers.

The Maule is around 2500lb according to my research, and the Carbon Cub is only around 932lb. Just some food for thought.

 

Oh by the way....what causes the engine stall when I do barrel rolls, or bank/turn really really sharply, in the Cub? Something to so with the air intake I would assume.....

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.

^{I will take what ever I can get, end of story.}

I second that with one reservation... if its a plane it must have a cockpit.

B-29, B-24, F4U-5 and B-17 ;) PBY does not have leading edge oil cooler like that.

 

you are right about the PBY oil cooler... I just finished checking .

my guess top to bottom is B29 ,B25,Corsair and PBY

I have encountered, on several occasions, individuals whose profile says they are level 44 . They cannot be targeted in the game and they have very few achievements. Can anyone shed more light on this?

I never quit Flight at all . Although my home base is at Dease Lake BC, the high rez scenery extends to about twenty miles east of my strip. There are even buildings and a fuel tank .. both empty. I will stay here till something better is made. I like the cub the best but the maule being faster is used for the longer hauls. I like the trim increments better on the cub.

Mountain flying in a light aircraft such as the cub requires a pilots ability to read the terrain and predict that terrain's effect on the winds and turbulence. I have had several frightening experiences that had I followed some of the basic rules for mountain flying, I would not have encountered problems. For example it is always best to fly on the windward side of a mountain as opposed to the leaward side. If in doubt suffer the turbulence and fly in the middle of the valleys. I have yet to find a sim that emulates this. Flight comes close but does not deliver the 1000 ft downdrafts that are found predictably in some areas.

With the release of Alaska, Flight I allowed me to fly to my RW home base. Until another sim can provide better mesh , flight model,and the feeling of almost being there, I will continue to use Flight as my main. FSX will be my second . Nothing much has changed for me except that I will no longer be dreaming of new DLC for Flight.

My RW flying for the most part was in a PA12, which was a little slower than the Carbon Cub. Performance wise it could not come close to that of the CC. Almost all my flights were point A to point A because it was my father's aircraft hence a lot of restrictions. The aircraft was our only transportation during the winter months but did not get used much ... Its cold flying in a cub or PA12.. They didn't have much for a stove. The plane sure made hunting easier. In the summer, however I flew a lot in the evening when the air was calm and the scenery was beautiful. Most of the flights were around an hour in length. There were two airstrips within a half hour flight.... no facilities and they were like a rollercoaster..

Here is what I saw

This setup feels very real.

Set up looks great too..... ummm .. only thing missing is the seat belt.