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I just loaded in and had prop, engine, pitot covers and chocks. But then again this is with a livery I hadn't flown before (Iris). And with the standard 65HP version as I slowly build up the nerve to move up to the hotrod 85hp variant.

This is a new favorite for short cross country flights. Navigated via ADF / NDB where available, did not use the optional GPS or autopilot, just compass and dead reckoning between stations, starting the engine by hand-propping it with Realistic Priming enabled. kewl beenz

I know, right? Had a helluva lot of fun with this in MFS2020. The T-6 races were an absolute hoot!

Coincidentally I just finished a flight in this very aircraft from FMMI Madagascar to HUEN Uganda (Entebbe on Lake Victoria) and apart from an inexplicable cabin pressure drop at FL430 that happened about 80% through the trip then went away after accessing the cabin pressure settings on the FMC, I had no issues whatsoever. I even went back in after shutting it down and fired it back up to tweak my settings for the thrust reversers. Quite odd that you're having that problem!

At the breathtaking speeds at which this craft covers ground, who has time to look anywhere but straight forward?!

Wow. Just, wow. This is better than I'd hoped for. What a great stick-and-rudder experience, forward slips beautifully, and it just loves wheel landings. The flight experience is soooo engaging and believable (trying my best here not to use that "immersxxx" word!). The customization options are mind blowing, and that's just with the basic vintage version. What a great long-term low and slow plane for laid back sightseeing! I drew this picture on "B" size vellum and pencil in Drafting class long long ago in 8th or 9th grade (back when small high schools had a focus on vocational courses) taken from a two-page feature pic in FLYING magazine. 50 years later the kids dug it out of a closet along with a few others, framed 'em and now they're hanging on the wall by my simming rig . Been waiting a long time to fly a nice T-craft in the sim while looking up at this pic! Thank You, GotFriends!!!!! Second landing, almost a perfect score... much more practice is called for!

Someone at FlightFX must have been listening, judging by the humorous "BOOINGG!!" feature on walkaround 😄

I didn't know there was a floatplane version of the Heinkel He70.

I use KSBA because I am more likely to be sidetracked with just having a good time flying the aeroplane or heelo-copter-gizmo instead of doing any tweaking. Also probably any airport in the PNW stands a good chance of distracting me into practicing approaches or inverted runway passes as opposed to messing with settings and numbers constantly like I used to in previous versions of MFS.

Fan-friggin'-TASTIC.

😁 We had an Otto Pilot mod for FS20 on the ".to", although I've never tried it in FS26. That would be COOL! And it looks like the actress playing Randi is pretending to use F and G barre chords primarily, although it sounds to me like open C and G with D minor thrown in there along with some other variations. Practicing either once you get up to cruise altitude will make for a good time.. Have fun and good luck on your journey! 🤘

Haven't seen AvAngels video but I'd guess it flops around according to their physics modeling if not properly shut and latched?

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As much as I love the KLN-90B (just shot an RNAV approach with it at KKIC using advisory VNAV from cruise down to the IAF) doesn't it seem kinda out of place in a modren, sexeh fast single like this? Maybe if your virtual alter ego found a used one for a killer price at Norm's Recycled Avionics in Omaha? In the BS 114 Commander, now, it's right at home, and the only way I'd fly.

I've been making new camera views since forever at least going back to FSX days especially using notepad to edit the cameras.xml file for specific planes to fine tune X,Y,Z, angle/rotation axis and other options, making new views and using the SDK generator to assign new GUIDs when needed. I have multiple uploads on the ".to" for alternative camera views for several planes. No one knows more about modifying, creating and assigning camera views than me (sarcasm here, in case you were wondering) and fiercely resisted ChasePlane out of sheer pride in my abilities and fearsome technical prowess concerning all things Camera. Boy was I wrong. CP is sooooo much better and fluid in this regard. You add that wicked FlyBy view (sadly something that Asobo somehow managed to ignore, then finally pooched by making it this weird "experimental" thing when its such a basic and elemental concept that should be in any flight sim) and THEN throw in the Cinematic mode, where you can enable and disable your favorite views to randomly show in the cycle, and you have a real winner. There's just no getting away from what a super tool it is. End of story. Y'all can continue to debate it if you must (I recognize this is AvSim after all) but everything that needed to be said is right there in the second post of this thread. 😁 You won't be disappointed, OP. Yes there is a small learning curve - take the tutorials for cryin out loud and you'll be just dandy.

He's talkin' about CP's FlyBy view fer cripessake. It is ultra cool.

Yes Yes. And you can do both - set a button to cycle through views plus have dedicated buttons or keyboard bindings for any number of specific views

AWESOME! Thanks, that did the trick!!!

GREAT choice. Cloverdale is beautiful, gorgeous airport location right there by the river and I wasn't all that taken with Orbx's version. Heck I don't think we even minded losing to their team! 😁

Fantastic tool, just started trying it out - is there a trick to entering airports with 3-digit ICAO codes into the local database? I have some NorCal airports like O28, O33, etc. that I'd love to add to the routing selection, but I get an error telling me to enter a four digit ICAO code and airport name. I see that there are some airports like L70 already in the database so this must be a check that only applies to user entry of an airport?

Dude! Man, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen for folks like me who can just endlessly do touch'n goes over and over and over again, flying the pattern to perfection, mixing in hand-flown ILS approaches, wheel landings in a suitable taildragger, controlling approach angle with sideslips, etc etc etc. REALLY enjoying this, the postmortem analysis and 3D playback in the web view is just slick as snot. THANKS for the heads up about this one!

Oh man, ya mean we not only have some entirely unrealistik engine startup with the mixture control not being exactly in the right position but now the virtual ignition key is a one-way kinda deal only? What's next - the imaginary tire valve stem caps can't be unscrewed???! 😁

Use of the TKM MX-170B Radio stack? Check! Proficiency with the STEC 60-2 Autopilot and Altitude/VS programmer - Check! Mastery of the (very cool) KLN-90B GPS including advisory VNAV mode (used the heck out of this in the Duke and dig it) - Check! Working knowledge and practical use of the extremely slick RNAV511 nav system - Czek! Demonstrated ability of lean-find mode for LOP and ROP using the EDM-800 Engine Monitor - CHECK! But HOW THE HECK do you remove the key from the ignition once you've shut everything down??? 😁

Thanks for the reminder - I've seen it now. Let me work on that, thank you! I just did a touch n'go there the other day but didn't look at the buildings too much...

I will (somewhat begrudgingly) thank you for doing KUKi, even though the despicable Ukiah Lions are the sworn rivals of the mighty and vastly superior Willits Wolverines to their North. I'll enjoy flying down from O28 to give sidelong glances at the goings-on down there and cheer every time the Lions' QB is sacked. 😁