.Well, here are a few more shots of my 'payware' Porter....
I found out some more stuff about this aircraft today from the same guy, from 4 Sq/Flight Regiment 1 of the Austrian...Army or something, said they were 'special forces' doing various stuff... paratroop drops, firefighting, target towing, VIP ferrying and map-making.... The flight model is supposed to be spot on, and includes the 'slow-diving-prop-reverse thrust' type thing the Porter does... it flies very nicely but has more of a 'personality' than the freeware Porter I've tried (which was a hideous green as well) i.e. I crashed it several times while pushing it too hard...
The CD came with only two paints... here's the second, leaving Kapfenburg in the early morning.
The squadron are actually based at Tulln/Langenlebarn AB but it looked pretty dull around there so I went somewhere a bit more hilly.
I hit my head on the low roof during a nasty gust on take off and came to with my head on the right-hand seat. Here's the panel.
Soon we were above the cloud layer at what seems to be the aircrafts operational ceiling of around 12 000 ft. It certainly didn't want to go much higher, maybe my total ignorance of the operating procedures was at fault?
The VC looks a bit...er...as though work could be done to improve it aesthetically, but is very clickable. I clicked everywhere! Hope I didn't break anything... As can be seen, the plane was doing 45 knots with a positive climb rate of 32ft/min, and was stable at that speed.
I don't know if that's good or not, probably Real Pilots could do better. I tried to, and the plane went very slowly and didn't stall, but I obtained high negative climb rates that seemed at odds with our proximity to the ground. Here's a view of the panel, after making a non-compensated turn in the same flight regime resulting in a fine plummeting manoever.
A view over to the Other Side, as can be seen my oil pressure at that moment was at 78 PSI, which was pretty good going I think considering our collision with the rear end of a tiger.
Test circuit almost complete, I must regretfully announce that I was unsuccesful in gaining any form of contact with the author but... the guy who sold me it took my email address and Promised that he would send me the authors so... fingers crossed, would love some more paints of this baby...
Just press W and your seat rockets up instantaneously, handy when you are totallly not managing your approach...
Hedge hopping in for breakfast.
The end...
Comments as always welcome... on VC/Panel too... are they pants? Do they rock?
Thanks for looking
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