Brett_Henderson wrote on Jun 30^th, 2008 at 7:27pm:



On the wheels??

LOL

I was not thinking of her taking off on them, more about crawing up on a beach or ramp


very cool though

What you think of my blown engines? (last page)

Well darn, I assigned a key for engine fire extiguish but I cant seem to put the fire out once it starts..

toys toys toys

LOL

NickN wrote on Jun 30^th, 2008 at 7:30pm:


That smoke is amazing (especially seeing wind affect it)   

I wouldn't want to make a habit out of ground take-offs    ...  if you run real weather, the wind would make that tricky.. but it's more than stable enough to taxi down a ramp..   Are there any ramps of that sort in the FSX world ?

Jim Hodkinson wrote on Jun 30^th, 2008 at 7:45pm:


Rest well Jim

I am not far behind



A blown piston and oil fire story....




























Now if I can just figure out how to get the engine fire extiguisher to work it would be complete...

Everything works off the failure system except the fire control

Bob70 wrote on Jun 30^th, 2008 at 9:11pm:



Hey Bob... did she "CreeeeeeeeeeK" and have "structure stress" sounds or was she solid while barreling through the water?

I can add some creaking to the water "wooooossssh" on the hull for powered T/O

Bob70 wrote on Jun 30^th, 2008 at 9:41pm:



Done

She has that steel creeeeeeeek when she is under power in the water

Brett... if you get a chance, take a look at how she stalls

.. LOL  as in,... it doesn't

I could not get her to stall in the traditional sense with full flaps, nose up. It never dropped below 60kts and when it approached that speed the nose just dropped down and it did the 'dipsity-do' like a paper airplane, over and over LOL

I wonder if that oswald is still a touch too high


EDIT:
Or I guess it could be the nature of the design too.. the CG, wing location and the 'honking' nose on this thing may really create that behavior. The more I look at the numbers, the more I am starting to think the real plane has a similar aerodynamic characteristic. Being a huge transport I can see how they may have wanted a design that 'lofts'. Although a lot of power goes into getting the loads into the air, coming down is a clumsy chore but easier to get her into tight places because of how she lofts along on decent which would make sense for a military aircraft like this.





   

OK... this prop reversing is giving me fits. The only way I've gotten it to "seem" to work, is a configuration that won't let the engines idle.. they'll die without some forward thrust (which is a problem for flying boats)..

I've even searched for other, large piston-powered aircraft (fs9 and FSX) for ideas, and none have reversing props. I did find a couple of FS9 only with prop-reversing shown in the cfg file, but I can't test them (and I'd bet it doesn't work).

I got a feeling that MSFS (or at least FSX) doesn't like prop-reversing on anything other than turbine powered aircraft.

Jim.. if you can figure it out, let me know, else I'm abandoning reversers for this beast.