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Feb 22^nd, 2010 at 4:30pm

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Nothing like an early Alaskan morning.

Thanks for looking.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #1 - Feb 22^nd, 2010 at 7:28pm

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Hi Larry...

Wonderful shot...just great... Wink

I always did like that livery on the BFU "Bush Flying Unlimited" aircraft.

When I first came to Simviation a few years back "BFMF" as he is called now got me interested in BFU from his postings.
I think "BFMF" used his last name back then. Grin

Well like a lot of things I can not seem to get BFU to work well in FSX and I hope they are going to remedy that some day.

Again a great shot.

Oh just before I forget I will mention to you that one of the things we had to watch when docking the Beech 18 on floats was what was on the dock and sometimes the passengers.
The dock hands would put cargo/freight too close to where we had to dock the Beech 18 and hence we had to shut down and rely on the crewman to dock us. The passengers would sit on the freight taking snapshots at us trying to dock and us trying to wave them away before they got hit with a low wing or prop.
That is why I always liked the Otter with the high wing.
With the Canso the wing would pass right over the dock and all we had to watch was aircraft parked on the opposite side of the dock. The crewman in the Canso was in the nose so he worked well with the dock people.

Just a couple of things the old grey matter through out Larry, hope you don't mind.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #2 - Feb 22^nd, 2010 at 7:40pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2010 at 7:28pm:

Hi Larry...

Wonderful shot...just great... Wink

I always did like that livery on the BFU "Bush Flying Unlimited" aircraft.

When I first came to Simviation a few years back "BFMF" as he is called now got me interested in BFU from his postings.
I think "BFMF" used his last name back then. Grin

Well like a lot of things I can not seem to get BFU to work well in FSX and I hope they are going to remedy that some day.

Again a great shot.

Oh just before I forget I will mention to you that one of the things we had to watch when docking the Beech 18 on floats was what was on the dock and sometimes the passengers.
The dock hands would put cargo/freight too close to where we had to dock the Beech 18 and hence we had to shut down and rely on the crewman to dock us. The passengers would sit on the freight taking snapshots at us trying to dock and us trying to wave them away before they got hit with a low wing or prop.
That is why I always liked the Otter with the high wing.
With the Canso the wing would pass right over the dock and all we had to watch was aircraft parked on the opposite side of the dock. The crewman in the Canso was in the nose so he worked well with the dock people.

Just a couple of things the old grey matter through out Larry, hope you don't mind.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Mind? Hardly. I find it interesting and educational, as I do all your real world tales. The only 'problem' might be a little jealousy from not having any real world experience with float planes. Grin

BTW, if you have not figured it out by now, my repaint of this aircraft in my first post in freeware, was simply a pallette shift using the BFU scheme. Hard to improve on a proven design. But I feel it was a compliment to the originator of the scheme.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #3 - Feb 22^nd, 2010 at 8:02pm

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Hi Larry, not much of an artist myself however I do see the change in the livery.

I think your colour brings more life to the aircraft if you know what I mean, it is not as drab or dreary looking. Nothing against the original livery as I fell in love with it for years and I still like it. Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #4 - Feb 23^rd, 2010 at 12:42am

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Flying Trucker wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2010 at 8:02pm:

Hi Larry, not much of an artist myself however I do see the change in the livery.

I think your colour brings more life to the aircraft if you know what I mean, it is not as drab or dreary looking. Nothing against the original livery as I fell in love with it for years and I still like it. Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Thanks Doug.

I think I like it as well as any I have done. And I absolutely love the aircraft.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #5 - Feb 23^rd, 2010 at 1:38am

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Nice shot, and cool piece of info, Flying Trucker! alwas nice to hear a story about a shot!

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