Hi snippyfsxer,

Glad you like her
In the manual is a section on how to fly the DC2, written by one of the museums DC2 pilots. You need to do your best to get the speed down at first, before deploying flaps.
I had the privilege to fly as a passenger in the DC2 once. The plane struck me as very stable, I had to look outside to see we were airborne. Same applied for the landing. No bouncing or stalling. Only big problem is the directional stability and cross wind sensitivity.
I started reading Buck's book 

Could you post a pic 

Cheers, Rob.

Since I've obviously been suckered into doing PR  here is a bonus picture, for the people who might want to use an alternative version of the GPS system provided with the "modern" cockpit.  I did a little research beforehand, and the ability to do a rather seamless conversion, with only a few caveats, was one of the factors I considered in the decision to get this airplane.  There have been more than a few planes I've passed up on in the past simply because they were not friendly to the Reality XP gps guages, but for this plane it was no sweat.  Not that the one provided with the DC-2 is bad, its just that the Reality XP stuff uses the real Garmin Trainer, and therefore I much prefer it.  To be honest, I haven't actually tried tuning the Com or Nav frequencies through the Garmin yet, but I'm pretty sure that I've used the Reality XP in conjunction with SimuFly(?) radios and Vor Heads in the past, without a problem.

How easy is this?

//gauge01=..\panel\DC2_SFGNSSX!GNS430_1,  0,103,498,209
gauge01=rxpGNS!GNS430,  0,103,498,209

And, there you go!




Not bad when even the night lighting textures line up, first try.  The integration isn't a hundred percent, more like ninety percent--everything but the inner knobs of the Reality XP function from within the VC.  The inner knobs don't because the 3D knobs of the model seem to get in the way. That really isn't a problem, because in practice, when turning the inner knobs, all you will have to do is click on the face of the GNS and bring up the 2D popup, and do it from there.  Thats what I do anyway most of the time.  In this case, I think it is mostly the Aesthetics that count.  Personally, I think the Aviodrome team should make whatever modification needed to allow those inner knobs to work with the Rxp, and then they could tout "full compatibility with Reality XP GNS 430" as a feature. Those guys at Real Air did that for their Beechcraft B60, and I'll bet they sold a lot as a result.

If I were you I'd order Twotter But your choice is not bad.