had to settle for the other.  The FSD Cessna 337/O-2 package.  Looks decent, but not as cool as the Carenado 337 but they don't offer an O-2 model. 

At least the FSD craft was on sale, and it is a very nice craft overall.

Picked up DeltaSim's new Elco PT Boat on the same 'shopping trip'....post some shots of it as soon as I find some Jap cruisers to victimize in the Solomon Islands 1942 scenery package.  It comes with the capability to launch torpedoes and depth charges with quite cool effects.

As always, thanx for takin' a look!

My fondness of the O-2 variant stems from getting opps for quite a few ride-alongs while in the USAF.  Was instantly impressed with its capability and overall performance each and every ride!

I concur about the shadowig feature/effect.  Adds quite a bit to the realism of any sim.  Took me a while to tweek things so as to not be such a hiderance to framerates, but finally got it figured out.

FSD did quite an admirable job on the panels, both with the O-2 and 337 models.  Quite a nice unit all around.  Although Carenado's detailing is a bit more impressive, this one wasn't bad for $16.00 USD.

Fozzer wrote on Jul 17^th, 2012 at 4:20am:

In my sim shadows don't make much of an FPS difference.

The first ride I ever went along on sorta took me aback when I was asked to do a visual on the gear to make sure that it was retracted after take-off, and extended prior to landing.

Actually an O-2 provided me with what was possibly my first OMG-we-gonna-die moments....while over the range the front magneto failed, and a moment after that the rear mag followed suit.  No problem at first cause batteries could take up their "slack" til we RTB'd.

Thing was it was a 17 minute flight back to base and after a few intense moments of figuring, and instrument consultation, it was concluded we had approx 13 minutes of batteries remaining.  Those 13 minutes were spent climbing, and intesely praying, which was a good thing as both engines quit on short final and we had to dead-stick the rest of the fright-fest touching down about 50 yards past the end of the overrun then doin' a coasting roll-out the rest of the adrenalin boosting soiree.

After sailin' outta the plane at the speed of sound, I laid a big ol' smooch on terra-firma.

Fozzer wrote on Jul 17^th, 2012 at 12:17pm:



Yes Paul, at full-song they were quite symphonic. 

The FSD crowd did quite a nice job on the soundset with this bird!

And you're right, it was probably alternators, but all I can really recall is not really concerning myself with what particular failure(s) was developing, only that I knew that possibly ending up with a Cessna stuck up me bum would sorta put a damper on my plans for the rest of the day.