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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Norseman
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Inspiration for the painters in the crowd... CF-SAN's cockpit.
There's a pop-out GPS to check your location if you get lost, 100% hidden if you're flying authentic period.
Where do you activate the GPS?
First impressions of the Tundra Wheeled version is that it is solid, noisy, & the keyboard ALT HLD & HDG HLD work.
Cockpit fascia is matt dark & it looks like the instrument dial faces are too, so that the pointers etc don't stand out, but maybe that is what the fascia is like IRL.
Very reasonably priced for 3 versions.
T43
If you mean it got stuck on 1st loading - had that happen, close MSFS, restart, & it loaded ok.
T43
Just saying that the thread is stuck - for two weeks minimum.
DennyA
SOH-CM-2023
For folks on the fence, the manual is online here.
Yep, it's in the CRT-TV (The Combined Remote Territory Technical Visualiser).
There's a storage box on the ceiling above the pilot's windshield. Click that and the GPS will pop down. (p. 5 and p. 21 of the docs)
(Additional screenshot just for fun, pardon zoom distortion)
Tom Clayton said:
Yep, it's in the CRT-TV (The Combined Remote Territory Technical Visualiser).
There's a storage box on the ceiling above the pilot's windshield. Click that and the GPS will pop down. (p. 5 and p. 21 of the docs)
(Additional screenshot just for fun, pardon zoom distortion)
. Is there such a Swedish livery? Don't annoy me with screenshots because I can't stand it and I'll buy it. 
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I bought it and I love it!
Cees
Cees
I'm going to have to mull it over. The BB Turbo Porter fills the same role, and I'm currently having a lot of fun with that one.
DennyA
SOH-CM-2023
Yoyo, that Swedish livery is one of the stock liveries.
Tom, other than sharing some potential places to fly and having a fan in the front, the experience of flying the Norseman is almost nothing like the Turbo Porter. I'm confident you'll get more than your $20 worth.
The Norseman is only "STOL" if you read the techniques in the manual and really learn how to fly it. As a 1935 design that was really the first purpose-built bush plane, it's not exactly overburdened with extra power (the biggest difference between the Porter), and the instruments, audio, and handling definitely have a period feel.
Highly recommend the James Cagney movie "Captains of the Clouds" for some awesome Norseman prototype footage, as well as lots of other amazing 1940-ish Canadian aerospace. (Including a Hurricane painted to look like a Bf-109.)
Tom, other than sharing some potential places to fly and having a fan in the front, the experience of flying the Norseman is almost nothing like the Turbo Porter. I'm confident you'll get more than your $20 worth.
The Norseman is only "STOL" if you read the techniques in the manual and really learn how to fly it. As a 1935 design that was really the first purpose-built bush plane, it's not exactly overburdened with extra power (the biggest difference between the Porter), and the instruments, audio, and handling definitely have a period feel.Highly recommend the James Cagney movie "Captains of the Clouds" for some awesome Norseman prototype footage, as well as lots of other amazing 1940-ish Canadian aerospace. (Including a Hurricane painted to look like a Bf-109.)
YoYo
SOH-CM-2023
Some more time on the Tundra version & I have found this is quite a nuanced release.
Through the 'TV' there are a number of options available as regards freight, & other matters.
Also, I discovered that as well as the GPS [above the windscreen], the TV has a Help button that turns out to be a basic AP.
It will give ALT HLD, NAV & HDG HLD, & GPS.
I just flew a dog leg flight on GPS/NAV & it followed the flight plan, no problem.
I would recommend that even if you create a flight plan in MSFS scenario set up, enter the data, waypoints etc in the GPS Flight Plan module as that seems to be what it needs for the AP to have the GPS/NAV function execute the flight plan.
Overall, 1 of those aircraft that grows on you the more you fly it.
Hoping some Liveries start coming through.
T43
Through the 'TV' there are a number of options available as regards freight, & other matters.
Also, I discovered that as well as the GPS [above the windscreen], the TV has a Help button that turns out to be a basic AP.
It will give ALT HLD, NAV & HDG HLD, & GPS.
I just flew a dog leg flight on GPS/NAV & it followed the flight plan, no problem.
I would recommend that even if you create a flight plan in MSFS scenario set up, enter the data, waypoints etc in the GPS Flight Plan module as that seems to be what it needs for the AP to have the GPS/NAV function execute the flight plan.
Overall, 1 of those aircraft that grows on you the more you fly it.
Hoping some Liveries start coming through.
T43
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Most-Dange...t&sprefix=gavin+lyall,digital-text,73&sr=1-15
Highly recommended (along with his other aviation-themed thrillers) - flying a Norseman in the wilds of Finland and around...
Highly recommended (along with his other aviation-themed thrillers) - flying a Norseman in the wilds of Finland and around...
YoYo
SOH-CM-2023
As I know, the paintkit will be in the next upade.
Rallymodeller
Charter Member
I have a few planned for this one: Austin Airways original scheme, Ontario Provincial Air Service, RCAF wartime and postwar, and CF-JIN (which is being restored locally to me). I had already started on the existing templates but I'm going to wait until the paintkit comes out.
Well I bought it and it's very nice, with a couple of caveats...
The panel is pretty miserable in 2D (as are all BR panels ) but much better in VR
That modern AS3X panel in the roof is an abomination, luckily its hidden away and normally I would ignore it, but it appears to be the only way to get radios.
And even using the AS3X the radios don't seem to actually work!
I can only set com1 standby and the XFER button doesn't work so com1 active can't be set.
The XFER button is hidden in the freq setting page, should really be on the main page so you can quickly toggle between stations.
Using an external program to set com1 active (Vatsim radio) the radio still doesn't work, no TX/RX.
I know it's an old plane, but they DID have radios (the online manual even mentions it was used as a radio trainer but doesn't mention actually using a radio) and lots of old planes have much better radio implementations.
Has anybody actually got a working radio?
The panel is pretty miserable in 2D (as are all BR panels
) but much better in VR That modern AS3X panel in the roof is an abomination, luckily its hidden away and normally I would ignore it, but it appears to be the only way to get radios.
And even using the AS3X the radios don't seem to actually work!
I can only set com1 standby and the XFER button doesn't work so com1 active can't be set.
The XFER button is hidden in the freq setting page, should really be on the main page so you can quickly toggle between stations.
Using an external program to set com1 active (Vatsim radio) the radio still doesn't work, no TX/RX.
I know it's an old plane, but they DID have radios (the online manual even mentions it was used as a radio trainer but doesn't mention actually using a radio) and lots of old planes have much better radio implementations.
Has anybody actually got a working radio?
Apologies, I misremembered ... it's mostly a Beaver, the Norseman is just a memory...still a great book though!
jankees
SOH-CM-2026
I agree, and 'Shooting Script' is great too, if you like B-25's