When I was trying to get pictures of the two cats, I was able to cruise at about 140 knots at 1500-2000 feet, for about 4 minutes, then the engines gave up and wouldn't restart.
It was actually really hard to get pictures of the two cats together because the Hellcat is almost stalling out in level flight and is very unstable without flaps at about the same speed the Catalina is burning up it's engines.
That's OK though, just open up the windows and rood panels, and enjoy some low speed island cruising.
Anybody tried the mission yet? I picked up the crew, went to the first waypoint, then to the second, I circled the second waypoint for 30 minutes or so, different altitudes, even landed in the lake and puttered from one end to the other (it's got to be 15 miles long) and never got any more input from the co-pilot about what to do or where to go from there.
The firecrew was supposed to be looking at the situation to tell me what to do and the missions screen said something about "dousing the fire" or something like that, but I had no input into where the fire was, and I saw no evidence of fire anywhere in the area. A lot of low hanging clouds, maybe they were smoke, but they were all over the place.
I gave up and just went back to free flights. I'll have to try again tomorrow.
