• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Caravan - OUT

spotlope said:
I've done a start from cold and dark (those startup sounds are pretty nice), takeoff, and a bit of low-level flying around 3000'. What's the secret to nudging the airspeed up over 80KIAS? My flaps are retracted, torque near the redline, and RPMs high, yet in straight and level I can't get it to go much faster than a Cub. The cruise speed is supposed to be around 140 knots, but I can barely get half that. Anyone else have better luck?
Click to expand...


Did you alter the prop?
 
I love it....best $35.00 I've spent so far. A wonderful flyer, lots of nice little goodies, and she sits on the ground perfectly. Only thing I don't like is when the plane is parked all plugged up...the pilot stays.


Looking forward to some awesome paints for this bird.
 
Functionality?

Hi there,

Is there any functionality 'turbinewise/systemwise' as compared to the default Caravan?
 
Hi

The engine is well replicated. It starts as per real turbines i have flown (PC-12 not Caravan) and spools etc very convincingly.
 
Did someone say somewhere that an amphib version is going to be done?

Always thought the shorter, Caravan I, 208(non-B) on floats was the charasmatic model in the bunch. (NB: the FS default Caravan on floats uses the longer 208B model but I have yet to see one IRL).

The proportions of Caravan I to me are better and always liked the lines of the tinted wrap around windscreen - something prior to now was not really modelled too well - perhaps with the exception of the one Henry Tomkewicz did for FS9 AI.
 
spotlope said:
I've done a start from cold and dark (those startup sounds are pretty nice), takeoff, and a bit of low-level flying around 3000'. What's the secret to nudging the airspeed up over 80KIAS? My flaps are retracted, torque near the redline, and RPMs high, yet in straight and level I can't get it to go much faster than a Cub. The cruise speed is supposed to be around 140 knots, but I can barely get half that. Anyone else have better luck?
Click to expand...

I'm getting higher cruise speeds than that, although there have been some concerns posted at avsim that the cruise speed is too low. Guess we'll have to wait for some 208 pilots to chime in and let us know what it should be for this configuration. But overall another beautiful Carenado product. 35 bucks well spent.
 
I'm getting about 128 cruise in mine. I love this plane and can't wait for repaints. Agreed....this $35 is well worth the money.
 
I have started a simple repaint but am struggling with the alphas - oh how i hate alphas.

It would help to have a proper paintkit


WIP-15.jpg
 
Hi gajit - you can export the alpha`s from the original white textures - i have done it already, let me know if i should send them to you.

Greetings :wavey: Dirk
 
Fireball6 said:
Hi gajit - you can export the alpha`s from the original white textures - i have done it already, let me know if i should send them to you.

Greetings :wavey: Dirk
Click to expand...

Hi Dirk

Its odd as I have applied the alphas but they are dull - I will play around a bit more to help my understanding but might take up your offer later!!

Thanks

GJ
 
WAD3 said:
How about just that white one. I always like just a plain white paint job.

Andrew
Click to expand...

Hi Andrew

Yes the N208AD is plain so should look good once I have coloured the baggage thing -pod!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top