Carenado Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II

[SeanTK]

On topic...

What's the flight model like? I'm tempted, but with their recent FM's being a bit derpy I'm uncertain. Model and usuals seem as good as always, but performance is of interest.

It flies by the book, and as someone with experience in smaller Cessnas, it seems convincing to me!
Keep in mind that the aircraft is unpressurized, so you'll either be on simulated oxygen up high, or you'll be flying in the weather, which makes things fun.

The aircraft comes with a good amount of performance documentation that matches up with how it performs in-sim, but I've also included the below for reference as well:
http://www.what2fly.com/manufacturer/performance/CESSNA/F406+CARAVAN+II/919

I've very, very recently started trying to record some simple flightsim flying videos (no special camera angles or movie effects, just me flying along) so I'll look into getting a short trip recorded sometime in the coming days.

All in all, the FDE seems to be well-crafted.

 

[Firekitten]

Worth giving it a try Sean, thanks

 

[donnybalonny]

To me, its not enough that an AC flies to the numbers of the book. There are other things that I find to be far more important:

Roll rate, how the AC comes out of a turn if you just let go of the controllers, Pitch and yaw stability (enough but not to much) and this very important thing, how does it react when lowering the power, does it dive, accelerate and level out or is it just a stable going down. All that together is IMHO what makes an AC worth flying in the SIM.

There are many AC flying by the numbers that are dead boring to fly. It is of course personal to a certain degree. But there are reasons why I keep comming back to A2A, Realair, Flysimware, Milton Shupe and a few others.

 

[jeansy]

If you try to take any greater a moral higher ground, you're going to need supplementary oxygen.

Noted

I would be silly not to take advice from the most successful fs developers who owns one of the more successful franchises for fltsim and who the guy who wrote the original book on development

My apologies for trying to encourage a painter who enjoys what they do

But since your the one and only SME, i will leave it a that and allow you to continue without undermining your knowledge and opinions. In future i will only take your extensive knowledge in both development and social reason and apply it to myslef so i can be a better person

 

[Firekitten]

You've completely utterly misinterpreted every post I've made, but heck, you know best

 

[Fireball6]

Could'nt resist and did another british reg. Plane - its my personal "workhorse" . Also ready is a "Tanzania-Bird" for those of you, like flying in Africa.
Next week i plan to start with working on the Cargo-pod - i will try to change it to a "photorecon-pod" for surveillance missions.

Greetings

Dirk

 

[Firekitten]

The camera pod sounds like a great idea Could probably retroactively apply it to the Greek coastguard one... that would look ace.

Nice work.

 

[WarHorse47]

Could'nt resist and did another british reg. Plane - its my personal "workhorse" . Also ready is a "Tanzania-Bird" for those of you, like flying in Africa.
Next week i plan to start with working on the Cargo-pod - i will try to change it to a "photorecon-pod" for surveillance missions.

Greetings

Dirk

Nice. Let us know when available.

Cheers

 

[Fireball6]

After a long and busy day ..... i am proud to present - the "Multifunction-Pod".

Greetings

Dirk

Please bear in mind that it is a visual change only (new Paint and bump-map), not a new modeled Part !

 

[Fireball6]

Forget to tell you that i have reworked the zip-files - the textures are in 2048 - 32 Bit - .dds format now. All files should be updated in the next 24 hours. If you like, use the links again to get them.

Dirk

 

[Firekitten]

That is lovely! Nice job, looks absolutely perfect.


Bought it earlier, uninstalled the plane 20 minutes later sadly, FPS is toiletland even in P3D

 

[WarHorse47]

After a long and busy day ..... i am proud to present - the "Multifunction-Pod".

Greetings

Dirk

Please bear in mind that it is a visual change only (new Paint and bump-map), not a new modeled Part !

Looks great. I can assume that one has the option to assign the "Multifunction-Pod" to a specific texture?

 

[Fireball6]

Yes - it is very simple to handle - there are two texture's to add to the texture-folder you wish to have the pod.

Dirk

 

[Fireball6]

Firekitten,

thats sad to read. On my system it runs very well and smooth. It is one of Carenados Best (imho) - please let me know if i can help with reduced texture-size's.

Kindly regards

Dirk

 

[Firekitten]

Its not your artwork Dirk, which is beautiful, its the whole plane, I run P3D3 maxed out, every other aircraft including A2A kick butt, Carenado for some reason, this and the 1900 especially just make it a slideshow.

Plenty of aircraft use 4096 now, its fairly standard, not a huge problem.

 

[Fireball6]

I have done some refinements to the pod - zip-file is updated - nothing special but imho it looks better now.

 

[WarHorse47]

I have done some refinements to the pod - zip-file is updated - nothing special but imho it looks better now.

Where can one find this zip file?

 

[Fireball6]

In my DropBox - look at your pm's please

 

[Dimus]

I haven't really given this plane much thought until I saw that hellenic coast guard paint. I taxi past them parked in Tatoi every time I fly and they have kept me on hold for take off several times when they are called upon a SAR mission. I had to have this and downloading now.

 

[Fireball6]

Soon over a coast near to you ......