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Those screenshots are totally indecent!
It's like watching Sharon Stone who make-up: you know that this will be muuuuuccchhh better but you're worried about not being able to go back...:costum:
Awesome work!

Stephan​
 
Some confusion exists in some of the terminology above. To be very clear, a turbo engine refers to a piston engine with an induction system utilizing turbocharging. A jet fule burner such as the PT-6 is a TURBINE engine.

The hardest part of the flight dynamic range to do well is the water handling, particularly the transition from displacement taxiing to "on the step". On the water both the Goose and Widgeon were/are highly prone to developing a increasing porpise effect which is dynamically unstable, a friend crashed his this way.....

Cheers: T.
 
fliger747 said:
Some confusion exists in some of the terminology above. To be very clear, a turbo engine refers to a piston engine with an induction system utilizing turbocharging. A jet fule burner such as the PT-6 is a TURBINE engine.

The hardest part of the flight dynamic range to do well is the water handling, particularly the transition from displacement taxiing to "on the step". On the water both the Goose and Widgeon were/are highly prone to developing a increasing porpise effect which is dynamically unstable, a friend crashed his this way.....

Cheers: T.
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I MAY have to revisit this then. It's a fact i didnt know about.. Water handling on takeoff in calm seas is a dream. I have porpoised "mildly" on landing but unless you make a mistake, she's gentle as can be.. At the moment, Butch wants to lock the high performance version into place and i'll be zstarting back in on the standard model tomorrow, but this ?? Not to worry.. i'll make it right..
 
Ok correction to my last post. It porpoises at around 80mph ( and i didn't even know it :::LOL:: ) :jawdrop: Love it when something i do surprises me like this..
 
Wow!!!!!:applause::applause::applause: Words can't really do this justice so I'll just say thank you for the amazing work and I've already cleared a space at the dock.

Al
 
oldpropfan said:
Wow!!!!!:applause::applause::applause: Words can't really do this justice so I'll just say thank you for the amazing work and I've already cleared a space at the dock.

Al
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Heyy.. i'm glad you mentioned it.. I've always got back pressure on the stick when i take off so i never thought about this aspect and it never occurred as the nose was always slightly up.. So i ran a test not touching the stick and sure enough, at 80mph she starts this up and down porpoising..
Mind you, today was a wonderful birthday for me, but this? This is the very best birthday present i could hope for..
 
Where the neophythe driver gets in real trouble is with Pilot induced oscillations, where the corrections are out of phase and actually add to the amplitude of the oscillations!

In taking off a seaplane, especially a monohul, Full back pressure is held initially to help ramp up onto the step, then it is relaxed as the aircraft accelerates onto a full planing configuration. it is a fine ballance to find the sweet spot in attitude, as too much nose down and it will plow, too high an attitude and the tail of the hull will drag. Either will significantly retard the takeoff run and might prevent becoming airborne at higher weights. A clever gauge guy might be able to use the spoiler function to simulate this effect. A bigger problem is trying to replicate the sense of climbing onto the step. in a heavily loaded seaplane, proper technique here, in achieving a planing configuration, may make the difference between a sucessful takeoff and no takeoff! A heavy airplane may not have enough power to ever get on the step, displacing too much water.

Some clever work with extra contact points might or might not be able to help here.

Cheers: T.
 
Good morning captains,

Well work continuous on the Goose and I thought it was time I gave you what is perhaps the last update before release... at least from my Dirty Yellow scheme.

Two more... these piccies are about a month or so old.

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Close up... this is what happens when heat and time work on paint layers... :)

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These are an early build, I've added a few more herbs and spices to make these a bit more interesting paint for you.

It's hard to believe its the default Goose, if I don't say so myself.

Hope you like my paints... not long now. :)

Cheers,
Butch
 
I'm not certain i can replicate the procedures that Fliger stated above for water handling in this realease, however.. please be assured that there WILL be an fde revision coming where the behaviours Fliger describes will be replicated to as close to exact as is humanly possibly..
At the moment, i'm down to dealing with details where one unit of measurment can completely throw off something somewhere else, and it's gotten philosophical. I love it :) .. But we need to get this thing released so you folks can enjoy it. Like butch said. it wont be long.. I think personally, they're all making excuses about them taking so long justto disguise how long it's taking me.. :D
 
Wonderful....perfect for a FSAdventureSky Flight!!!! down in the Chilian Lake country!!!!! Magnifico!!!!:ernae::jump:
 
This one if for you Pam, only because I am already in so much trouble...

I have one more for you but before that I'd like to say Pam has so far been a absolute professional and has taken all I could give in terms of feedback on the FM.

One more thing... as a tribute to one of our own.

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Crusty sun weathered paint. :)

Let's see some of these payware outfits match the TLC that freeware can only give.

On ya Pam.

Cheers
Butch
 
That craquelure effect is wonderful :applause:

I really can't wait for this.
 
:::LOL:: Butch.. Thats fantastic.. simply fantastic.. you KNOW theres a lot of old mountain rivers that are gonna get well used with that one :D :D ...
 
JoeW said:
Is it done yet?
Where is it?
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Still W.I.P im afraid :( i can hold my hand up and say that im pretty much the cause of the delays due to RL comitments,i dont wait to throw any dates about but i can assure you its getting done and im sure it will be worth the wait,what also doesnt help just getting it done is the fact that everyone on board is really picky about getting there work done to a high standard and this unforunately takes time and again atm its time that i dont have an abundess of :( so is the banne of freeware devs everwhere im quite sure


anyhows enought of my yapping here another WIP SS ;)

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Cheers
Steve AKA Gizmo
 
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