Wow, you're really good observers!. Yes, 2021ft is the elevation of my local airport.
I like to use flight sim to evoke aviation history. Most of the repaints I have done are of aircraft that flew many years ago.
Picture number 4 was in real life a Cessna 210D with two blade propeller, really nice plane. The 210D's look like Cessna 206s but with a chin bump on cowling and retractable gear.
There's an interesting story about this plane back in 1982.
This plane was owned by an early TACA Airlines chairman. One day a young pilot was hired to flew the plane to a private airstrip owned by the chairman. Inside the plane there was a heavy load of some replacement parts for a John Deere tractor
plus two other men. At some point upon landing, the landing gear got stuck and remained hanging halfway, it did not move anymore. So they started making circles for 3 hours to burn fuel. The company administrators were worried because on the plane they were carrying a suitcase filled with 50k dollars to pay all the workers montly salary, so they sent two people to a nearby park to wait for the plane do a low pass and drop the suitcase with the money.
After, they finally did a belly landing on a dirt strip next to the base airport runway. Luckily the landing gear did not get stuck into the ground as it could make the plane to flip over bringing the heavy tractor gearbox over their heads. It was the first emergency that young pilot had, years after, in 1988 he would land that 737 next to the river in Lousiana.
Sim plane, unfortunately is a photoshop version of Carenado C-206. I would like to work a project to make an old C-210D... someday.
2021.
