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How have I been over looking this wonderful plane?

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
I downloaded all of Bill Lyon's aircraft so I could put all of his scenery into one folder to share between my 4 installs and came across one of his planes that I did not have....the Quad City Challenger ultra light. How have I not been enjoying this fun little plane? It is a blast to fly. Sure, it's not fast. And sure, it isn't something you'd want to fly during bad weather....but man...flying it through the Canadian Rockies, down below the peaks of the mountains.....it is a great plane to do some scenery eyeballing in. I haven't flown it with my TrackIR system fired up yet....but I am going to.

OBIO
 
I used to fly with a guy on his private server. . . .there were actually about 7 of us that did and we flew strictly in Alaska and everyone "had" to fly the Challenger. It was actually a lot of fun and during the year or two we stayed together we saw a lot of Alaska. . . .but we saw it very slowly, lol. I finally had to drop off as this guy was nice enough but he wouldn't allow any changes to his flights, and wouldn't hear of anyone flying any other ultralight except the Challenger. If you've flown it any at all, you know that Bill put a strict limit on the Cylinder Head Temp, which kept the speed well under 100, more like around 75 or 80kias. If you tried to sneak above that for any more than a minute or two, the engine fails. It seems like I looked into it and found a way to bypass that problem but I don't remember how, it's been 3 or 4 years since I flew it.:salute:
 
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