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  • 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

Next project - DC-6

Looking good there.
But I'd like to see more VC shots.
That's the Go or No-Go for me, including good system management (and it doesn't need to be accusim level. If it matches our DC2 that's good enough for me, and still more than a handfull:kilroy:)
So please elaborate on that, please.

Cheers, Rob
 
Awoken well before sunrise this morning (not early actually) by two DC6's rumbling over the house. Even my gal can idenify the 6's by sight or sound.

Thinking of the "Two", was a pleasure to work with you Rob, on that one!

Regards: Tom
 
robcap said:
Looking good there.
But I'd like to see more VC shots.
That's the Go or No-Go for me, including good system management (and it doesn't need to be accusim level. If it matches our DC2 that's good enough for me, and still more than a handfull:kilroy:)
So please elaborate on that, please.

Cheers, Rob
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Well we'd have to make sure we live up to your standard Rob...;)

VC includes:

Full 3D functionality for almost all switches, knobs, levers and gauges.
Cold,dark starts.
Water/Methanol injection
Accurate tank-feed, selection and fuel management system for each engine
Full navigation suite including RMI, OB, ADF, ILS, Radio compass and Radar in some models
 
Just what Santa ordered a Arctic Ice/Snow Hauler:icon_lol: I've got Iqaluit ready when you release.
 
Many years ago I traveled to Igaluit, which used to be called "Frobisher bay". A very interesting community and barren but beautiful land. The locals are particularly artistic bone and ivory carvers. I can see a six there, not unlike the NAC ( recently retired Northern Air Cargo) and stillflying Cliff Everts sixes here in Alaska.

A plane still at home in some of the worlds most out of the way and beautiful expanses.

T
 
All kinds of graceful classic birds in the Canadian Arctic. Now that reminds me, will the DC-6 come with a Herman Nelson?? That's a must have for Arctic operations. We dont want the beautiful girl getting frozen like a modern Airbus do we:icon_lol:. See Boeing gets the priority up here with the old girls and there is nothing left for them poor poor Airbuses:icon_lol::icon_lol:
 
Flying in the Canadian Arctic was always an adventure in the pre GPS days, ah for Grid Nav... Even today when we fly across (or near) the pole, the GPS fizzles out somewhere around 80 North and we go with inertial. A Norsk friend of mines Dad was a Navigator for SAS and worked out the techniques for some of the first commercial "over the pole" flights. Probably a DC7?

Herman Nelson, ya might need five of them.... Today one of our concerns transiting the high Arctic is low fuel temperature, temperatures cold enough aloft to gel jet fuel!

Interesting part of the world! T
 
fliger747 said:
Flying in the Canadian Arctic was always an adventure in the pre GPS days, ah for Grid Nav... Even today when we fly across (or near) the pole, the GPS fizzles out somewhere around 80 North and we go with inertial. A Norsk friend of mines Dad was a Navigator for SAS and worked out the techniques for some of the first commercial "over the pole" flights. Probably a DC7?
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Interesting to hear that it's the GPS that "fizzles" at high lats, because back in the dark ages before GPS, the A-7E's INS had what was called "Grid Mode" which the pilot had to swicth to at high lats. In Grid Mode the computer treats the universe as a flat square grid. It was supposed to help the INS gonculate where the plane was close to the poles. Don't know if it worked, our planes never flew up there... :icon_lol:

That DC-6 is really looking nice! I'm getting this one! :salute:
 
Easy to get anywhere from the Pole, just steer 180 deg True....

Back when I once seriously researched sledging to Devon Island.... Anyway the list of required equipment for even a light aircraft included HF and a trailing wire antenna. Somtimes things work out better if ya don't have two nickles to rub together....

Anyway, love to hear the coughing and rumble of a six starting up, or rattling the house.

T
 
bazzar said:
Well we'd have to make sure we live up to your standard Rob...;)
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heheh ;-)
I must say Baz, that looks and sounds very nice! Great night lighting in the VC. Are seats ect. animated as well?
Looking forward to more previews :jump: Keep up the good work, that start-up smoke pic is great as well.

@ Tom ditto on our work together. Yesterday I finally met Tim. We had a great day discussing all kinds of stuff, visiting the helicopter museum in Bückeburg, and more interesting visits!

Cheers, Rob
 
Fantastic, Baz. Looks like I may have to pay for my second tube! (A2A B-377 was my first, and I still can't figure out the Accusim engine start!) Love the old propliners. :applause:

:applause:

(Strictly an observation, NOT a criticism!) Shouldn't there be some one in the cockpit when we walk in? (As in taking screenshots from out of the seat?) Looks like she's on full autopilot and the entire crew went back to talk to the beautiful stewardess in the passenager area. :kilroy:
 
Well I think if you were to poll the forum here, you'd find that most people prefer not to have copilot figures in the cockpit. SO we don't generally put them in.:engel016:
 
I recently watched "The Big Lift" again...C-54's in the Berlin airlift...and during the after landing check, the Aircraft Commander reached up and grabbed a strap out of the lower portion of the overhead panel. The strap was on some sort of reel, and he pulled the strap down to the center console and hooked it into a spot just aft of the throttles. Can anyone shed some light on that strap, and what the heck is it for?
 
There was procedure done to 'flag' to any ground staff the aircraft was still hot and pre-paired for a fast turn around , many crews jockeyed keeping one on board so nothing was touched , this also was done after a C47 was loaded with a York payload without having loadmasters check off the load , course this was done during the peak period 20 minute turn rounds and many aircraft leaving just outside 30 second intervals .
 
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