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Saunders Roe SR-45 Princess Uploaded

Dave,
Create a flight close to where you want your water take-off and slew there (might be a bit of a bumpy ride, lol!). Then save your flight as whatever you want to call it and load it (from the load menu) next time you want to fly from there.
 
Dave,
Create a flight close to where you want your water take-off and slew there (might be a bit of a bumpy ride, lol!). Then save your flight as whatever you want to call it and load it (from the load menu) next time you want to fly from there.

Thanks Roger - I'll give it a go!

DaveQ
 
Some coastal cities have "water seaplane runways" in the drop-down menu but these water runways may not ne long enough and you may have to taxi to open sea for a takeoff run.
 
This looks awesome but can someone please tell me how you can start a free flight on water in FSX?

Thanks

DaveQ

Dave, have you tried MoCats Caribbean Seaplanes and Lands Ends series? Lots of Seaplane landing scenery fron Dinar Key, Fl New york, Chicago are some examples within his scenery.
 
This looks awesome but can someone please tell me how you can start a free flight on water in FSX?

Thanks

DaveQ

Thanks to all - will look for MoCats scenery and give that a go. Meanwhile slew works for me!

DaveQ
 
Engine gauges not working..?

I uploaded the "Princess" to Simviation and flightsim earlier today. It should show at these sites tomorrow. The SR-45 first flew in 1952 and was one of the largest flying boats ever made. It was powered with 10 Proteus turbine engines geared to combinations of single and double contra rotating propellers. I included a custom XML gauge by Warwick Carter that turns the turbine exhaust on and off at 80% throttle. It has the default factory livery and the proposed BOAC paint job. It has .dds textures and a specular shine. The VC has animated flight controls and working flight gauges. I did NOT model all the gauges for 10 engines ganged to the 4 the simulator allows, so the flight engineer station is a picture. It has reverse thrust which is recommended on landing as this boat has a lot of momentum and will float forever.

Cheers, Paul

I have tried using replacement turoprop and older prop engine gauges for replacement on the 2D panel but am having limited success.
I don't see that the default engine gauges work, is there something I'm doing wrong..?
 
Replacement air file..?

Any recommendations to replace the air file for this monster..? (looking for the engine gauges to work) (I know little about editing the air file)
 
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The reason engine gauges are not working is that they used piston engine instead of turbo prop. I configured the panel to use turbo gauges. Overwrite original panel.cfg with this one. You can leave cab file in the panel folder or copy it to gauge folder. Your preference. Robert
 

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The reason engine gauges are not working is that they used piston engine instead of turbo prop. I configured the panel to use turbo gauges. Overwrite original panel.cfg with this one. You can leave cab file in the panel folder or copy it to gauge folder. Your preference. Robert


Thank you..! Nice gauges, good looking panel.
 
SR-45 Princess Resources

I'm looking for detailed pictures of the cockpit and flight engineers station for the SR-45.
I've combed thru Google and seen the out of focus cockpit shots. I have the Saunders Roe PR info
while having nice pictures of her being built and flown, nothing that clearly shows the pilots panel.
If you know of any pictures or books it would be information greatly appreciated.
 
I'm looking for detailed pictures of the cockpit and flight engineers station for the SR-45.
I've combed thru Google and seen the out of focus cockpit shots. I have the Saunders Roe PR info
while having nice pictures of her being built and flown, nothing that clearly shows the pilots panel.
If you know of any pictures or books it would be information greatly appreciated.

I did a bunch of research for Paul when he was building the model and yes, it is hard to find good info with the normal searches. Here are links to the best of what we had:

Smiths' Instruments advertisement from 1952
1952 | 2934 | Flight Archive

Cut-away drawings of the Princess. Note that the FE station is labeled as "Flight Engineers" (plural) and shows two seats. Six crew- 2 pilots, Nav, RO, 2 FE
1952 | 2837 | Flight Archive
1952 | 2843 | Flight Archive
1952 | 2844 | Flight Archive

On this page you will find the best (some not great) pictures of many details including the various panels and systems. Scroll through and click on the thumbnails for larger images.
http://www.seawings.co.uk/saroprinwalk.htm


Edit - forgot one - Popular Science overview including one view of a mock-up of the cockpit
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ni...ience September 1949 "produce a given"&f=true

There are a bunch of flight items that need some help (and further research)... drag/thrust, flaps, probably tuning of contact/scrape points, but in other ways it's a fun model that flies as ponderously as you'd expect for such a monster.

Rob
 
I did a bunch of research for Paul when he was building the model and yes, it is hard to find good info with the normal searches. Here are links to the best of what we had:

Smiths' Instruments advertisement from 1952
1952 | 2934 | Flight Archive

Cut-away drawings of the Princess. Note that the FE station is labeled as "Flight Engineers" (plural) and shows two seats. Six crew- 2 pilots, Nav, RO, 2 FE
1952 | 2837 | Flight Archive
1952 | 2843 | Flight Archive
1952 | 2844 | Flight Archive

On this page you will find the best (some not great) pictures of many details including the various panels and systems. Scroll through and click on the thumbnails for larger images.
http://www.seawings.co.uk/saroprinwalk.htm


Edit - forgot one - Popular Science overview including one view of a mock-up of the cockpit
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ni...ience September 1949 "produce a given"&f=true

There are a bunch of flight items that need some help (and further research)... drag/thrust, flaps, probably tuning of contact/scrape points, but in other ways it's a fun model that flies as ponderously as you'd expect for such a monster.

Rob




Hi Rob,
What an incredible wealth of information...! The instrumentation pics are all that I could hope for. The pictures portray an historical look an aeronautical engineering for that time period
that is priceless. Please accept my thanks for sharing these resources.

Regards,
Tony
 
Available in the Avsim Library now!

Search for the following file:

saunders_roe_princess_boac_v2.0.zip

A redo of the default BOAC paint scheme in a slightly higher texture resolution. The graphics around the nose had some texture mapping limitations so I could not recreate the historically correct graphics to my satisfaction. Still I think it's a nice addition to this aircraft.

Tommy

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If you want a beefier sound set, search the internet for the following file:

Tu-95_Sound.zip

It's for the Russian Bear bomber, but I tend to use it for most of my "heavy" multi-engine turbo props.

Tommy
 
Available in the Avsim Library now!

Search for the following file:

saunders_roe_princess_boac_v2.0_white.zip

Similar to the previously released repaint noted above, but with white color accents.

Tommy
 

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