Wanted: Testers with Cubs

"I couldn't clear the trees"

Glenn,

I would taxi out to the trees, turn around and takeoff the other way.

Scott.
 
I'm considering sending a lumberjack out to give you a slightly lower approach into the lake.

Perferences? Anyone? I just pranged the Bush Hawk into a tree at the other end of the lake trying a Southerly approach. Didn't try to slip. Should have. Might have to go and get some practice in a C152 now, if the instructor will play ball (practice emergencies this time before I take my requal test next time... EFATO and PFLs.)
 
IanP said:
If you're using v0.2, Daube, the trees got further away because I had to move the runway to avoid a water tower (see Mike's screenshot at post #6...) - unfortunately, in the real world, the Northerly approach would now be illegal as short final is over the town, but this is the sim, not the real world, so I'm not moving it again. :engel016:
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Ah, that explains everything. Thanks for the info ! :icon29:
 
"I'm considering sending a lumberjack out to give you a slightly lower approach into the lake.

Perferences? Anyone?"

I wouldn't. This is just like it is in the real world, having to land in small runways with tall, over-grown trees sometimes on both ends.

Scott.
 
But if everyone keeps running into the trees at the other end, it may just mean that the lake is too small. ;)

The other option is to move the seaplane base to the other lake, a little up the road (the one with the island in.)

Just for the record, I just spent an hour doing practice forced landings and practice engine failure after takeoffs. Because I tend to be a little too conservative in my glide distances for a C152, most of them ended up with sideslips down to the go-around at 500'. Sorry Joe, but after watching your video and doing the best part of a dozen sideslips in a real aircraft, your video agrees with my original statement and Pekka's statement. The default Cub doesn't sideslip.

I wanna get paid now, so I can get a Cub on floats.
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Spotting at Lewisporte.... great airport, really nice seaplane base. :)

(Ian, hope you don't mind me working in a couple of w.i.p. shots to your thread - the amphib is all I have time to fly these days, and your airport just fits in perfectly.)

Really nice small airport, and it turns out the amphibs in the region are happy there, too. Think we'll be a regular visitor. :)


Mike
 
mike_cyul said:
Ian, hope you don't mind me working in a couple of w.i.p. shots to your thread
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Yes. I do. That'll be one meeeeeeeeelion US Dollars in penalty payments please. Payable immediately via my Swiss Numbered Bank Account.

(In other words, no. Go right ahead. :icon_lol:)

Glad you're enjoying it. Although using a Super Cub is cheating. It has flaps!

If no-one else has any comments, I'll give this one a readme and for once might throw it at Flightsim.com - this one might be a little more useful to people than my usual fare.
 
mike_cyul said:
Any way to integrate the sat image into the scenery?

Mike
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Yes. SBuilderX again - I've not tried it, but it looks very simple.

HOWEVER... You do lose all the autogen. Which is why I haven't yet done it. I'm not sure how to only select part of an image, unfortunately. There probably is a way, but I don't know it.
 
I was able to take-off to the southeast in the A2A Cub. Heidi was not there this time. I don't think the slope at that end of the lake is quite as steep as going NW. I was even able to land SE with water left over. That's a fun little airport.

Glenn
 
Well courtesy of a very nice gift yesterday evening, I can state for the record that getting the Cub out of the lake in a North-Westerly direction with full fuel, Heidi and "me" on board is definitely possible - even with zero wind.

OK. So it took me three visits to the trees to work out how to do it, but it is possible! :wiggle:

I'll package this one up and upload it somewhere vaguely accessible, then go looking to see what can be flown to within a Cub hop of Lewisporte.
 
Ian, no doubt. When I try it again, I'll slew back to the beach behind me, then be a bit more agressive about getting on the step. My first post was not intended to be a squack - more about my less than professional piloting skills. A statement in the Read-Me to the effect that pilots should be experienced float plane pilots might be appropriate, but then again, where's the fun in that?

Glenn
 
Sorry Glenn... I wasn't implying it was anything other than the same learning experience everyone has when trying to get a little aircraft out of that lake. How many people reading this thread, who have tried to visit with a floatplane, haven't ended up in the trees at least once? Hands up, please, and no telling porkies. :)

I was going to put a floatplane hints and tips section in that says to use the "marked" runway as a guide, not as a fixed limitation. Unless you're in a Beaver, the Kodiak or something equally insanely STOL (Hmm... Twotter... Thinks evil thoughts...), you need to start right at the edge of the lake if you're going to get out over the trees. There are alternatives - over the town or over the land airfield if winds allow and I think you're right in that the trees at one end are slightly lower than the other.

Nevertheless, I still haven't written a readme. I found somewhere else to play with coastlines at instead. It's within Cub hopping range of Lewisporte as well, but requires a lot more work than Lewisporte did, so might take me a while.
 
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