Aerosoft Catalina screenies

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Aerosoft Catalina screenies

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The office. This is the stock original panel, which you get with the period aircraft. With the 'modern' models, like the Dutch PBY Association's one, you get a typical Bendix radio and autopilot stack.

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The rear wall of the cockpit, with electrical panel, fuel tank selectors, and mixture controls

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The Royal Danish Air Force PBY-6A L-861. It was one of several Catalinas used to map Greenland. L-866 is preserved at Cosford. Here are some very interesting photos from an ex-RDAF officer who took part in these flights

http://www.soendergaard-andersen.dk/#home


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Note the blisters, pilot's side window and overhead hatch are all open on this one:

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Floats down:

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This is VH-PBZ, operated by the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society in Australia. Note the row of airliner-style circular windows

http://www.hars.org.au/2009/05/consolid ... na-vh-pbz/

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The Dutch PBY based at Lelystad, and one we have seen at Flying Legends. This will be the model I'll attempt a round-the-world trip in, and try my hand at repainting.

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The PBY-6A once operated by Jacques Cousteau, and in which his son Phillippe died when it nosed over during a high-speed taxi run on the River Tagus in Portugal in 1979.

Note the odd shaped nose, and the platforms for scuba divers below the blisters:

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A Pensacola-based PBY-6A. The radome above the cockpit is considerably smaller than they fitted to the RDAF one above

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A Royal Norwegian Air Force PBY-5 ( the pure flying boat model, without the wheels ), operating with RAF Coastal Command from Oban

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My favourite, a USN PBY-5A on patrol over the vast ocean

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Looks great, and I could easily be tempted.

Many thanks for the screenies Paul. :thumbsup:

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Heh, it is easily my favourite aeroplane so far. I just enjoy every stage of flying it, from starting the engines to the shutdown at the end :)
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Wonderful screenies Paul, very very tempting.

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Graham, Nigel...if you only buy one add-on for FSX this year, make it this one. It really is a beauty. :dancer:

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Great shots. I'm putting pennies in my piggy bank towards that one :lol: A question... did the Cousteau catalina survive the incident in which Philippe died?
Old pilots never die - they just taxy off to a distant parking spot...

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impearse wrote: A question... did the Cousteau catalina survive the incident in which Philippe died?
No, it didn't.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 19790628-0

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The Danish scheme has to be one of my favourites. Though the aircraft isn't really my thing when it comes to FS (I sure as hell don't mind seeing one for real, though!), I still appreciate what a good job Aerosoft have done with it.

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Paul K wrote:
impearse wrote: A question... did the Cousteau catalina survive the incident in which Philippe died?
No, it didn't.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 19790628-0
Thanks for the link Paul. I remember hearing about Philippe dying, but not the details. Sad. :-(
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It's wonderful model, and very well textured in the default pack. Bloody slow though. Takes forever to get from Oban to the Atlantic... Or seems to anyway. I just ferry them between various airshows...

Did the RAF ever have the wheeled variant? I feel sure they did, and wouldn't mind a repaint of one of them for using in the UK.
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