new Auster at the pond

[DaveB]

Just taken it for a tour of Hong Kong harbour.. quite delightful. Just the job for flying to your favourite bar/restaurant ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[DispatchDragon]

Pete Watkins just added a paint for the floater ALREADY!!! RNZAF aircraft based on HMS Endeavor.... Of course if you wish something a little more personal
Im sure he would oblige for you all

Leif

[petermcleland]

Auster Floatplane...

Dave Molyneaux has released his Auster T7 with floats, so I thought I would give it a testing:-


I started with quick circuit at PAMF and here I am on the final approach and passing the "Ghost Tower"....

And the rest of the sequence can be seen by clicking this address:-

http://forum.fsscreenshots.com/dcboard. ... =full&page

Thanks for looking and thank you very much Dave :flying:

[petermcleland]

I've beached her over the other side, at Marine Services, where they are going to do some work on the floats for me:-



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Edit...BTW Dave M(oly)...The weather was pretty grim for a time here today and I climbed up through a lot of rubbish, on limited panel to 10,000 feet...On the way up my pitot head iced up and I lost airspeed indications. Panic, panic searching frantically for the switch...NO switch!! Anyway Shift + H thawed it after a while Do the Austers really have no Pitot Heater switch? :o

[DaveB]

Oh dear.. I can see a 'Turbo' kit coming next!

Nice bit of scenery Peter ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[petermcleland]

Oh dear.. I can see a 'Turbo' kit coming next!

Nice bit of scenery Peter ;-)

No Dave, I'm leaving the engine as is, but I'm getting her ready for a Low-Slow cruise as far as some nice scenery in Washington State :flying:

[DaveB]

Ah.. fuel in the floats perhaps. Perhaps not.. she may not leave the water

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[petermcleland]

Ah.. fuel in the floats perhaps. Perhaps not.. she may not leave the water

Yes, they have fitted a bag tank in each float at the fore and aft CofG position...only an extra 12.5 gallons per side but it should make it go a reasonable distance. Also, they limited the water rudder steering angle down to 30 degrees, improved the wake pattern and added "Water Sound". I chucked away the Garmin as I prefer my EFB:-


Modified Wake.


EFB in use on an ADF approach to runway 31 Water.

The empty weight went up a bit but I chucked out the co-pilot (in theory only) as he will be replaced by my mini backpack with DigiCam with bits, Camera with bits, monopod, and Ipod (since everyone seems to listen to music while flying these days!!!) I still have a reasonable payload and I got it up to 10,000 feet today, but my intention is to make the cruise as low as convenient for seeing the scenery and avoiding mountains as much as possible...The Alaskan part will be mostly along coasts :flying:

[DaveB]

Hi Peter

It sounds like they did good work and a personal recommendation from you could see their order books fill 25gallons is a very useful amount of fuel on something so frugal ;-)

Don't forget to leave room for a Thermos and sandwiches in that mini back pack

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[DispatchDragon]

Gorgeous Stuff Peter

All the austers I ever saw DIDNT have pitot heat If you want to share the wake and sound mods , I'll stick em up over at the Pond -- she really is a jewel
Ive been working on my Castle Archedale scenery (again) and its the perfect beastie to slow flight around Loch Erne

leif