Here are three crosswind landings with two take-offs from todays flying...The landings are at Carl's Landing (AK19), Birch Creek Landing (51AK) and Talkeetna (PATK).
The crosswinds are all from the right and require a bit of left rudder to "Kickoff Drift" prior to touchdown.
This video runs for 7minutes 42seconds and it should be viewed with the Quality clicked up to 1080p and the Full Screen icon at bottom right corner clicked.
Bonjour Joe!...There were three landings...Hope you watched more than one
Thanks for the comment...Yes it is a nice little engine in this machine and it gets me around the country at about 92 knots with 90% power...Ideal if you want to be close enough and slow enough to admire the scenery. I'm moving North from Anchorage at the moment and going into parts that I am not familiar with, but I will push on right up to the cold north coast and land at as many strips as possible. I will have to do it all again in the Summer to use all the seaplane bases. They are all solid ice at the moment
... Also... I didn't watch the whole video. And it's your own fault... After one landing I had to go into my sim to see if I could do it too.
Even though I don't have the same sim.
Hi Peter. I know you like the flight dynamics and the Icon in MS Flight but don't you get a bit bored with the scenery compared to SAK? It all looks the same and rather basic to me...
Have you abandoned the idea of adapting McLeland Field to SAK?
speedbird591 wrote:Hi Peter. I know you like the flight dynamics and the Icon in MS Flight but don't you get a bit bored with the scenery compared to SAK? It all looks the same and rather basic to me...
Have you abandoned the idea of adapting McLeland Field to SAK?
Ian
No Ian...I will be back in SAK but will not do anymore work on McLeland Field until I am working in Version 2 of P3D. It is very hard to get bored with Flight's Alaska and in some ways I find the scenery superior to SAK...Coastlines and water movement being a couple, but of course I do miss the Traffic. One thing I certainly prefer is the speed of the startup in Flight. I can be back where I last left the Icon in a very short time and just start the engine a go
... Also... I didn't watch the whole video. And it's your own fault... After one landing I had to go into my sim to see if I could do it too.
Even though I don't have the same sim.
BTW. I thought MS put the kibosh on Flight
Joe you might have a job to kick off drift in your sim if you have FSUIPC...This addon tends to remove all crosswind effect on the final approach if you let it. So with the wrong settings in FSUIPC there is no drift to kick off
Flight is no longer being developed or worked on by anybody but it is really my favourite flight sim and I do have Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands to play with and I think it will take me a very long time to land at every strip and seaplane base in Alaska, although I have landed at all them in Hawaii
If you have no drift as you near the ground in a crosswind, you can go into FSUIPC and untick the appropriate boxes to stop FSUIPC making the sim unrealistic. It was originally introduced because FS handled crosswinds very badly and it was difficult to taxi out to the runway...Eventually this "taxy with no crosswind" was extended to above the ground for a 100 feet or so. This destroyed any possibility of practicing crosswind Take-offs and Landings and made the sim somewhat unrealistic. However, I think it can be rectified by unticking the odd box
.. you know ...thumb pointed toward you, so you see my print. 
