Classic British Flight Sim

I was wondering what would happen with the Alaska scenery if I strayed into Canada, so I decided to fly the Cub from Skagway to Yakutat direct.
This route crosses a big chunk of Canada and I could use the Yakutat VOR radial to fly direct and then test the ILS at Yakutat on arrival.


All that ahead is Canada...

You can see the other shots here:-

http://forum.mutleyshangar.com/index.ph ... arbon-cub/

Thanks for looking

Brrrrr. Sure hope you have your Carhartts.


How far across Canada can you go Peter? And what happens when you get to the end of the scenery.


Joe

airboatr wrote:Brrrrr. Sure hope you have your Carhartts.


How far across Canada can you go Peter? And what happens when you get to the end of the scenery.

Joe,

I don't know that really...I was only looking at that chunk of Canada that you have to cross to join up Skagway to Yakutat...See the map in the second picture...I have not tried going deep into Canada. I imagine that there is a suitable border band, perhaps 50 or a 100 miles wide with just ground mesh and no rivers or lakes. Because of the shape of Alaska, that chunk of Canada has to be fairly widely covered...If you look at that second picture you will see what I mean

What are Carhartts??

Hi Mac,

I see what you're saying, I was wondering what happened inthe game. Would it just stop or send you back to the nearest airport... something along those lines.

Sounds though like you can keep on flying but there isn't any terrain. Like you said.

Carhartt? Well - if you pull up stakes and move to Alaska ( as Ian suggested) you'll need them.
http://www.carhartt.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... View=false

Its the best. When I lived up north, that's all I'd own.

Joe.

Carharrts! Yes I remember those from my visits to Alaska! All the locals wear them in the winter - even to go to the bottle shop. We Brits thought we looked cool in our UK anoraks, jeans and furry boots but the laugh was on us if we were outside for more than five minutes. We once drove out to see Portage Glacier on a bright sunny winter's day and the locals (in their Carharrts) were walking across the frozen water about a mile to the glacier edge. We thought we'd join them - it was cold but there was no breeze. When we got there we got scared by the cracking noises from the huge ice cliff so turned to make our way back. Then we had something to be scared about. There was no breeze because it was coming from behind us at walking pace so walking back into it made it about five or six mph in our faces - enough to freeze the water in our eyes and noses and to lose feeling in our legs, hands and cheeks. Jogging didn't work as it made it colder and the sun was dropping and only a mile to go Frostbite was a very real possibility - I'd have given my kingdom for a Carharrts suit then. Thanks, Joe, I never knew they had a name!

I love that little Cub, Peter. What a gorgeous panel, too. I hope somebody can recreate it in FSX.

Ian

Get your own CC on the cheap Peter.. http://www.e-fliterc.com/Products/Defau ... ckFeatures

I had a look at one of these a few months ago and they're nicely put together. It's aerobatic and flies inverted with ease.. something I know you like doing All you need to get it up and running is a 6-ch txer (you can get away with a 4-ch but you need 5 to use the flaps/glider tow). A fair few quid cheaper than the IconA5 too

ATB
DaveB

Thanks for that Joe...I will remember that...Reminds me of the New Zealand "Swandri"and the Aussie "Drizabone"

What a terrifying tale Ian...I know the feeling as I got caught out on an airfield once...It was the coldest Winter in Germany for about 60 years...I think it was 1955 or 1956...Some enterprising people had poured some water on a hard-standing to create an ice skating rink. I can't remember whether it was Fassberg or Wunstorf. Anyway I had no skates and a lady schoolteacher lent me a pair...They were on boots and the boots were really a size too small for me but I managed to squeeze into them and got onto the ice for a lovely skate around.

There was not a breath of wind so one did not realise how very low the temperature was, but I was well wrapped up and really enjoyed my skating...Till I stopped and took off the boots! I then discovered that the chill factor that I had created by airflow as I skated around had absolutely frozen my feet inside those very tight boots. Friends drove me back to the nice warm officers mess and I sat near a radiator...What agony it was as my feet thawed out!

Dave, I'll keep that in mind when I need another expensive hobby...I'm getting plenty of practice at flying and taking pictures from outside the cockpit as FLIGHT has no replay facilities. There is also a camera that you can drop somewhere...I have not yet explored that but I suspect it would be perfect for practising for flying an RC model

I'll keep that in mind when I need another expensive hobby...

Indeed Peter That 'camera drop' facility sounds good Believe it or not, you can actually buy sims for some of the RC models. I've no idea what their accuracy is like but it's nice to be able to practise various aero's on a pc. Crashes are much less expensive to fix! That Carbon Cub is around the £140 mark and is Bind'n'fly. You buy one transmitter that will cover everything you may need and simply 'bind' the model to it. Something like the DX6i Spektrum has a 10 model memory so as long as any furture models you buy are BNF compatible with the Spektrum radio system.. you only need to buy one transmitter

There's absolutely no requirement to buy 10 models to fill the DX6i's memory though it does become tempting

ATB
DaveB