Great Barrier Island

[ardypilot]

Built in the Isle of Wigit. Flown in the South Pacific. Great Barrier Airlines operate a fleet of Brittan Norman BN-2A Islander's which make a the 90km trip from the Great Barrier Island to Auckland International (and back) multiple times daily, and are always buzzing over my house at about 1000 feet every hour or so.

Anyway, I just downloaded Marcel Kuhnt's excellent model from his website (www.m-r-software.de), grabbed GBA's repaint of AVSIM and tweaked the flight dynamics a bit, then took it for a late afternoon flight to NZGB:

I have skipped the journey shots and have just uploaded 9 images descending into land over Great Barrier Island:





(whoops, I accidentally turned the lights on)






(looks like I did it again here too)








Enjoy

[cirrusnature]

Excellent pics and thanks for the tip on the islander as I've been on a lookout for a decent one for ages and that one looks really nice. By the way, I'm curious as to what part of the FD did you tweak and is it necessary for it to fly properly.

Cheers

[Muppet]

It's a really nice model indeed. I downloaded a Real Journey's paint for it too, they fly to Milford out of ZQN. Great shots Trolly. And you should have those lights on all the time, except for your Landing Light unless your in a high traffic density area where it can help others spot you

[Charl]

It's also been a longstanding favourite of mine - the sound must be one of the best ever for FS.
There's a Flightseeing repaint, and also AI available



This one posed at Peter Lohr's Queenstown airport

[ardypilot]

Thanks for the comments guys.

In answer to "By the way, I'm curious as to what part of the FD did you tweak and is it necessary for it to fly properly." Well I copied and renamed the flight dynamics .air file from Milton Shupe's Aero Commander 560 (the only other twin prop in my hanger built in a simular shape) and changed the following lines in the aircraft.cfg :

[autopilot]
autopilot_available=0

to

[autopilot]
autopilot_available=1

I was finding it to pitch up OTT in level flight and takeoff. The model isn't half difficult to install, I think it was the translated German instructions that made it so hard for me, but I got there in the end!

[Charl]

Yes the model is full of interesting little surprises, like the strange knob unmarked which it turns out, changes the pax load! You suddenly find a young girl next to you in the RH seat.
And I loved the cockpit sign, right in the plane of the prop, that says "Don't lean out"

Trolly, the BN needs constant trim adjustment to fly. Years ago I briefly took the controls of one at Kaikoura while whale spotting, and was deeply frightened when the thing pitched over with a fairly small throttle change.



Here it is in Robin Corn's old Kaikoura scenery which I love.
Hey Robin, how about a small tweak to make it live with the new mesh??

[ardypilot]

I'm glad I am not the only person who finds the BN find to fly Charl

Nice picture by the way, could you also tell me what key combo do you press to get the mechanic out?