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BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2025 5:51 pm
by Charl
As I mentioned elsewhere, perfect for popping over to GBI

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Home sweet Auckland - suddenly there's AI tubes everywhere :blink:

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That squeaky white beach

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Just made for the job, just gets on with it.
Very easy flyer, and it has all the avionics.
Bit noisy though.

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2025 7:28 pm
by Naki
Awesome...I'm a big fan of your pictorial series

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2025 8:44 pm
by Charl
Cheers Paul, they are fun to make too.

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:27 pm
by mavman
"Just made for the job, just gets on with it.
Very easy flyer, and it has all the avionics.
Bit noisy though."

Check your storm window isn't open, I found out I'd been flying for some time with it open. Closing it did reduce the noise level, just slightly :)

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:54 am
by Charl
Haha quite right!
It was open, and closing it made a ... bit of a difference.
Always nice to have that modelled.

IRL it isn't the quietest of machines!

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:57 am
by cowpatz
Sweet pics.
If you look up islandsimpilot on YouTube, he does of lot of flying in the Islander around the Caribbean Islands. An interesting guy to listen to. Lots of tips and settings advice too.

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:25 pm
by deeknow
mavman wrote:Check your storm window isn't open, I found out I'd been flying for some time with it open. Closing it did reduce the noise level, just slightly :)

Hah, yeah I just did the same thing, didn't notice till I went and panned around outside :lol:

PS, not sure if I'm mucking up mixture settings or pitch maybe but did a wee flight yesterday and after landing one of the engines just cut out on me, wasn't out of fuel... any tips? struggling to locate a manual and the cockpit checklist popups don't seem to exist in the 2020 model?

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:03 pm
by emfrat

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:08 pm
by Charl
From that link:
65kts, load it till the struts are compressed, noise cancelling headsets mandatory, don't hit the edges that's about it I think?
:lol:

I was going to be kinder and say Dino, Page 11 of the BB manual (Which is in the download!)

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EDIT: Oops wrong thread, I meant to post here

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:19 pm
by jankees
nice series, I like the Islander

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 10:22 pm
by Charl
I know this, and wonder if you might be tempted to do ZK-PIZ - for the hop from NZNE to GB!

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:37 am
by deeknow
emfrat wrote:deeknow, this might help
https://www.pprune.org/pacific-general- ... anual.html


Oooh .. thanks Mike.

Charl wrote:I was going to be kinder and say Dino, Page 11 of the BB manual (Which is in the download!)

Wait!... What? ... there's a manual ??!? ... sheesh I'm such a MSFS noob didn't think to look in the "Official\OneStore\" folder for the addon itself ... thanks :cheers:

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 7:12 pm
by jankees
Charl wrote:I know this, and wonder if you might be tempted to do ZK-PIZ - for the hop from NZNE to GB!


I did ZK-PIY, is that OK?

Imagejk4932 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 11:04 pm
by Charl
I did download this one, but FS.TO is a little difficult to navigate between FS20 and FS24.
I had thought the NEW download might be for '24 so downloaded the OLD one, which didn't show.
Went back and tried the NEW one which now does.
Certainly VERY OK, thanks!

Re: BN-2 Island Hopping

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2025 12:56 pm
by Charl
... and here it is, doing what it should at NZNE.
While the Islander is the Flying Aircraft, the others are FCR trips replayed instead of the annoying AI we are stuck with.
It's all rather authentic.

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As an aside, I thought the Caravan models were too large, but no!
It's actually bigger than a BN-2, nevermind it looks like a Skylane. :)