NZFF

by **cowpatz** » Mon May 23, 2011 9:39 am

This is a revamp of the Mike Stone F27. series 100 through to 600 with various overseas repaints. NZ repaints are available for Air NZ, NAC, Airforce and New Zealand Post (although some of these could do with updating).
Fraser McKay has done a great job on improving the panel as well as the sounds and flight dynamics.
I have yet to fly it to test the handling qualities but the sounds and panel are great.
I spent many hours losing my hearing on these delightful "Dutch Butterboxes"....just a big twin engined C172!

Available on Fightsim.com
File name: fokkf276.zip

by **Ian Warren** » Mon May 23, 2011 12:06 pm

This aircraft , very surprised a good modeled version with VC with all the animations payware or freeware , Mike Stone will be happy his is still in service and to have the well known panel designer Fraser Mckay jump in and revamp , it will be worth a look .

by **deeknow** » Mon May 23, 2011 1:09 pm

Fantastic, love the F27s, lookin FWD to doing a few NZ-Post runs now

by **Olderndirt** » Mon May 23, 2011 2:00 pm

Good friend of mine was on board the Northern Consolidated F27 which broke a spar, over Iliamna, AK, many years ago. Severe turbulence and an excessive descent airspeed were suspected.

by **Ian Warren** » Mon May 23, 2011 3:04 pm

Dave , another very the same incident happened with a 580 cargo flight out off Wellington a few years back , well trained and experienced crew , same with anything , Nature has control .

by **cowpatz** » Mon May 23, 2011 7:00 pm

224 kts was Vmo and we regularly used that in clear/still air. 180 kts was the standard descent speed and rough air descent speed. If you have ever had a look inside the rear end of these things they are built light. As a consequence there used to be a lot of back end movement at speed. It was also tricky slowing down from 224 kts to the gear speed of 168 kts and flap speed of 144 kts. Torque was not allowed below 40 PSI except very briefly (to reconfigure but very much frowned upon as well as being an admission that one had cocked up). In fact later the recommended minimum torque limit was moved up to 60 PSI. This was all due to layshaft shuffling in the transmission which would cause premature wear and ultimately failuire.
I can remember that the ground course took 3 days just to cover how the prop works and I never did fully understand what the third oil line did

Also the pneumatic steering and brakes took a lot of getting used to ...very easy to become a great hissing monster weaving down the runway with the steering and brakes totally out of sync.
The gust lock was also a real back killer....claimed many. Still it was an awesome training machine.
Back then the travelling public just didn't know how good they had it. A 40 or 48 seat aircraft serving the likes of Kerikeri, Kaitaia, Whakatane, Wanganui etc etc etc all with tea or coffee and 2 cabin attendants (later 1). It has taken us 20 years to get back to somewhere near that with the Dash 8 and Q300 but they still don't cover such an extensive network that we used to.
A shame there is just ZK-NAO left.

by **Ian Warren** » Mon May 23, 2011 7:34 pm

Cowpatz , Just damn pleased you have so so much to give

the information for the type , maybe apply it to Rick Pipers 748

by **MaarkenEdwards** » Mon May 23, 2011 9:05 pm

Finally! an F27 thats worth flying

haha excuse my excitement, but i love this aeroplane

by **Splitpin** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:20 am

Cowpatz....thanks for that info,

It is a shame we only have 1 left. I can remember some awesome trips ex wigram in the old fokkers....marops were always a bit slow unless we spotted an illegal, but low level(real low level) nav training between here and woody was amazing........
We still have a few bits of a couple of them in the stores...but otherwise, gone without a trace

Thanks again, thats good gen.

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