BN-2 Island Hopping

[Charl]

As I mentioned elsewhere, perfect for popping over to GBI



Home sweet Auckland - suddenly there's AI tubes everywhere



That squeaky white beach



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

[Naki]

Awesome...I'm a big fan of your pictorial series

[Charl]

Cheers Paul, they are fun to make too.

[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

[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!

[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.

[deeknow]

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

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?

[emfrat]

deeknow, this might help
https://www.pprune.org/pacific-general- ... anual.html

[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?

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



EDIT: Oops wrong thread, I meant to post here

[jankees]

nice series, I like the Islander

[Charl]

I know this, and wonder if you might be tempted to do ZK-PIZ - for the hop from NZNE to GB!

[deeknow]

deeknow, this might help
https://www.pprune.org/pacific-general- ... anual.html

Oooh .. thanks Mike.

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

[jankees]

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?

jk4932 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

[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!

[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.



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.