Float Planes!

[Gdoody]

Testing has completely passed, and I am now the proud pilot of numerous passengers, and working hard to improve my piloting skills,
which I must say I have discovered are rather atrocious.

This week I decided to emulate a harbour run on a beechcraft float plane from Vancouver Harbour to Victoria, BC. After loadign up the
plane, and getting everything set up, I went to start FSPassengers, only to discover that I cannot create an FSP flight because float planes
don't have parking brakes. Logical .... yes. But then I got to thinking some more, and I recall a post from a beta tester saying to drop off
FSP Passengers in the middle of the lake - pulling up to shore would jostle them .... (in the Tips section), and thus have come to the
conclusion that flying a float plane, and using FSP must be possible. Can anybody advise on how I can do this without having a parking
brake!

Oh - and to share a good story - FSP has encouraged me to reset all my keyboard commands to either off, or to have a Ctrl or Shift in front
of them. I was on a 3 hour journey from St. John's to Toronto this past week, went to hit the F9 key (open FSNav) missed and hit F8
(Flaps) at 280 Kts. End result - destroyed the flaps, and ran off then end of the runway in Toronto. My friend who was flying with me has
threatened to never let me live it down. I told him to buy a copy and show me he could do better. He has done so .... now the war is on!
One more customer for Dan!

Many Thanks!

[jboweruk]

I've done that before myself, it sucks. Luckily before FSP and all I got was nudged up a couple of thousnd feet.

[John_Krist]

Well, if a pilot is stupid enough to grab the flaps lever instead of the start button of his GPS, I suppose a set of destroyed flaps and an
overrun runway is rather cheap price to pay as long as everyone survived, lol
Oh, and I think the FAA will come to see you

Isn't there a way to set a line in the cfg to make it have a parking brake?



Post Edited ( 07-19-05 09:36 )

[jboweruk]

Ah yes, but in a real plane the flaps lever is not right next to the start button on the gps now is it

[Gdoody]

I would also add that in a real plane, much of the levers are not combined into a 1/2 foot X 1 1/2 foot keyboard ... much easier to make an
error that way. That said, since I don't typically use the keyboard for flying....I simply disabled all of the flight control keyboard commands,
thus leaving more room for addons such as FSNav, FSPassengers etc.

I never thought about adding a parking brake via the config file .... will have to see if that is doable. If so, I will post an update back here.