Been flying the Porter and Twotter too much on PNG bush strips to grease it yet.
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It is a lot harder if thereās much of a cross-wind.
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Water landings are MUCH easier to grease in the Goose - unless you are determined to land cross-wind in a small lake or stream, you can always land directly into wind, and the plane trims up sooo nicely, you can just set full flaps and power to about 70 knots, with a rate of descent almost as low as you like. She will just fly down into ground effect like falling into a pillow. Then just cut any remaining power and settle in.
Landing on a runway is tougher, especially if thereās a crosswind, but like anything it gets easier with practice. I will say that on wheels, the plane feels ponderous and top-heavy as it probably should given the big, bulky body, nacelles and tail. Itās easier to steer during roll-out with differential braking than rudder while slowing down.
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One thing that makes the Goose interesting to land is that when you pull back power, the nose pitches up. When you add power, it pitches down. Iām guessing thatās because of those massive engines and how they are positioned relative to the center of gravity. The challenge is that if Iām well-trimmed for a specific speed, but I want to increase or decrease my descent by changing power, I canāt just adjust descent rate by changing power without also having a significant impact on speed due to the resulting pitch change. Makes it fun and interesting. Different from many other aircraft in the simulator.
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Man, this thing almost flies like a real aircraft. Especially in VR. Love the sluggishness. You can almost feel the inertia.
On top of that, itās a gorgeous plane. The idle engine sound is spectacular.
Iāve never flown in a Goose, but, I got the same impression. I love how stable it is in the air, much closer of a feel to how when I really fly compared to other MSFS aircraft (Warriors these days).
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I agree. Iāve only flown light single engine planes and even those have a certain sluggishness. Most fs2020 planes are way too twitchy.
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If anyone here uses Axis and Ohs interactive text to speech checklists Iāve just uploaded engine start, before takeoff and water/ground landing checklists to Flightsim.to
I really enjoy the automatic reading of the checklist rather than fiddling with paper or the in game list.
I love this plane! Even made livery for her to feel more at home. I used to fly Grumman G21A Goose in fsx all the time and if I remember it correctly the plane had quite detailed POH. I really like to fly the planes as they should be flying and I loved to fiddle with power settings and procedures.
As for the somewhat spartan JRF-6: Thereās the aforementioned JRF- 6B - Goose 1A - Pilots Handbook but even with that Iām not sure how to fly it properly. Is there a chart for Manifold pressure/RPM at specific altitudes anywhere to be found? The oil temperature is always on the edge of the green if youāre careful and thereās no EGT dial. I mean Iāve never burned the engines but Iāve never fly it with maximum efficiency tooā¦
while fiddling with the MP/RPM it seems that the oil temp does not deviate from the edge of the green regardless of OAT and altitude. perhaps something thatās not modeled correctly yet perhaps?
The oil temperatures are something the developers are looking at - seems to be a small bug in how they are modeled. Idling and warmup are fine, but in normal operation they seem to always go to the top of the green range or a perhaps a bit beyond.
As noted, there is no EGT gauge, but you should instead monitor and generally keep an eye on cylinder heat temps.
But the bottom line really is just keep things below 35ā MAP except for takeoff and then for no more than 4-5 minutes. Longer and you will begin smoking out the oil and then in another couple minutes the engine will begin surging, and finally fail entirely.
The Grumman Goose from Big radials was previously released for free as a sort of work in progress a while ago, not sure if that version is still out there but their payware release will obviously be more refined.
Goose Update v1.0.2. loaded to our store and delivered to OrbX tomorrow:
Blank livery needed in package
-Found in PaintKit folder inside aircraft folder
Ski Version - GPS and transponder not displaying on the ski variant etiher: bug
-Confirmed working now.
GNS530 popout enhancement
-fixed
Rain on the left pilot window moves in the wrong direction
-fixed
misaligned hole texture on overhead strut
-fixed
texture problem on top of the door frame in rear bulkhead
-fixed
pilot figures removed from the cockpit if the pilot station weights are zeroed
-Added viz based on station weight.
Starters will crank the engines over with batteries off.
-Added a condition checking for battery master ON
Gyro Pilot Issues bug
-fixed, added heading hold select and arm
Position Light switch reverse of what the label suggests
-Made as per blueprint.
-Its a derivation of STEADY (up) OFF (middle) FLASH (down).
-They probably reused the same kind of labels, removing the flash portion of it, hence, keeping the OFF position in the middle of the lable, making it "up" in our case.
Gear Warning light dim bug
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The freeware and payware goose are made by the same people but are almost completely unrelated.
The freeware Grumman Goose is a reworked version of what was originally an FSX aircraft and models a 1950s Goose with retractable floats. They have done an excellent job but the FSX roots do show, the cockpit for example is very FSX in appearance.
The payware Grumman Goose is a native MSFS product not an import from FSX. Everything is done from scratch and is modelled in much greater detail It also models a much earlier vintage and is actually a WWII early 40ās model with a different cockpit arrangement and fixed floats.
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How do weg get the update via Big Radials?
Downloadlink via E-Mail?
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Chatter on the BR Discord server says it could be a bug in their Store - emails should have gone out to customers with the new update. However, itās like 1:30am in Australia where OzWookie is, so it might be a few hours.
Also, FWIW, the change log doesnāt mention a fix for setting/swapping comm/nav frequencies on the Garmin, but thatās fixed too.
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Well I donāt see it?
-eelis-
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Please see my reply, immediately above yours.
I did see your reply, but what is not clear; do they send personal email to customer for the update, or will it be only downloadable from their site?
I donāt use discord.
-eelis-
You must have missed the very first sentence: ā - emails should have gone out to customers.ā
So once they have a chance to sleep through the rest of the night, get up and realize thereās an issue with their Store, expect an email with a download link.
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