Asobo Pilatus PC-6 Float not steering on water

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Brief description of the issue:
The aircraft does not steer when floating on water, neither with tail rudder nor with water rudders
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Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
Land on water and try to steer the floating aircraft. It does not steer or does it very very slowly. When water rudders are deployed, it steers for maybe 30° then stops steering. Consequently, the aircraft is uncontrollable on water
PC specs and/or peripheral set up of relevant:
Intel i7, NVidia 2060, 32 Gb RAM, T.16000 joystick, CH pro pedals
Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
Since the Pilatus PC-6 was implemented with GOTY update

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I have to add that the Float Pilatus does not steer on water EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY WIND, whilst other aircraft (e.g. default C172 amphibian) are able to steer with no wind

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Have you lowered the rudder? I don’t know about the PC-6 but in the XCub there is a handle on the floor next to the pilot seat that you raise up and this lowers the rudders. You need to un-lower them to drop your gear and land back on a runway.

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This has been an issue since the beginning when pc6 was added.

Indeed, the waterrudder is pretty much useless. Also the water rudder in every aircraft does not work as it used to before SU7. SU6 fixed it and SU7 broke it again. Water rudder acts as normal rudder it stops being affective after around 30 degrees. When you release it, the plane goes back to previous position just like a normal rudder in the air.

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Brief description of the issue:

Cannot steer the plane in water… even with the water rudder down. As I steer the plane to the right, it will start to steer right and then it springs back and steers left on its own. Opposite occurs when steering left. Occurs under minimal thrust. Prop RPM and throttle are dialed all the way back to minimize speed and Spiral Slipstream. The plane was still moving in the water at about 10 knots even with the throttle in idle and prop dialed back to .1%. Occurs with Calm winds.

This does not occur with the Cessna 172 Seaplane that my friend was using on this same flight with me. I tried the 172 Seaplane myself to compare. The 172 is completely functional while steering in water. I was trying to explore Fort Jefferson off the Florida Keys with the PC-6 and could not do so… Completely unusable for its intended purpose in the water.

I understand there is a post somewhat similar to this, but it is old, was occuring under an older update and the symptoms are described differently. Furthermore, there is no video. I wanted to provide something fresh with video so that this can be fixed. It’s a neat plane and a shame it’s not usable for what it was designed to do.

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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Simply try to steer in the water

PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:

Xbox Series X. Occurs whether using Controller of Tflight Hotas One.

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

1.26.6.0

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All float planes are a joke, in the water. Absolutely zero ability to control them.

It’s like there is no friction between floats and water. I start a flight with an 8 knot tailwind and before I could do anything the wind turned me around, pointing towards the trees. Even before pressing Fly.

PC-6 less rudder control than an 8 knot wind.

Reverse thrusts are useless on water as well.

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Try the 172. It works for me as it should. Just make sure you lower the water rudder. The pilatus though… man its frustrating that they still havent fixed it after so long.

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I was able to steer the floatplane Pilatus after putting the landing gear down after landing on water. Stupid yes, but it works.

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Thanks, somehow that corrects the water rudder bug.
I even raised the water rudder since the plane floated high with landing gear down and the rudder was no longer in the water!
Now it steers correctly - one bug fixes another! Haha!!!

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Yes, the same. Every float plane I’ve flown has some internal method to lower the rudders so they can provide turn capability in water taxi. The Msfs PT6 doesn’t have that. If so I can’t find it. Wheels go up and down electrically. Is there a Real PT6 float driver out there that can shed light on this?
Charliechan

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The float Pilatus PC-6 cannot be steered on the water even with the water rudders down. (The lever to extend the water rudders in on the floor to the left of the pilot’s seat.) I would really like to see this fixed!

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Yes, too bad that such bug has still not been fixed after all this time :frowning:

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Still has the issue 2 years later!

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wait, the official included Asobo pc-6 is completely unable to steer on the water?

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Yes. They never fixed it.

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thats wild. assumed it’d be patched by now