Big Radials Noorduyn Norseman released

Good point, skis would be a great addition. Lots of pics out there with big skis fitted to the Norseman, since it was flown in the arctic and antarctic regions.

Although, this plane with skis might be a wild ride. It can be a bit of a handful on takeoff and landing!

True, it would be wild!

Maybe my wish for skis is not quite mainstream, but considering the Norseman was designed specifically for the Canadian outback, skis would really make it more comlete for just that! Or maybe for a revival of the antarctic expedition with this plane? To me the Norseman cries out for some fun expeditions in the cold!

Mmmm, one can only dream and hope that @OzWookiee might work some magic. Oz, just in case you don’t know, at really low temperature water can turn into a weird white substance called ā€œsnowā€. That’s kind of like your sand (it gets everywhere!), but is great fun to move around in. But since moving in this snow can be tricky, people have come up with the idea of tying a pair of boards under their feet. I’ve been reliably informed that those boards, ā€œskisā€ to use the technical term, also work on airplanes. :wink:

That is a beautiful cockpit in this real-life video, two-tone dark and light blue. All the videos and screenshots I have seen of the Big Radials package only have that extremely dull and hard to read black cockpit. Had they modelled this blue variant, or at least a grey one, I would be much more tempted to buy this plane …

Edit: Link to a photo on Wikipedia: File:Norseman CF-GSR Cockpit Right.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Personally I like those dull, old-school cockpits. But I can see where you are coming from! It would be cool to have some choice. Give it a week or two, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if some liveries with lighter cockpits came out on flightsim.to very soon.

A71-10 01 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

I’ve corrected the Swedish textures:
78001 (0003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

and made an ATC version:
ATC (0004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

but I wait for the update from Big Radials before uploading

RNoAF (0003) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Finally bought it and flew around some remote area so as to put it into its natural environment :slight_smile:

I like it.

Two questions to you Norseman pilots to confirm my observations before I report them to BR:

  • Does anyone understand the logic behind the thicker needle on the directional gyro? (the thinner one of the two shows heading of the aircraft) According to the BR documentation, it should be pointing to the South which it is not. It does not seem to show anything really useful and when I checked the code behind that needle, it is linked to NAV1 radial & heading of the aircraft.

  • I can hear a rather disturbing loop in the engine / prop sound linked to RPM. It is like the engine / prop surging time to time. Can you hear it too?

Thanks :+1:

gibbes(0006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Well that didn’t take too long! :wink:

And just in time for WU13…

Thanking you kindly.

work progresses
gibbes(0006) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

gibbes(0005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Looking good!

And for anyone else interested in Gibbes Sepik Airlines’ use of the Norseman in PNG, I have just come across an account by someone involved in the administration of PNG in the 1950s. It includes descriptions of flights made with Gibbes Sepik and also the building of some of the airstrips we can now use in the sim.

It is online at https://www.pngattitude.com/a-kiaps-chronicle.html

another Norwegian just popped out of the paintshed
wid(0007) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

Sorry if this question is quite dumb on my part: are these downloadable liveries? If so, how does one go about downloading them? I’m not familiar with that flickr thingy so I don’t know how that works.

sorry, but they are not yet downloadable. Big Radials have said they are coming with an update soon, which would interfere with my textures, so rather than having to upload updates for my paints, I’d rather do it right the first time. Besides, I’m hoping they unmirror the wing textures, so I can add registrations and USAAF roundels on the wings.
So a bit more patience please, for now it’s just screenshots (on flickr), to wet your appetite.

Wonderful! Looking forward to this!

Anyone else having an audio bug where the engine sound is very tinny/filtered in the cockpit?

It has been discussed - not everyone has this bug and BR (last I heard) was unable to reproduce the problem. Their position is that it is likely related to the individuals’ community folder and not a BR problem.
Does your ATC comms work? Some people are reporting that they cannot use comms unless they open the GPS and tinker with the comm1 and comm2 frequencies.
+I am having both of these issues myself - muted engine sounds in the cabin and comms not working by default.

Hmmm, it is installed on a different HDD to the msfs.exe and placed in the community folder via a symbolic link because I have limited SDD space - could it be caused by that? I’ve never had issues otherwise with symbolic links working.

I have no ATC. Tried fiddeling with the GSM, but still ā€œno joyā€. Did anyone have succes this way?