Anyone been successful for this - any tips!
Maintaining 4000ft, at 100kts and doing a 360deg turn.
AP is clearly not the answer as it nose-dives 
The ‘autopilot’ system is just not that sophisticated! That is very slow for this beast and - I imagine - quite difficult to do.
I use OnAir routinely. I don’t know if it’s the same in all the ‘worlds’ - I fly mostly in ‘Cumulus’ and at least there you only have to do the checkride in the aircraft class, so to fly the DC6 it’s ‘Multi Engine Piston Land’. I happen to have the Carenado Seminole and did it in that … pretty easy!
Now qualified, I’m ferrying my DC6 down to South America to do some good old fashioned cargo haulin’ 
hah, 100 knots is under the final approach speed for the DC-6. On-Air need to fix their checkride.
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I managed to do it but I feel I barely passed. Hand-flew the entire way as gyropilot was a lot more cumbersome with no mapping on the turn knob / climb glide wheel.
For the 100 knots requirement, I went full landing config (flaps 50, gears down). It’s not optimal, but at least it should still be above stall speed (Vso) which is around 80+ iirc.
Agree it has to be done manually. I’ll practise first. Thanks for response and keep up the excellent videos!
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I’m in thunder but yes it works the same I believe. That’s an excellent tip about the PA44. I own it so may try it that way.
Nice job! Now you are fully ‘qualified’ fire up that beautiful Douglas and go have some fun!
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