@SlabsFly Yup, the Mars is super impressive. My boys love visiting the museum to see it. They’re already having issues with wear and tear on it due to its popularity though. Hopefully they can preserve it long term.
Next projects are already underway, but maybe some day… never know!
My parking break issue was down to setting it to toggle on and off. I changed it to just turn it off and and it now works ok. Thanks again for your help. It is a very enjoyable aircraft and I’m sure I will buy it after the rental period.
MS auto-added the new bindings of ‘Parking Brakes On’ Parking Brakes Off’ to some devices such as the Honeycomb Bravo.
This directly countermanded my parking brake control and wouldn’t come off until I went back in and hunted those 2 new additions down and removed them.
Do you know if this is supposed to work for all planes? I have the Albatross showing as owned in 2020, whereas other planes, like the Pelican for example, don’t show as owned in 2020.
I’ve had a good look around, but can’t find any official information. I only noticed today, as I decided to revisit 2020 as I missed the smoother performance.
What a difference a day makes! yesterday I was flying along the rugged Vancouver Island coastline, today over the inhospitable jungles in Papua New Guinea! And yes, I do realise the Albatross is not primarily a bush plane, but… I was flying in that area from AYDU to WAOM day before yesterday and passed over AYBH Bensbach along the route. Noticed it was a nice looking dirst strip and I was very tempted to abort my planned flight to try it out. In the end I decided to carry on and do a flight specifically to the strip. So today I flew from the much more civilised AYMH Mount Hagen to AYBH.
AYBH is a 4,400ft dirt strip with some trees on the threshold of runway 32, which I used. I do not know what the Albatross’s specified landing over a 50 foot obstacle is and the trees weren’t quite that tall anyway - likely around 25-30ft I would guess - but still. To me 4,400ft looked rather tight for a quite heavy aircraft so I was pretty tight on the numbers when landing. But the Albatross handled it with complete aplomb and ended up using something like 2,000ft! For a pilot that had not been doing that much flying in the aircraft and without practicing short landings, I found that unexpectedly short for such a rather heavy aircraft. On top of that it was a pretty smooth landing, even if I say so myself… 
Some screenshots:
This is where I stopped on the runway. Note the trees on the threshold
To get a sense of how long the functional part of the airfield is I went and looked it up on Google Maps. Also measured the distance from the start of the runway to where I stopped. Looks like just short of 2,100ft.
Some random shots on the ground.
Love this aircraft!
I can’t say it works for all, but I’ve got a fair number it worked for. I imagine it may be partly up to the developer.
I would assume it works for all first party aircraft. If you were to run into one it didn’t work for, I’d submit a ticket.
It really is a beautiful area from the water! Been through many times on the Alaska State ferries, as well as the small cruise ships I used to work on.
Relative local here, too – just over in Bellingham.
Love the scenery. Quite peaceful, and serene.
Hope I spelled that correctly (Serene)
Lol.
I just went through the Grumman G-111 UF-2 Aircraft Flight Handbook looking to see how long to idle the engines before shutdown (for those who want to know, it’s 30 seconds minimum at 150 degrees Celsius CHT). I found that no problem on page 156 but then I read a little farther down the column and found this:
22. Squat Strut—INSTALLED.
I’ve had a couple instances where, on a ramp at an airport, the plane is standing tail down or “squatting.” In the two cases this happened I had to start the engines, advance the throttles slowly to ~1600 RPM until the plane started to tip forward. Once the front wheel hit the pavement I could shut the engines down and the plane stayed in the proper attitude.
This usually happens with fuel tanks half full or less, and load differences of ~4000 lbs between the load in the forward compartments and crew and passengers, and the loads in the rear compartments, but not always. I’m thinking there may be problems with certain airports as I first ran into this over here at CYSN Niagara District. In that case the load difference was 1030 lbs in the forward compartment plus crew and pax, and 5450 lbs in the rear compartments for a difference of 4020 lbs.
You can see where this is going – could you install the squat strut? The ladder is always in place at the start of a flight so the squat strut should be as well.
From this video…
…here’s the best image I could get from the ‘net (that isn’t a ripoff from an art supplier):
This is the greatest plane I’ve flown in MSFS so far; my favourite before this one was the WACO YMF-5 from another (unnamed!) developer.
Bob
@AerobaticAce I’m not really sure you have a leg to stand on here…
… or maybe you do… 
It works perfectly so far, but this thing has the potential to be a complete mess, so it will need a lot of testing before I let it out. This most likely won’t be in the update currently being processed for SU4, but it might be in one after that. We’ll see anyway!
Cheers.
Nice. When I worked on the ramp we called that a Pogo.
You’re an amazing fella. I don’t think there are many developers out there who would even take the time to reply to a post like mine let alone go and put together this small, almost insignificant, detail.
Looking forward to seeing this if it works okay.
Have a great weekend.
Bob
Just finished my rental and converted it to a purchase. I think it is a really good aircraft with great support from @Ramasurinen
@SmotheryVase665 Yup… been there…
Would a strut have hauled that plane’s ■■■ down?
Great aircraft, but does anyone know how to clear the bugs off the window? I’m flying in msfs 2020
There’s nothing on the clipboard, the only way I’ve found is a new cold and dark start.
I didn’t know 2020 even had that function, though I haven’t flown it in 2020 yet.
@XboxMonkey4665 Hmm. There shouldn’t be any bugs on the windshield in 2020. Can you please get a screenshot of it for me?
Thanks.
Holy Toledo!! The first passengers I’ve seen in this plane!!
Every flight I always have my wife as my copilot and two gender neutral folks as passengers in the rear compartment weighing in at 120 pounds on the starboard rear seat and the other 110 pounds on the port rear seat. I’ve never had anyone show up until today.
What did I do different? I always “load” the airplane during the loading through the EFB, then I load it again when the flight starts, and I always hit the “Load now” bar on the EFB when it shows up. I’m in Mission Bay on Helen Lake outside of Nipigon Ontario so I’m not at any official airport/airfield/waterdrome and there are obviously no airstairs or jetways.
This is wonderful! However, a small detail could be added: the way I fly I think boxes of barf bags on the seat next to these ladies may be a necessary addition. Or maybe have one of them bent over the sink in the galley!
Anyway, again, this is just wonderful
Edit: Dang! Back to empty seats. I don’t know what I did above but I thought I did everything the same.
Edit edit: Found it! I realized when I had the passengers the one thing did that I never did before is hit, by mistake, the “On ground ready to fly” (or words to that effect). I just remembered this detail, went back and set the “On ground ready to fly,” set everything else and, when I entered the cockpit and shut the engines off there were some new passengers - an older gentleman and a young lady.
I find it a bit clunky but, if this is what’s needed, I can just be ready with the mixture and shut it off the moment the flight starts.
