Hello Flightsimmers,
i updated Simbriefs DC-6 Profil to match the airframe weights used by PMDG and i want to share these with you.
Happy landings o/
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Perfect timing, I’ve been looking at her sitting in my hangar, thinking that I need to do some flying.
-Thanks
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Thanks for this, as per above, I am also going to start flying her more again.
Been sitting around for too long and its a great aircraft.
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Thanks for your effort and sharing.
I have been looking for these.
Now let me get then back in the air.
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I spotted one error that might cause Simbrief to flake out a bit - your Max Landing Weight is too low. You can’t have a MLW that is less than your Max ZFW - that makes no sense. I’ve been sniffing around and the best I can find is that the MLW for both the DC-6A and DC-6B is 95,000 lbs. For the original DC-6 it was about 3,000 lbs less.
Otherwise, all your other numbers look good. Although if you REALLY want to get picky about it, the Engine Type of the DC-6B was the R2800-CB17, not the CB16.
Hello @Dreadnought06y,
thank you for spotting that out. Currently i have 83,148 lbs as Max ZFW. This Number came up, when you set 0 fuel and full cargo/passengers on the Tablet in the DC-6. So even when the EFB allows this Number to be set, i understand your point, that is not the right weight for the wing limits.
Taking a look at PMDGs operations Manual gives a MZFW of 74,000lbs and a MLW of 80,000lbs.
i will change the Max ZFW to 74,000lbs and i would keep the landing weight at 80,000lbs.
Did you experience any Problems with the 83,148lbs so far?
For the engine PMDG is only talking about the CB-16
i don´t think they modeled different engines and that both variants are using CB-16s in MSFS, so i would keep the CB16.
I haven’t tried it out yet. I suffered a hard disk crash, then built an entirely new computer (I just used the hard drive crash as a good excuse, LOL) and had to reinstall everything. Unfortunately I lost in the crash My Excel spreadsheet that contained all my customized checklists, performance calculators etc for every aircraft, that I painstakingly compiled over the past 3 years 
. A proper checklist takes at least 5-6 hours for me to do as I like it, and I haven’t gotten around to the DC-6 yet. Don’t you love computer crashes…
oh, sounds like you put a lot of work into it, sad to hear that it got lost. 
For the DC-6 i like to use DC-6 Complete Checklist (Normal Procedures) für Microsoft Flight Simulator | MSFS (flightsim to link) i has the checklist sand the most important charts and tables summarized in the document. Maybe it helps you out. Then there is nice picture in the Manual for a Pattern with the DC-6, which speeds and flaps settings are recommended for a Approach, this really helps when you haven’t flown the plane for a while. 
Thanks for the tip. The only complaint I have about this plane is that I wish PMDG would make sure there were allowances for the camera to move to the back of the throttle quad, where the fuel tank controls etc are. I have a hard time getting a view back there where you can read them.
I thought View 3 did precisely that, no?
(I think it’s 3. I’ll load the sim later and verify.)
EDIT: Yes, View 3:
That’s about the best I can get too. You still can’t see behind the selector levers (marked S).
Minor complaint, but I wish I could see it better.