Hi there, I live on a river. Today landed an ‘Icon’ on it and taxied on the water to the Townehouse I live in. The building actually shows up, and the riverbank in front of it is there too. I also flew right over our cottage on a lake in NW Ontario in a 172 yesterday, and to my amazement found it, as well as the beach and dock I made there …are shown as are many of my neighbors and friends cottages and docks. (everything but the fish and beer!)
I’d like to make both places selectable locations I can start from, land at, etc. anytime I wish. eg. designate them as private airports for just my own issue of FS?
Is there a way to achieve this in FS? If not does anyone know if there is a wish list that Microsoft reviews where I could suggest that?
Thanks AP,
I will try that. I’m glad it saves the altitude since I’d like the plane to be on the water at those locations when starting from them. Much obliged!
It works! It did save the position with the plane on the water.
I started there and thought I’d explore the river while on it so I headed toward downtown. About half a mile in S I came to the Chief Peguis Bridge. It is rendered as a solid object so I thought I might just be able to go right through it and come out the other side. Unfortunately that didn’t work and I smashed into the solid wall. Sure would be nice if you could be on a river and pass under bridges. One could explore Venice by Seaplane.
In FS4 an Italian fellow created the Nardi Riveria …an Italian amphib from the 60’s. Incredible plane. He also created scenery called Itacoast …the Italian Riveria region. There were a couple of towns along that coast where you could run the amphib up a boat ramp and it would become a car of some kind in which that town could be explored.
Hopefully FS2020 will have that kind of functionality sometime in future.
Meanwhile it would be nice if there was a way to get under bridges that are rendered as solid objects or give the user a way to click on it and say “hey FS…this is a bridge that can be flown under” then it could be taxied under in an anphib as well.
Enjoying that ICON today. So simple and a lot of fun.
Lol FS-4 could do amphibians ? well can you taxi a sea plane out of the water in MSFS… have you tried ICON-5 ? or the Goose ? That’s freeware see link below. It has wheels, it floats on the body of the aircraft. Extend landing gear after landing on water must be done, else it will crash. But there can be no gear change IN the water, so amphibian is till not allowed ! (MSFS probably, not the aircraft)
Hmm I’ve not seen any warnings about that website, they are pirats ? changed the link to your google drive… and I tested my earlier claim (amphibian) but I can’t get it reproduced. I can park Goose on the beach, but MSFS (?) does not allow me to put landing gear down in the water, so there’s no “crawling up to taxi” on the beach, alas… there is no way amphibian behaviour can be tricked in some way ?
airspeed and angles are also saved, throttle is not saved…
is it the right one ?
