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Magnum Beaver

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How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« on: March 03, 2011, 09:19:43 PM »




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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2011, 04:36:13 AM »
Wow!!! Amazing! Great vid´s 8)
I liked the third vid most. 72 ft for take off and about 80 ft for landing with these planes!
I can tell you my littlebird (MD500) got nervous seeing this!!!! ;D
Thanks for sharing!


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Magnum Beaver

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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2011, 04:54:21 AM »
used to watch these live back when I lived up there.. it's just awesome how laid back everyone is...
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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2011, 08:02:01 AM »
I have a scenery plan in place to make this happen. Well, sort of. I originally wanted to make it a multi-player fly-in competition, but would be kind of hard to do that I think.

But I will finish the scenery that local pilots can go to and practice their STOL skills at. That is going to happen. Not too far in the future, but you'll get it.

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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2011, 09:06:00 AM »
I think there's a video of a Cartbon Cub on tundras doing it in >20 feet.

Mind you, I have see a Beaver take off vertically and fly backwards. OK, it was without a pilot.

???

Two mistakes were made that day. A maintenance crew had positioned the Beaver in the middle of the hanger for maintenance - they for got to place the "lift killers" on the wings (ground equipment - simply planks that we'd strap to the upper surfaces of the wings. The hangar front doors were open as someone was moving other Beavers out and it was a windy day.

Mistake #2, on the flingwing end of the hangar, some fool decided to open the other hangar doors.

Imagine "venturi". The wind was straight on and with the venturi effect, we had >60 kts.

Imagine a crowd of headless chickens. That Beaver was off its wheels (oh yes, mistake #3 - no control locks)

Thing is, the rear doors were not yet fully open. Damaged tailplane, damaged roof (smashed into the ceiling crane hook), lots of loose and light equipment blown all over the place and a couple of new private soldiers.
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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2011, 11:58:42 AM »
it sure would be fun to do this in a m/p session.

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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2011, 11:59:29 AM »
I'll make something for us that will work.

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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2011, 12:51:01 PM »
I have a scenery plan in place to make this happen. Well, sort of. I originally wanted to make it a multi-player fly-in competition, but would be kind of hard to do that I think.

Actually I think that's been done pretty succesfully. The guys at flightsim.no had a competition at Darrington with lots of traffic cones on the runway, and did STOL takeoffs and landings with Porters, Cubs etc.  :)

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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2011, 02:24:07 PM »
Virtually speaking, way back in the old days of FS2002 I think.. we used to do these comps over at Annette Island on Bushnet (or whatever it was.. was the server for BFU, IIRC) I wasn't there very often, but made it to a couple...
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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2011, 02:37:11 PM »
That's pretty cool because that's where I already placed the objects for this at. I never knew about the place you mentioned so it's a pretty interesting coincidence I think.

I'll get this done sooner than later now. It's a sign!!

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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2011, 04:23:10 PM »
Bush Flying Unlimited (BFU) is Avsim's Bush Fling group...   http://bfu.avsim.net/

I think Francois was very involved with them for a long time...
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Re: How Alaska bush pilots have fun
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2011, 05:06:24 PM »
See my post in the Addon Scenery forum concerning a "Coming Soon" for the STOL competition scenery I'm almost done with.  ;)

Brad