Ground control and handling have improved significantly now that there are brakes. If anyone has any questions, I am happy to answer. And once you are there, the beach is pretty small - remember, you can’t brake, and can’t steer at higher speeds cause you will tilt over and die. But again, good luck with GETTING it to that specific beach. But I can’t see myself flying it often because it’s a pain to fly and control and if I want a novelty stroll around my beloved Vieques with some beach stops, it’s there for me. Is it worth the money? It’s $10! Yes, it is. Ground handling is slow and painful here… And I can’t imagine that the real one has zero ability to stop. I get that it’s a soaring kinda thing, but it just travels WAY too far on zero throttle. This is strictly VFR and you can estimate your speed pretty well as is.īiggest issue for me is power management and ground handling. Instruments are pretty hard to see unless you are zoomed into them. Looks pretty decent, nothing that distracts you. Texture quality and modeling are passable. The way to deal with it is use the rudder right away to turn it and it will come to a stop. So if there is a building in front of you, you die. When you start cold and dark, the aircraft rolls right away. You won’t bleed off speed quickly and with such limited ability of lining up with any kind of runway, you are again at the mercy of the wind. Landing on solid ground - again, good luck. You will end up capsizing with a crash of “You crashed into water”… It’s just very difficult to control this thing in any sort of precise manner. Once you are in the water, activating water rudder does a lot of what it does on the ground - tilt easily at higher speeds. You can cruise with throttle at 0 for MINUTES - it doesn’t bleed off airspeed easily, so it’s hard to set it down on water - it just wants to fly. Your best bet is to use the rudder to control and steer it - this is Bleriot territory hard. Aileron input is useless - it makes the aircraft tilt, but not really go in any particular direction. In the air, you are at the mercy of the wind. It takes an incredible amount of time to bleed off speed - on the ground OR in the air.
The other thing is - holding short of ANYTHING is impossible because you can’t stop it, even if it’s slow. You better take it SLOW, because this thing has a nasty tendency to lean to the side and overturn, which will end things quickly for you. No brakes of any kind - this makes ground handling VERY difficult. This is an interesting one… On one hand, I am able to do what I wanted here - taxi from ground to water and back.
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