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Landing or taking off in a flying boat

PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:50 am
by AlphaBravo
are there anyware you can take off in a flying boat starting in the water not on the runway? as my flying boat has no landing gear


Craig

Re: Landing or taking off in a flying boat

PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:10 am
by ozzy72
Either find a suitable floatplane only base, or press y to get into slew mode and then use the jostick to maneouver the plane over some water and press y again to go to normal flying mode ;)

Re: Landing or taking off in a flying boat

PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:26 am
by Falcon_ctba
Look for a airport on New York on USA. There are on place that have just water. Look out there!! ;D

Re: Landing or taking off in a flying boat

PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:11 am
by Hagar
There's a full list of default water runways in FS2002 Help. Must be well over 100 of them. Go to the Help index & type in water runway.

Re: Landing or taking off in a flying boat

PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:16 pm
by Straferr
Perhaps, you want to save the situation after you get the thing in the water, so you don't always start off on a runway??

Re: Landing or taking off in a flying boat

PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:34 pm
by Hagar
Perhaps, you want to save the situation after you get the thing in the water, so you don't always start off on a runway??

Not a bad idea but why not start off on the water in the first place & save all that messing around with slewing? Plenty to choose from. Look at this lot.

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Of course, it depends where you want to operate from. Most of the defaults seem to be in the US.

Re: Landing or taking off in a flying boat

PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:41 pm
by dodger
Look up Vancouver Harbour in Scenery add-ons. That will give you the downtown harbour float-plane base plus the Horseshoe Bay base if you want to explore the Pacific north-west coast plus Alaska. Cheers!