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Goodly morning all...

Still got some Tweaking to do, still have problems getting an Amphibian Aircraft off water as the wheels are down when it loads, here is some shots of my first Payware Aircraft...

FSX and Windows 7
HDE Clouds
3D Lights
FS Water Configurator set to Steve's Favourite Settings
Aircraft:

Very nice Doug.

I moved it to payware since you are showcasing a payware aircraft. How do you like it so far?

OOP's...do I have to go stand in the corner of me wee little barn in the underground garage for posting in the wrong area Larry?....

So far the aircraft is not bad but I sure would like to be able to take the Amphibian Beaver off from the water instead of the land strips.

The float Beavers work fine on the water, it is just the Amphibian Beavers that sit on the water with their wheels down...

There must be something I am missing or need to do.   :-/

OOP's...do I have to go stand in the corner of me wee little barn in the underground garage for posting in the wrong area Larry?....

..........careful Doug....the marmalade cannons are loaded 8-)

Cool shots 8-) 8-)

Payware??

Did you get tired of waiting for M$ Flight to come out?

Great to see you posting again

[quote]OOP's...do I have to go stand in the corner of me wee little barn in the underground garage for posting in the wrong area Larry?....

So far the aircraft is not bad but I sure would like to be able to take the Amphibian Beaver off from the water instead of the land strips.

The float Beavers work fine on the water, it is just the Amphibian Beavers that sit on the water with their wheels down...

There must be something I am missing or need to do.

Im unsure on your problem, but could you not start on land with the wheels down, take off, wheels up, then land on water. Save the flight, then you should start from there whenever you want? Or use slew and do the same thing?

Thanks Chuck much appreciated...

Thanks Larry, think I will do the Tweaks Dave sent me and see if that clears up the problem.
Maybe, and perhaps I am thinking out of the box, but perhaps my Payware Beaver does not like FSX Addons and prefers the normal program...not sure.

Thanks "todayshorse" that is what I am doing now unless I just fly the Float version.

Amphibian Beavers.

Thanks but I have been using the Joystick programed button but the gear still will not raise, the Amphibian just sits there on top of the water...

The float Beavers work fine on the water, it is just the Amphibian Beavers that sit on the water with their wheels down...

I'm wondering if the gear gets damaged when the amphibian loads at a water base which prevents it retracting. You could try disabling Crashes & Damage from Realism settings to see if that fixes it.

Thanks Doug but it is already disabled...

Maybe, and perhaps I am thinking out of the box, but perhaps my Payware Beaver does not like FSX Addons and prefers the normal program...not sure.

Which water base are you using? Have you tried it at a default water runway like Evers? This is my test base for all floatplanes/seaplanes. I quickly tried it with the FSX default Goose & the gear was retracted when the sim loaded.

Hi Doug...

Started the Payware Beaver off on the water at Evers "United States...NY State I think" and low and behold she loaded with the gear retracted on the water...

Now I am wondering why it does not do that with the Home of Flight Ontario Freeware Scenery like Orillia "Lake St. John"?

I have had no problems with any of their scenery until I went Payware....HMMMM....       ;D

Thanks Doug for giving me the location to check this out...

Hi Doug. At least that gives us something to go on. I don't think it's confined to payware & a freeware amphibian would probably have the same problem. It seems to me that your Flight Ontario water base is missing whatever it is in the default scenery that defines it as a water runway. I'm no scenery designer so I have no idea how to fix it.

PS. Have you got Ultimate Terrain installed?

Hi Doug...

Ultimate Terrain Canada and Environment X both installed for FSX...