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Sprocket wrote:
A number of times now I've stopped just short of buying the Alabeo PA36 Pawnee:

http://www.alabeo.com/index.php?accion= ... &correl=82

Not knowing the Alabeo "brand", I wonder, from your experience, if there are any reasons I shouldn't buy it ?

Jan

Naw, its a great model. I have it, too. My only complaint is that the sound on the IO-720 is ALL WRONG. It sounds like a flat-six, not a flat-eight. I only ever heard one IO-720, it was on a Comanche. I don't know if it was a 375hp or a 400hp (I think a 400), but it sounded like a radial almost, a "Putt, putt, putt" sound. The Alabeo PA36-375 doesn't sound like that. But that is an easy fix. I just plugged in a modded radial sound file. The only Pawnee Brave I was around had a Tiara 285 Continental, and it sounded like the sound files provided with the model, but this one is clearly a -375.



Today I'm flying out of 97PA Willows, a scenery by Richard O. Finley which he hasn't uploaded here for some reason (his Long Island Mitchell AFB is here, but not Willows) but is at flightsim.com, and which I (as always) took the liberty of turning into a real working farm strip.

Well, maybe we don't work ALL the time, there is a bar in the hangar.




Crank up and taxi out





Out to the threshold and do runups. Mags are switches on left side of dash.



Add power and haul her out. I only have about half a load, so she hops right off and climbs out quick.




This is a little field, better suited for the Ag Wagon, but I'll use it anyway.





Turn around and head back to airport







Sorry, this was kind of rushed. I'll try to add some more later if anyone is interested.

jcj78 wrote:
Well, maybe we don't work ALL the time, there is a bar in the hangar.

That open hanger is tempting fate.

We have a very nice series running on TV here in the UK at the moment, called "Airplane Repo". In this show some daredevil guys reposes airplanes for the banks and customers.
It's a sneaky and dangerous business, and most times they "steal" the airplane from under the (defaulted) owner's noses.

Amazingly, on todays show they sneaked away with a crop sprayer, but not sure which one it was.

So JcJ, I sincerely hope the payments on this plane in the hanger are up to date?

In the meantime, I have bought the Alabeo PA36 Pawnee.
But they don't really do any crop dusting here in the UK I don't think. So its off to South Africa or USA with this new plane..