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Wow, I don't think I've played on Flight Simulator properly in ages and ages. I haven't taken a screenshot in donkey's years either. So here's one... A landing at Yellowknife, NWT.




Cheers 

You handled that crosswind right on machineman9...well done...

Very dramatic, nice one!

i fly the dc-3 nearly every week and i STILL can't make it land withouth bouncing in bad weather.

i fly the dc-3 nearly every week and i STILL can't make it land withouth bouncing in bad weather.

It's the rubber in the tires

i fly the dc-3 nearly every week and i STILL can't make it land withouth bouncing in bad weather.

It's the rubber in the tires

realy?i thought it was my kai tak style aproaches i use everywhere.
a REALY bad habbit of mine.

If your landing in Yellowknife then shouldn't you be flying a buffalo DC3?

RUddddderrrrr!! as my flight instructor would say.
I was flying the default dc3 recently, i noticed its very hard to handle in weather, especially in the air and with wind, i found myself on approach with a 15-20kt wind and needed almost full opposite aileron to keep it level.

RUddddderrrrr!! as my flight instructor would say.
I was flying the default dc3 recently, i noticed its very hard to handle in weather, especially in the air and with wind, i found myself on approach with a 15-20kt wind and needed almost full opposite aileron to keep it level.

I hear that is the way the real one handles. That big vertical stab and of course its a tail dragger. Perfect recipe for nasty cross wind characteristics!

Awesome shot!!! 

I Have learned that ww2 aircraft could flare until the rear wheels were almost touching the ground.(Thanks Red tails) so you can do a really, REALLY REALLY soft anding even in the toughest of weather.

realy?i thought it was my kai tak style aproaches i use everywhere.
a REALY bad habbit of mine.

I do a mixture of Kai Tak and Lukla approaches everywhere .(And By Lukla I mean landing on runway 24 .) It NEVER ends well and there's no way it ever will. But that's reallly when I want to give the passengers the last Ride of their lives [smiley=evil.gif]

I Have learned that ww2 aircraft could flare until the rear wheels were almost touching the ground.(Thanks Red tails) so you can do a really, REALLY REALLY soft anding even in the toughest of weather.

Not just WWII aircraft. It's called a three-point landing.* That's the beauty of a taildragger. You might like to check out my photos from the link in my sig sometime.

*Not normally used on larger taildraggers like the DC-3.

i figured the horizontal stabilizer contributed , i read a book about a pilot that described the C46 being the same way saying the tail was like a Billboard.

If your landing in Yellowknife then shouldn't you be flying a buffalo DC3?

Stealing from the competition, maybe?