Arado Ar196 WWII German floatplane (payware).

[Dom]

Kevin and I are glad to announce this floatplane is now released.


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A few words for using this addon:

If you think the loading is too long (should not be more than 30 seconds anyway), then you can rename the broken.x file to avoid it to be loaded when loading the plane, but you will then lose the broken model.
The elements.cfg is very elaborate. All the sustentation and control surfaces have their own wing or almost. I think the behaviour is rather realistic (you need to ancicipate the rolling and pitching a bit when water-landing).
Flaps, throttle, mixture, trim wheel, pedals, control colum are all functionning.
For taking off from water, you can put the flaps on the fist crank (10°) or even leave it at 0 if you've room enought and with the mixture and throttle on full, the plane take off itself, with minimal manual command. You can of course shorten the take off course by acting on the elevator like any plane.
For water landing, usually extend the flaps at 30° or 40°, you reduce the throttle at about 20%, reduce the mixture at about 75 or 80% and anticipate the rolling and pitching quite a lot and be sweet with the commands. After some minimal practice, it's easy to handle it.
The water-rudders are functionnal, both visually and dynamically. Try to not exceed about 15/20 kts when turning whilst you're water-taxiing or the plane may "plunge" on the inner floatter. Water rudder are used very cautiously on floatplanes, so try not to capsize before even being airborn.

Other advices for using this addon are available on its readme page here, be sure to understand and read all the legal terms before downloading it as well.

The addon is available from this page:
http://www.dvomarinedesign.com/VS8.htm

Again, thousands of thanks to Kevin for having allowed me to work on his fantastic model he had originally built, as wel as for the additionnal work he has provided for it during the past weeks.

Thank you all for your support.

Dom.

[Bartolomeus]

Great news Dom! Downloading now.

Marko

[itsme]

I like it (even without "company" logo ) Just one remark, on the crashed plane the bomb (?) remains floating in the air. Not a big deal anyway.

[Dom]

Thanks a lot Marko and Reino for your support and comments.

Yes, indeed, the bombs "floatting in the air" is indded odd and shouldn't be there. But, as far as I'm aware of, that's a VSF limitation and I can't do anything about it, unless I keep the wings nearly undammaged into that broken.x model.
It would be nice and logical and obvious enough if Ilan could make all the shell.x within the weapons directory unvisible once a plane is crashed and the broken.x model displayed.
Now if someone has a solution about that that I've not seen into the stores.cfg or the weapon.cfg of the bombs for solving that, then I'll correct it.

But the best way to avoid that.... is to not crash!

If you see other oddities, then don't hesitate to point them out here and I'll do my best for correcting them.
Kevin and I thank you again!

Dom.

[Nemo]

While I haven't purchased and downloaded (I'm not really a plane person), Thank you, Dom and Kevin, for creating this model and releasing it! It looks beautifully built, and very well textured. Who knows, I may change my mind about planes!

[Dom]

Thanks Sam!