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Focke-Wulf-Weihe-Wasser 58

Postby LesterBoffo » Sun Feb 28, 2016 5:33 pm

New plane, I made this for the upcoming USA Tour from Omaha to Milwaukee for floatplanes.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/gvolx6v8ep5onu4/FW-58-Wasser.zip

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Some notes about it: The FW-58 was a late 1930's advanced two engine trainer for the Luftwaffe. The general consensus with most who flew it was (with the land plane version..) it flew like an enthusiastic powered glider with great handling characteristics.

It's a smidgen underpowered for a floatplane, but it's also really aerodynamically clean and will turn a fair bit of speed when up to cruising altitude, leveled and throttled back. Just don't expect climb-rates like modern jet airliners or WWI fighters.

* Read the Menu Flight instructions* This plane takes finesse to take off from water, much like Hopt. Goosen's JU-34W. Except it's a bit more demanding. It also likes to glide well, so reducing power seems to not increase your overall sink rate. Watch your MTOW, cargo weight, and fuel loads and try to use prevailing winds to help get airborne. Once off the water, level the climb a little and let it build speed to 120 knots and then dial in some uptrim for about a 600~900 FPS climb rate, and watch your RPM and mixture to keep the hard working little Argus-10C's on the pipe.

You can steer it OK on water with the rudder, as long as it's moving at abut 10 knots. In tight conditions, it's best to select an engine ( Shift = 1~2 ) and use it for yaw control duties. It will nearly turn within it's own wingspan with moderate throttle.

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Re: Focke-Wulf-Weihe-Wasser 58

Postby IAHM-COL » Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:03 pm

Awesome!!
I added it to FGMEMBERS-NONGPL
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-NONGPL/FW-58-Wasser
and it will be available for this weekends's USA tour via FGDATA with submodules as well.

Thanks Lesbof.
Looking forward to swim and fly this weekend! :D

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Re: Focke-Wulf-Weihe-Wasser 58

Postby Octal450 » Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:21 pm

IAHM-COL wrote:Awesome!!
I added it to FGMEMBERS-NONGPL
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-NONGPL/FW-58-Wasser
and it will be available for this weekends's USA tour via FGDATA with submodules as well.

Thanks Lesbof.
Looking forward to swim and fly this weekend! :D

IH-COL


Oh nice! Maybe I will fly this in the tour!

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Re: Focke-Wulf-Weihe-Wasser 58

Postby IAHM-COL » Mon Feb 29, 2016 7:11 pm

sounds like a plan, iT0uchpods.
BTW, dont forget to test. Floats are kinda its own class in a way. Try taxing, taking off, landing water, for a change
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Re: Focke-Wulf-Weihe-Wasser 58

Postby LesterBoffo » Mon Feb 29, 2016 11:22 pm

IAHM-COL wrote:Awesome!!
I added it to FGMEMBERS-NONGPL
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-NONGPL/FW-58-Wasser
and it will be available for this weekends's USA tour via FGDATA with submodules as well.

Thanks Lesbof.
Looking forward to swim and fly this weekend! :D

IH-COL


You're all entirely welcome. Practice, practice.

Just as an additional note if you find it really demanding, or refusing to take off from water. Try reducing the fuel load to about 66%, there's plenty of fuel for a long trip with this aircraft. More notes about it not taking off: Open the HUD and check your indicated airspeed when on takeoff. You'll notice if you keep a slightly positive AOA that it hits a 'wall' at about 30~35 knots in zero wind airspeed conditions, if you are carrying any cargo over 600 pounds, plus your co-pilot, and a full load of fuel. Having a headwind is always a good thing! You can always reduce your load or try persisting on with increasing your angle of attack and (or) 50% flaps. More than 50% flaps increases the air drag too far making it dicey to transition out of ground effect. It will ROW easily once it reaches 55~60 knots, but be careful! Do keep a positive angle of attack at this speed so you don't dig in a float on a wave and somersault it.

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Re: Focke-Wulf-Weihe-Wasser 58

Postby Octal450 » Tue Mar 01, 2016 1:05 am

IAHM-COL wrote:sounds like a plan, iT0uchpods.
BTW, dont forget to test. Floats are kinda its own class in a way. Try taxing, taking off, landing water, for a change
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OK! I will take a looksee.

Thanks


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