Consolidated PBY Catalina
[i] "The eyes of the fleet" — that’s what the PBY was. Without it, we were blind."
— Vice Admiral John S. McCain Sr. [/i]
Consolidated PBY Catalina
[b] Behold The Only Realistic And Functional PBY Catalina On Workschop! [/b]
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[*] Fully Water And Ground Capable
[*] Every Turret Is Fully Functional
[*] Blisters Can Actually Open And Close
[*] 1:1 Interior With All Its Functionallity
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[b] Using High Physics Is Reccomended [/b]
Flight Specification
Mass - 6794
Fuel Capacity - 1200 gallons
Total Wingspan - 95 feet
Max Speed - 170 mph
Crew
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[*] Pilot
[*] Co-Pilot
[*] Bombardier / Nose Gunner
[*] Navigator
[*] Radio Operator
[*] Two Waist Gunners
[*] Ventral Gunner
[*] Flight Engineer
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Pilot's Manual
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Ground Takeoff
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[*] Parking Brake ON
[*] Hold Engine 1 Starter Until Engine Spools Up
[*] Repeat For Engine 2
[*] Set Collective to 0.3 and Taxi
[*] When Ready For Takeoff Set Throttle to Min, Collective to Max
[*] Increase Throttle And Pull The Nose UP
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Water Takeoff
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[*] Hold Engine 1 Starter Until Engine Spools Up
[*] Repeat For Engine 2
[*] Set Collective to Max
[*] Set Throttle to Max
[*] !The Aircraft Will Pull Itself UP From The Water!
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Water landing
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[*] !Retract Landing Gear! (If not Retracted the aircraft will sink)
[*] Lower Floats
[*] Set Collective to Max
[*] Set Throttle to Min
[*] When Altitude Below 100 Feet, Pull Nose UP
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[i][b] Making a replica of a PBY Catalina in Stormworks proved to be really hard, that's probably why so few of them were posted and all of them had to trade something off for ablility to float. I menaged to make this one using wheel glitches and open top boyuancy feature with door frames to keep the interior free of sea water. Nothings perfect of course, I also had to abandon some of the features and stretch the shape here and there but I think that's as close as anyone can get (would still like to see someone prove me wrong). I'm mostly land vehicles creator so the handling of the plane and some systems can be lacking compared to latest workshop norms. Also if you find the logic really messy, please know that through the process of making it i had to constantly add, replace or remove systems so I finally decided to make controllers as separate as possible to ease the tuning and configuration process. [/b][/i]
Please let me know of any shortcomings (the morse code thingy still in works btw. I'm trying to get it to work)
I want this creation to be as user friendly and versitile as possible.
Credits:
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[*] Anonymus - Morse Code Decoder
[*] Eggnog - Submarine Chaser in Video
[*] paulewale - xml, photoshoot help and radio
[*] Jaidy!! - I took a lot of inspiration (and stuff) from his latest Bomber
[*] Uran_Wind - Microcontrollers
If I used your stuff and didn't credit you, let me know. I don't want to be [i] "that guy" [/i]
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