Although slow, the Catalina had tremendous endurance, and could fly very long range sorties. Aircraft departing from Rathmines conducted maritime patrols along the Australian east coast to search for roaming Japanese submarines.
RAAF Catalinas more famous missions included the mining of Manila’s Harbour and being involved in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
These included aerial reconnaissance, coast watch, minelaying, supplying troops, bombing and air sea rescue missions. interesting fellow to talk to.The Catalina was a very versatile aircraft that could be adapted to a number of mission roles. I guess they would not give up their Otters and formed some kind of a Club when they got back State Side. We happened to have a few wobbly pops with a United States Army Aviator while they were visiting Montreal late last Spring.he flew the DeHavilland DHC-3 Otter in your Theater of Operations. replaced the 3s.īuffalo Airways is one of the few if not only Operation using the old piston pounders and their days are number just because of the Type of Fuel they burn. Once Land Airstrips started to dot the Routes the day of the Flying Boat were almost over for what we used them for and outstanding aircraft like the Saunders Aircraft, the HS 748, Twin Otters etc. Like the Consolidated Canso/Catalina/PBY5A the 3 was a good time builder, you certainly got to see the scenery. It was a pain loading and unloading as being a tail dragger you were either going uphill or downhill when loading/unloading. Then they went Union which was the nail in the coffin, we were picked up by a Major Flag Carrier and that is where I retired from.Īs for the Douglas DC3, it was not my Favourite Aeroplane however I did enjoy the Wheel/Ski operations with it. The First Commercial Airline I flew for that had Daily Schedules got bought out three/four times (can't remember).
#Flightgear pby catalina install
Yes I did install the Update which was included on the Disk and Auto Mixture is unchecked which is recommended. Now this unit is only installed in the Civil Versions of the Aerosoft simulated aircraft, the Military Versions have a Nav/Radio Section.Īnyone else having a problem with this unit. I can not get the two concentric knobs one on either side of the display to work, I will Sometimes get a "+" or a "-", the two Cursor Buttons will sometimes work. This unit takes several minutes to activate, which is normal.but you have to wait. The Bendix King KLN 90B which Aerosoft has installed in their Simulated Aircraft is giving me a few headaches.
VORs were something New and few and far between, almost non existent in many areas, the GPS was only a Dream, everything was done by ADF or Visual Map Reading. Many times we only had the two pilots and relied on the Destination to help with the loading and unloading. Those Aircraft Stations were eliminated off the Canso's we operated, we had two Pilots and at least one or two crewmen to help dock, load and unload the aircraft. Not sure when the Military replaced their Canso's but they carried a Flight Engineer, Navigator and Radio Operator. Having flown the actual aircraft in the 60s for a handful of summers, in the winter we flew the Douglas DC3s equipped on wheel/skis, the Consolidated Canso was an aircraft I looked forward to aviating but a chore to load and unload for the crew, especially if there were no Docks and the chore was done in open water.
#Flightgear pby catalina windows 10
Installed the Aerosoft PBY Catalina X into my Windows 10 and FSX Deluxe with Acceleration.
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