Norseman

**YoYo** · April 7th, 2023, 23:00

I like it more and more

. Is there such a Swedish livery? Don't annoy me with screenshots because I can't stand it and I'll buy it.

This monitor reminds me Pip boy from Follout

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***Cees Donker*** · April 8th, 2023, 06:08

I bought it and I love it!

Cees

***Tom Clayton*** · April 8th, 2023, 08:42

I'm going to have to mull it over. The BB Turbo Porter fills the same role, and I'm currently having a lot of fun with that one.

**DennyA** · April 8th, 2023, 13:19

Yoyo, that Swedish livery is one of the stock liveries.

Tom, other than sharing some potential places to fly and having a fan in the front, the experience of flying the Norseman is almost nothing like the Turbo Porter. I'm confident you'll get more than your $20 worth.

The Norseman is only "STOL" if you read the techniques in the manual and really learn how to fly it. As a 1935 design that was really the first purpose-built bush plane, it's not exactly overburdened with extra power (the biggest difference between the Porter), and the instruments, audio, and handling definitely have a period feel.

Highly recommend the James Cagney movie "Captains of the Clouds" for some awesome Norseman prototype footage, as well as lots of other amazing 1940-ish Canadian aerospace. (Including a Hurricane painted to look like a Bf-109.)

**YoYo** · April 8th, 2023, 13:38

Originally Posted by DennyA

Highly recommend the James Cagney movie "Captains of the Clouds" for some awesome Norseman prototype footage,....

Good to know, will check!

***Twice43*** · April 9th, 2023, 07:12

Some more time on the Tundra version & I have found this is quite a nuanced release.
Through the 'TV' there are a number of options available as regards freight, & other matters.
Also, I discovered that as well as the GPS [above the windscreen], the TV has a Help button that turns out to be a basic AP.
It will give ALT HLD, NAV & HDG HLD, & GPS.
I just flew a dog leg flight on GPS/NAV & it followed the flight plan, no problem.
I would recommend that even if you create a flight plan in MSFS scenario set up, enter the data, waypoints etc in the GPS Flight Plan module as that seems to be what it needs for the AP to have the GPS/NAV function execute the flight plan.
Overall, 1 of those aircraft that grows on you the more you fly it.
Hoping some Liveries start coming through.
T43

***Priller*** · April 9th, 2023, 07:55

I caved and bought it. I know what I'm doing after my chores!

Priller

***Penzoil3*** · April 9th, 2023, 11:15

Love it, great little plane. Really enjoyable. PAVD and north, RCMP livery.

**keithb77** · April 10th, 2023, 08:24

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Most-Danger...t%2C73&sr=1-15

Highly recommended (along with his other aviation-themed thrillers) - flying a Norseman in the wilds of Finland and around...

**YoYo** · April 10th, 2023, 22:28

Originally Posted by Twice43

Hoping some Liveries start coming through.
T43

As I know, the paintkit will be in the next upade.

**Rallymodeller** · April 11th, 2023, 05:32

Originally Posted by YoYo

As I know, the paintkit will be in the next upade.

I have a few planned for this one: Austin Airways original scheme, Ontario Provincial Air Service, RCAF wartime and postwar, and CF-JIN (which is being restored locally to me). I had already started on the existing templates but I'm going to wait until the paintkit comes out.

**keithb77** · April 12th, 2023, 02:30

Well I bought it and it's very nice, with a couple of caveats...

The panel is pretty miserable in 2D (as are all BR panels

) but much better in VR

That modern AS3X panel in the roof is an abomination, luckily its hidden away and normally I would ignore it, but it appears to be the only way to get radios.
And even using the AS3X the radios don't seem to actually work!

I can only set com1 standby and the XFER button doesn't work so com1 active can't be set.
The XFER button is hidden in the freq setting page, should really be on the main page so you can quickly toggle between stations.

Using an external program to set com1 active (Vatsim radio) the radio still doesn't work, no TX/RX.

I know it's an old plane, but they DID have radios (the online manual even mentions it was used as a radio trainer but doesn't mention actually using a radio) and lots of old planes have much better radio implementations.

Has anybody actually got a working radio?

**keithb77** · April 12th, 2023, 05:27

Originally Posted by keithb77

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Most-Danger...t%2C73&sr=1-15

Highly recommended (along with his other aviation-themed thrillers) - flying a Norseman in the wilds of Finland and around...

Apologies, I misremembered ... it's mostly a Beaver, the Norseman is just a memory...still a great book though!

**keithb77** · April 13th, 2023, 05:01

To fix the radios,
in systems.cfg, set COM1 and NAV1 to be off BUS 2 (avionics)
change runway.flt and apron.flt to read
circuit.27=True,1.00
circuit.28=True,1.00
will now power the COM1 and NAV1 radios

***jankees*** · April 13th, 2023, 09:50

Originally Posted by keithb77

Apologies, I misremembered ... it's mostly a Beaver, the Norseman is just a memory...still a great book though!

I agree, and 'Shooting Script' is great too, if you like B-25's

***jankees*** · April 15th, 2023, 01:47

A71-10 01 by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

***jankees*** · April 15th, 2023, 03:28

working on better Swedish textures

78001 (0005) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

***jankees*** · April 15th, 2023, 07:32

and another one

78002 (0002) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

***jankees*** · April 15th, 2023, 08:49

ATC (0004) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

ATC (0002) by JanKees Blom, on Flickr

**DennyA** · April 15th, 2023, 23:18

Oooh, super excited for those, Jan Kees!

If by any chance you decide to do the Buffalo Airways Norseman, I can send the original hi-res images I downloaded as I was putting together the request. Just PM me if you want them! (They're all available online, I just spent some time gathering.)

https://flightsim.to/request/livery/...rduyn-norseman

No worries if that one doesn't interest you, though! Just wanted to throw that out there in case it did.

***jankees*** · April 16th, 2023, 00:07

Big Radials are working on an update, hopefully including non-mirrored wing textures, so I am waiting with uploading until the update arrives. Once the wings are unmirrored, I'll see about doing a few more Norsemans, both civilian and military. I had been eyeing the Buffalo one, but also several Australians and Scandinavian aircraft.