Surprised how much you enjoyed that despite going on about how old aircraft suck! was expecting a little more fire, but I think you got over how much constant involvment this aircraft provides pretty well. Next time, no GPS! you found Alderney, what more do you need than a map & a stopwatch from there anyway! ( an aligned compass, I guess :p ) -- Couple of extra notes: * If you get it from Wing42's webshop it's a quid and a bit cheaper ( probably $2 converted ), but obviously the marketplace is less hassle unless you're me & have to use a completely different windows account. * Oil shutters open is at the *bottom* - so most of that flight had them fully open :) I always forgot until I started thinking of the top of oil shutter & carb heat travel as the hot end. * Talk of catching fire is not hyperbole - if your oil gets too hot you absolutely will have an engine fire. * You can, if you want, get out and crank the engines yourself. * Right flywheel sound missing is a bug. I share the view of the internal audio and I actually think it's misconfigured sounds - just sounds like they're set up too loud & clip, especially with the deadening from being inside. I read some note somewhere - not in the manual I don't think - that they wanted you to keep inlet temp over 100F all the time. The new Trislander wants some carb heat all the time because pressure drop in the intakes - presumably in the actual carb venturi - can cause icing ( at least, that's what is modelled ), so I just assume it's the same here - can't say I've hit carb icing in clear air in this yet though. There is a VHF radio as well as the transponder on the clipboard so you can do ATC stuff if you want ( although it's an old style one that goes in .25khz steps ). No more modern radio nav gear at all, just the morse stations - the a/c comes with a fairly large number of stations - most in North America, but there's a number in western Europe & a rather smaller number elsewhere. Using all those would be a video by itself... -- I really like it ( duh! ) except for perhaps the internal sounds. It constantly makes you pay attention which is honestly a very very good thing IMO, but once you've got the hang of it - which doesn't take long - it just keeps you occupied rather than constantly stressed. If you have any interest at all in anything other than jet airliners, you can't really go wrong for the price ( and please buy it, the more people buying antique aircraft the more that'll be made, and the happier I am! ).

i just bought this plane. it is quite challenging to startup but its worth the money.

A wise man learns from his mistakes. A smart man learns from other people's mistakes. Whether wise or smart, you definitely did a great job understanding the systems and keeping the airplane running as you should have, in contrast to some of the reviewers out there who leapt before they looked. These things had a pretty catastrophic safety record IRL so not falling out of the sky in a ball of fire is pretty much the best anyone can ask for. You wondered if there were any still flying, and actually, the last flying 247 is at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. I worked at their restoration center as a teen in the 90s and they had just restored to airworthy condition and so I used to see it flying all the time. It's the blue and white livery you were flying, and the thing was a noisy beast. Ultimately, the museum has retired it from flying so that it can be preserved, though it is still in airworthy condition, it is currently on permanent static display. The sounds of the engine in the Wing42 version are an interesting problem. There is no risk of mistaking them for the actual original wasps, but they actually provide important detail. The reason they sound so unusual is because wing42 actually seems to have simulated the sounds of each individual cylinder rather than just recording the engine itself at different pitches. This means that the engine can run "rough" in ways most MSFS planes can't, and that's actually one of the things you use to tell when it is properly warmed up or when you need to lean it out a bit more. I think this really lays down some interesting markers for "proof of concept" and what I love most about this plane is that it really pushes developers to not be content with passing off very shallow aircraft at higher prices. Curious if you might review the Milviz 310 or the FlySimWare 414A - both are a lot of fun, and we've honestly been getting a lot of in depth aircraft in the last month or two.

Those feels when you spend the whole flight worrying about cold oil...and don't actually check what is written beside the oil shutter levers lol :) . Just got this and love the engine management. Very used to constant adjustments of oil shutters as was a FE on P-3 Orion and we had to constantly manually adjust 4 cooler flaps to maintain 75 deg oil. So every climb equals colder air so close, opposite for descent. Cold soak the engine and oil before landing as reverse thrust heats oil a lot etc etc. Much fun lol. (Oil overheat light at 100 deg was the 'Beer' light lol)

Big disappointment that there was no engine fire due to the accidental full closed oil shutters. (;

How did you get the pop up GPS?