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flightsim.comAfter spending a bunch of time watching the really nice television show Ice Pilots I decided to take this bird for a spin. The
Candair CL-215 aircraft is a very nice piece of work and the model by Massimo Taccoli, Michel Gerard, Dennis Seeley and Dave Eckert.
PanelWell this is one really nice part of the package. It holds a very nice and fast loading virtual cockpit and a nice 2d panel with good and logical subpanels. I guess the only thing I could think about is that it would be nice to have a moving yoke in the 2d panel but hey now I'm just being picky. It has a nice function that lets you lower or raise the viewpoint.
SoundThe amazing sound set of Dave Eckert is really, really nice it brings those big Pratt & Whitney R-2800-83AM 18-cylinder radial engines to life and what an amazing sound it is when you start them or when you accelerate down the runway.
Visual modelIt is a beauty here too. There exists a number of repaints the one in the pictures are the Buffalo Airways. But all you have to do is do a search at flightsim.com for CL-215 and you will find a bunch of them.
The visual model is detailed and works great, there is even a ladder that is attached to the aircraft when you shuts it down. Very nice indeed.
DynamicsThis is a plane that is good to handfly, the only thing I found hard with it is the trouble I had to trim it. It needs a lot of change in the trim before you feel it and a lot of trim change between the different stages of flight. Maybe a new fde might be in order?
Overall this package is really good and if I gave it a grade it would be 4 out of 5, absolutely worth the time and effort to learn to fly this aircraft.