DC-2 at IanP's Camp Banjo

[SADT]

Hi Y'all,

While looking at IanP's excellent scenery website:http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/, I came upon the scenery "Camp Banjo". This is a fictional WWII Forward Operating Base in Guadacanal, Solomon Islands. It fits in very well with Mark's 1943 Solomon Is. scenery. On the download page, Ian said "Unlike Khowpur Valley, there's no particular squadron or history for this one - it's been tested with pretty much every WW2 fighter I can think of and find a suitable one to try. Apparently one particularly intrepid (daft?!) sim pilot has got the Aerosoft Catalina out of this place, but I wouldn't fancy my chances with that personally, the A2A F4U Corsair was tight enough, thanks." To me, that was a challenge: Could I get a fully loaded U.S. Marines (at MTOW) DC-2 (My favorite piston pounder) out and in (pattern) on a typical 1943 summers day, at say 43 degrees centigrade, considering Ian said that a F4U Corsair was pretty tight? Here are the results: (Clue: no DC-2's were turned into flaming sandwiches at the end of the runway)

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The Highest CHT I achieved was 229 degrees Celsius, and that occurred when I had the engines at full T/O power and was climbing at 1000 FPM, to try and clear the trees at the end of the runway. I discovered the DC-2 can also land in a remarkably short distance for its size and puny little brakes. I hope you enjoy these screenshots as much as enjoyed flying them!

[robcap]

The Highest CHT I achieved was 229 degrees Celsius, and that occurred when I had the engines at full T/O power and was climbing at 1000 FPM, to try and clear the trees at the end of the runway. I discovered the DC-2 can also land in a remarkably short distance for its size and puny little brakes.As long as you keep your RPM's and power settings under control, you'll be fine. The DC2 has a lot of lift.

Cheers, Rob

[fliger747]

I used the FS9 version in an Alaska bush field race and got in and out of some quite tight spots. Big wing!

The upcoming F7F from Milton Shupe is also quite a good short field bird.

Cheers: T

[SADT]

I know Tom!

Landing at MOTW at 45 knots is almost the norm for me now in the DC-2. However with a light (nose-heavy) load, I require a lot of nose-up trim to round out. :wavey: