A Catalina PBY flying boat (amphibian).
French Navy (Aeronavale), flottille 8FE, 1945. Reskin by Papou with permission.
It operates on invisible track. The model is limited to a speed of about 300 kph amd intitially the engines are stopped - use the B key to start or stop engines.
The aircraft does not have an automatically operating landing gear, it must be operated by the H key. The wing floats lower or raise at the same time. The speeds for tilting while taxiing may be altered in the string table above - speeds are in kph. The aircraft is by default set up to land on its wheels on invisible track set at ground level. Water level is to be set at 3 metres below ground level. Invisible track for ships and flying boats is also set at ground level, 3 metres above water level. When the wheels are retracted using the H key, the aircraft lowers aprroximately 3.9 metres so that it will land and float on water.
It does not have an operating interior, but does have various exterior views based on an invisible interior, use the [ and ] keys from the interior view. The aircraft will load and unload passengers at suitable airports.
The aircraft has a number of animations that can be operated by keyboard keys, or the Aircraft Action Trigger, kuid:76656:24050, when placed on track and set to the correct number:
- start engines, B key;
- tyre smoke on landing, use trigger setting 4;
- retract or lower wheels and raise floats, H key or trigger setting 2;
- drop water for water bombing for 5 seconds, V key or trigger setting 3;
Military and commercial aircraft sometimes use the same keys and trigger settings for differerent animations. If you find conflict on the same route, set the train priority of the trigger and the particular aircraft to a different value to differentiate. The model uses running numbers so the aircraft numbers (three digits) can be changed.
Тип: traincar