Why You Should Fly the DHC-2 Beaver in Microsoft Flight Simulator

[@Adventure494]

I can’t get enough of the Beaver! Best thing ever happened in MSFS! ❤

[@AB-kg6rk]

"Ward, weren't you a little Hard on the Beaver last night"?

[@darth_patzer]

Hello, I flew from Wales, Alaska, to Cape Horn in Chili with the Beaver, about 50 legs and it was a nice journey. It's a really fun plane.

[@TheChromeRonin]

I’ve just started in MSFS, finishing the first three flight school sections, but wanted to fly around my home town. I found the otter to be extremely newbie friendly, and I flew out from Wellington airport out to the lagoon on Kapiti Island. Made a nice easy touchdown on the water and taxied up to the beach. But after shutting down the engine couldn’t restart, so will now use what you showed here. Great video.

[@mattburrows1393]

If you want to improve water handling in the Beaver try dropping the water rudders. The handle is located on the bottom left, next to your left leg. Don't forget to retract them for takeoff or the beers are on you!

[@PeterNGloor]

Flaps: For take-off, down two notches. For climb, one notch. Only at level flight would you pull the flaps fully up. After lift-off you have to go back on the RPM. I recommend you to fly with a Beaver pilot and watch his procedures.

[@countryflyboy8255]

nice video. good and fun info you provide. Too bad we cant get a good payware version of this along the lines of a2a quality.

[@movenkonig1188]

hello there….is that tablet you open at 7:47 a mod and if yes whats it called…it looks very cool…thanks for helping. cool video

[@robertmannel4446]

How much does it take to get started in flight sim? Just a regular guy with a PC.

[@TheChromeRonin]

Just bought a fairly basic gaming pc, i5 cpu, RTX4060, 16 gb ram. Used Xbox live for the purchase. Just using an Xbox controller for now, works well enough. So you can get started on a modest budget.

[@Terribleguitarist89]

I mainly fly via Xbox and a turtlebeach flightstick, but I've managed to run MSFS on some surprisingly low spec laptops. Even my old Ryzen 5 with integrated graphics runs it, albeit unhappily.

[@alfderbabybenz7092]

wow didnt know that milviz did this! i surely have to check it out again!

[@PeterNGloor]

Having flown up front with Beaver floatplane pilots and watched their work, I was glad to find that MSFS had this plane model. BUT - and this goes for 2020 - the float version cannot tie up at a jetty, and there are hardly any jetties anywhere in MSFS country. Also, the water is very poorly simulated in the first place. The float model takes off out of the water way too quickly, too. So, the plane model is nice but its operating environment is not.

[@PeterNGloor]

the way you started the engine is not realistic. The wobble pump on this model is just a backup. There is an electric boost pump that does the job. But what one needs to do is pull the primer knob a few times. Without this the real Beaver engine would not start. The primer knob is on the left of the left seat, just on the floor.

[@michelebassetti9148]

Manuals are available?

[@pi.actual]

For the real thing: fortlangleyair.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/DHC2-Manual.pdf

[@cheetahfish]

This could have been such a good plane. Shame the engine shutdown sound is gone, the sound of that P&W slowly ticking over to a stop is music to my ears. There was a great free soundpack for FSX that had a nice shutdown sound, shame they didn't just use that? I have no idea how to edit these stupid new VWise sounds otherwise I would do it myself. Another big issue is that so many things aren't mappable. No fuel selector being the biggest problem. I hate having to use a mouse for anything when I am flying. Also no fuel pump, but they aren't functional anyway, but it'd be nice to map it to a switch to hear it anyway.

[@stoneagearcher3477]

Full flaps with floats is not authorized.