This is a full remake of my third mission for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. It is a remake of the FSX mission: Yakutat Mail Run.
Put the file "pilotcs-bushtrip-yakutatmailrunv2.rar" into the MSFS Community folder. The mission can be found under Activities - Custom Content - Bush Trips - Yakutat Mail Run.
As a pilot for a Yakutat, Alaska-based air taxi company you fly all over the North Country, and this afternoon's run sent you across the border to Burwash in Canada's Yukon Territory to pick up some mail and a snow machine engine. Now it's time to head back to Yakutat for the night.
What you need: FSX Legacy Liveries
Limitations: Due to MSFS Limitations the vacuum system failure is only visible in the flight director. The autopilot continues with normal flying. If you are looking for a challenge or want to fly the mission as close as possible to the fsx mission, disconnect the autopilot. If you try to reconnect it, it doesn`t work anymore and you have to handfly the plane.
In the FSX mission, the engine catches fire in the approach. Due to MSFS Limitations this is not working aswell, so I programmed only an engine failure.
Tips: When starting the flight, the parking brake iss not engaged, so the aircraft starts rolling because of the downhill taxiway.
Try to stay as close ass possible on the GPS route all the way to the Ocean Cave NDB. If not, some triggers might not fire.
Thanks to BuffyGC for his awesome tool BushTripInjector.
AleXmShef
Hey! Beautiful work. Still remember how i struggled with this mission back in FSX. Any chance you will remake this with Black Square's Analog Caravan? Would be much more authentic!
Ungeneer
If you download BuffyGC's bush trip changer you can do it yourself. I just tried it with the analog KA and it went well. Everything that was supposed to fail did fail
2 years ago
Synoxys787
Hey there! It's cool to see someone else working to port over FSX missions. I gave this one a go and it brought back some memories, but I am sorry to say that the quality of Asobo's King Air kind of cuts it off at the knees, so to speak. The avionics package leaves a lot to be desired. It doesn't even have an ADF, which is required for the approach used in this mission. The failures that are scripted in this mission did not actually happen. The engine still worked, and the "vacuum system" (the Asobo King Air doesn't have one anyway) did not fail. It kind of undercut the challenge of the mission a bit.
As for the mission itself, it was good except for that it seemed like the voice lines for the approach played a little too early. The co-pilot said I was at the NDB when I was still a decent distance away, and he was instructing me to do the procedure turn before I had even intercepted the outbound localizer. These are easy fixes, though.
Overall, I think it's a valiant effort at porting this mission over to the new sim. I just hope that eventually, the default King Air gets some much-needed attention from the devs, or a third-party developer makes a good one to use instead.
Pilot39 author
Yes that is true. The quality of the Asobo king air isn`t good at all. The failures were programmed into the mission but were not activated. I think thats an asobo issue. I will make an update when I figured out all errors with the triggers.
2 years ago