AeroEngineering is proud to present you with it its first turboprop Seaplane, the 372 “Island Hopper”. This plane is designed to go anywhere, and is easy to land on water. With two detailed floats, you won’t have to worry about slipping on them because they have spray guards and material the channels water off of their surface. And don’t worry about it drifting away, because both floats come with two tie ins. Built for comfort, the detailed cabin has six seats, and is great for sightseeing. The pilots aren’t left out of this comfort either. The cockpit has working controls, comfy seats, a car like HUD, and even two cup holders. (Because why not) Both in flight computers support any OS the customer chooses, including but not limited to: Windows, Linux, and Apple OS. Both support SimplePlanes. (Games and movies only work when the plane is not in motion) Being as fuel efficient as possible, pilots don’t have to worry about fuel costs and can fly more often. AeroEngineering hopes you enjoy your new Seaplane, and all customer feedback is appreciated.
Features:
Cabin View- cameras 1 and 3
Cockpit View-cameras 2 and 4
Working Controls-I made them myself.
Cup holders-only in the cockpit
Detailed Cockpit- took forever, but I am proud of myself
Spoliers-VTOl up
Floats-detailed
Water Steering-Very helpful
Instructions for water landing:
Come in on an approach that is as slow as possible, keeping either parallel to the water or the nose slightly up. Use your spoilers to slow your landing speed more when you get within 100-200 ft of the water. As soon as the floats touch the water, pull up. If you don’t you have a high chance of flipping. Don’t let go of pitch until you are below 50mph. then just cast to a stop. Yaw steers in the water.
This is my official Silver release; I’ve been working on her for nearly a month, figuring out a lot of stuff I didn’t know how to do. I’m proud of the cockpits instrument panel, took forever, but looks really good. I really hope you enjoy this plane and leave an upvote. Have fun flying!
-AeroEngineering
I could have done this without some peoples parts.
Credits:
Verdnan-fuselage
SpiritusRaptor-modded fuel
Crjendwards-I used a few parts from his sub pack
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Successors 4 airplane(s) +42 bonus
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 64.4ft (19.6m)
- Length 55.8ft (17.0m)
- Height 25.7ft (7.8m)
- Empty Weight 10,410lbs (4,721kg)
- Loaded Weight 28,567lbs (12,958kg)
Performance
- Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.21
- Wing Loading 45.2lbs/ft2 (220.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 632.5ft2 (58.8m2)
- Drag Points 12367
Parts
- Number of Parts 405
- Control Surfaces 12
- Performance Cost 1,247
@AeroEngineering thanks
@TheWatchingEye feel free too. feel free to use gthe cickpit on any of my planes.
@AeroEngineering yes but i cant play games on it, can i use your cockpit
@TheWatchingEye a lot of patience. ani felt stupid it doens requore .XML modding. i plan on relaesing the secret soo. just wait. do you have a computrer?
How did you make that cockpit?
@Verdnan ok
@AeroEngineering go ahead if you want.
@Verdnan when will we one of us ypload the official relase of the q400? Tell me it you want to upload. If I don't get a reply in 48 hours, I will upload it
OK job. Check out my Wander I, dual engine waterplane/amphib that lands on water at 150+ mph with ease. Posted around when you posted this. (A more advanced landing system used on Wander.) Much nicer detail on the cabin,l here, I like it!
@Verdnan I'm building another seaplane too. Them I'm going to build a Bn 2 islander. Then a sea helicopter. ( helicopter with flaots cause why not)
Great job, this has turned out to be a very interesting set of builds. @AeroEngineering
And come on this plane is amazing more upvotes
@AeroEngineering I just made the delorean from back to the future
@AeroEngineering ok
@Earthbenderrwefa I guess so.
Oh for me is sigh htseeing... A glitch maybe?
@Earthbenderrwefa it isn't showing up as mispelled on my device. On the AeroEngineering 372, if you look in the description it says p pilots. When I clicked edit, it wasn't like like that in the edit description though. I wonder why
It happens to the best of us
@AeroEngineering sigh htseeing instead of sightseeing
@Verdnan this ones flight computers support Linux. :)
I can go back in time /88mph :) New build
@Earthbenderrwefa what did I spell wrong?
Awesome but you have a spelling error on the 11th line
@221131 it lags on my tablet too
Noooooooooooooooo. My tablet won't let me get it 😭