Anchor in Amphibious Caravan
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In MSFS2024, you can use the option for "Toggle Freeze LAT/LONG" and assign it to a key/button, and it'll work like being anchored/moored.
Edit to say that in my experience so far, your plane will still weathervane... Also, just for fun, run up the engines while freeze is active and watch the ensuing bending of space/time on the water's surface (I'll leave it at that).
@V1-Vr-V2 Also for now do you use TOGGLE FREESE LAT/LONG or SET FREEZE LAT/LONG? I don't know what the differences are lol.
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Spawned in for my first flights in the Amphibian today in '24 and it's unusable almost as the wind immediately blows me onto landmasses or awkwardly on/off seaplane dock pontoons. Freeze lat/long is not responding, either.
Shame, as I was REALLY looking forward to flying the floats. The package as a whole is incredible, though, but this is definitely a bit of a disappointment with the sim and addon both not allowing for holding the plane in position.
EDIT: Ok, Freeze lat/long does work but it does not prevent the wind rotating you...
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@V1-Vr-V2 Also for now do you use TOGGLE FREESE LAT/LONG or SET FREEZE LAT/LONG? I don't know what the differences are lol.
@slipperfruit
I'm using toggle and have it set to CTRL+SHIFT+A ("A" for anchor).
If you want to confirm it's working, switch into slew mode and see if you can move. -
@V1-Vr-V2 Also for now do you use TOGGLE FREESE LAT/LONG or SET FREEZE LAT/LONG? I don't know what the differences are lol.
In FS2020 I would not recommend using this method. I was excited to try this as the binding exists in 2020, but it has some after-effects that seem to break the flight dynamics of the Caravan (haven't tested other aircraft). The airplane gets "stuck in the mud" so to speak and it's impossible to take off again after you've taxiied to the dock and frozen-then-unfrozen your position.
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@slipperfruit
I'm using toggle and have it set to CTRL+SHIFT+A ("A" for anchor). If you want to confirm it's working, switch into slew mode and see if you can move.@V1-Vr-V2 Thank you haha, I might've had a bit too much fun doing vertical takeoffs in the caravan
Anyway, this seems to work for me, but yeah a proper anchor / mooring implementation in the caravan would be very nice.
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Is it possible to get an anchor or a rope or some way to simulate tying the caravan to a dock? Currently the only option is active pause which totally pauses the movement of the plane. It would be nice to have a anchor that freezes the aircraft's movement on the horizontal plane but still lets it bob up and down and rotate.
@slipperfruit I have used Pushback and select HOLD which keeps the aircraft in place at a dock for engine start. I have also used Pushback to position the aircraft at a dock. Pushback ops per se aren't realistic for floaters, but in real life as a passenger, I jumped down to the float to catch a rope thrown from the dock - so it was the same as ground crew aiding parking as the pilot worked to hold the aircraft in the wind.
