Awesome Freeware Grumman Duck – Low Level Fun over Fantasy of Flight – Microsoft Flight Simulator

Описание: Today we're taking the fantastic new freeware Grumman J2F Duck by flyndrive up for some low level fun around Fantasy of Flight (another awesome freeware). The aircraft is a full native conversion of Paul Domingue's FSX Duck, including many modifications and updates, like improved modelling, flight model and sounds. And as if one freeware Duck wouldn't be enough, the package actually includes the J2F4, J2F5 and as seen here the J2F6.

The liveries included in the package were done by Jankees and include some of the remaining airworthy Ducks, like Kermit Weeks' one that I used for this video. Kermit's Duck is an older restoration and has a white interior, which actually gets depicted in the sim, all other Ducks come with an authentic black and zinc chromate green cockpit.

In my opinion the Duck is one of the best freeware aircraft I have tested in MSFS. The visual model looks great, both on the in- and outside, as do the liveries, the sounds for the most part are awesome too, and the real star is probably the flight model. It flies like you would expect looking at the Duck, during turns it needs a lot of rudder to keep it halfway coordinated and it tends to weather-vane quite a bit. As it sits very tall, has a lot of side surface area, is a biplane and has a narrow landing gear it can become quite tricky during takeoff and landing, especially with a crosswind, as I was able to demonstrate on my first landing...of course totally on purpose...cough cough. The water handling also feels a lot better than in most other amphibians I've tried in the sim so far.

Really the only thing, in my opinion, that could be improved are the flyby sounds, but as a flyby view isn't really a feature in the sim and it is something that could be improved in 90% of payware aircraft that is a very small issue and doesn't bother me too much. One other thing is, that on the J2F4 parts of the engine seem to be sticking through the cowling.

Overall, the Duck is fantastic and I'm super happy to have this unusual and rare aircraft in the sim. I especially like that the flight model feels totally unique to the aircraft. If you're a fan of vintage aircraft / warbirds, I can't recommend the Duck high enough!

For this flight I took the Duck around rotornut44's amazing Fantasy of Flight scenery, home of the world’s greatest collection of vintage aircraft, including this particular Grumman Duck, N1214N.

I hope you’ll enjoy the video. Thanks for watching!

The Duck is available here:
https://flightsim.to/file/82655/grumm...

The Fantasy of Flight scenery is available here:
https://flightsim.to/file/16471/fanta...


Hardware used:
Ryzen 7 5800X
32GB RAM
RTX 3080

00:00 Intro
00:32 Startup
01:15 External Startup View
01:50 Taxiing
03:22 Runup
04:15 Takeoff
05:35 External Takeoff view
06:30 Climbing
07:25 Flybys and Low Passes
12:10 Water Landing
13:03 External Water Landing View
13:50 Taxiing On Water
15:05 Water Takeoff
15:30 External Water Takeoff View
16:30 More Flybys
19:40 Landing (Close Call)
20:44 External Landing view
21:30 2nd Landing
22:26 External Landing view
23:10 Taxiing
25:02 Shutdown
26:15 Ground View Takeoff
26:55 Ground View Flybys and Low Passes
30:40 Ground View Landing