User manual
Table Of Contents
- PBY Catalina
- Introduction
- System requirements
- Credits
- Copyrights
- Contact support
- Models and versions
- Limitations
- Failure model and special features
- Aerosoft Sound Control
- Flight model
- Using the switches and knobs
- Interactive Checklist
- Avionics, 1940’s military cockpit
- Avionics, modern cockpit
- Engine Settings
- Mission
- Appendix A: Simplified checklist
- Appendix B: KX 165A TSO
- Appendix C: KLN-90B User Manual
- INTRODUCTION
- OVERVIEW
- DEFINITIONS:
- SYSTEM USE
- NAV: NAVIGATION PAGES
- CALC: CALCULATOR PAGES
- STAT: STATUS PAGES
- SETUP: SETUP PAGES
- OTHER: OTHER PAGES
- TRIP: TRIP PLANNING PAGES
- MOD: MODE PAGES
- FPL: FLIGHT PLAN PAGE
- NAV: NAVIGATION PAGES (right screen)
- APT: AIRPORT PAGES
- NEAREST Airport Pages
- VOR: VOR Page
- NDB: NDB Page
- INT: INTERSECTION PAGE
- SUPL: SUPPLEMENTAL PAGE (SUP)
- CTR: CENTER WAYPOINT PAGE
- REF: REFERENCE WAYPOINT PAGE
- ACTV: ACTIVE WAYPOINT PAGE (ACT)
- D/T: DISTANCE/TIME PAGES
- MESSAGE PAGE
- DIRECT-TO PAGE
Aerosoft PBY Catalina 1.00 Manual
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Introduction
The Catalina was always very high on our list of possible projects, but only with FSX around did we
get the platform that could do all the details and special options we wanted to include. There are
two reasons why the Catalina was so important to us, first (of course) because it is a very important
aircraft, back in the days it hunted down submarines but even now in its new role as crowd pleaser
at air shows. Secondly because it is just the most whacky looking aircraft we know. Seen from the
front it looks like a dinosaur and from the side it looks like three different aircraft and a boat were
glued together. But despite looking strange it was a remarkable effective and successful aircraft and
we are proud to offer it to you.
This manual contains two distinct parts. The first part (the one you are reading now)
deals with the
aircraft in FSX and the second part is about the ‘real’ aircraft. The second part of the manual is not
one for the simulated version but from an actual flying PBY 5A. We feel so confident about our
simulation that we include that with permission of the Stichting Exploitatie Catalina PH-PBY
(
http://www.catalina-pby.nl).
System requirements
• Microsoft Flight Simulator FSX (with SP2 or Acceleration Pack)
• Dual Core CPU
• 2 GB RAM internal memory
• 512 MB graphic card
• Adobe Acrobat® Reader 8 minimal to read and print the manual (
1
)
(
1
) Available for free, download at: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Credits
Concept: Mathijs Kok (Aerosoft)
Models/Textures Stefan Hofmann (Aerosoft)
XML/ gauges Finn Jacobsen
Flight modelling John Cagle
GPS/Radio gauges Don Kuhn (FS2X.com)
Project Management: Mathijs Kok (Aerosoft)
Manual, documentation: Mathijs Kok (Aerosoft), Christoph Beck
Sounds: Nick Schreger (Meatwater Studios) and Aerosoft
Additional liveries: Dag Roger Stangeland
Images: Nick Churchill
Installer: Andreas Mügge (Aerosoft)
Testing: Several good folks who will all be getting a free copy
With special thanks to the the Stichting Exploitatie Catalina PH-PBY (
http://www.catalina-pby.nl) and
the Danish Technical Museum (
http://www.tekniskmuseum.dk) that provided us with a lot of
information. At the museum you will soon be able to fly this aircraft.