After taking off from Auckland International today in my Catalina, over Manukau Harbour, couldn't help noticing two 737s coming in spaced about 100m apart. What's up with that?
Heading west I decided that pulling back on the prop levers might get me going a bit faster but sadly both engines spluttered to a halt at 3,500 feet so my first thought (not yet knowing what to do with an engine failure in-flight other than soil my trousers) was to land on Whatipu beach, just to the north, and then I remembered I was in a seaplane, so it might be better to land on the water instead. Actually that was my second thought, - my first thought was to call Mayday!, but I couldn't find that option on the radio menu (WHY???
) After executing a gentle 360 to the left (don't want to get too far out to sea) and lowering the floats I landed gracefully (at least I thought so) into the wind and then my mouse went involuntarilly into yoke mode, which it does sometimes, much to my annoyance, so I wasn't able to left click anything to start the engines again... I've since found out that control + y is the way to toggle this off, so I'll try that next time.
Just another day with FSX.
, I'll check it out. 
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