Push Me Pull You: The C337

[Charl]

No sooner had I said the sales would never get to my Wishlists, than the Marketplace chopped the price on the Carenado 337.
I marvelled at this plane back in FS9, and it still has an honesty I find quite charming.
It's a 60 year old design, and so it is not very complicated.
Even I can make it go from here to there without too much trouble.
I started in Dunedin

Watch on youtube.com

This being a screenshot topic (Nobody looks at the Video subforum anyway) I added the rest of the trip to Robin's NZTI.
A short hop for a twin, true.
But I like going there.







The Sales are real - you can really hurt the credit card with all those savings you simply must make.

[emfrat]

This being a screenshot topic (Nobody looks at the Video subforum anyway)

Charl, I am still somewhat dazed by the number of views recorded for that 3 min video I posted the other week of the AFS4 777F landing itself. Probably more than the combined total of all my other posts

[Charl]

Proving my point, I completely missed your post.
Well done! and you got a Subscriber

[cowpatz]

The “twin finned tangle foot”. “Mixmaster” or “skymaggot”. Take your pick.
I had a mate that used to fly one for Taupo Air Services back in the day. ZK-DFT
ZK-DFT
Nice wee vid.

[Charl]

Thanks, CP.
Yes "Tanglefoot" is apt.
I will confess to multi-cycling the gear after takeoff, just for that show.

Two still on the register in NZ: DFT and SVY, both in Dunedin!
Be fun to have a NZ paint...

[Splitpin]

Nice work Charl , Love the 337... I reckon Carenado have always done good Cessna models.
Do those require a twin engine rating? its a twin, but inline ....

[jankees]

nice shots, and clip!

[deeknow]

I had a mate that used to fly one for Taupo Air Services back in the day. ZK-DFT

Cool !!! I have a book at home that has some coverage of amongst other things the Taupo Air Services fleet inc their 337 and I think a couple of Mitsi MU-2's they operated?

[Naki]

Mu -2s were Air Central....lovely series of shots Charl

[Splitpin]

Found an answer to my own question...
"Yes, you need a multi-engine (MEL) rating to fly a Cessna 337 Skymaster. While some countries may issue a special "centerline thrust rating" for this specific configuration, a general MEL rating is required"

[emfrat]

One of Dad's connections either gifted him a subscription to the 'New Yorker' magazine or used to post him his read copies. This was in the 1960s - we all read it for the Chas Addams cartoons...I remember seeing the Cessna 337 advertised, and one of the selling points was that the configuration cancelled out the torque reaction. This was probably a shot at Beechcraft, who used 'handed' engines (propellors really) although I didn't know that at the time. We live and learn.