Twin Otter amphibious anchor

[RF pilot 35]

Whenever I start cold and dark in the amphibious Twin Otter, by the time I have set up the plane it has drifted onto the rocks. Is there anyway to prevent this? Can we have a mooring rope or anchor to use?

[olof 20]

Set up the wind to drift you away from the rocks. Or pick a different launch spot. One with a dock works well.

Or start on land and taxi down into the water, amphibians do this very well.

Anchor would be cool addition though. Gets my vote.

[Transair27 90]

I'm wondering if an anchor could be bound to the park brakes (in water) so setting/releasing the brake activates/deactivates the anchor.  This won't receive support from AS as it's not in the appropriate section though.....perhaps re-post

[Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558]

We experimented a lot with a anchor. But other then Active Pause there is simply no way to lock an aircraft in position on the water.  Wish it was different.

[UnsealedKarma 52]

On 3/4/2022 at 9:43 AM, Mathijs Kok said:

We experimented a lot with a anchor. But other then Active Pause there is simply no way to lock an aircraft in position on the water.  Wish it was different.

I recently bought Big Radials Goose. It has a water anchor you can deploy, but it's only visual and has no effect. On the MSFS forums someone brought up the ineffectiveness of the anchor and I had look at the MSFS simvars. It turns out there is a freeze event in MSFS. 

(K:FREEZE_LATITUDE_LONGITUDE_SET) 

The event will make the aircraft stay completely still on the latitude/longtitude axis (it will still weather wane around its axis though). I made a simple script to apply this freeze when the anchor is out and unfreeze the aircraft when the anchor is taken in. It's now a most effective as it can hold the aircraft still in the strongest gusts - and with the engines at full power!

As mentioned above the freeze could also be bound to the parking brake (checking if the plane is in water SURFACE TYPE, number = 2).

 

Just thought I might let you if you are still considering to implement an anchor for the amphibious Twin Otter.

[Transair27 90]

Mathijs

This is worth picking up on.....what do you think?