Create tutorials for float variants

[gilbertohasnofb]

It would be nice to have a take off and a landing tutorials for the float variants.

[gilbertohasnofb]

Note: we are in the process of deciding a fixed scenery tile for the tutorials, so please do not work on this before that has been decided. This tile will likely be in Hawaii and so these two tutorials can take place somewhere in the sea close to the selected airport.

[wkitty42]

excellent idea... i remember playing around with the amphibious craft and getting it up onto the land... i was playing in the KRDU area and flying over to Jordan Lake to land there and ""camp"" on the shore :)

FWIW: Jordan Lake is west of KRDU... it is the result of flood protection plan started back in 1947, IIRC... we used to go swimming there all the time but life moves on 😸

[wlbragg]

@gilbertohasnofb FYI: the mooring code I'm implementing gives you the option to automatically start at a mooring location if in the float or amphibian configuration. With that comes a list of historical (and some custom) mooring locations that you will start up in if close to that location. We can add a mooring location near whatever the final runway selection is for some consistency. It may fit nicely with whatever hydro tutorials we come up with.

BUMP:

Note: we are in the process of deciding a fixed scenery tile for the tutorials, so please do not work on this before that has been decided. This tile will likely be in Hawaii and so these two tutorials can take place somewhere in the sea close to the selected airport.

[wlbragg]

I'm working on the following...

Daniel K. Inouye International Airport AKA Honolulu International Airport PHNL
has mooring code so you can do "Automatic" mooring or "Go now" mooring.
It also has a a well known seaplane airfield located right next to it in Oahu's Keehi Lagoon.
The lagoon's water runways are documented on the charts as 4W-22W and 8W-26W

These are the two tutorials I intend to do.

1. Starting you moored in the mooring spot, taxi to rwy 4W, water takeoff. pattern back to ground landing at PHNL.
2. Starting at runway threshold at PHNL, ground takeoff, pattern back to water landing in Oahu's Keehi Lagoon rwy 4W, taxi back to mooring location and drop mooring anchor.

These two scenarios cover every aspect of using the amphibious variant.

In both of these tutorials you will be expected to be an experienced pilot who is already proficient in preflight, charts, startup, taxiing, takeoff, pattern and landing. These tutorials are to teach you how to use the amphibious variant without any details in all the above aspects of flight. You are expected to know the basics prior to using the amphibious aircraft.

[wlbragg]

First tutorial is finished, see issue-1054 branch and Create tutorials for float variants #1163 .

Please test.

[gilbertohasnofb]

@wlbragg I will test this tonight. Once this work on the tutorials is done we could perhaps consider working on this: #1134

That sounds like a fun issue. I will drop an email to the folks at Wipaire asking for permission to use their sounds, else I will recreate those voice call outs. On a second thought maybe I should just go ahead and recreate those voice call outs, I am afraid I will open a can of worms by emailing them.

[wlbragg]

@gilbertohasnofb I made some tweaks, please be sure to pull fresh. Also I may have the landing tutorial done by your tonight. 😄

[gilbertohasnofb]

Cool, I will do another pull before testing later tonight.

Also I may have the landing tutorial done by your tonight.

If you have that and all will be working as it should, will that mean that the PR will be ready to merge or will we need to still do some work on anything else?

[wlbragg]

Yes

[wlbragg]

Not quite done, still some tweaking left to do on "Landing Tutorial" and radio settings on both.

[gilbertohasnofb]

@wlbragg what's the status of this work? I will wait a bit before reviewing it since you said this is not quite done yet, ok?