Catalina - Damn it's soooo purty

[HaHa]

I was just at the Tillamo/Oregon Air Museum and I saw a beautiful Catalina.

I know its been mentioned before, but I personally believe such an aircraft would make an excellent addition to the AH world. We could use it to drop bombs, torps, or even troops. Best of all it floats on the water so it could be a TG spawnable plane.

HTC could be the first (once again) to bring a seaplane to a mm wwII arena  

[Thunder]

Interesting!  

Like it at first Blush! Not that I would every fly it. But it would make a great Target for a P-51D   It could be a good strategic addition.

Thunder

[1776]

Catalina could be used to pick up downed pilots so they could save their perk pts.  Course 1/2 would go to the catalina pilot for picking up the downed pilot    Could haul drunks too.  Could be used in scenarios  without radar as scout planes  Nice idea would like to see a plane like this added  Ok, that's 2 votes

[This message has been edited by 1776 (edited 12-30-2000).]

[juzz]

Huh?! Was the Cat EVER used to carry troops?

[HaHa]

It's a large plane, I'm sure it was used to carry troops at sometime during the war. But of course we could just stick with C47s, because we know that the only "realistic" way to capture territory is to have the c47 drop troopers on it... ;0

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Catalina should be use as a spotter, meaning it's like an Jstar/Awacs, see planes far away liek radar, and can spot fleet at a greater distance than our current vision.

[Dux]

I'm all for it... there are all kinds of uses for it. If they decide to do a SAR kind of utiliztion in the game, maybe we could also get a Kingfisher, or Sunderland, or whatever...    

[Thunder]

I like 1776's idea on downed Pilots.. they did that in WWII. A Catalina might bring a fun twist to the sim! I am liking your post HaHa! Hope HTC will give it some thought.

Thunder

[Animal]

is HTC reading this?
Awesome idea!

I cant see why not implement something like this..

[eskimo]

I would love the PBY and would fly it often.

eskimo

[Saintaw]

Yup, I think it'd be cool to have something that could be of Multy use. Read, Drop eggs, Torps and Drunks ... (Pick the loadout in the Hangar).

Problem is, who would still fly the C47 then ?  

PBY would be nice to have, I'll fly it too !

Saw

[metronom]

A new Company in AH

"Anything,Anythere,Anytime" with the PBY

And the payment with 1/2 perkpoints would be the best challenge to try to rescue a downed Pilot.
Imagine, the Harbour full with Catalinas just waitin for the call... Good point we have no collision with a friendly Aircraft  

Sailor

[flakbait]

I'd fly it! Low speed, quite maneuverable, in short the best spotter plane ever made. Plus you could takeoff from ports to go out for a scouting mission to find the enemy CV.

Hehehehe, I love it!

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[lasse]

It is a beautiful plane, that's for sure  

It sounds like a great idea, to make it possible to pick up downed pilots.

I also think it should be used as the ONLY plane to capture ports, you has to land the catalina and taxiing into the port and dock the thing, then you capture the port.

This way it get a not to similar use to the C-47.

Just my 0.2$

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The Wild Vikings
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lasse-

[This message has been edited by lasse (edited 12-31-2000).]

[-duma-]

Simply set the Catalina to have a lower perk point multiplier than the C47, and you'll still have some flying...