The P-166 & Flightsimulation
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Mario writes:
It all started around June 2002, when I was on school trip to Naples. I was in the bus when I saw two strange planes parked somewhere in an exhibition. As my friends know that I love airplanes, they asked me what these aircraft where. I found myself unable to answer them, I found myself wondering what these two aircraft, with similarities of a Piaggio PD-808 (the tail), with a strange pair of wings and a compact fuselage? I was able to see only the tails and the props.
Then, back to home in Italy, as I was working on my PD-808 model, I made a search on AVSim for "Piaggio" and found a very old model of a P-166S, and a P-166A, for Flight sim 98, converted from FS5. That was the plane I'd seen at Naples in a military scheme
My curiousity now aroused, I searched the Net and found www.p166.com, discovered that this little successful twin was manufactured in Genoa, only 30 minutes from the city I live in. Thus my new Project for flight sim was born!
My my PD-808 found her way into the hands of some Piaggio Engineers. They contacted me and I used the oppertunity to ask lots of questions about the P-166. This resulted in a visit to the Piaggio factory at Genoa where I was able to take several photos of parts of the plane that I did have any reference of.
I was also able to talk talk Mr. Beghi who let me go inside a P-166DL-3\APH and a P-180. Mr. Villi, the Piaggio Test Pilot, arrived at about this time from the airport after a flight with the P-166DP1 prototype, I was able to talk to him about the aircraft's behaviour
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The P-166 for X-Plane
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