Big Radials announced its JRF-6 Goose for MSFS, a former training aircraft for the US Coast Guard. The announcement comes one year after the team’s freeware release of the same aircraft, dubbed “OzX Goose Redux II” for MSFS.

The real aircraft is designed and manufactured by Grumman, it is their debut amphibious aircraft which was designed primarily to cater towards business travellers in the Long Island area. The plane is also Grumman’s first aircraft with two engines. After going into commercial airline service, it played a role in military transport during World War II, including the US Coast Guard - its design enabled it to serve military needs efficiently which saw it being adopted for the same use in other countries too.

Big Radials was the team behind the freeware Grumman Goose product, but their payware version announced on the MSFS forums will take everything up a notch. Needless to say, it’s an entirely new project with zero reuse from the previous freeware, and it is developed in collaboration with real pilots and instructors from the Goose Hangar. This group keeps some original aircraft in operation to this day. The team’s lead developer “OzWookiee” describes the project as a comprehensive collaboration with the Goose Hangar people to make the plane as similar as possible to the actual version, bringing to the simulator functions such as the iconic Vacuum powered flaps. Other specific features to be expected are a highly detailed fuel system, 4k textures, WWise sounds and an authentic flight model.

As this project has just started in its infancy, and is an early announcement, no price or release date for the aircraft was mentioned, but to quell your amphibious thirst for the time being, you can find their released OzX Goose Redux II for free at Flightsim.to. Stay tuned!