DMW FLY IN WEDNESDAY 18th FEBRUARY
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The February fly in will be a trip from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic (MDSD) to St. Maarten (TNCM) in the Caribbean
The theme for this fly-in is HEAVIES!! :yahoo: . Any big jet you can find is fine for this flight. If you still want to join us on the fly in but dont fancy taking a 'heavy' then feel free to use one of the larger private jets if you wish. No props this fly in though please.
Any pilots interested meet on the server and TeamSpeak around 19:30 GMT ready for take off at around 20:00 GMT. server details can be found here (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?40345-FSHost-info-and-download-details)
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Flight time is roughly 1 hour and 15 mins with a cruising speed of 300 knots (ish). You can download the .pln file here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/flyk2bdjpxvshmi/MDSD%20Las%20Americas%20Intl%20-%20TNCM%20Princess%20Juliana%20Intl.PLN?dl=0) if you wish to import it into the FSX flight planner, alternatively the flight plan is below:MDSD >> MIROX >> DARSI >> POBEP >> MELLA >> DDP >> MALIE >> STT >> JUICE >> TNCM
PLEASE NOTE: When you load this flight plan into FSX it will say that Las Americas, your departure airport, does not exit. Just ignore this, you will spawn at the correct airport. (I think the name has changed since FSX was released)
You may think, 'thats a rather random place to have a fly-in', well..take a look at the landing you will be attempting below :norty:
[video=youtube;x-rv_3hNARU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-rv_3hNARU[/video]
Before joining the server be sure to have all air traffic turned off otherwise you will see AI aircraft on the ground and in the air. Also please make sure you have read the server rules (here (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?40374-dMw-FSHost-Server-Rules)) so you are aware of the do's and don'ts.
If your new to FSX this is a great opportunity to come and learn the basics, im sure any questions you may have can be answered.
I hope to see you on the night, if you have any questions feel free to contact me or one of the admins or reply here :)
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sulky approves as i have the fly tampa st maartan pack :D
[video=youtube;q2oJLN3uygM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2oJLN3uygM#t=17[/video]
This will be fun as TNCM has no ILS, just a VOR beacon. So it's VFR landing and you're over water all the way until the start of the runway - and more water at the other end if you're touching down too far along the runway or can't stop!
....and here's your VOR landing. courtesy of the FSX Mission (which you can practice before we video the crash)!
TCNM VOR is 113.0
Runway Heading 096
Happy landings!
nice video, but the dx10 water looks rubbish
Quote from: sulky_uk;395111nice video, but the dx10 water looks rubbish
If you're not aiming to land in it, it's irrelevant! :P
lol..anyhew FSX SE is installed with all my orbx and aircraft..except pmdg737 and the q400, which dont work, so alongside SE it is a fresh install of FSX disc edition with everything, so im up for Wednesday. I had to disconnect my steam drive to get the disc edition to take all the aircraft and scenary!
I'll be taking the base 747 from FSX on this flight and trying to stop a few hundred tons of aircraft-grade aluminium before the runway ends and the ugly water starts.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;395115I'll be taking the base 747 from FSX on this flight and trying to stop a few hundred tons of aircraft-grade aluminium before the runway ends and the ugly water starts.
:thumb: I think I will take the plunge and go with the jumbo too. Managed to land a 757 pretty easily with plenty of runway left so will crank it up a notch I think
Sparko said heavy so I have found files that will work with FSX:SE for this plane.
Antonov An-225*Mriya
I hope I will be able to stop before I hit the water.
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Quote from: BrotherTobious;395117Sparko said heavy so I have found files that will work with FSX:SE for this plane.
Antonov An-225*Mriya
I hope I will be able to stop before I hit the water.
Take off will be a little tight too, you need the best part of 10,000 feet at modest payload to get airborne and that's just under the runway length! :P
Lol OK stock 747 then
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tried it in the tristar, did a take off...circuit and land..very scary
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My chosen ride for the Fly-In.
Btw, is everyone happy with how to use VOR or should we link or post a quick guide to help? There's plenty of videos on the net too.
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its with a heavy heart that i am not going to fly
the tristar on wednesday, there is no way ill get up to speed in the time period, so something else it is
Quote from: sulky_uk;395125its with a heavy heart that i am not going to fly
the tristar on wednesday, there is no way ill get up to speed in the time period, so something else it is
Trying to learn it too and it's not easy, especially as I am stupidly splitting my time on other aircraft too. :doh:
..that's why I went with the 747 this time. :blush:
charts for the area
http://uvairlines.com/admin/resources/charts/charts-caribbean.htm
Quote from: BrotherTobious;395117Sparko said heavy so I have found files that will work with FSX:SE for this plane.
Antonov An-225*Mriya
I hope I will be able to stop before I hit the water.
Toby, if you change your mind again and go for the 225, don't forget your waterwings.
http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?287531-Antonov-225-issues
160000 and still only just in the air. Hmm I wonder if I can pull a Jesus in this game?
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can i make a suggestion that if people arent using the default aircraft and the aircraft they choose is free to download can they post the links here so that in game we can all see them
Quote from: sulky_uk;395135can i make a suggestion that if people arent using the default aircraft and the aircraft they choose is free to download can they post the links here so that in game we can all see them
I will try the Just Flight Freemium 757.
http://www.justflight.com/product/757-jetliner-freemium
http://www.justflight.com/articles/757-jetliner-freemium-avsim-review
Edit; but I can't load the Flight plan.
can you find the gps page (shift 3 or something) and program the route in there and manually use the autopilot to imput each course change, like you would in a light aircraft?
Afaiaa from the review, it has an FMS into which you program the waypoints and then execute the route to activate it
yes, but I could not load the provided pln. made my own in another great program.
Simlauncher x, moving map and sim manager. Free or donation ware
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My ride for the event. 737.
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My ride for the event. 737.
Nice, is that freeware Albert?
looks like the 737 from captaim sim
just messing around i think i have a winner aircraft for me and paddy (gotta love the fact captain sim lets you install on up to 3 computers) air holand 757
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couldnt get the capt sim tohold the flight plan in the fmc..tried something slighty less technical...its running the route ok
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Quote from: Sparko;395163Nice, is that freeware Albert?
I got it and the Airbus in the JF pick and mix sale at the weekend.
Just to mix it up a bit, I'm going to use a RAF Nimrod if its heavy enough? (180,000 lbs)
Stick all the way, no autopilot. GPS for Nav. I lurve a challenge, but maybe on the beach first.
Quote from: vobler;395137I will try the Just Flight Freemium 757.
I'll have to give up on this one. I have big troubles. Sim crashes and hangs. Much like it was with the Beech B200 at ENGM. I just have to try the default 737.
Have not had the crashing with any of my other planes/locations. It might be plane/location/scenery dependent.
There is s replacement DLL file that helps reduce the number if crashes, I despite it into mine and I rarely have problems now. I'll try to think where I found it.
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I've given up on the camera for the moment, but I will definitely be taking the PMDG 777-200LR tonight.
In addition to Sparko's waypoints, I've added to the FMC:
MDSD SID MIRO2L
TNCM STAR GOUDA
I am hoping to make this tonight ! but will have to see how it plans out if I am not there by 8 please dont wait!
this is what vroute gave me
KARIB UL337 TILIG UM525 MELLA G633 DDP B520 JUICE
and cause im premium i can download it straight into the FMC. If you want a copy of the flight plan i can email you it tea? but it will be after work so about 1730
Yep, vroute does not provide you with the route Sparko posted in the OP. Where did you get it from Sparko?
I'm manually entering the flight plan into the PMDG 777's FMC (part of the 'learning to fly it' process) but was sticking to the waypoints given by Sparko in the OP in case we wanted to fly within view of each other. MIROX is actually a turn pretty much direct to TNCM, KARIB takes you out a bit further south before turning, but it's not a major difference. The MIRO2L departure leads directly onto Sparko's preferred MIROX (unsurprisingly!) and therefore that's what I chose.
Entering the route into the PMDG 777's FMC is actually kind of fun. I'm vroute premium too, so I have been using the fuel calc part too, to help improve my initial guesstimate of "about 8000kg/hr"!
Happy to switch routes if Sparko wants to use the vroute one, we can easily upload from vroute (which I think Sparko also has as he put me onto it in the first place) for whichever route we eventually use.
I definitely used vroute to plan the route but may have selected the wrong AIRAC or whatever it's called. The route I posted is only a guide so feel free to alter as desired. It's just so we tend to arrive one after each other really more than anything but if there is a better route feel free to use it.
Apologies if it's screwed up your fmc's guys
i thought that using the vroute errr route would generate a little bit of separation as we dont want to arrive all at once as the buggers arent turn on the spot like the small stuff, if we had to hold for instance, but as my last waypoint is the same it shouldnt matter too much
edit the differance between the fsx generated route and the vroute one is about 6 mins flying so not too much of a problem I think
You can teach me how to load it into FSX then as dumping it in the root PMDG\777 folder seems not to work (or I need to RTFM).
With the climb rate of the 777 I suspect I could leave last and still touchdown first! I did a EGLL-EGBB flight (light fuel load) and was seeing climb rates of about 6000ft/min. :blink:
I think there is a navdata one within the PMDG folder and it will have the routes for the default flights ie how to fly the 777 tutorial. I deleted all mine and put the route into that folder and it worked. Off the top of my head you need to request route on the one one of the pages and it will show you all the files in the nav folder.
all of the top of my head if you do a very quick google for when do i put flight plans for the fmc for pmdg77 it will show you where to put it and how to activate it
Yep, found that by accident! It went in the FLightplans>777 folder. Apparently the 737 has its own folder, so does the 777, but the 747 needs ot be in the Flightplans folder itself and not a sub-folder. Go figure.
What's all this stuff then TL?
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Not going to make it guys sorry
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Good flight tonight guys, well done sparko for organizing it and here are some pics
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Nice pics Sulky!
Cheers guys was a good flight, nice to use the larger jets. Hope you enjoyed it, let us know if you have any suggestions for the March fly-in :thumb:
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Forming an orderly queue for take off.
An enjoyable flight apart from the last millisecond.:taz: I'm blaming the add-on scenery, as I
had made several successful landings in the week. It was interesting to see the different
ground levels on rejoining, especially seeing a 737 only visible from the top off the fuselage
and no wings. Perhaps I should disable scenery add-ons in future.
I had also used www.SkyVector.com (http://www.skyvector.com) which enabled me to set up a pair of additional
waypoints in the flight planner which afforded me an accurate final approach.
If we ever return to the Caribbean, may I suggest a flight I took some 25 years ago, Grantley Adams
in Barbados to Mustique, quick tour of the island, breakfast in the Cotton Club (no sign of Mr Jagger) and then a flight
south west to Union Island where we trolled around the Grenadines on a catamaran, lunch on board
at Petit Bateau, picked few conch shells and a quick slurp of some home-made rum from the captain,
cant recall the return journey. Oh to be young again :sad: