This year I thought I would add a little direction to my usually random selecting of routes to fly in FSX:SE, by trying to fly the freight of the F1 circus around the world, starting from the UK and flying to:
March 26: Melbourne, Australia
April 9: Shanghai, China
April 16: Bahrain, Bahrain
April 30: Sochi, Russia
May 14: Barcelona, Spain
May 28: Monte Carlo, Monaco
June 11: Montreal, Canada
June 25: Baku, Azerbaijan
July 9: Spielberg, Austria
July 16: Silverstone, United Kingdom
July 30: Budapest, Hungary
August 27: Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
September 3: Monza, Italy
September 17: Singapore, Singapore
October 1: Sepang, Malaysia
October 8: Suzuka, Japan
October 22: Austin, USA
October 29: Mexico City, Mexico
November 12: Sao Paolo, Brazil
November 26: Abu Dhabi, UAE
I'll be loading up a PMDG 747 or 777 (but any tubeliner will do) and using a Freight version with either a Polar or UPS skin to try to at least pay some homage to the fact I am hauling Freight!
Rules of the game are pretty basic:
- have landed your F1 freight in the destination area before the race starts!
- use of accelerated time is just fine for the cruise elements of your flight path
- try to post up a couple of nice screen shots along the way so that others can see what you're doing
- perhaps use the routes as an excuse to check out some of the freeware or payware airport scenery along the way.
Melbourne triggered an opportunity to purchase Orbx Melbourne, so that's my first destination, via Dubai.
Anyone fancy giving it a try with me or doing an occasional leg or two?
Right, I'm off to Dubai now!
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Route chosen:Part I: EGLL (Heathrow) to OMDB (Dubai) Aircraft: PMDG 747-400 Freighter
Payload: 160,000 lbs
Planned Flight Level 380,
Distance 3,079nm
Departing EGLL runway 09L
Arriving OMDB runway 12L
Fuel calcs & Route from Vroute Premium:
Taxi fuel: 2100 lbs
Total trip fuel: 137630 lbs
Contingency fuel: 6880 lbs
Alternate fuel: 5000 lbs
Final reserve fuel: 6780 lbs
Minimum landing fuel: 2040 lbs
Captain's reserve: 500 lbs
TOTAL: 160930 lbs
Route: BPK5K BPK Q295 CLN UL620 TULIP DCT LARET DCT OMELO L620 ROMIS DCT DEMOP DCT NARKA DCT RONBU P975 ARTAT UP975 EZS UT36 ALRAM J5 KAPES UL223 LAM G666 ORSAR B416 DESDI DESDI1B
Part II: OMDB (Dubai) to YMML (Melbourne) Aircraft: PMDG 747-400 Freighter
Payload: 160,000 lbs (just under max take-off weight for this leg of the route)
Planned eventual max flight Level 380
Distance 6,351nm
Departing OMDB runway 12L
Arriving YMML runway 16
Fuel calcs & Route from Vroute Premium:
Fuel:
Taxi fuel: 2100 lbs
Total trip fuel: 298830 lbs
Contingency fuel: 14940 lbs
Alternate fuel: 8180 lbs
Final reserve fuel: 6780 lbs
Minimum landing fuel: 2040 lbs
Captain's reserve: 500lbs
TOTAL: 333,370 lbs
Route: ANVIX2G DCT ANVIX L223 TARDI N629 GIDAN P570 KITAL L894 DONSA L894 BIBGO DCT SUNAN L894 DADAR DCT KAMUN DCT IDEVI DCT SAKEG DCT RUNUT DCT DCT POLUM DCT DCT UXORA DCT DCT KINTO DCT KG DCT CAG DCT HUSKY DCT SLOOP DCT WOKKA DCT SPIDR Y53 WENDY V279 ML WENDY4A
...and we're off. Just after take-off from EGLL Heathrow and now on the way to OMDB Dubai, then en route to YMML Melbourne with 160,000 lbs of freight for the first F1 race of the season. 747-400 Freighter.
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Due to an annoying OOM I never got around to finishing this flight, so I'll be trying again on lower settings and without Active Sky weather next time to reduce the VAS load a little bit.
If I may ask two questions?
Why the stop is that just refuel or do you have rl commitments and that flight is too long to do in one shot?
how did i miss this trad yesterday??? ill fire up the 777 and join in if thats ok
Quote from: BrotherTobious;422196If I may ask two questions?
Why the stop is that just refuel or do you have rl commitments and that flight is too long to do in one shot?
It's a bit of both Toby.
As far as I am aware, there are no non-stop flights from London to Melbourne at the moment, so I am simply following what is available in real life as my flight planning software sources from available or recent RL routes.
The 9,000 mile flight is technically possible in one go, but by very few airframes. Currently you could just about make the flight in either a 777-200LR, a A340-500, or the new A350-900ULR but you'd be on fumes as you landed. Fortunately it's downhill from here to Oz, so you might save a little bit on the way, but you had better hope to not have a headwind! I believe there is also an ultra long range variant of the 787 Dreamliner version coming out which could also make the flight.
Apart from those reasons, I also thought that it makes it slightly easier to do it in two hops and chose Dubai as a nice comfortable hub to host my stop-over.
Hope that explains it.
Yup thanks mate
I'm currently re-doing the flight and am cruising at 38,000 ft above the mountains of southern europe. It makes for a nice screensaver/backdrop whilst working!
Leaving continental Europe and flying over the Mediterranean en route to OMDB Dubai.
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Final approach to OMDB Dubai on runway 12L.
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On the ground at OMDB for a stop-over, before heading off to Melbourne tomorrow.
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Very nice idea.
Too long flights for me though. I don't think I have a suitable plane either.
I feel it is to much work to learn to fly one of those big guys.
But if anyone have a suggestion for not to difficult, but usable plane I will look in to it.
I have the Just flight 757 Freemium somewhere if that is a possibility...
Default 747 will make the same flights I think. The long range variant of the 757 Freemium can do London to Dubai, but I think Melbourne is then out of range, so you might need to select an airport within 4,000nm of Melbourne for the 'final' leg.
I can upload the FSX flightplan for you if you want (in fact that might be a good idea for all legs so that we're all doing the same thing). THe first few flights are crazy long, but they get shorter during the European season, so don't give up on us and remember to use the time accelerator in the sim to shorten those flight times! I did the London to Dubai whilst doing some work, I did the pre-flight, take off and climb section, then once into cruise accelerated the time and had the sim in the background while I worked. All I had to do was keep an eye on the fuel management and change some pumps/crossfeeds a couple of times during the cruise. Just prior to Top of Descent I 'rejoined' the sim to do the descent checklist items and adjust the altimeter, but then let the aircraft follow the Flight Director down until I was nearer the airport. All in all it was not a bad way to juggle a long flight as I used most of the cruise section for work whilst the sim used accelerated time for that element.
Thanks,
I got an idea. I have the A2A B377. I will look in to that. I think it will fly very very far....
Edit;
No, I see it is not far enough, I get to Singapore, and could stop over there, but....
Just a quick message to tell about the Little NavMap http://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html
Very nice program for flight following and planning.
Another one is this https://www.windytv.com
A web site with weather info. Can plot airports and winds, winds aloft, clouds and all kinds of stuff for planning.
Quote from: vobler;422217Very nice idea.
Too long flights for me though. I don't think I have a suitable plane either.
I feel it is to much work to learn to fly one of those big guys.
But if anyone have a suggestion for not to difficult, but usable plane I will look in to it.
I have the Just flight 757 Freemium somewhere if that is a possibility...
You could flight a private jet mate team boss, drivers, etc
Quote from: vobler;422219Thanks,
I got an idea. I have the A2A B377. I will look in to that. I think it will fly very very far....
Edit;
No, I see it is not far enough, I get to Singapore, and could stop over there, but....
How about getting to Indonesia or just doing the last leg from there to YMML? The 757 should be able to do that as it's a 2,875nm trip and the 757 range is about 4,000nm.
Departure: WIII Soekarno Hatta Intl (Indonesia) FL range: 290 - 390 Distance: 2875.8 nm
Arrival: YMML Melbourne Intl (Australia)
Route: HLM1J.IMABA IMABA A585 PD T21 LEC H119 ARBEY ARBEY8A
PS: I'm currently 38,000ft over the Pacific about 220nm from BIBGO, cruising towards Melbourne.
Departing OMDB in brilliant sunshine in the 747-400F, hauling Formula 1 cargo to Melbourne for the first race of the 2017 season.
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38,000ft and nothing but Pacific ocean below.
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A first sighting of Australia, from 39,000ft on a moonlit night.
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Approaching YMML Melbourne International Airport via WENDY4A, fully configured for landing, localiser and glide slope captured.
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Final approach at YMML, manual landing.
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And just to prove we actually parked up without going OOM:
Finally arrived and parked at stand. Time for a rest while the ground crew unload the F1 cargo.
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Morning at Melbourne!
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So that's me done until after the Grand Prix! Next flight will be to Shanghai and the flight card is attached for anyone who wants to see the planned route.
Wow, nice flight!
I went and bought the Qality Wings 757 pack. Very cheap and I liked their slogan; Complexity Simplyfied! They have cargo models, even a Formula 1 livery. Not The best but I think it will do nicely for this project. Will do the flight tomorrow, maybe to late for practice, but it couldn't be helped.... ;-)
I've read some good things about the QW 757, so it should be perfect for the role! Shout if you need a talk through on TS of any of the Boeing systems as I've got most of them sorted in my head now - it's only taken me a few years [emoji38]
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Quote from: TeaLeaf;422234Shout if you need a talk through on TS of any of the Boeing systems as I've got most of them sorted in my head now - it's only taken me a few years [emoji38]
I might do that! I did some of the flight yesterday, but ran low on gas so I had to land at YPPD. In a very bad weather. I managed to land, but it was not a pretty sight.
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Speed Alive
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Climbout from Singapore
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Cruise Climb (Note Formla 1 Logistics logo :-))
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South of Jacarta (Note cloud shadows)
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Trying desperately to stop in time
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Wating for the fuel truck.
At least you landed on terra firma, so welcome to north west Australia! :worship:
The flight from Port Hedland down to Melbourne should be within range of the 757 now, so the next leg should be a little simpler.
Did you fly the whole thing manually? I can see FD is not on, so I was just wondering. I can understand no A/T if the FMU does not offer a TOGA setting, but kudos if you did the whole trip in stick mode!
I should be around tonight if you wanted to chat through the systems. I'll try and be online at about 7pm UK time.
Edit: Enable the Retrofit LCD upgrade for the cockpit if you can, it makes it easier to manage the systems imo.
off to dubai/abu dhabi in a couple of weeks, so i can "attend" the 1st leg for real
on a seperate note, i am off to williams F1 next tuesday for a vip look around with 6 others as part of a RAF-industry working practice sharing thingy...and no im not the driver!!!!
Quote from: TeaLeaf;422239I can understand no A/T if the FMU does not offer a TOGA setting, but kudos if you did the whole trip in stick mode!
I should be around tonight if you wanted to chat through the systems. I'll try and be online at about 7pm UK time.
I had an FSX flightplan loaded and I flew that on autopilot. But the flight computer was "empty". The approach/landing was manual. Not that difficult once I got the speeds sorted.
I have something scheduled until about 2115 local (8 PM Yours?) tonight, but will jump on TS then just to see if you are still there.
Sure, I should be able to be around at that point - I just need to remember!
I found that I have a CaptainSim 757, so I'll load that up tonight and rrfresh myself on the look of that cockpit, they are all slightly different, but it might help our discussion!
Qw757 is better, but I loaded it back on last night and it is crashing my sim. Ill reinstall the cs757 tonight and see if that does any better
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Quote from: sulky_uk;422244Qw757 is better, but I loaded it back on last night and it is crashing my sim. Ill reinstall the cs757 tonight and see if that does any better
For Info;
The version I got was 1.3.3 released March 2017
Quote from: sulky_uk;422240off to dubai/abu dhabi in a couple of weeks, so i can "attend" the 1st leg for real
on a seperate note, i am off to williams F1 next tuesday for a vip look around with 6 others as part of a RAF-industry working practice sharing thingy...and no im not the driver!!!!
You lucky bstrd! :-)
Vobler, I've been called into a meeting and won't be back until after 9pm UK. Might have to be tomorrow. Sorry.
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No problem.
Edit;
I managed to finish the flight, and did a nice Autoland landing. My first ever I think!
But I had problems importing the FSX flightplan in to the computer. The manual show how to do it, but it did not work.
Anyway, a nice experience.
Glad you got there.
You can create the plan in FSX (or download it from from SimRoutes) then import it to the FMC using "Load ATC Route".... then just add the SIDS/STARS fixes if you are using them and then save the route in the FMC. The flightplan will then show up when you go to the INIT/REF INDEX page and click on the FLIGHT PLANS LSK.
vRoute Premium (which I have) can also save flightplans in the correct QW757 format, so if you want I can create them and upload/link them for you?
Vroute premium is only a few pounds and is well worth the money
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Quote from: TeaLeaf;422262The flightplan will then show up when you go to the INIT/REF INDEX page and click on the FLIGHT PLANS LSK.
vRoute Premium (which I have) can also save flightplans in the correct QW757 format, so if you want I can create them and upload/link them for you?
The import thing you describe was what I was trying. Did not work for me. I own that vRoute thing, but need to find it and install it again.
I use mostly Little Navmap for flight plans these days.
Well, the first race is over with Vettel's Ferrari taking the win and Hamilton and Bottas filling the rest of the podium places. Now the F1 circus now moves on to China (try to say it with a Trump accent) with the flight being from Melbourne International (YMML), to China's Pudong airport (ZSPD). Typically this route is operated by A330, A332, A340 aircraft, but I'm taking a B747-400 Freighter in DHL livery - because DHL is the official F1 logistics partner!
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Route chosen:
Melbourne International (YMML), to China's Pudong airport (ZSPD)
Aircraft: PMDG 747-400 Freighter
Payload: 160,000 lbs / 72,707 kg
Planned Flight Level 380
Distance 4,575 nm
Departing YMML runway 16
Arriving ZSPD any via AND11A
Fuel calcs & Route from Vroute Premium:
Taxi fuel: 950 kg
Total trip fuel: 107,980 kg
Contingency fuel: 5400 kg
Alternate fuel: 3900 kg
Final reserve fuel: 3080 kg
Minimum landing fuel: 930 kg
Captain's reserve: 500 kg
TOTAL: 122,740 kg
SID: KEPPA8
Route: KEPPA8 ML H164 KEPPA UH336 NATYA J19 BHI T25 TNK J30 TN J251 DN A461 BUTPA R590 COT B472 NANAS TR4 BCD TR10 ROX TR16 SAGRA W11 MIA A461 CAB B462 LAO M646 HCN B591 TINHO L2 BERBA R596 OKATO W13 DST B221 SHZ G204 AND AND11A
STAR: AND11A
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Alternative Route:
For those aircraft without the 4,500nm range, I suggest a two-stop route as follows: YMML - RPLL - ZSPD
Part 1:
Departure: YMML Melbourne Intl (Australia)
FL range: 380
Distance: 3535.8 nm
Arrival: RPLL Ninoy Aquino Intl (Philippines) (beautiful approach, landing and departure with sea very close to the runway)
Fuel calcs & Route from Vroute Premium:
Taxi fuel: 950 kg
Total trip fuel: 83510 kg
Contingency fuel: 4180 kg
Alternate fuel: 14580 kg
Final reserve fuel: 3080 kg
Minimum landing fuel: 930 kg
Captain's reserve: 500 kg
TOTAL: 107730 kg
SID: KEPPA8 (runway 16)
Route: KEPPA8 KEPPA UH336 NATYA J19 BHI T25 TNK J30 TN J251 DN A461 BUTPA R590 AMN A461 ZAM A583 LEGED DCT
STAR: (any for runway 06)
Part 2:
Departure: RPLL Ninoy Aquino Intl (Philippines)
FL range: 380
Distance: 2413.0 nm
Arrival: ZSPD Pudong
Fuel calcs & Route from Vroute Premium:
Taxi fuel: 950 kg
Total trip fuel: 24040 kg
Contingency fuel: 1200 kg
Alternate fuel: 4340 kg
Final reserve fuel: 3080 kg
Minimum landing fuel: 930 kg
Captain's reserve: 500 kg
TOTAL: 35040 kg
SID: ALPAS2P (runway 24)
Route: ALPAS2P ALPAS M646 SAN A461 NOMAN DCT SOUSA V1 DOTMI A470 LJG B221 SHZ G204 AND AND11A
STAR: AND11A (all runways)
Flight progress card, FSX flight plan, PMDG flight plan and Quality Wings 757 flight plan, all in the appropriate formats, are in the below zip file.
Wheels up some time soon, wheels must be down at ZSPD before Sunday 9th April.
^^CLICK TO DOWNLOAD^^
Hope its a smooth flight mate!
....and here's me, just SW of Maluku, flying over the Banda Sea.
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Doing this flight using projectFLY. If you haven't heard of it, it's well worth a read.
https://projectfly.co.uk/about
Just North of Taiwan now, not long until ToD and the descent into ZSPD.
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Interesting final section of the flight. ZSPD seems to have no STAR in the PMDG database, so I had to find airport charts and add the route manually. I went from:
AND ATRIP SHY PUD
and then landed on 34 (which is the lefthand of the two runways). In essence once you are at SHY then it's a nice VFR approach into the airport which was clearly visible. projectFLY logged the flight and added China to my countries visited 'passport' Pictures follow:
Positive rate, gear up! Leaving Melbourne International and bound for China.
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Climbing out of Melbourne bound for L380.
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Goodbye Australia, we're Asia bound.
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Final turn towards the China mainland, almost at ToD.
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Hello China!
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VFR into runway 34 at Pudong (Shanghai) airport.
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Configured for landing, VFR at ZSPD, with 160,000 ibs of Formula 1 cargo safely onboard.
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Arrived. Five and a half hours flight time, with a little bit of time acceleration in the early cruise stages to keep it manageable.
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Very Well done TL.
I will do my trip thursday night. Will go on TS and look for people.
BTW, Thanks for the flightplans and rte files!! Nice touch! :-)
Looks like we're not the only ones doing this; on the IVAO network this morning there are 12 inbound flights to ZSPD Shanghai, and 11 of the 12 are flying from YMML Melbourne! :roflmao:
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Quote from: vobler;422310Very Well done TL.
I will do my trip thursday night. Will go on TS and look for people.
BTW, Thanks for the flightplans and rte files!! Nice touch! :-)
Did the QW757 rte files load up ok for you? The FSX flightplans are also .rte, but it seemed to me on vRoute that the QW757 .rte files must be a slightly different format, even though they are also called .rte files. I'd be interested to know if they worked and if they did, I'm happy to keep uploading them for each leg. :thumbsup:
Quote from: TeaLeaf;422314Did the QW757 rte files load up ok for you?
I'm sorry but I can not check this until Thursday night....
I will let you know.
I can confirm after williams factory visit yesterday that freight is scheduled to start being moved from Melbourne to Shanghai today. Rob smedley and paddy lowe arrived back from Melbourne as we were getting an arrival brief and will fly out again by the end of the week
Pictures,to follow another thread
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I had huge problems trying to make my flight yesterday. Spent forever trying to load the flight plan, nothing works. Then set out manually only to find that the Autopilot didn't work either. Eventually gave up. :-(
There must be some incompatibilities with the FSX:SE version. Some gauges was wrong too this time. This is not right....
I will just have to take a few days break, and try again. If that try is the same I will have to skip this project altogether.
If it's the qw757, I had to reinstall to get it working. My cs757 didn't work with se
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Don't give up!
Have a read here too:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/314160/discussions/1/622954302092256571/
Also, page 2 of this thread re joystick calibration doing some wierd things to the QW757.
https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/469519-757-captain-sim-vs-757-quality-wings-for-steam-edition/?page=2
Quote from: TeaLeaf;422381Don't give up!
Thanks for the comments guys,
I think I will do a flight with the Just Flight Freemium 757 just to get going again.
I remember that was working all the time. Even simpler, but working.
I might even get the DHL livery for it...
Maybe this weekend....
But now, home to my new and shiny Carenado PA-31T Cheyenne!
I found the bug in the QW 757. Windows 10 is missing a font that thr FMC needs, So the FMC worked but did not display everything,,
On my way now...
Awesome, l look forward to seeing some pictures! Smooth flight and fingers crossed for no wind shear!
Hope you've landed by now!
Sorry, Not many pictures this time. I completely forgot. I have one when parked in China, but that is all. :-(
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I had to cut short the first leg due to high winds. I had 120 knot head wind the first part of the trip. So I ended up in Darwin the first "night".
On the next leg from Darwin to Shanghai I had a good tailwind so I could do it in one go.
I still have much to learn, but after the FMC started to work correctly, I'm not that worried. I will learn something new every time.
Thats my "mission" with this project.
Glad you made it! 120 knot headwind isn't funny, that's a big one. I do like the official F1 logo on the side of the 757, very appropriate!
I just realized that the Bahrain session is at Easter. I can't do my flight until Saturday the 15'th as I am away that week.
I will just have to fly inn the last batch of spare parts.....
Quote from: vobler;422474I just realized that the Bahrain session is at Easter. I can't do my flight until Saturday the 15'th as I am away that week.
I will just have to fly inn the last batch of spare parts.....
No problem, 'last minute' is usually the way the spares arrive this early in the season!
I'll try to post up the route and flightplan links a bit later this week. Was it helpful having the QW757 flightplan file, or was it not needed? I'm happy to keep doing them if it helps, but it's quicker not to do them if they are not needed. Let me know please.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;422477Was it helpful having the QW757 flightplan file, or was it not needed? I'm happy to keep doing them if it helps, but it's quicker not to do them if they are not needed. Let me know please.
I didn't get a chance to use them because it looked as it didn't work. I tried, but without the fonts nothing showed on the FMC. If you do the next one, I can do a proper test to see if it will work on the FMC. The real problem is most likely the reduced range on the 757. So even if it works I will have to change the flights anyway.
Quote from: vobler;422478The real problem is most likely the reduced range on the 757. So even if it works I will have to change the flights anyway.
I'll do what I did last time and do you a shorter (or two-hop) route that should be within the 757 range.
So the China GP is out of the way, a win for Hamilton & Mercedes, although Ferrari still lead the constructors' championship. Freight has been packed and a 3,880nm trip is now planned from China to Bahrain in time for the next Grand Prix. The QW 757 has a max range of about 4,100 nm, so you should be good for this one in a single hop Vobler! :thumbsup:
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Route chosen:
Aircraft: PMDG 747-400 Freighter
Payload: 160,000 lbs / 72,707 kg
Planned Flight Level 380
Distance 3,880 nm
Departing ZSPD Pudong (China) runway 17L
Arriving OBBI Bahrain Intl (Bahrain) runway 12L
SID: SAS11D.SASAN
Route: SAS11D.SASAN SASAN R343 WHA B213 ENH V38 GAO B213 LXA B345 NARAN L626 DPN G333 TIGER G202 RK G214 PG G665 ASVIB N312 KHM A453 MIDSI UA453 SOGAT SOGAT1
STAR: SOGAT1
Fuel calcs & Route from Vroute Premium:
Taxi fuel: 1810 kg
Total trip fuel: 100090 kg
Contingency fuel: 5000 kg
Alternate fuel: 3150 kg
Final reserve fuel: 3080 kg
Minimum landing fuel: 930 kg
Captain's reserve: 500 kg
TOTAL: 114560 kg
Flight progress card, FSX flight plan, PMDG flight plan and Quality Wings 757 flight plan, all in the appropriate formats, are in the below zip file.
Wheels up some time soon, wheels down at OBBI should be before race start time on Sunday 16th April.
^^CLICK TO DOWNLOAD^^
Back from Abu Dhabi on the 17th then I'll start to take part
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Well, I've left Shanghai on a cloudy & misty day, but the cloud base is quite low (according to ActiveSky2016) and we have climbed through it quickly and are now heading towards our final cruising height of 38,000ft.
I've tried some cfg tweaks this time to see if my VAS usage improves, we'll wait and see! Pictures will follow.
Edit: violent turbulence at 32,000ft and about to shake the wings off it seems, all into a 120 knot head wind! :roflmao:
Lining up at ZSPD Pudong (China) to take F1 cargo to OBBI.
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Positive rate, Gear up!
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Departing ZSPD and over Shanghai
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Cruising at FL380 en route from ZSPD to OBBI
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Perhaps it's 'SPRING'? WTH? Shortly after this screenshot I had a VAS crash (unsurprisingly). Thank goodness for FSUIPC which enabled me to reload the flight from that point! :thumbsup:
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Downwind leg at OBBI
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Final approach for 12L
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It's a busy day at OBBI
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Parked up at the stand with ground services in attendance. Another flight over and another great Grand Prix to look forward to this weekend.
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Quote from: TeaLeaf;422540The QW 757 has a max range of about 4,100 nm, so you should be good for this one in a single hop Vobler! :thumbsup:
I did my flight today. But I had way too short range. Had to add abt 30% to the wing tanks to make it. The headwind where around 30 to 60 knots.
Picture tomorrow. How do you post yours? They look better than mine on the forum.
I upload mine to Steam at the end of the session, copy the link and then put the link into the {img}{/img} tags - remember to replace {} with []
Glad you got there in the end, just in time for Qualification! :thumbsup:
I realized that something went wrong with my last posting. Here is a new version of the post.
Here is the pictures from my flight:
Taxing out
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Climb out of Shanghai
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FMS working, but showing that I do not have enough fuel.....
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On approach to OBBI
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Landing OBBI
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Parked, waiting for the truck
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Nicely done Sir! I do like the F1 logo on the side, a nice touch!
I'll sort out the files and routes for the next hop to Sochi within the next 48 hours or so. There are no scheduled flights to Sochi, so vRoute is not much help, so I've built a route using PFPX and will upload the route files and flight briefing.
that's strange i picked up this from vroute, planning to do the FIA F1 kit pre-position today or tomorrow
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They must have been added very recently then, like in the last 48 hours, as there were none when I looked. PFPX has a slightly different route, so I'll take another look when I get home and compare and contrast!
so i just went and did it straight after the post above, choose etihad cargo, as i couldn't find a DHL for the 777
screenies below
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Nice, welcome to Sochi! I'll be doing mine in the next few days I reckon.
Watch out for that tail strike! :P
just be careful with the approach, i found that the ILS didn't seem to grab so i had to manually approach, also i use replay for the landing pic, which is why flaps are set to 0
Well done Sulky! I will do mine during the weekend.
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Cruise Climb
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Some good names here...
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Passing Sochi. Vectored in to the mountains
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Vectored back to Sochi again.
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Final
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Parked
Wheels are up on mine and I'm at my initial cruising height of FL340, climbing to FL390 as the weight reduces. I'm doing this one in real time as it is not excessively long.
Flight is being tracked by ProjectFLY. You can follow the flight's progress here: https://radar.projectfly.co.uk/#l95264
I've not taken any screenshots yet as the real time weather being pumped in by Active Sky 2016 is giving a seriously hazy sky, so it's high levels of glare and low levels of photographic detail :sad:
In other news, I've added PFPX, Topcat and Navigraph to the suite of software used for flight planning, so I have updated to AIRAC 1704 for my route data. The PFPX/Topcat combo seem superb and handle exporting of flight plans in multiple formats, and saving of those formats to their respective folders, automatically. Navigraph is just a delight, no more searching for airport maps showing taxiways, all the charts in glorious colour and fully searchable.
Edit:
I just looked at the descent and for some reason it wants to pick up Runway 02, which is a lot shorter, so I switched to 06 which is the one I thought I had selected in the route planning! The FMC does not show me a nice approach for 06, so I've manually entered the following into the FMC to get me to the runway.
From KARAT: GOKIN SS067 SS063 SS062 SS061 SS060
This should give you a nice and straight approach from 25nm and line you up nicely for RW06.
Wow, what a flight. Started out like a pussy cat dozing in the sun. Finished like a whirling dervish. Sochi is currently surrounded by a really nasty batch of storms with thunder and lightning everywhere.
It's the first flight where I have needed the windscreen wipers, anti-icing and had to deal with wind shear all at the same time. Yikes! :blink:
The calm before the storm:
Setting off from OBBI Bahrain International for URSS Sochi, ready for the next F1 Grand Prix. It's a very hazy day according to AS2016.
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This should have been a warning to me, the cloud base started to thicken up very fast as we approached the Black Sea.
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Why is my co-pilot gesticulating madly at his weather display? OMG, look at that weather ahead! Sochi is covered by a thick layer of thunder storms, and we'll be flying straight through them.
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Visibility? What visibility? Fortunately minimums are a bit lower than these clouds! Anti-icing on the wings and engine nacelles has to be turned on.
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Zoinks! That one was a bit too close for comfort!
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Minimums. Wings are flexing hugely as we hit some wind shear. Really battling to hold this one on the glide slope.
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We're high and late, and the runway is slick, but we got our wheels down - but only because wind shear threw us up about 200 feet, and then slammed us down onto the runway at a bone-shuddering -650fpm, so I went full throttle, TOGA and off into a go-around. All martinis will be shaken and not stirred on this flight. On the second attempt we managed a much more stable approach (I was more used to the wind shear) and landed it at an unbelievably greasy -8fpm!
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A rain-soaked Sochi International Airport glistening with standing water. Does Pirelli do full wets for the Boeing 747-800? :g:
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Finally reached the safety of a parking stand. Cargo safely delivered, but the pilot is in need of new underwear. Wind shear is horrid.
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Now can someone tell me why after installing the FlyTampa scenery last week all of my trees have turned into black squares? :angry:
Nice flight, barca to monaco flight q400 shared? Btw if they are orbx trees reinstall them or run orbx centre and try troubleshooting
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They are indeed Orbx trees, thanks!
I'll have to check on the Q400, not sure if I'm up to speed on it at the moment. Totally different on props compared to turbofans.
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so im going to do the next trip in 2 stages for 2 reasons
1) vroute doesn't have sochi to barca,
2) i canny be bothered manually doing it
so flight 1 is sochi to luga, malta, refuel, then on to barca
You could grab a flightplan from here:
https://flightplandatabase.com/plan/141846
URSS LODBI B147 TISOM UL850 KULEM UT555 DOLOT UM747 GALMI UT888 CND UT85 BALBI T705 NILOV UP981 LAMIT UL5 OST UM131 NEGAT UN851 LUTTA UM601 VERSO LEBL
I haven't actually looked at the route yet, but it seems to get from A to B. The alternative is to fly back to Heathrow/Luton/Stansted/East Midlands (as this is close to all the F1 factories) and then restock and refuel there for the short leg to LEBL.
Hi guys,
I think I have managed to fix my driving pedals, so I am not going to fly anymore for a while.
I am stowing my flight stuff as we speak.
This weekend I will install Assetto Corsa and iRacing to see if they work correctly.
Thanks for the help with this project TL, I'm sure I'll be back in the pilot seat some time.
No worries have fun on assetto
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No problem Vobler, enjoy the on-the-ground circuits for a while instead of the in-the-air ones!
Dont know why you are leaving mate, TL can fly you you do the race and then TL flys you out mate. This is real sims life!!!!!!!!!!
Quote from: sulky_uk;422810Btw if they are orbx trees reinstall them or run orbx centre and try troubleshooting
Turned out to be the pesky road lights not the trees - and the setting causing the problem? The DX10 preview mode. Unchecked the DX10 option and the black squares disappeared. Its' quite a common problem apparently.
Have you tried the Steve's dx10 fixer( name of program) works a treat. Fixes problems with dx10 in fsx, I have had no issues since using this
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Quote from: sulky_uk;423068Fixes problems with dx10 in fsx, I have had no issues since using this
Yes that program is needed if you are running DX10.
Quote from: BrotherTobious;423065Dont know why you are leaving mate, TL can fly you you do the race and then TL flys you out mate. This is real sims life!!!!!!!!!!
Nice one! :D
ok, so 1st flight Sochi to Malta, got to love PMDG and the auto time compression (turns time compression back to 1x when it detects turns greater than 10 degrees and vertical of +-10 degrees), turned the 4 hour flight into 55 mins, external shots were in replay, so flaps are not shown(which is weird cause other developers show flaps/slats in reply)
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and today Luga to Barca, little over 2 hours nice little hop
check out the wing flex
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autoland into barca
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and time to unload
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Nicely done, I have my flight to do some time this week!
I'm going on this URSSLEBL route:
PROZR G487 LAMET G352 DIGRA B147 LODBI G900 ODIRA W96 SIN UM860 KUGOS L851 ADINA L5 CND M747 BALBI P159 FLR N181 TIMUR N731 LUKOV Q8 DOLAP DCT VELUG Z924 GITRI Q710 GINOX UM601 VERSO VERS1X
Made it to Barcelona!
Departure: Another glorious day in Sochi! About to take off for LEBL El Prat, Barcelona.
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Climbing out of Sochi and into heavy turbulence over the foothills.
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Hello Italy!
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FL360 and leaving mainland Italy, westbound for Sicily and then LEBL.
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Turning onto the base leg and descending to catch the localiser.
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Final for 07R at LEBL Barcelona.
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Touchdown, the crowd goes wild!
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Parked up in the LEBL Cargo area, F1 cargo being unloaded.
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Looking forward to a great race now!
well done, weather looked a bit pooh in Russia. How do you make the steam shots that size BTW?
Use IMG tags to the steam picture link (the lower of the two link options when you right click on the picture in steam).
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rgr and cheers
So after a cracking good Barcelona Grand Prix, we're off to Monte Carlo for the Monaco Grand Prix. Closest airport is Cote d'Azure, Nice.
To add a little bit of interest on what will be an otherwise incredibly short flight, here's a route taking off from RW20 (going away from Nice) and landing on RW22R (which mean you need to fly past the airport and then turn back on the STAR).
Route:
LEBL DALI3Q DALIN A67 BGR A27 BRUSC G39 FJR UL127 ROVOT UY373 ABLAK ABLA6R LFMN
In case your FMC does not have the detail, the DALI3Q departure requests:
- minimum 3,000 ft by PERAL
- max 6,000 ft at NITBA
- minimum FL110 by BL058
If you are doing this online then initial climb is set to 6,000 ft and you request a FL change from ATC.
See you on the south coast of France!
A nice flight of just over an hour, with nice scenery all the way, particularly as you approach Nice with the backdrop of the Alps.
Holding short of RW20 at LEBL Barcelona.
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Airborne, positive rate of climb, GEAR UP!
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Skirting along the South coast of France towards Nice. FL380.
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Base leg, approaching the turn onto the localiser for the runway at LFMN Nice airport.
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Taxiing from the runway to the cargo apron, with Monte Carlo and the Alps in the background
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Parked at the British Airways Cargo Centre, unloading F1 cargo for its short drive across to Monaco for the Grand Prix.
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The next flight is a little longer - to Montreal!
so did mine this morning, again the 777 refused to pick up the ILS that was programmed into the FMC, only noticed when i realized i was flying direct tot he airport and not to the runway, went around and manually approached
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Nice flight and some great screenshots!
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Bit of a long flight this one, but here it is.
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** TAKE-OFF DATA LFMN 04R **
COND: 333708 KG // RWY DRY // +24°C Q1017 140/04 // LMT: STRUCT
CONFIG: FLAPS 10 // D-TO1 +33C // A/I OFF // A/C ON
SPEEDS: V1=145 VR=159 V2=173
ENG OUT: AT 2 DME 'AZR' 109.65 LT BANK 25 DEG HDG 140 AND CALL ATC.
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** LANDING DATA CYUL 10 **
COND: 257074 KG // RWY DRY // +17°C Q1010 080/06 // LMT: FIELD
CONFIG: FLAPS 30 // A/I OFF // A/C ON
SPEEDS: VREF=145 VAPP=150
ENG OUT: AT R 330 'YJN' 115.8 RT TO 'YJN' 115.8 (106 INBD,RT)
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Route:
LFMN BODR6E BODRU UM616 BEBIX UN10 LMG UN460 CNA UN470 LAPEX DCT 49N020W 50N030W 50N040W 50N050W DCT ELSIR N320A EBONY DCT BGR DCT VLV OMBRE4 CYUL
This might be my last FSX flight......we'll have to see how quickly I take to P3D v4 tomorrow when it is released!
Just a warning, I forgot to check the runway length and RW10 is only just over 2,000ft long, so make sure you are on glide slope, get your wheels on deck pronto and then you'll not run out of room!
Managed a relatively gentle -171 ft/min landing rate, but struggled to find parking, so left it next to the Aeroline buildings!
Runway 04R at Nice, ready for a short hop(!) to Montreal CYUL.
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Goodbye Nice and Monte Carlo, see you next year for another F1 Grand Prix.
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Cruising at FL390 en route to Canada.
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Turning onto base leg at Montreal
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Runway spotted. The Cicuit Gille Villeneuve is at one o'clock, on an island in the middle of the St Lawrence.
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Hmm, where is the cargo centre? Never mind, parking just here will do........!
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That's a long flight, but all good fun and the cargo is here for the June 11th Grand Prix.
Next flight is after the Canadian Grand Prix and it takes us back to Europe to Baku, Azerbaijan in time for the June 25th race.
Surely you should of flown back to HQ then to Canada?
Quote from: BrotherTobious;423609Surely you should of flown back to HQ then to Canada?
Picky!
Actually, afaiaa not all cargo goes back to base after each race. Some cargo will return to base between races, but others will go direct to the next race. For example, the garage setup is more likely to go direct, whereas the cars probably go back to base. The closer the race, the more likely they are to return to base. But for the purposes of this little bit of entertainment, we're simply going race to race for simplicity.
:D Well I am enjoying reading your adventures in the sky. It suddenly struck me that a man of you calibre would be flying the F1 Cars.
nice pics, ill probably do mine during the week, how long was it?
Quote from: sulky_uk;423619nice pics, ill probably do mine during the week, how long was it?
According to my ProjectFly page:
Distance: 3307NM
Time Started 11:37 - 29/05/2017
Time Ended 14:37 - 29/05/2017
Time Taken 02:59 hrs
Landing Rate -171 FPM
Block Fuel 182,890kg
Fuel Burned 175,225kg
So, a biscuit shy of 3 hours. Once I had passed 10,000ft I turned on auto-time compression at 4x. I turned it off again once closer to Montreal.
my turn...game had a crash straight after the last pic, as i had used all the memory's......didnt get to the gate
anyone for fuel
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must be a 4x4 tractor/tug
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nice is nice
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bye bye monico
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hello Monty
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and the game crashed about 1 second after this was taken
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Nice pictures Sulky!
:D
Aye, nice piccies - it's interesting to see the way they are rendered in different ways, depending on our settings and addons.
I am probably going to try a P3D v4 trip for the next flight, we'll have to see if I feel brave enough!
I don't know what sim I will do the next trip in as fsx had a fatal error, had to uninstall, so it's either xplane or p3d
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Next stop is the Azerbaijan Grand Prix held at Baku, so it's the longest flight we'll do until September when we start the Far East schedule.
Subject to prevailing winds changing of course, I'll be taking off from CYUL runway 24L and landing at UBBB on runway 35. If you need the extra 300m to get wheels up, then use 24R instead (3352m versus 2926m).
Route:
YUL V382 VBS DCT YBC N745A HOIST DCT 58N050W 60N040W 61N030W 62N020W 62N010W DCT GUNPA DCT REPKU Y41 XENTA Z132 IPKAL DCT VEDEN DCT TIRIN M996 GUKOL A225 LATRI G118 OGURA B450 KZ B122 MKL B494 BUMAR N67 NOBVA NOBV1H
Departure is straight out on runway heading, but no RT below 5,000ft! Then vector to route waypoint.
Arrival is on the NOBVA 1H SID.
Flight distance will be 4,966nm.
Estimated flight time - 12 hours 05 minutes. (I think I'll be using flight time compression again!)
Eventual cruise height will be FL420.
Cargo is 72,727kg of F1 goodies plus passengers and baggage.
See you airside!
Probably going to kick off this flight now. I've downloaded the beta for Active Sky for P3D and will try to run it for the flight.
...and we're there. First F1 flight using P3D v4, and very pleasant it was too! Montreal to Baku, all in just under 5 hours thanks to time acceleration.
Time Started: 13:57 - 13/06/2017
Time Ended: 18:46 - 13/06/2017
Time Taken: 04:49hrs
Landing Rate: -136 FPM
Fuel Burned: 165860kg
Lined up, ready for take off, heading for Baku, some 12 hours away.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/0eflxco9aqrbkvs/2017-6-13_15-36-40-426.jpeg?dl=1)
Not the best weather in Montreal, so kind of glad to be leaving!
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Cruising across Canada, about to start the transatlantic leg.
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Having taken off during the day, we're heading into night. It's a 12 hour flight time with 12 hours of difference in time zones (from -8 hrs in Montreal to +4 hours at Baku)!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/63vjdu4zwgd3gjb/2017-6-13_17-3-15-498.jpeg?dl=1)
It's properly dark now, and a lovely clear night at 38,000ft.
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Turning onto the transition for our STAR (arrival route) and descending towards Baku.
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On final approach to UBBB airport. I'm loving the graphics in P3D, look at the football field below!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/1ahd11w5kufi2r9/2017-6-13_19-33-33-190.jpeg?dl=1)
Nailed a brilliant landing, with a landing rate of just -136ft/min. P3D seems to do amazing shadows, both on the ground and even shadows cast by clouds. Beautiful!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/fqyazfijlmdq07f/2017-6-13_19-37-1-821.jpeg?dl=1)
Finally parked up at the Cargo stand and offloading. Time for some crew R&R!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/x8anl7287n2x67n/2017-6-13_19-46-20-310.jpeg?dl=1)
Nice, so after having to reinstall FSX, it seem that everything just doeskin want to work, textures wouldn't load, ORBX could find the scenary.cfg and I had to use the right seat as siting in the left, well no switches would work.....
anyhow
Montreal goodbye
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nice view
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some plane spotters view
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turning over Baku
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Finals
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touchdown
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crowd goes wild...
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really need my other a/c to get sorted for P3d, cant do this temperamental FSX thing
Looking good guys :)
Quote from: sulky_uk;424035really need my other a/c to get sorted for P3d, cant do this temperamental FSX thing
Yeah, I have not loaded FSX since P3D v4 came out, it just seems so much nicer despite me really needing a gfx upgrade.
Anyhoo, welcome to Baku!
Wow, what a race! We're packing up now and need to load up the cargo planes for the next hop from Baku to Thalerhof (Graz) airport, LOWG, for the Austrian Gran Prix.
We need to have wheels on the ground by July 9th and LOWG's runway 35C looks the better approach.
Have a good flight folks!
Weather looks good, Baku to Thalerhof might have to be tonight!
did the flight at night, Photobucket didn't want to play so had to use forum uploads
on the pan at baku
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lined up ready to go
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not much to see
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on auto pilot
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manual land
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right on the money
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new gearbox for lewis
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Flying UBBB to LOWG this morning.
RASA2B RASAM N199 LUSAL M11 MATAL P567 AGISO N644 ROLIN UN644 KARDE UL851 KUGOS L851 ADINA L5 CND M747 NEKUL P975 MOPUG DCT GOTAR GOTA2M.
Pre-flight checks are currently underway!
Hmmm, first attempt and I managed to kill everyone. Massive turbulence and wind shear as I left the airport which is currently surrounded by a massive thunderstorm cell, so I was happily taking some screenshots of the excessive wing flex (which I thought was mainly due to the PMDG bug) and I got an 'Aircraft Overstress' failure and the airframe disintegrated at about 13,000ft! :roflmao:
Take two: reloading and will immediately try to divert East and out of the storm cell PDQ to see if I can make it around this time!
Sometimes the weather map just says 'No'. Autopilot is on and I should be doing 250 knots, but the ASI is bouncing between 210 and 360 knots as we bounce around!
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/851594234179531171/A2DBF00508536D72985FD7F8029E8310BF315A2A/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside%7C2048:1229&composite-to%3D%2A%2C%2A%7C2048%3A1229&background-color=black)
Note the message in top left of screenshot: Airframe overstress due to excessive windshear and turbulence in the storm cell. All 12 onboard killed, and F1 cargo destroyed!
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/851594234179535066/9A592C6400C28D0E9ECA505A8A0F5778FF823C9B/)
Turning on to final for LOWG runway 35C
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Wheels down and taxiing to cargo parking.
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F1 cargo in Austria and ready for the race.
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Quote from: TeaLeaf;424915Hmmm, first attempt and I managed to kill everyone. Massive turbulence and wind shear as I left the airport which is currently surrounded by a massive thunderstorm cell, so I was happily taking some screenshots of the excessive wing flex (which I thought was mainly due to the PMDG bug) and I got an 'Aircraft Overstress' failure and the airframe disintegrated at about 13,000ft! :roflmao:
Take two: reloading and will immediately try to divert East and out of the storm cell PDQ to see if I can make it around this time!
Sometimes the weather map just says 'No'. Autopilot is on and I should be doing 250 knots, but the ASI is bouncing between 210 and 360 knots as we bounce around!
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/851594234179531171/A2DBF00508536D72985FD7F8029E8310BF315A2A/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside%7C2048:1229&composite-to%3D%2A%2C%2A%7C2048%3A1229&background-color=black)
Note the message in top left of screenshot: Airframe overstress due to excessive windshear and turbulence in the storm cell. All 12 onboard killed, and F1 cargo destroyed!
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/851594234179535066/9A592C6400C28D0E9ECA505A8A0F5778FF823C9B/)
This is how I saw this playing out mate.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/embed/6BHeaEat_aI[/video]
It's a short hop from Austria to the UK this week, I'll post a route up later today (assuming I remember).
I'll need to have completed my flight by Thursday night, as I'm actually attending the Silverstone on Friday! Hospitality ticket ftw, I'll be watching/eating/drinking from the Brooklands Suite at the end of the Wellington Straight :racing:
managed to get mine done today, not the most interesting of flights, but had to be done
Sitting at Grad
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farewell Austria, loved the hills, just not cycling up em
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good old blighty, looks a bit drab from 21000 ft on descent, but hey thems pixels is only soes bigz see
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i knows ill take a pic of lizzies house....missed by about 30 seconds so you got the not so posh areas instead, although wembley is in the background
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love the uk2000 scenary
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170714184533_1_zps6mziumte.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170714184533_1_zps6mziumte.jpg.html)
bit off centre
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all parked up near the BA service hanger
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Hungary Next..yum yum
Nice piccies and yes that scenery is good!
I took a dawn flight this morning from LOWG and decided to head to East Midlands airport instead, EGNX. The weird part was that I spent all day yesterday at Silverstone, so I must have taken an overnight back to LOWG to be ready for this morning's flight!
LOWG N0409A080 GRZ2Y GRZ J21 KFT/N0492F380 DCT ERKIR UL608 TEDGO UZ210
LAMGO UM150 KRH UZ210 LIRSU DCT BUB UL608 DENUT UL610 HEMEL UT420 WELIN
PIGO1J EGNX
Dawn flight from LOWG 35C, heading to East Midlands Airport.
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Climbing out of LOWG, flying over Graz, Austria.
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/852720896475567899/6ACED6D0A9F2B17DC1F2CEDB4F939C244C9AE9CC/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside%7C2048:1229&composite-to%3D%2A%2C%2A%7C2048%3A1229&background-color=black)
The sun is catching us up!
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/852720896475569860/7DB535430F1F16C7AEF8BB9FE9EC95BD09ECC12B/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside%7C2048:1229&composite-to%3D%2A%2C%2A%7C2048%3A1229&background-color=black)
Inbound to ENGX, FL380 over the Thames Estuary.
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Short final into East Midlands, runway 27.
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F1 cargo delivered in time for the Silverstone Grand Prix qualifying, albeit a little late for P1 and P2!
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/852720896475579757/6E1331958CA85696D7FFB44E860F5F508F1692A4/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside%7C2048:1229&composite-to%3D%2A%2C%2A%7C2048%3A1229&background-color=black)
Well, the next flight is from your UK airport, across the channel and to Hungary for the Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit.
Closest airport is Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (LHBP), but you could also fly to Vienna or Bratislava as they are only a couple of hours away from Budapest.
Wheels must be down before the race starts on 30th July! Chocks away folks!
My route:
EGNX runway 09
N0492F370 DTY4P DTY UM605 BENSU UQ70 BIG UL9 KONAN UL607 MATUG DCT
NONKO UL607 RIDSU UZ738 RIDAR/N0489F390 DCT BIBAG UL605 ESEGA DCT
SASAL DCT VEBOS VEBO2J
LHBP runway 13R
This is a nice 2 hour flight, with some nice scenery on the way as you edge over the mountains and descend into a picturesque Hungary.
I did the trip to Silverstone in FSX as a reminder of what it looked like and I am so glad to eb back in P3D v4, it looks stunning in comparison in my personal opinion.
Wheels up from East Midlands airport!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/bzjfjm9lmlybp2i/2017-7-19_12-25-47-809.jpeg?dl=1)
Gear up and stowed, flaps up a notch and heading for 39,000ft final cruising altitude.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/y16bigt0s6hsgfv/2017-7-19_12-26-12-585.jpeg?dl=1)
Thames estuary to the left and the English Channel ahead.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/hoknsxuy25jxjuo/2017-7-19_12-49-48-530.jpeg?dl=1)
No this next picture is NOT over-exposed, it's lightning from the thunderstorm that we're flying over, the flash lit up both the sky and the ground too!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/yaamqqwnlnhb3gz/2017-7-19_12-59-56-465.jpeg?dl=1)
Turning onto base leg for final approach, Budapest is ahead.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4ogs92n3b6pogz/2017-7-19_13-34-5-944.jpeg?dl=1)
Descending on the glideslope over Budapest.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/ymps6m5mlcwvgc7/2017-7-19_13-41-19-204.jpeg?dl=1)
Flaps 30, Gear down and stable on final approach for runway 13R.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/56pnijcqt6ftceg/2017-7-19_13-42-19-63.jpeg?dl=1)
Parked up at LHBP Budapest. Now to get some rest before the Grand Prix!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/9vb8ek00uexwdns/2017-7-19_13-54-10-485.jpeg?dl=1)
dont know how i missed the tread , some great screenies there TL, and the default scenery is looking so much better in P3d. i did attempt this flight in xplane 11..twice and got a bird-strike on take off from Heathrow and crashed, and then the game crashed on the 2nd attempt. So back to olde faithful fsx
i would post pictures up but it seems steam wont let me link so if anyone can help let me know by doing an idiots guide........
Quote from: sulky_uk;425388i would post pictures up but it seems steam wont let me link so if anyone can help let me know by doing an idiots guide........
Upload them to your steam library, then go look at the picture in the library, right click it and take the second link option. Then just paste it as normal in IMG tags.
Scenery is looking good, that's default P3D (with quite a lot of lower settings to boost my FPS to playable levels as my 770 SLI doesn't really work in P3D), along with Orbx, ActiveSky and will soon also be joined by Rex (updates for P3D v4 due soon).
Cheers TL
still no joy even though they are uploaded to steam
(http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1090881109)so back to the really slow photobucket way
sitting on the cargo ramp at Heathrow
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170726111719_1_zpsydc9jddm.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170726111719_1_zpsydc9jddm.jpg.html)
lined up at LHR 9L, just started to rain
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170726113255_1_zpso4f2qxir.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170726113255_1_zpso4f2qxir.jpg.html)
climbing out over a sunny london
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170726113509_1_zpsxqk7p79h.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170726113509_1_zpsxqk7p79h.jpg.html)
at least the orbx pack stops the repeating textures
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170726121939_1_zps42yhdeax.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170726121939_1_zps42yhdeax.jpg.html)
Hungary looks nice in orbx
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170726130939_1_zpsfdevtkz7.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170726130939_1_zpsfdevtkz7.jpg.html)
nice approach to the airport
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170726131624_1_zps5jbxin76.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170726131624_1_zps5jbxin76.jpg.html)
bang on the centreline
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170726132142_1_zpspcqpapwm.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170726132142_1_zpspcqpapwm.jpg.html)
time to get the goodies off
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Weird, are you in FSX or FSXSE?
im using FSXse or sucks edition as ive heard it called
Quote from: sulky_uk;425418im using FSXse or sucks edition as ive heard it called
I always had few problems with FSXSE.
So when you close down FSXSE at the end of the session, does Steam pop up the screenshot library and give you a chance to upload any screenshots you took during the session?
yep and i upload them every time, but i tried to use img tag and even the link pics in the forums bit, but ney working, ill just stick with photobucket for now
I just tried it with one of Paddy's from his Steam account (for some reason I could not find your steam account). The first step is the critical one.
Went to his screenshots, clicked on one of the screenshots so it opens up on its own in a solo window with the comments box to the right. (if you go to screenshots and just rightclick on a picture without having clicking on the picture to open it in its own window then you do not get a working link).
Right clicked on the picture, selected 'Copy Link Address'
Came back to this forum and pasted the link into {IMG} {/IMG} tags, replacing {} with []
The link I got worked, so I can link the below picture of his crashed Chinook, which also means that there is no need for a paternity test, these landing skills prove that he is indeed your son! :roflmao:
(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/478896980698920698/211EDA03CD6E2FECEE03F71983FDD43C4849B93D/)
If you try to get a link without opening the screenshot up into a solo window then you get a link that will not load the image properly and will be much shorter than the one linking this image.
Hopefully this will resolve your problem.
Short hop to Spa for the next one, which is not until the end of August!
ATC ROUTE:
N0495F360 GILE3D GILEP DCT BEGLA DCT DITIS M174 OKG UN869 ANELA
UZ160 WUR Z12 XIDOD/N0489F350 Q762 LULAT Z104 ROBON UZ104 GESLO
GESL3X
I'm flying LHBP (31R) to EBLG (23L), but you could also fly to Brussels EBBR.
I wanted to get this flight done so that I can start my F1 summer holiday!
Climbing out of Budapest.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/czzcjw10u1dnke9/2017-7-31_16-23-13-731.jpeg?dl=1)
On the SID and climbing to FL360
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/zqtimi21rgt3myb/2017-7-31_16-25-25-251.jpeg?dl=1)
Nice and hazy at the top of the descent down into Belgium.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/uzoxi2703wuv0wn/2017-7-31_17-19-6-331.jpeg?dl=1)
On this approach we're descending over Maastricht.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/9lki8qeqskt13kl/2017-7-31_17-25-16-57.jpeg?dl=1)
Touchdown, the crowd goes wild!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/ba2ysunxwlmek6x/2017-7-31_17-40-28-116.jpeg?dl=1)
Full service please! Parked up at EBLG and 30 minutes from Spa-Francochamps.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/5hkpgildsyxsuyt/2017-7-31_17-48-33-159.jpeg?dl=1)
Happy F1 summer holidays!
Spa is this weekend, so just a quick reminder to try to do a flight before the race starts!
Well it's a short gap for this next hop but a relatively short flight from EBLG to Linate LIML which has a shortish runway at 2442m. It's a mere 21km from the Monza circuit so should do me nicely.
LNO8R LNO UN852 GTQ UQ343 BEGAR UL15 RIPUS UN850 ODINA ODIN1D
I haven't posted up my EBLG to LIML screenshots yet, but will do shortly. The flight was done Friday before the race though, so I got there in time, albeit to then have a regional jet turn onto the runway and line up facing me when I was wheels down and in reverse thrust! :doh:
In the meantime, the next flight is a little bit bigger as we head from Monza to Singapore. So LIML to WSSS is the required flight and I'll be using this route:
TOVS5C LOGDI T293 LURUT M859 CHI M167 BASOG Z122 LABIN DCT NISVA Q13 UDROS UM859 KARDE UN644 ROLIN N644 LAGAS M747 SULEL N449 DUKAN B449 RANAH L750 ZB G201 BINDO L750 TIGER L333 JJP J1 KKJ L759 PUT B579 VPL W531 VIH A464 ARAMA LELI3B
Total flight distance is about 5683.9nm, so you might need to break it down into two hops as the the full 72,727kg of cargo and the required fuel might put you over the max TOW or be beyond your max range. The 747-400ERF has a max range of 5,700nm with a full load, so with slightly less than a full load I should be ok and *just* get there!
As the Mrs was sleeping this avo, I thought i would do the LIML to WSSS flight, thank the stars for the PMDG auto time, 12 hours into 2 and a half. took off, Vnav, Lnav and left it to pause TOD and came back 2 hours later for it to waiting. No issues/failures with realism on, although the centre tanks were drained and threw me a pump warning on finals, only 61000kg of fuel left, started with 150000kg, but low freight as i wasn't sure how much i would use, so brought all the carbon fiber bits, you can bring the engines TL.
Sitting at LIML
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170914230732_1_zpshojtuiq6.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170914230732_1_zpshojtuiq6.jpg.html)
left turn out of LIML
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170914231445_1_zpsbc75kmti.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170914231445_1_zpsbc75kmti.jpg.html)
errr cant be that low it says 62K
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170915174117_1_zps1x04ma7u.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170915174117_1_zps1x04ma7u.jpg.html)
bit slippy, couldnt get the ils to lock either, had the right ils and press approach and loc, nowt, so manual it is
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170915174739_1_zpspxchamn9.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170915174739_1_zpspxchamn9.jpg.html)
still made centre line
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170915174920_1_zpsmqvadn6x.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170915174920_1_zpsmqvadn6x.jpg.html)
and all over till next time
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a28/canaryworf/20170915175628_1_zpskjicha4e.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/canaryworf/media/20170915175628_1_zpskjicha4e.jpg.html)
My flight is currently in progress. I took off earlier this morning and am currently cruising at FL300, which is the first cruise altitude on the planned step climb up to a final FL390 cruise for the last part of the route (once I have burnt off enough fuel to get up there that is!). I used ALL of the runway and flaps 20 to get off the ground at LIML, it's a very full load and the best part of 12 hours in the air to get there in one go. Time accel is ON. Pictures to follow.
And disappointment. PFPX crashed halfway through the flight and 10 minutes inot the descent, some 50 minutes from landing P3D crashed too. And guess which idiot had forgotten to register FSUIPC when he installed P3Dv4? Yeah me, so I could not reload the flight part way through to a checkpoint just prior to the crash. Grrr. :frusty:
crap times .... nuff said really
With regret I have to announce that I did not make the flight to Malaysia in time. Although if I had done, I would have dropped the Ferrari engines into pit lane from about 2,000ft to accurately reproduce pre-race conditions for their engines! :norty:
I'll be doing the flight to Malaysia this week, then going right on from Malaysia to Nagoya’s Centrair (Central Japan International Airport) airport which is the closest to Suzuka. It's slightly smaller than Tokyo’s Narita airport, but is closer and easily big enough for cargo with runway length of 11,483 ft.
Catching up on some flight photos time.
My pictures from Spa to to Monza:
Climbing out of Spa, onwards to Monza.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/73af6ou0w8kmk6p/2017-9-1_8-25-26-494.jpeg?dl=1)
I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with 'Alps'.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqtuibeouvnzmwd/2017-9-1_8-48-13-459.jpeg?dl=1)
On final to Monza. All systems Green, nothing to worry about. Should be easy from here.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bhje32s461psno/2017-9-1_9-10-45-836.jpeg?dl=1)
***, some muppet in ATC just gave that plane clearance to line up and take off whilst I am rolling out...........! :frusty:
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/m2k8aw3u2y25ur8/2017-9-1_9-11-58-481.jpeg?dl=1)
Onwards to Singapore!
Lined up at Monza and almost ready to depart.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/b14qk2ft5ojfqen/2017-9-16_9-31-11-208.jpeg?dl=1)
Weather is closing in, will be nice to be above the clouds soon and back in sunshine!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/f4uacdy9ovj2tln/2017-9-16_9-34-35-392.jpeg?dl=1)
I love lightning at night!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/zguo52cpddqb338/2017-9-16_11-26-40-233.jpeg?dl=1)
Not quite centre line, but close enough!
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/319vrmhs799t49s/2017-10-6_16-51-7-670.jpeg?dl=1)
good shots, i need to catch up as well, going to try x plane
Japan here we come!
Climbing out onto the SID.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/3za6aogd8re9ta7/2017-10-7_15-0-45-992.jpeg?dl=1)
Banking over the coastline and heading north to Japan.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/0s5g3bgjyo5myx1/2017-10-7_15-2-31-338.jpeg?dl=1)
Japan's has volcanoes you say? The somewhat 'active' mountain ranges on Japan's southern island come into view.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/711iclydnso2otp/2017-10-7_17-3-16-644.jpeg?dl=1)
On the downwind leg over the Mie Prefecture, overlooking the city of Nagoya. The Suzuka track is just on the very left of the picture, below the twin inlets which are the ports of Kuwana and Yatomi.
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/lu7gd3srvcoiepe/2017-10-7_17-11-5-769.jpeg?dl=1)
Will that annoying Cessan clear the runway in time or is it TOGA time?
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/1dn4w4e7fmgf5ww/2017-10-7_17-21-11-623.jpeg?dl=1)
It was TOGA time unfortunately, but we went around, entered the approach again and landed safely. (annoying cessna in background!)
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/6vcu9zwfggj1q7e/2017-10-7_17-27-24-475.jpeg?dl=1)
Long flight for the next trip - Japan to Austin, TX.
Estimated flight time: 14hrs 25 min.
RJNA KCC1ER KCC Y88 DAIGO Y889 OATIS OTR3 PUTER A590 PASRO DCT POWAL DCT CHIKI 53N170W 53N160W 54N150W 53N140W DCT MANJO DCT UDMAP TR13 TOU DCT PDT DCT OGD DCT HBU J206 ALS DCT TXO DCT LBB DCT LLO KALLA3 KAUS