F1 Flight Series

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TeaLeaf

March 19, 2017, 05:08:12 PM
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!



____________
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
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

TeaLeaf

#1
March 19, 2017, 06:10:42 PM
...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.

TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

TeaLeaf

#2
March 20, 2017, 08:05:21 AM
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.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

BrotherTobious

#3
March 20, 2017, 09:15:33 AM
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?
"It's hard, but not as hard as Arma!!!" Tutonic
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.." Terry Pratchett

sulky_uk

#4
March 20, 2017, 10:04:33 AM
how did i miss this trad yesterday??? ill fire up the 777 and join in if thats ok


I came into this world with nothing,
through careful management I\'ve got most of it left.

TeaLeaf

#5
March 20, 2017, 01:25:30 PM
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.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

BrotherTobious

#6
March 20, 2017, 02:10:40 PM
Yup thanks mate
"It's hard, but not as hard as Arma!!!" Tutonic
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.." Terry Pratchett

TeaLeaf

#7
March 20, 2017, 02:23:37 PM
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!
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

TeaLeaf

#8
March 20, 2017, 04:41:12 PM
Leaving continental Europe and flying over the Mediterranean en route to OMDB Dubai.


Final approach to OMDB Dubai on runway 12L.


On the ground at OMDB for a stop-over, before heading off to Melbourne tomorrow.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

vobler

#9
March 21, 2017, 06:32:27 AM
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...

TeaLeaf

#10
March 21, 2017, 07:02:43 AM
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.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

vobler

#11
March 21, 2017, 07:45:05 AM Last Edit: March 21, 2017, 09:21:25 AM by vobler
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....

vobler

#12
March 21, 2017, 11:54:41 AM
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.

BrotherTobious

#13
March 21, 2017, 01:01:17 PM
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
"It's hard, but not as hard as Arma!!!" Tutonic
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.." Terry Pratchett

TeaLeaf

#14
March 21, 2017, 03:19:13 PM
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.
TL.
Wisdom doesn\'t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  (Tom Wilson)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)
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