F1 Flight Series

[TeaLeaf]

Departing OMDB in brilliant sunshine in the 747-400F, hauling Formula 1 cargo to Melbourne for the first race of the 2017 season.


38,000ft and nothing but Pacific ocean below.


A first sighting of Australia, from 39,000ft on a moonlit night.


Approaching YMML Melbourne International Airport via WENDY4A, fully configured for landing, localiser and glide slope captured.


Final approach at YMML, manual landing.

[TeaLeaf]

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.


Morning at Melbourne!




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.

[vobler]

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.... ;-)

[TeaLeaf]

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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[vobler]

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]

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.

[TeaLeaf]

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.

[sulky_uk]

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!!!!

[vobler]

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.

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.

[TeaLeaf]

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!

[sulky_uk]

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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[vobler]

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

For Info;
The version I got was 1.3.3 released March 2017

[vobler]

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!!!!

You lucky bstrd! :-)

[TeaLeaf]

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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[vobler]

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.

[TeaLeaf]

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?