F1 Flight Series

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sulky_uk

#30
March 23, 2017, 10:02:26 AM
Vroute premium is only a few pounds and is well worth the money

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vobler

#31
March 23, 2017, 10:09:50 AM
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.

TeaLeaf

#32
March 27, 2017, 01:15:22 PM
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^^
TL.
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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. (Michael Jordan)

BrotherTobious

#33
March 27, 2017, 04:10:28 PM
Hope its a smooth flight mate!
"It's hard, but not as hard as Arma!!!" Tutonic
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TeaLeaf

#34
March 27, 2017, 06:09:03 PM
....and here's me, just SW of Maluku, flying over the Banda Sea.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]3857[/ATTACH]

Doing this flight using projectFLY.      If you haven't heard of it, it's well worth a read.

https://projectfly.co.uk/about
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

#35
March 27, 2017, 09:29:44 PM
Just North of Taiwan now, not long until ToD and the descent into ZSPD.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]3858[/ATTACH]
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

#36
March 27, 2017, 10:18:31 PM
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.



Climbing out of Melbourne bound for L380.


Goodbye Australia, we're Asia bound.


Final turn towards the China mainland, almost at ToD.


Hello China!


VFR into runway 34 at Pudong (Shanghai) airport.


Configured for landing, VFR at ZSPD, with 160,000 ibs of Formula 1 cargo safely onboard.


Arrived. Five and a half hours flight time, with a little bit of time acceleration in the early cruise stages to keep it manageable.
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

#37
March 28, 2017, 08:14:34 AM
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! :-)

TeaLeaf

#38
March 28, 2017, 08:16:00 AM Last Edit: March 28, 2017, 09:34:12 AM by TeaLeaf
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:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]3859[/ATTACH]
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

#39
March 28, 2017, 09:33:48 AM
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:
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

#40
March 28, 2017, 01:02:58 PM
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.

sulky_uk

#41
March 29, 2017, 02:10:30 PM
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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vobler

#42
March 31, 2017, 09:10:06 AM
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.

sulky_uk

#43
March 31, 2017, 09:59:06 AM
If it's the qw757, I had to reinstall to get it working. My cs757 didn't work with se

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TeaLeaf

#44
March 31, 2017, 12:03:14 PM
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
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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