F1 Flight Series

[TeaLeaf]

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:

[vobler]

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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[TeaLeaf]

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.

[sulky_uk]

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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[TeaLeaf]

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!

[sulky_uk]

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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[TeaLeaf]

Nice, welcome to Sochi!   I'll be doing mine in the next few days I reckon.

Watch out for that tail strike!

[sulky_uk]

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

[vobler]

Well done Sulky! I will do mine during the weekend.

Edit Pictures

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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

[TeaLeaf]

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.

[TeaLeaf]

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.


This should have been a warning to me, the cloud base started to thicken up very fast as we approached the Black Sea.


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.


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.


Zoinks! That one was a bit too close for comfort!


Minimums.  Wings are flexing hugely as we hit some wind shear. Really battling to hold this one on the glide slope.


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!


A rain-soaked Sochi International Airport glistening with standing water. Does Pirelli do full wets for the Boeing 747-800? :g:


Finally reached the safety of a parking stand. Cargo safely delivered, but the pilot is in need of new underwear. Wind shear is horrid.


Now can someone tell me why after installing the FlyTampa scenery last week all of my trees have turned into black squares? :angry:

[sulky_uk]

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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[TeaLeaf]

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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[sulky_uk]

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

[TeaLeaf]

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.