Simviation Forum - Re: Leg 10 underway

Apr 9^th, 2003 at 11:42am

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cool, was wondering if you have been doing more legs recently with all the panel designing

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Reply #1 - Apr 9^th, 2003 at 4:21pm

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Sounds like you need more practice Grin

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Reply #2 - Apr 9^th, 2003 at 4:29pm

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The entrance is easy to find John. The big blue bit on the left is the Atlantic, the thin blue bit on the right is the canal, now just find where they meet!!!!
But seiriously I'm glad to see you are back up there Wink

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Reply #3 - Apr 9^th, 2003 at 6:47pm

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Didn't realize the weather was that bad down there

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Reply #4 - Apr 9^th, 2003 at 7:38pm

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Go Tipster Go!!!!! I follow your ATW trip faithfully. Very interesting and informative. Grin

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Reply #5 - Apr 9^th, 2003 at 8:03pm

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lol..., I've fallen asleep before during a flight, woke up to find my aircraft had been circling the destination airport for about an hour Roll Eyes

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Reply #6 - Apr 9^th, 2003 at 9:54pm

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Enduro-Flight-Award coming your way! Grin

Way to go...

May I suggest you save your flight periodically during your marathon, just in case your pc should fall asleep before you do!

It would be a shame to lose it...

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Reply #7 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 12:08am

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woohoo, cuba, almost with in the 2000 mile range of my first requested visit! Grin

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Reply #8 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 12:21am

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What is your planned route on crossing the Pacific?

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Reply #9 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 3:11am

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What do you do with your SPARE time ? (LOL.)

After Australia you better come and see me in New Zealand, turn left (port) at Sydney, then about 1200 miles, look out for the Mountains. Pack your lunch.

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Reply #10 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 10:01am

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Wow, Tipster!!!

Almost 18 hours Shocked

I think we should nominate you for the
"Virtual Aviation Ironman Award". Grin

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Reply #11 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 10:18am

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I certainly will. Interesting you mention NZ. The other day I was trying to work out if I could make that in the Baron. I haven't actually checked to see if there are any airstrips on any islands inbetween, but 1,200 miles is within range anyway.

Don't worry, you can 'island hop' from Australia to New Zealand. I've done it, in a baron Cheesy

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Reply #12 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 10:54am

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LOL - the endurance topic came up a while back when I did Leg 8. Sadly, I'm not even in the running for the award. There were several people who had done much longer stints than mine!

The longest flight i've done is around 14 hours. YOu just flew to longest virtual flight i've ever hear of

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Reply #13 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 11:07am

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Good Job Tipster...

Not to rush you or anything...but when are you going to post the pics?

I am eager to see (and read) how it went..

In Addition: How can you calculate how far the baron can go without refueling? (obviously wind and other factors play their part)

Thanks

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Reply #14 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 11:18am

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There's a gauge on the new Baron panel that calculates the fuel flow, airspeed and shows how far and how much time you can fly before you run out of fuel

btw John, if your route up the west coast takes you in the area of Northern Idaho, drop by and have a drink Wink

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Reply #15 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 12:22pm

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No Problem - local airport name?

Boundary Co. (65S)

Bonners Ferry, Idaho Wink

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Reply #16 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 12:52pm

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Andrew's right - the fuel computer is the answer.The furthest button on the right (Rng) gives you the maximum distance you can fly calculated on your current speed, altitude, mixture etc. settings.

Thanks! I have seen that gauge before and thats awesome but I was refering to how you can calculate how much fuel you need to put in the tanks before you take off?

Obviously there is no harm in taking off with full tanks but I doubt that I will ever (maybe the odd time) need to have both tanks full...

(and sorry if this seems to be off topic for this thread...) ???

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Reply #17 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 12:57pm

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You could go by what the Flight planner says

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Reply #18 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 2:33pm

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That goes for me, too. If you make a stop in Reno, I have a friend who's the (real life) casino Manager of the Silver Legacy Resort. This guy can do ANYTHING!

I'm sure we can swing you a virtual hotel suite for the night! Grin

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Reply #19 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 3:13pm

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WoW

Up to 18 hours in 1 bloody day!!! Yikes, the most I've flown in one day is about 5 but that's mostly on and off, cause you know when you can't have the scenery settings on full and the traffic on 100% it's flipping boring and it takes a lot to even fly, so lucky that love flying! I'll hopefully start a world tour if my computer gets upgraded to a faster processor, cause then I'll be able to fly to bigger airports and it won't be too boring with crap graphics and really horendous frames!

Greg

P.S. FStipster, come and visit me in Zimbabwe!! Fly down to the bottom of Africa, South Africa then on your way back up, stop by in Harare in Zim above South Africa. Just hopefully you won't need fuel, cause there's none here!!! Or you could wait for it in a bloody que!

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

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Reply #20 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 7:58pm

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OMG!!!! I forgot all about those!!

Just checked the Pre-booked destination list - is your request in there or did I forget it? (Huge apologies if so).

nope there in the book, two of them are in the northwest US, so you can check them out after you visit Andrew_E, one is in montana, the other in the orcas islands (which is in washington close to vancouver)

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Reply #21 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 8:27pm

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Getting back to the Australia / New Zealand potential leg, two points you may wish to consider........

I have flown this trip many times, commercially, not simming.. There is a huge jet-stream from Australia to NZ and I have sat back and watched the Airspeed increase well towards the speed of sound, wind assisted. Well in excess of 100 knots of windspeed is not unusual, however this is at commercial altitudes. It would certainly help your fuel consumption, but coming back ....?

Point two is that the FS2002 default scenery for NZ is the pits.
I have spent years adding to it and have got mine to a reasonable level, however as we all know, the further from the US you go the worse the scenery gets. From Australia you'd fly to Auckland International Airport but you'd need to dis-embark wearing your SAR's face-mask.

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Reply #22 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 9:34pm

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Hey, if you swing through Indiana stop at Columbus Mun. (KBAK). Just be careful if your approaching from the West. There's a big military base there. I'm not sure what the rules are for overflights nowdays since they are doing a lot of training and staging for troops going to Iraq.

Wouldn't want ya shot down. A Warthog may not be much of an air to air fighter but it's more than a match for a Baron. Grin

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Reply #23 - Apr 10^th, 2003 at 10:51pm

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Ok - I'm going to map all the destinations in the Pre-booked list tomorrow otherwise I'm going to miss some. I'll try and get to as many as humanly possible!

Don't stress it, if you can't stop by, don't worry 'bout it Wink

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Reply #24 - Apr 11^th, 2003 at 3:34am

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Going back to your desire to do Hawaii and acknowledging the fact that you don't like the fictional stuff,remember that a legitimate solution to long range ferry flights is added tanks. It may not be a solution for you but just think,you could sleep for a day while they were fitted!! Grin

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Reply #25 - Apr 11^th, 2003 at 3:55am

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Further to my last post I think you only need extra fuel from the mainland to Hawaii. Your only choice after that if you don't want to do the tank thing is SW to Johnston Is. then down to Kiribati, Tuvalu,Vanuatu and then Australia. There are a few options that way that will get you Australia or NZ first.

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Reply #26 - Apr 11^th, 2003 at 4:02am

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Further to my last post I think you only need extra fuel from the mainland to Hawaii. Your only choice after that if you don't want to do the tank thing is SW to Johnston Is. Then down to Kiribati, Tuvalu,Vanuatu and then Australia. There are a few options that way that will get you Australia or NZ first. You could be chewing your fingernails if the the weathers bad.

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Reply #27 - Apr 11^th, 2003 at 7:21am

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Um! Hawaii is definitely not a 'diversion' in that respect.
It seems you have enough to do without that anyway!
Hope you enjoy it

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Reply #28 - Apr 11^th, 2003 at 9:22am

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Yeah, well by the time you've sightseen all the islands(look for the submarine!) I think 'diversion' might have another name Wink

Did you put a time limit on this? Is there anyone we should call to clear the mailbox if you're not back when you said you would be?

Just havin' fun here! Enjoy it!! Grin

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Reply #29 - Apr 11^th, 2003 at 9:26am

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Congrats Tipster!!!!!!

To prove you have alot of interest in your adventure, I got this error message when I tried to go to your website and check out the pics...

Temporarily Unavailable

The Tripod page you are trying to reach has exceeded its hourly bandwidth limit. The site will be available again in 4 hours!

Thank you!

I guess I will just have to wait my turn! Grin

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Reply #30 - Apr 11^th, 2003 at 10:35am

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Now its only telling me that i have to wait 3 hours! Sad

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Reply #31 - Apr 11^th, 2003 at 11:30am

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heh 2 hours now

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Reply #32 - Apr 12^th, 2003 at 8:07am

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Hi,how is it going? Went to the Tripod site and had a look. That Baron panel looks better every time I see it so I'm off to download it and with Hagars tutes and all I may have some success(hoping)because I rather like the Baron.
I chose the Kingair to do my first RTW because you can put it on AP and go to the Galley for inflight refreshments. This proves to be dangerous on extended flights as some airports state a single runway,when obviously on arrival you find they have L and R!
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Reply #33 - Apr 12^th, 2003 at 5:03pm

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You can visit Harare Intl. in Harare in Zim, or you can visit Charles Prince which is closer to my house, but as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't look a thing like it really is! I'd recommend visiting Harare Intl. cause Charles Prince has a hell of an annoying grass flashing on the tarmack, like it is at other airports, where if you look at the tarmack from a certain angle, you see grass, and the other angle is concrete!

Greg

P.S. I'll come out and fetch you from the airport and we'll go have a beer! Cause you'd be pretty tired by the time you arrive!

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Reply #34 - Apr 12^th, 2003 at 5:32pm

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Good luck with it.

It's a fairly complex installation if you're new at this sort of thing

You have to read the documentation carefully but I managed it OK and I've had FS2002 for less than a month and no previous versions. Just READ THE INSTRUCTIONS and follow them.

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